Bot-driven social media political manipulation, as with Cambridge Analytica, is a threat to national security and economy. Black-box, sycophantic, hallucination-trained chatbots are a threat to national security and economy. The evidence of the past decade could not be more clear.

The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.

But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations. When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.

It’s always delightful to recieve a mysterious package, lost to memory and the package room, with a serendipitous treat from @richardkadrey.bsky.social. Also impressed by the archival scan of original text supplied by @archive.org. It tickles to have hardcopy of the treasure from that journey.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

with news of Tom Stoppard's passing, reflecting fondly on Arcadia - which I've seen staged multiple times, and this quote from him - which I quite enjoy and share with my Making Comics students when I talk about scripts in class. What a giant...

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Reminder to self: 1. Don’t feed trolls. 2. Don‘t wrestle pigs. 3. Don’t answer rhetorical questions.

We will get through this by doing what we have always done, showing up for each other.

With today’s update, Katie Wilson now leads Bruce Harrell in the Seattle mayor race by 91 votes! #SEAelex #WAelex

If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

Hey Seattle voters. The mayor's race may come down to a slim margin of votes, so check TODAY to make sure your signature was validated and ballot was counted. There are easy steps to correct things if your ballot was rejected: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

"The technocapital hyperobject at the end of time." i.e. The Mobius Grift

📅 03:00 PM: "Intro to OpenTofu: Open Source IaC Overview" by Ted Matsumura in Room 334 #SeaGL2025 #cloud #kubernetes #database pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/8K...

Musk effectively copied over all of Wikipedia and had Grok go over it to give it a far right bias in its framing in articles to turn it into a propaganda tool. It's conservapedia 2.0 backed by the world's richest man. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Following the #seagl2025 social, join us on Nov 7 at Ada's Bookstore for a Free Concert from Si Tu Savais from 7:30pm to 9:30pm followed by a Silent Fundraiser Auction benefiting the Seattle Community Network! fundraiser.seattlecn.org Thank you!

📅 09:10 AM: "The Seattle Community Network Stack" by Esther Jang in Room 145 #SeaGL2025 #keynote #networking #FLOSS pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZ...

Imagining a future where humans in “service roles” (peons) are forced to wear “AI“ glasses and read the scripts they are prompted with. The Mechanical Turk turned inside out: The Prompted Fleshbot.

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

Rape whistles. Used to communicate in the local area that ICE has been spotted. There's a video top of the thread showing how effective that whistle can be. The ICE cowards fled the scene.

I can do it in three word: Holiday. Weekend. Deployment.

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary. It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

To a privileged, out of touch, white dude like him, a hypothetical magical fairy tale scenario that both makes him a godmaker and justifies the current harms this endeavor results in, is clearly more important than real world issues the rest of us face.

I'm wondering, @scarlettohairdye.bsky.social, how many mutual friends might be interested in a Democracy Voucher fundraiser?

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

🚨ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants Please read, share, and sound the alarm

Hey @governorferguson.bsky.social, Bear Gulch has only gotten worse over the past 4 weeks, and we can see and smell the smoke in downtown Seattle. ICE's illegal actions have resulted in nothing but suffering and ashes. What are you going to do about it?

Shut your trap! 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGD...

Now, I'm not saying all white people are self-deceived, but whiteness is a hell of a drug, and when you have existed in a world fundamentally organized around whiteness, it becomes difficult to see the possibility that there may be other paths to liberation than what you prescribe.

I'm really concerned that white people are just not up to the task. A lot of y'all are well meaning but you're just not up to the task because you've never been systematically oppressed and you refuse to listen to people who have been

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

We've been partnering with fultel.net to put Connections (lffc.us/connections/) at seattlecommunityfridge.org/ sites to provide free WiFi and landline phone service at each fridge; so far, we've installed them at their Dunlap and Estelita's Library locations! Here are photos of our Dunlap install:

Everything bagel, with cream cheese icing.

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

‘Sarah Martin, a Memorial political science professor who spent days reviewing the document, discovered multiple fabricated citations.‘ The irony, it hurts. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/e...

I want to name this: This grief is real. It’s the moment when hope gets weighed down by clarity. When the invisible systems become visible. When you understand that it’s not just about getting louder - but about building differently.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

It was invented to protect the pursuit of power of one man: a dim-witted child rapist who became a violent extremist simply because selling his dark vision of America was the only way his corrupt, soulless ass could stay out of jail.

And to be extraordinarily clear: Charlie Kirk’s white supremacist politics were a politics of permanent political violence for anyone who wasn’t white hetcis and male and that is what Ezra Klein is hailing as politics done the right way Political violence

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Prince, Shelia E, and The Time, on the Purple Rain tour. SRV, on the Benson & Hedges Blues tour, 2 weeks before the helicopter crash.

VIP room at Club Co-op: Fancy coffee drinks and mocktails

Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.

Hey, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social : Anyone planning something similar for Seattle?

Folks, #WhatTheFunk An All Black, Indigenous, People of Color Funk Burlesque is THIS WEEKEND! I am Emcee'ing on the big beautiful #TripleDoor stage, Aug 23 7:30pm. It would mean a lot to me, personally, if you could come! www.thetripledoor.net

Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...