Great remarks by @ali-alkhatib.com "if we’re going to “destroy AI” in a sense that matters, we need to build counter-institutions...we need to support one another...so that exploitative palliative non-solutions like chatbot counselors are incomprehensible to us..." ali-alkhatib.com/blog/techno-...

It's also REALLY cool and interesting that Bluesky is a "Public Benefit Corporation" which means they have to produce a "Benefit Analysis" and I'm really curious how discriminatory moderation and ignoring world class proffessionals might effect a "Benefit Analysis"

it's cool how the people running this site & developing its protocol are beyond indifferent and actively ignoring the advice of honest to god world class professionals on internet culture and social inequity. it really gives me confidence that they're making well-advised decisions about the protocol

"removed by author" 🫩

acclimatizing birds to the relocated bird feeder with a big ominous camera bearing down on them like a giant eye 👁️

i asked youtube, netflix, and hulu what i should watch next. the answers often varied widely.

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

"if anyone would like a distraction-" she said, as @alexip718.com burst through the doors 😭

a primal scream that captures a moment

reposting thoughts i'm curious if someone has studied how data centers seem to intensify resource needs. if you had commercial buildings of comparable environmental impacts would they all be backed up by the promises of additional dedicated substations (as DTE is doing in MI)? or generator backups?

"The Ghost in the Shell" anime series by Science Saru is coming on July 7 (Prime Video). New trailer >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=yedJ...

"why does it generate text like a dark and sexy roleplay plotline obsessed with fantasy creatures and murder" Because you trained it to reproduce text including just an astonishing amount of exactly that kind of content??

Lmao @aaron.bsky.team only gave me two strikes because I am cis and thus do not qualify for bluesky's trans strike penalty

I wrote this in 2021. Funding for Humanities + AI has one main purpose and that’s to offer a positive image for an antidemocratic project of power consolidation and upwards wealth transfer grounded in the use of this technology. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

YES. YES. OH MY GOD. LABEL THE KLECHA OR SOMETHING. like biting into a clump of sand...

what's the equivalent of this but for food i hated as a kid?

fucking dying at @bennjordan.bsky.social getting a robot dog to say "for the love of god please fucking kill me"

this also happens with writing, and i'm trying to figure out how to talk about it in a way that's not "high fidelity" or "low fidelity" or something like that. it's more like communicative intents can convey what part you're supposed to understand the spirit of the written thing vs... something else

The reason why the sketchy drawing is better than AI reference are the economical choices made. The person only drew what was most important and nothing else which gives clear direction! Please do more of this!

Anyway, get to ground. It's always my *advice* [when I offer any]. Get hyper local. Find your people and fight where you are. This is where you can make the most impact and a real difference. Do this as much as you can, take care of yourself, and take care of your people.

ordered 5 cubic yards of topsoil and 500+ stickers including a new design. the two things are unrelated, but the appeal of getting physical things made has bitten me.

the whole letter is inside and it's a doozy

welcome to my life lol

someone shared the black and white outline of a flock apparatus (solar panel/internet uplink & camera) and i thought this might be kinda neat, but i feel like too many of the sticker design ideas i've had lately involve profanity that would be embarrassing to explain if a kid asked what it means.

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after my nonsense last night and an afternoon buying 2x12 lumber, i have a new question how did these people before us find a single fucking 2x12 that wasn't absolute crap?

reupping this thread about AI companies grafting themselves onto military interests to make refusal and organized resistance against data centers read along the lines of national security interests and terrorism

Imagine making fun of everyone dealing with fibromyalgia simply because there isn't a physiological way to confirm its existence.

we're getting pretty close

carefully planning to build a raised garden bed, but simultaneously trying not to dwell on the several tons of topsoil and compost that i'm going to have to haul by hand in order to fill it

Virtually every ad forced upon me is for an investor-owned utility shell group urging me to vote against public power and my own interests, or for the OpenAI data center that they’ve decided to dub “The Barn” in the most heavy handed attempt at folksiness imaginable.

i'm not fully caught up on what's happening here but it sounds like normal bluesky admin shit

all it took was one burger king meme mentioning a thing that a dev was witnessed doing & they skipped all the damn strikes going straight to the perma wasn’t even stalking or persistent targeting either lol; just one burger king font generator meme

lmao what the fuck

the ads i'm being served, astroturfing for the saline data center and against ann arbor public power, are so stupid, lazy, and clumsy that it just makes me more mad that this dumb shit is what we're up against.

I very much enjoyed this discussion about the growing AI resistance and the destruction of surveillance infrastructure with my good friend Jason

i'm only ~20 minutes in but the speakers in this video seem to have a really good grasp of AI as a disembodied project and data centers as (conspicuous) physically instantiated projects on our literal landscape.

oh no, it accidentally looks kinda like a klan-themed dog

car journalists, get on this shit please

the cornell president was driving a luxury SUV. those things go ballistic if they sense there’s even a branch behind them, not to mention a rear camera. it seems impossible for him to claim he didn’t know students were behind his vehicle.

"[W]e see AI flourishing in certain industries where [...] people’s needs and refusal can be discarded - see Palestine, of course; but [also] in schools, in healthcare, in prisons & policing. It feels as if AI solutions [...] thrive where human rights and civil society have been weakened"

2002: draw on a CD with a Sharpie to circumvent DRM 2026: draw on your face with an eyebrow pencil to circumvent age verification www.euronews.com/next/2026/05...

this is kinda meta but i think it would've been more interesting for the story if as a rule jedi didn't allow kids, requiring new initiates to be adults, and only abandoned that principle in a singularly error with anakin, fueled by panic over this dubious prophecy of an urgent threat on the horizon

decided approximately 10 minutes too late that i wanted to change the url, so sorry if the redirect is confusing lol

i wrote a post - "On techno-optimism".

i tried to avoid working on a thing and in the process i wrote a blog post about the thing that i was trying to avoid working on, so in a sense i was kind of working on the thing, but in an unproductive and ultimately arguably kinda useless way.

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education