One of my favorite Bluesky features is being able to set it so that it won’t let you post without alt text. So I never have to worry about forgetting to do it.

IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES. You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.

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i could've sworn i read a post or watched a video where someone observed that car congestion fees and all this stuff are always unpopular right up until they go into effect, at which point it flips and becomes overwhelmingly popular. i'd love to see a compilation of polling flips from various cities

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Unbelievable. 50 years of HCI scholarship down the drain. Q: As a reader, how do I opt-out of the AI tool applied to a paper? ACM: Don’t click the ✨ link

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

how embarrassing, @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social failed to finished shenmue 3 during a charity livestream where he raised $40,000 for medical aid for palestinians. i'm almost too embarrassed to watch.

it's stupid to say but we live in stupid times w/bari weiss and all the gov has the resources they need to refute the 60 minutes piece. if they want to put out a press release on WH stationery, they can do that. the idea that journalism must supplicate to power, begging for comments, is toady shit.

Enforcing existing traffic laws makes it more difficult for neo-Nazis to harass people. It’s like getting Capone on tax evasion. Groups like Blood Tribe rent box trucks to enter/exit cities by piling 30+ guys in the back. This is dangerous for them, for other drivers and for pedestrians. 🧵

israel continues to kill palestinians during a so-called ceasefire. they continue to choke off access to aid so that exactly the number of calories that will theoretically keep palestinians alive make it into gaza. they they continue to come up with "innovative" terrorist attacks in lebanon & syria.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other. buttondown.com/apperceptive...

reply guy as a service?

i've left my computer to download a copy of what i am told is a direct web rip of the segment (higher quality video and audio); i'll subtitle and split it into shareable chunks when i can. if someone wants to beat me to the punch, please go for it

What might be helpful is to effectively communicate to communities facing data center inundation what water theft under settler colonialism meant for Indigenous peoples in the Colorado River Basin or along the Missouri River in the early-to-mid 1900s.

Don't make me tap my "scale considered harmful" sign again.

i wonder if bari weiss is going to list as one of her accomplishments that she got many more people to watch 60 minutes by the end of the year.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

the legal implications of hosting the 60 minutes video myself would be pretty perilous, right?

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

interesting (even more interesting in replies)

i continue to see discussions about datacenter water usage and i am obliged to reup this

“Ain’t no Zionists” 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

zionists are so shameless and have so little regard for humanity that they don't see putting bombs in thousands of personal electronics across multiple countries and then detonating them - in supermarkets, homes, etc... - constitutes one of the largest terrorist attacks the world has seen in decades

i really appreciate how benn reflects on the need to have some space and privacy to explore your own identity, and how that's been so important for him and his music and career ... and how mass surveillance deprives people of that thing that he got, and why that makes him so animated about this.

Using a search engine, we found 67 unsecured admin panels for Flock Safety cameras. The majority of them use AI to zoom in and follow people. I had both live and 31 days of archived footage from retail parking lots, forest trails, playgrounds, etc. @404media.co youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?...

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:

sorry for interacting with the person @acab.dad is talking about here! i would encourage you to not reply to them or give them any attention in general.

lmao

"The Waymos will now learn. Humans still don’t learn" do you hear yourself?

people are saying the autonomous vehicles all stopped in sf last night and that's not true because i think we can all agree that, definitionally, it's not autonomous if losing its connection to the internet means it stops in the middle of a goddamn intersection

omg thank you

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

Bad day to be a Waymo (and even worse to be inside or stuck behind one). A widespread blackout left robotaxis stalled across the city, causing traffic chaos Saturday night. Read more: sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...

Anthony Joshua broke both of his jaws www.skysports.com/boxing/news/...

... i can't believe i'm asking this, but where's jill stein?

journalists reconstructed epstein's amazon order history page from emails. i opened the link, saw some toys for kids 6-24 months old, and realized actually no thanks my sympathy to journalists going through these materials due to professional obligations. i hope you're able to get the care you need

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is it punching toxic influencer advent or something

the effortful project to make it seem like prompting chatbots is legitimately a skillful activity is so conspicuous, and not just because of embarrassing articles like these

have i shared this paper before? i can't find it searching my posts. apparently i started reading it a little while ago but either didn't finish or forgot. it's interesting IMO "Computer Center Sabotage, 1968-1971: Luddism, Black Studies, and the Diversion of Technological Progress" by Max Larson

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

Ahlam has been going to dialysis in Gaza this entire time- as you can imagine this is incredibly difficult and she needs to be somewhere better to get treatment. Even a little donation can help towards an evac fund ❤️

"can you shake an 8 ball?"

This is a sidenote but I always wonder what people mean when they say "know how to use AI [tools]." Like literally what does this mean? Do I know how to type a query into a chatbot? Yes? What other training do the people who say this want?

"AI is messing with our ability to rely on our learned intuition about the effort put into something" is an interesting take (and i think i agree to some extent) but still watching the video