i just ordered this but also like everything in the search results for "color taste texture" looks interesting

it was a great success, stay tuned for FOIA 102! we will hold more FOIA 101 workshops in the future and if you want us to come to you, please reach out ❤️

on behalf of the bluesky team i am excited to announce our newest feature! Now in addition to replies and quotes, we have the "don't reply" here's how it works: 1. you see a post that does not mention you 2. you "don't reply" to it 3. the app shows you more posts

I've got a hand gesture for them

This is what I mean when I say they can't fix it. it's not broken, it's structurally indifferent to truth It's built on "likely" Sometimes likely = true Often it isn't

This is incredible stuff

it's working great already

on behalf of the bluesky team i am excited to announce our newest feature! Now in addition to replies and quotes, we have the "don't reply" here's how it works: 1. you see a post that does not mention you 2. you "don't reply" to it 3. the app shows you more posts

can't spell braaaaiiinns without aaaaiiiii

This right here.

This sort of shit is why I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi.

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Tomorrow! If you're interested in learning how to use FOIA creatively or you think transparency is a limiting frame, this one's for you

My kid is the absolute cutest and sweetest in the world, so it's a shame, but if we're not at the level where we share pictures either in person or on Signal with disappearing messages on, you're not seeing anything until 2043 at the earliest.

i strongly encourage parents not to post photos of your children on the internet

Meta should straight up be dismantled. There’s no regulatory environment with fines steep enough to solve a corporate culture this depraved.

Human translation is evidently better than machine translation.

There’s a really great podcast for kids called the Big Fib which is light-hearted and silly but challenges kids to interview an expert and a liar, ask good questions and analyze answers and evidence to figure out who’s the real deal.

idle question: do folks have any good examples of games or exercises for teaching information literacy to kids? for example something like a scavenger hunt to identify clues for whether you've got a reliable source or a bluff-the-listener game where somebody has to figure out the real answer

Well aint this guy a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everything

given recent discussions of data privacy, probably worth reminding everyone: on bluesky, the app you use and the data it creates are basically separate things. if you block someone, they can't use the app to see your posts, because the *app* won't let them. the data is still public.

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this is a great question. why are ads being served in schools, to students, in a district that has a contract with google? are the ads in the contract? or rather why isn't "no ads" part of the contract?

ai is a tool that makes work for other people

it's truly no wonder so many men treated metoo like an existential threat bc there are men whose entire public existence relies on people not comparing notes

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

That was the most aggro I've ever seen the agents. While pushing to get vehicles out, agents grabbed at least 2 people. Multiple tear gas cannisters deployed and pepper balls fired into the crowd.

Love waking up to the sound of helicopters and the smell of asphalt

come on people i know there are more you can share with me. tech ceos are an endless wellspring of terrible ideas nurtured by unimaginative sycophants

My first thought was this, not quite a demo but a classic youtu.be/lLPAUHdyjRI?...

i'm glad we get to include bill gates in this, he doesn't get enough disrespect

come on people i know there are more you can share with me. tech ceos are an endless wellspring of terrible ideas nurtured by unimaginative sycophants

ok i'm going to make a thread of bad product demos by rich people because they're terrible and it's funny. please add more in the replies, they bring me joy as not-seth-rogan would say, "what do i do first"

here's an important thing about deterministic tools: when they fail, they fail predictably you can learn how to use them *for your own purposes* because they behave in consistent ways even if they aren't 100% optimal AI tools add a layer of ambiguity so you're 100% never sure what the output means

what essays or other things about AI have you all read (or watched, or listened to, or experienced) lately that captured your attention, or pumped you up, or sparked your imagination?

hey so i'm going to say something that should be really fucking obvious and see who gets mad if you're a reporter covering ICE actions in chicago, you should not be posting the internal discussions of rapid response groups without their consent

i cannot emphasize enough that this is hazardous technology, like really really unsafe stuff. don't use it. if people you care about are using it you should be alarmed. they almost certainly do not understand the kinds of risk involved.

This is a new development in ICE tactics

Poob doesn't have it!!

You know what fixes this? Duct tape

my kids call this "human sitting"

if you haven't read Infomocracy by @older.bsky.social let's just say it's a timely work of speculative fiction

they just don't make those hooks like they used to

"what do i do first"

Hey friends, this is fast and easy and really helps people who are laying low while ICE is on the move in Chicago. I just got a bunch of black beans, anyone want to join me?

If you feel like you should be doing something to help but you don't know what or how, you can contribute food

it's not giving in if you want to do it

I think a lot of what people are calling "capitulation" would be better understood as "support"