why won’t the left just praise every technology handed down from self-interested billionaires seeking only to enhance their power and profits?! clearly, they’re the ones in the wrong if they can’t get on board 😤

“Behold…my instrument”

Weaponized Planet-Killing Dunning Kruger Machines

From the "Nothing matters unless it affects me personally" school of thought...

how we got here

Nuremberg Trials.

Beautifully articulated "...the AI industry has flipped philosophical inquiry into a design brief. Instead of looking for signals of thought, it uses language to forge the evidence." 😚👌

The very first #TeslaTakedown protests in Seattle were at the store in South Lake Union. After months of multiple actions every week, we shut that shit down. Come celebrate 1 year with @troublemakers.bsky.social @defundmusk.bsky.social! We'll have cake, music, games, and a Cybertruck piñata!

Respect

If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

True and awful

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

Reminder: Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data. It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88

Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult

Although some states have also passed laws restricting parole, none have been as aggressive as Louisiana, which eliminated parole entirely for prisoners incarcerated after Aug. 1, 2024. “Louisiana is an outlier,” one expert said. “It’s a disaster.” With @veritenews.org

Perfect

Hahahahahahahaha

ICYMI: Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment

None of my stories is written using 'AI'. Never. Never. Never. #AI @alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social

Collective madness

When I decided to do an episode on the Grok deepfake scandal, I knew exactly who I had to talk to. It was great to have @kattenbarge.bsky.social back on the show to talk not just about Grok and Elon, but the wider problem of AI-generated explicit images.

it makes sense that anthropic would try to keep it a secret that they were scanning & pulping tons of books, including rare and out of print texts, because it paints an almost too on the nose image of the entire project of AI

A new story - little on the late side today but it's been another crazy week. Especially with all the news. Time to get active. Time to put some good in the world and rebalance the scales... This one's a nod to my dog people. #shortstory #predationchain #fiction katecalamatta.com/f/predation-...

Let's call it what it is. Extrajudicial execution.

Occupation ideology holds that the occupation is necessary to protect the majority population, since the people being occupied are inherently violent and irrational and any leniency in their treatment will simply allow them to kill and act savagely. www.juancole.com/2026/01/minn...

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Abolish the Republican Party.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Telecommunications regulators in basically everywhere in the West other than the US and prosecutors everywhere (including the US) already have the tools to destroy X and SpaceX. They lack the will and desire because they aligned, captured, or scared.

Same people who whinge endlessly about how the removal of confederate monuments “erases history” have no problem erasing actual history

Elon Musk should be in jail and all his assets seized and paid to his victims. This, plus USAID, and more.

Not only is it morally repugnant for the White House to use AI to make Nekiva Levy Armstrong appear to be crying— it also appears to be illegal In case anything still matters

Evergreen <Insert quote tweet of @hypervisible.blacksky.app from 2018 talking about Ring saying something like "what could possibly go wrong" >

Perhaps if X also offered a feature where you could track US drone strikes , maybe then Google and Apple will find their power

For those playing along at home, @techpolicypress.bsky.social is tracking regulator responses to Grok's non-consensual intimate imagery: European Commission, France, Ireland, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, United States, Australia, UK, and Canada www.techpolicy.press/tracking-reg...

“The technology does not inherently provide factual accuracy. Instead, it reflects whatever inaccuracies exist on the websites Google’s algorithm ranks highly, presenting the facts with an authority that makes errors appear trustworthy.”

Recently I had a wide-ranging, if appropriately depressing, hour-long conversation with @krystalball.bsky.social about tech fascism, democracy, AI and industrial policy, the search for "exit," and much else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiuR...

Good news, someone ripped my video and put it on the Internet Archive. If you're having trouble downloading from Filemail, here it is: archive.org/details/60mi...

#flashfiction #fiction

Let's hear it for the very first winner of the Fifa peace prize.

Ravi Coutinho needed mental health and addiction care. Getting it through his insurance network was nearly impossible. He texted his friends: “Therapists have been 0-4.” “Called ten places and nothing.” “The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.” (Published Sept. 2024)

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Documenting the kakistocracy...

T-Mobile loves to say it’s a “force for good.” But here’s the truth ⬇️ 👉 T-Mobile is siding with Trump. 👉 T-Mobile is putting profits over people. 👉 T-Mobile is helping fund Elon Musk’s empire through its T-Satellite program. Add your name to the #BoycottTMobile pledge today: stmp.link/hanguptmobile

There never was a ceasefire.

Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."