Me: “phishing attempt” (followed by an email explaining what happened) IT: “this is a phishing attempt” Gee thanks I never would have guessed

I’m so jealous

On the tube

Many of the rationales for my AI course policy appeal to students' self interest (say no for your own sake). But I also stress (& they find it eye-opening) that inputting anyone else's work into a chatbot is unethical because it "turns over" that work w/out consent to for-profit tech companies...

“Charm” offensive

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

My god people believe MJ was actually saving children from Epstein’s island

Oh to be a fly on the wall

Half of Americans report being more concerned than excited about AI, and they’re particularly worried about its impact on creativity, mental health, and people’s jobs. trib.al/ad6qRtC

"Killing massive data centers might cut off the hypercharged growth of AI — that would be fine with me," Councilmemer Sarah Parady said. denverite.com/2026/05/18/d...

People just want to shove AI into everything but what was it even supposed to do here? Fuck this noise. those poor grads

NEW: Alberta separatist group’s controversial voter ID app has links to US Ambassador, MAGA influencers and wealthy Michigan Republicans US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told @pressprogress.ca he was ‘not aware’ an American-made app he previously promoted was used to help an Alberta separatist group

This was already an annoying part of the process. The first one I went to had RT on her tv and sneered at my vax records I found a nicer one who ordered titers and who didn’t have Putin propaganda I feel for everyone trying to go through this process now

What are we doing here

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

I don't know anyone who is worried that hantavirus is turning into the next COVID as a global pandemic. The concern is that clearly nothing has been learned from COVID. It's the same calm-mongering, the same arrogant claims, the same slapdash mitigations, the same minimizers who got COVID so wrong.

No known contact with those who had hantavirus 😑

GOOD

faith in humanity restored

For any new followers who received this post, please know there's a one click option for you to tell your MP to vote NO on #BillC22! www.openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #cdnpoli

gasp, you don’t say! the most obviously predictable thing happened when the lying machine was rolled out in healthcare?

When a freelancer uses AI to invent quotes, they’re fired. When a bureau chief does it, it’s a quiet correction. Journalist Michelle Cyca argues that how publications respond to AI fabrication is the real policy in practice. https://ow.ly/xTPj50YYxTs

For the laziest and least intellectually curious amongst us

I’m an AI hater and proud

There is a big difference between "people who are 'scared' of AI and don't want to learn new things" and "people who have deep moral objections to AI's underpinnings, impacts, and the systems of power behind it." It's wild to me that institutions pushing AI adoption don't seem to understand this.

Seeking health care as a woman in one headline www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This… seems like a bad development

Happy Mother's Day

Considering people can transmit before developing symptoms, this isn’t that comforting (yes I know it’s not super transmissible- but it still is transmissible)

Most of what we know about how the #AndesHantavirus transmits comes from a NEJM study of an outbreak in Argentina in 2018-19. Here’s an interview I produced with the study’s senior scientist: cbc.ca/9.7192895 People can be infectious for 48 hrs before symptom onset. #WHO

Heartwarming (but I will always associate this song with a clockwork orange, which makes it a bit jarring for me)

Apologies for the Substack link, but scientists and science writers: I am calling on you to leave comments in opposition to the NYC science writers group inviting known racist and eugenicist Steven Pinker to speak at their next event (which is happening on Wednesday May 20). 🧪

My lord.

I don't think AI is going to take all our jobs, but I do think it may create a permanent underclass of people who cannot think, problem-solve, or communicate on their own If I was conspiratorially minded I might even suspect that's the reason people in power are pushing AI so hard

Oh shit

Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance.” Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also ignorant.”

How. Many. Times. Will this be reinvented

Once again I’m bad at self-promotion

lol just got asked how I knew what “aura farming” is. I know I’m old but I’m also still on the internet

The Trump gang is very much into AI for several reasons; they’re very lazy people and it helps them look as if they’re not. But more important is its potential for creating a massive surveillance state like the world has never known.

I always forget to tell guests: we’re audio only. I am not interested in pivoting to video

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Earnest post: I fucking love this idea. For safety. Not just to watch little men in oversized vehicles shorten their lives with boiling rage and impotence.

Keep reading the first word as “pseudorables”, and trying to figure out what that would mean in French

I did not intentionally start listening to @bcmerchant.bsky.social 's Blood in the Machine a few days ago so that I'd be listening to it on May Day but hoo nelly, this historical account of 19th century labour uprising contrasted with today's technology being wielded against labour is appropriate.

Ahhhh I’m so jealous

Vocal fries are also human-made and edited (and transcribed)

trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

*shudder* and yet I get it

What a gapping hole of need