I have to see if this preprint was published anywhere but I’m still reading it (it’s about labor, AI - generative and not and the future of workers’ autonomy)

Daily medications are keeping a child in Gaza alive. Our taxes ensured a teenage girl in Gaza has a US-manufactured bullet in her brain. She needs our sustained hope! 266/350 by Monday. And get in touch if you can meaningfully help with evacuation. tiny.cc/HelpRetaj

…Removing your own stylistic cues & voice for fear they make you "sound like AI" is a sure-fire way to make your work bland & lifeless, to say nothing of what it's gonna do to you psychologically, emotionally, & hermeneutically. Develop your voice, & write how you fucking well want to goddam write.

One of the things i keep trying to get people to understand is that these linguistic shorthands and stylistic flourishes have existed in writte and spoken communication for long before "AI" got ahold of them, and their proliferation with the training data is a part of where "AI" "learned" them. …

saw a linkedin hiring post that sounded like a perfect fit for me until i saw it was for Suno

i was searching for something else and i accidentally found out about this amazing looking surreal golf game, "True Golf Classics: Wicked 18", which, according to wikipedia, "takes place on a very difficult otherworldly golf course" dithering patterns like these don't grow on trees.

any suggested articles/materials criticizing the concept of "progress" (particularly re: technology)?

Hi! This is the official Bluesky account for Bard - a music app for the rest of us. We're working on an app centered around speed, with a focus on the local files on your hard drive or media server. We'll be launching on macOS and iOS first, but keep an eye out for multiplat releases shortly after!

I know that someone out there cares about saving the life of a teenage girl with a bullet wound in her brain. The doctors can't remove the shrapnel because of the medical siege on Gaza. We did this. So let’s show up with unbridled hope for her. 20/220 by Monday tiny.cc/HelpRetaj

procgen experiments as a prerequisite to updating my website observablehq.com/@cubeghost/p...

procgen experiments as a prerequisite to updating my website observablehq.com/@cubeghost/p...

gonna start collecting these

anyone know where i can get a job writing non-evil code. ideally generating value for a non-evil company

Just a reminder that our appetites, from here on the outside, of endless testimony, documentation, "verification" does translate to targeting by the occupation. Enemy media is saying these photojournalists were targeted for using a drone to document charitable work. This is not the first time.

not just the bullet silences the journalist but your elision Today, the most stagnant fund I host is: • Journalist Othman: chuffed.org/project/othman • Last donation: May 26 • Othman is the caretaker of his elderly father & surviving siblings. They need monthly support for shelter.

The occupation is constantly escalating its engineered hunger policy in Gaza. Don’t get used to this. Our attention matters. Give to help 21 families survive today, hit "weekly"—on any fund—to sustain it so they know they can eat each week, and act for their tomorrow. chuffed.org/project/hope...

"close Delaney Hall and free every person in there" is the demand, so direct that (in my experience) some people may miss it rather than accept it

Within the next two days I have to find a new place to stay and also raise enough money to travel to see my neurologist who will hopefully figure out why I have all these seizures and why I’m losing my eyesight. This is all so expensive. If anyone can help it is appreciated. Thank you.

Breaking: The NYS Assembly, dominated by democrats, just voted for a Trumpy energy agenda that guts the NY climate law. The climate law delayed action by 7 years, but a court had ordered Hochul to implement it… so she moved to gut it and the legislature is obliging. 🤦🤦🤦

This is unbelievable. The AI boom is now piggybacking on green colonialism, eating up any contribution to emissions reduction while causing harm to Indigenous communities. The Yakama Tribe has been fighting this pumped storage project for years, only to learn it would primarily power…a data center.

Do you have excessive symptoms? You may have Symptomosis, Symptomitis, or Symptom Syndrome. Symptoms are excessive symptoms at unexpected times, dates, and/or moments. Symptoms may include noticing, researching or forgetting symptoms, symptoms improving or worsening, or just saying "oh that's odd."

why are so many javascript frameworks mormon

They suspended @cara.city for this!!! Dogshit website run by absolute babies. It is a Serious Violation to point out that the head of trust and safety’s pants fell down and everyone saw his little red ass and laughed

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

Retaj is a child fighting to survive an occupation bullet wound in her brain. Anything helps with her daily care. If you can make a small pledge by clicking "monthly," even better. This is also her family’s rent fund. 175/230 by Monday. tiny.cc/HelpRetaj

And even if "cure for cancer" was a remotely scientific phrase, if we took it charitably to the max, it doesn't actually justify all the harms AI (including emissions which cause cancers) actually verifiably has. See blue box here: ainowinstitute.org/publications...

We don’t typically get organic support anymore, just automated donations. This is exactly my design! But that means that as these recurring donations get canceled every other day, I don’t know how to meet these emergencies.

@virus.sucks does the analyzer app use Web Serial or WebUSB? firefox nightly just added support for Web Serial 👀🤞🏻

ughhhh was looking at a job i really liked and the founders are israeli. elite idf program and everything. booooo

OH at union square: [incredulously] "there's a PARK in your neighborhood?"

any suggested articles/materials criticizing the concept of "progress" (particularly re: technology)?

computer slow? couldn't possibly be the 3,023 tabs i have open

Fundamental foundational reminder: It's human biases and human values all the way down. The particular technology in question can matter in how exactly said values express, but the core remains: Human biases, human values, human choices, and unquestioned human assumptions, leading to human death.

Moving into my long term housing next week. The property management company just asked for an a deposit because I am “a potential liability.” They want $500. I can’t move in unless I pay it. This is some bullshit. But it’s the only housing that works for me at this time.

not trying to minimize AI's contribution here at all but we should all also be critical of the energy usage of streaming video, especially short form. curious to see how bytedance/tiktok compares, and if google and meta break theirs down such that youtube and reels can be separated from other uses

New York pals, here's a chance to comment opposing a data center

The US Attorney's offices are filing doomed misdemeanor cases because it allows them to keep migrants detained for months, which fills up beds, which makes money for GEO Group and CoreCivic, which gets returned in the form of kickbacks to politicians and lobbyists. Simple as.

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

long but worth it spectrejournal.com/municipal-so...

Some tips on giving digital privacy/security advice: if you tell people they absolutely need to do a long list of difficult and expensive things before they travel, people will nod and smile and then not do it at all. This is why my advice focuses on harm reduction and understanding trade-offs.

We have NINE days left, final countdown! 457/1557 to finish this campaign for kids who got out of occupation torture camps!!! chuffed.org/project/hmg

thinking of writing a degrowth-adjacent blog post/rant/polemic begging tech workers to care about the imperialist resource extraction and labor abuses that power our jobs and related technological advancements. but idk who will see it

This is a fucking nightmare.

it's so nice out and i'm so sick wtf

The pattern is unmistakable: The more U.S. bombs have fallen on Iran, the more ICE has arrested and abused Iranians en masse in the United States. As of September 2025, 320 documented final orders of removal had been issued to Iranians.

i gotta get back into carrots and hummus

alllll righty. I updated my GFM: www.gofundme.com/f/support-my...

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

it's a very scary time to be trans in this country, but you also should be aware of what is actually a problem, what is actually something you have to worry about, and what is yet another nothingburger. you can't fight the actual fight if you're too busy swinging at ghosts.