an LLM is not credible if it doesn't know that Alex Jones has died from some kind of bizarre head explosion alone in the drivers seat of his parked van

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...

Hi hello! Friendly reminder that Blacksky is not Bluesky. We are on the same protocol. This means that we are a separate independent social networking site. Smooches!

The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

happy juneteenth. give your money to black people today.

zohran begins his 10,000 year regime today

multiculturalism is pretty great

Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says

People aren’t just complaining about Google's AI search overhaul, they’re leaving. Yesterday alone, our week over week installs surged 30% in the U.S. 🚀 Momentum is growing. It’s time to Fire Google.

My high school BBS was a beautiful moment in time. USENET and alt.society.generation-x was a beautiful moment in time. The beginning of the blogosphere was a beautiful moment in time. The early days of Twitter were a beautiful moment in time. They were great, and now they're gone. It's fine.

“The artist Darren Cullen, a Banksy-like figure who has conducted many similar ‘subvertising’ campaigns before, posted photos of the faux advertisements on X-formerly-Twitter.”

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

On the tube

Trump couldn’t steal this much money or murder this many people without the aid of an entire political party full of fellow thieves and murderers.

Another 5 countries visited (50 thus far) and the worst drivers are still in Australia and the US (entitlement and an individual > cooperative driving culture).

WHERE DO I VOTE

Community backlash kills WA data centre ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Sign up for latinsky.community today (omg do you see this art?? 🤌🏾)

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Zambia: RightsCon cancellation is a blow to freedom of expression by @article19.bsky.social www.article19.org/resources/za...

Palestine is the moral issue of our time, as was apartheid in the 1970s and 80s. your stance and your silence define you.

They call them "data centers" because “mass-surveillance centers” would be harder to sell.

To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.

Letting men decide about women's health care is like letting your dog make decisions about your car because he likes to ride in it sometimes.

Mass surveillance and democracy are incompatible.

Friends, the now billionaire co-founder of Facebook, who we have to thank for the unlimited money going into the effective altruism cult who has now given us "AI", with all its "glory" including kids' suicides, has a dream good social media platforms good people like him dreamt up years ago 🙄

Canceling RightsCon would be a body blow to the digital rights and justice community. Perhaps if it's rebranded the AI Ethics Con governments would think twice before summarily dismissing all the work that goes into developing a convening and community like this.

More reporting about #RightsCon from @404media.co www.404media.co/rightscon-hu...

“I have a PhD in atmospheric physics. I spent a decade measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. The thing that made me good at it was reading poetry. It trained me to notice what was not being said in a dataset. Every critical decision I made as a scientist was interpretation, not computation.”

More elephants stomping on big game hunters please. 🐘

Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse. So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries. It’s your turn.

Happy 80th Birthday to the legendary Tim Curry! 🖤

Please read this urgent paper. I am then going to repost a bunch of comments I made last night (sorry).

This is literally something the evil corporations do in the Murderbot books.

Follow all the panels live/on demand on the festival website: buff.ly/pAR2iDQ

HEY LADY! YOU CALL HIM DR JESUS!