Quoting s'thing @cnygren.bsky.social & I are publishing soon: "the literacy argument is being made in advance of its necessity...it presumes a state in which those who are “AI illiterate” are disempowered, precisely in order to make an argument in favor of compulsory indoctrination in its use."
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 50m ago“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”
New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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I have a bug in my ass about the way in which WNBA commentators talk about trans people in sports because they are failing the Kirby test. The point is not that there are no trans women athletes in the W, nor that trans women do not have a competitive advantage when looking at the data.
Like clockwork... Is there another Anthropic funding round coming?
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 3h agoWe're doing "rogue AI" discourse again so here's my live read / rant of the AISI report with the ominous title "Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01." Link to the full technical report: www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Ah, the irony of saying there's no AI slop (as a correct unique feature) and that that's unrelated to attracting a certain group of people... Bsky has no respect for the fact that it's the current users are who have been keeping the artificial intelligence grifters at bay.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
I remember when we could (cough) smoke cigarettes on airplanes, so I guess air travel got "better" in some ways.
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Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
The US government is constantly, nearly daily, killing civilians. It’s lying about basic facts. It’s erasing & rewriting historical records. Pressuring private people & sectors into compliance. Stripping media & law of independence. Starting wars. Raping girls. In bed w dictators. Midterms matter.
Message in a bottle bar clamp question. Do anybody, by any chance, know what the purpose of the kind of lug/spur on top of a heavy-duty bar clamp is? See red arrow in the picture below.
"A.i." is bullshit. "A.i." detection tools are bullshit. "A.i." in education is bullshit. "A.i." in the arts is bullshit. "A.i." in business and government is bullshit.
« That's what your bunghole gonna look like after you eat that damn thing »
She hates me I know it.
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If Jennings is the ally he claims to be, he would use his celebrity and privilege to get this lady her account back.
Karrid 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterdayWell, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.
"Oh, I only use LLMs for research. I just use AI for ideas. ChatGPT wrote the first draft, nothing else." So what you're telling me is that it's doing all your thinking for you.
Question for AI industry-friendly defective altruist blogger Andy Masley: if the water issue is fake, how do you explain a disinformation campaign that exploits thirst?
Dean Jackson@dwj.eurosky.social · yesterdayMy latest documents how the data center industry is deploying front groups, sockpuppet accounts, astroturf campaigns, and counter-insurgency tactics to neutralize community opposition. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social with UPitt's Sam Totoni. www.techpolicy.press/big-techs-pr...
Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.
💥 Mass action against data centres on November 6 in Amsterdam 💥 More info here: linktr.ee/geeftegengas www.instagram.com/geeftegengas/
Hating AI and capitalism are mutually compatible, and honestly even strictly inclusive, beliefs. It's almost like we should be distrustful of those who love capitalism and hate AI, actually... Cannot imagine who that might be... Oh, wait just kidding... *taps sign*
Entryism
AI entryism subverts anti AI critique.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d agoYeah I actually hate ai *and* capitalism. I can do both.
new reading group reading is out with ✨additional reading✨ this week:
[AI Skeptics] Techno-Negative, chapter 5 (+additional reading)
Hello! We're reading Techno-Negative by Thomas Dekeyser and continuing with chapter 5: "Extinguishing: Vandals and Epistemics on Black Boulevard". Looking...
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The success of the AI industry amounts to the degradation of people’s lives, but the thirst among our representatives for this industry to succeed in that mission is intense. There is no shared prosperity here.
Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 2d agoDo you use Instagram or Gmail? You could be helping to train AI. Big Tech has turned what all of us helped create into a trillion-dollar industry. It’s time to tax AI so you can share in its success.
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
lmao, fascists are trully mask off lately - "your product is touted [*] as 'progressive'" - "we definitely want that to change, we want more fascism on our product" * mistakenly
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Anybody at @moderation.bsky.app want to try to explain why they suspended @matthewcort.land, ANOTHER of the most prominent people out here fighting for disabled and marginalized people? Like… are y'all planning to suspend/ban literally every disabled legal scholar/policy worker out here, orrrr…?
ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 2d agoanyway, if you're looking for Matthew Cortland, you should sub to their patreon since they're a disabled lawyer evidently getting deplatformed from places.
