When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

At BK, we listen all day

Did you know that you could read a free ghost story in @rottingleafmag.bsky.social? www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-... #ecohorror #shortstory #ghoststory

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Winter Road, Night Illingworth Kerr 1985

Buy a book or three. You’ve earned it.

AI ethicswashing

When you are absolutely, definitely in touch with what's going on

"It is not a coincidence that Epstein was also interested in crypto, in AI, in right-wing populism, in trad Cath extremists, and anti-trans ideology, ... Epstein gravitated toward fields and figures that rank humans, explain away cruelty, or biologize inequality."

Yes. This. And go look at your local newspaper or watch cable TV news and tell me where this scandal figures. Crickets. Just another allegation of rape and sexual assault. Just another DoJ cover up.

We don't accept sorry we demand seppuku

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

No war but class war

Every post about code-generating LLMs goes like "It deleted my app, closed my bank accounts and subscribed me to 400 conservative mailing lists—it's really cool and neat and I highly recommend it!"

It’s once again that time of year when I start tuning in to college basketball and pretend I’ve been paying attention the whole season

Have you read our February piece from K.M. Greyburn, yet? You should.

we are 80% funded (if you were curious) 80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey 80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear 80% off is a going out of business sale please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u join us! get fiction! 👇

"I hear you have complaints about the water quality..."

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

“Training a human takes 20 years of food”

Lots of avenues to fight these things. And each one is a chance to sharpen your organizing skills

Our latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out: 🌎 Biodiversity Warnings 🦈 Antarctic Shark Sightings ♻️ Plastic Poisoning 👇 And plenty more www.briefecology.com/the-biodiver...

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

The same government that brought you ICE is investigating climate activists. #climate #activism #protests www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A small price to pay for an energy source that will also boil the planet, I say

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

The thing you've always known to be true is: The DOJ scrubbed evidence that he's rapist and a pedophile.

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

This is a myth (lie). Plant response to atmospheric CO2 is not linear, and any potential gains in higher concentrations are going to be offset by rising temperatures, intensifying droughts, spreading wildfires, and other mortality contributors exacerbated by climate change

THIS is the data center I have been working against since November 2024 💪🏾 Project Sucre (Sugar) Owned by Beignet Investors

“Bold” may be one of the most dangerous words we apply to the biosphere. It often signals a willingness to gamble on planetary systems we barely understand rather than reduce the pressures we clearly do.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

The Trump administration is planning to build a 5,000-person military base in Gaza, sprawling more than 350 acres, according to Board of Peace contracting records reviewed by the Guardian.

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

well I, for one, am quite shocked

I was as strong of a Mamdani supporter as they come, but now that he’s in a position of power he needs to be held responsible for his promises From @prisonculture.bsky.social 👇 open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Remember that every time they say we’re being paid to raise our voices, that’s because they actually are

Hell yeah

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

Stephen Colbert says he was told by CBS lawyers "in no uncertain terms" that he could not have Texas State Rep. James Talarico on his program. "Because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this."

Their "more efficient" process than having writers write: • AI identifies possible stories • Reporters do further reporting and produce notes • Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks" • Another person fact-checks/edits • Reporter reviews

Have fun breathing, folks

If you like a bit of body horror with your ecofiction, this very cool piece delivers the goods.