Our new, rebranded website is live. 🚀 🤓: and, look at that -- it's federated blackskyweb.xyz/.well-known/...

Cool cool cool let's continue to make it a casual endeavor to find all the information you need to radically violate the safety and privacy of anybody whose words or existence makes you personally angry.

The writers of the most recent Mission: Impossible movie, which I watched on an airplane, seem more capable of understanding the world-rending implications of AI tools like this than the people making it and that makes me sad

pretty sure the award for worst Dem response to "the current moment" is Amy Klobuchar saying we need to repeal Section 230 because the man who shot Charlie Kirk used the Internet

Conspiracy theories follow familiar patterns, repeating the same tropes over and over again, so that when a new event happens, the theorists can interpret that event through the same old corrupted frame… and blaming science for diseases has been an old, worn-out story, since long before Covid.

It’s wild to see how platforms big and small grapple with the new UK requirements for age verification. It looks like a lot of small platforms who can’t afford the expensive verification services end up choosing more ethical, privacy-preserving, and transparent approaches to verifying their users.

Update from itchio: Free NSFW content will be reindexed, Stripe points the finger at banks. Looks like it’s time to also call our banks

It’s wild that face scanning for age verification is not only a common practice but it’s basically legally required for platforms to comply. The danger of applying this universally is ☠️, seeing the Tea breach doxxing everybody who verified with ID & face scans further eroding access to anonymity.

getting my phrenology checked by my laptop camera before I can listen to WAP, a future I always wanted www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

ok but imagine Jackie Chan fighting all the members of the polycule in and around this thing

'The paper, published in PLOS Biology, warns that as AI makes data mining more accessible, and large language models can help write papers, “manufactured publications [could] outnumber legitimate publications in certain data-driven fields”.' 2/2

'Artificial intelligence tools designed to speed up the research process by helping to extract data have led to a flood of “low-quality” research papers that threaten to damage the “foundations of scientific rigour”, according to a new study.' 1/2

favorite genre of linkedin bro-posting

Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov 🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...

Meta has told employees that they're laying off 5 percent of staff on Feb. 10, sources tell me & @mikeisaac.bsky.social @sheeraf.bsky.social. Layoffs are coming after employees have pushed back on new content moderation rules.

I’ll miss the era of human-generated slop

Something to consider when mainstream Dems start getting mad at Big Trans all over again

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla

Meta's policy is that group-based harassment is generally bad and forbidden *except for this one particular group*

OpenAI is completely screwed. If they're losing money on $200/month, they're losing it on $20/month and their real costs are so much higher than they can ever get anyone to pay. A pale horse. techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/o...

tired: fearing that robots will become so smart they take your job wired: fearing that robots will still be dumb but take your job anyway

What’s a girl gotta do to offload a thousand Oreos in Los Angeles

The reviews are in for the new patron content www.patreon.com/posts/new-ye...

“Why wouldn’t you want an AI to summarize your work while adding numerous errors, sucking out any meaning or subtly, but keeping an artificial veneer of complete confidence? It’s like you don’t even want your job replaced by something worse and far less useful?”

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

I made a gingerbread panopticon

It’s insane how far gamers will go to give transparently bad actors with many allegations (or the companies that enable them) the benefit of the doubt just so they can buy a video game with a clear conscience.

QUICK! You should go support this game about running a social media platform from people who know how it actually works. These guys make shockingly fun games that truly enlighten you about how social media platforms operate (and maybe give you some ideas about what we can actually do about them).

Please check your emails and all your DMs!!! (yes including on LinkedIn)

Journalists: How's your digital security looking for 2025? Track your progress with our checklist: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

This is why Democrats supporting KOSA is so fucking dumb

There are four or five distinct arguments that get called "AI skepticism" and the tactic of pretending that the least serious of them—"AI is bad at hands, hurr"—represents the whole stack is very Chamber of Commerce–coded.

Last month I was shopping for a fire blanket to hang over the pellet stove for safety, and the 5-star blanket had thousands of reviews about how easy it was to install, how good it looked, and how safe it made them feel. The 1-star reviews all said "the fire blanket caught on fire"

Why did they make toy chica sexy

Two things can be true: Meta did overstep during COVID & and over-relies on hamfisted AI tools to moderate; and all these public mea culpas done to kiss the ring are not actually what free speech looks like. www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24...

same energy

Contribute to Wikipedia and one day you’ll have the honor of a YouTuber copying your work for content 🥹

Patients often don’t know what care they’re entitled to under state law. One survey found 86% of people with insurance don’t know which government agency to call for help. Knowing how to navigate the system can make all the difference.

I don’t care, I’m still free You can’t take bluesky from meee 🎶🎵🎶

chill advice for people getting into digital security for the first time, before downloading anything or getting hung-up on what devices you need or getting lost in long lists of do's-and-don'ts... did you do a risk assessment first? here's how to do that (a guide for journos but useful for many!)

sorry to be The Bluesky Defender but: 1. this is a team of 20 people 2. the site suddenly has 20+ million people 3. the team is extremely trans positive with multiple trans people on the team 4. the team is not "taking orders from transphobes" jfc 5. the banned people were engaging with CSAM

Nooooooo

Wikipedia editors are so cool

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I’ll shed my wings and I’ll learn how to skeet 🎶