Also, my peeps, if you're skeeting a fucking wall of text, you should copy that wall, and PASTE IT INTO ALT TEXT! Go to SETTINGS>ACCESSABILITY > REQUIRE ALT TEXT and slide the slide to on.

I also want to mention ALT TEXT. Now, with a flip of a switch, you too can let other bsky peeps participate in your shenanigans if they have screen readers or don't understand the context of your pix. (who is this person? Why should I care?)

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

just recorded a podcast interview on zoom with @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com! * it basically just works (if one of you is a paying customer * video quality is 360p shit-tier * audio is worse than the microphone but very usable if I keep doing these i may have to spend patron money on riverside

Here's a sense of what the last one was like, aka a very good time Bring any and all consumer tech you'd like to see submitted to the tribunal for judgment. Hammer will provided. See you there. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech? Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.

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Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZ... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251106-oxf... - podcast time: 6 min 16 sec

I worked as a blogger for many cybersecurity vendors, for years. So this hits close to home. It's awful that an entity of MIT lets crooked Gen AI vendors exploit MIT's credibility for money. @davidgerard.co.uk youtu.be/ShXvaJ46hI0?...

AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it no plans to fix it, though www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOP... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251105-ai-... - podcast time: 4 min 58 sec

"Billionaire thinks laws of physics can be cheated like laws of government" is becoming a whole genre.

From the archives: 2025-11-02 at 21:09 PM Licking the AI Boot

Definitely more of a LinkedIn post than a Bluesky one, this one, but it might still be fun

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

me, I was hanging out for the flying cars, robot maids, dinosaur robots and the giant artificial moon www.wsj.com/articles/a-p...

Interview with Dying Company's VP by Kai Lentit www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCiv...

california seriously dropped the ball on this one. another two years until AI winter 😞

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Here I will crib from @mikamckinnon.bsky.social : Disaster preparedness includes having block parties.

It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI TV ad for Christmas the best ad Pepsi never paid for www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0GU... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251104-its... - podcast time: 5 min 01 sec

I’ve been using ‘Molotov Cocktail Hour’ by Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack for years. YMMV

When you preordered Alessandro Cortini’s first Sonoio album you got a pack of ringtone downloads. I set all of my system sounds to Sonoio samples then. Apparently I’ve had Sonoio system sounds for like 15 years. LMAO.

Honestly shocked Cheney made it that long, we were pretty sure he was gonna eat it when he was *in office* I gotta assume Kissinger passed on the amulet containing the souls of dead Cambodian children that powered the eldritch horror of his own body

KISSINGER: [underlit by a purple smoking cauldron in a dark office, dangling a fat ruby at the end of a gold chain] heed this portent I speak for thee, for every Afghan shot overseas, thy life shall increase by three CHENEY: what about a guy on a hunting trip KISSINGER: ...I mean I guess?

post your ring tone mine: Moodists (Dave Graney) "Chatter Shapes" from Engine Shudder (not "Shudder Engine"), 1983 youtu.be/BZl21dKDaSM?...

if collapse is in your threat model, your chances of doing ok are directly correlated with how many neighbours know your name and you know theirs the libertarian model is fundamentally incorrect individualism means you die

At what point will “I really Ezra Kleined that up, didn’t I?” become part of the common parlance?

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Deutsche Bank analysts say AI's not a bubble you guys, they checked with AI and not y'know looking at a fucking number www.ft.com/content/c042...

"November Rain" is fucking awful slop and i was right in 1991

To again steal @davidgerard.co.uk's terminology, I'm getting very sick of the question 'will this impressive demo get more impressive' being turned into 'will this tech get better at doing what it is in fact not doing to begin with'

Oh, Dick Cheney died? Well-- *sees Bluesky mod around corner* What's really important is championing the open protocol.

now playing New Christs "Distemper" (1989) - plain unadorned rock'n'roll. I got this when it came out, haven't played it in 35 years. stands up extremely well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIN5...

the only acceptable AI video avatar

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

“God I’m terrible at art and you’re so good.” “Practice.” “There’s gotta be some secret.” “I’ve drawn every single day for five years.” “You’re just so talented you must have been born with it.” “I literally have days where I cry over my tablet because I’m so frustrated.” “I’ll never be that good.”

My artistic process is me sobbing at my desk redrawing strokes over and over until it looks like something

shen comix on machine learning (apologies to @shenanigansen.bsky.social)

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I thought NYC Proposition 7, "Proposal To Drag Andrew Cuomo Naked Through A Barbed Wire Factory" was cruel but fair. (Voted "YES" so hard I tore the ballot and broke the pen)

It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI TV ad for Christmas the best ad Pepsi never paid for www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0GU... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251104-its... - podcast time: 5 min 01 sec

my kill file is a symlink to lp0 loaded with death note paper

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Killfile ‘em all and let the daemons sort them out.

AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you! pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/30/a...

Just days after saying there was no place for transphobia in her new party Zarah Sultana cheered recruiting anti-trans trade unionist Mark Serwotka. Mark now saying exactly what you'd expect - that he intends to expunge the trans rights movement from Your Party to bring in anti-trans campaigners.

Does this mean a bunch of folk can cash out and the bubble will finally be allowed to pop? 😹

It's like if the oil execs were also filling up tin cans with oil and mandating that they, and all their employees, had to huff it throughout the day. Microsoft's operating system has never been good, but it's never been this nakedly, frequently, dramatically busted.

I started in 1990 and I'm not going to block you just for being cautious about blocking but the first hint that you don't like blocking because you feel exempt from other people making their own choices and I am mashing that button so hard