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I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

When you see unhoused people asking for money what you should see is a fracturing of the social contract where an issue (housing) that should be addressed on a municipal or statuary level is instead foisted on individuals in a way designed o put callouses on their souls

British values

application for this phd closes on 10 Feb

JD Vance Is Booed at Olympic Opening Ceremony in Milan Before the event, protesters marched in Milan in opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose personnel are in Italy to advise local officials in securing the Winter Games. @nytimes.com

Maisha (meaning Life) by: The Zawose Queens

Yes. Yess. Yesss. 📣

Please share this statement from Toomaj Salehi, the renowned Iranian rapper and freedom fighter who has been repeatedly imprisoned and tortured by the Islamic Republic.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

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A group of men who regularly rape children decided to ruin the public's perception of trans people in this country for shits and giggles and every time I think about that my heart clenches into a blood-red fist of rage. And I can't stop thinking about it.

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

God damn it is undeniable how many people just outright hate AI. I don’t think any technology in history has ever revolted so many people in such a public and prominent way

This is another reason why I think the information retrieval push, even pre-LLM, to shift from 10 Blue Links to retrieving contents, answering questions, etc. may be a mistake. We lose important things when we unmoor information from authorial & organizational grounding (and cites aren’t enough).

Heroes convergence alert! NAOMI KLEIN visits @emilymbender and @alex in their Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 to discuss “AI” and the military industrial complex. Livestream on Twitch: Monday, Feb 9, noon PT, https://twitch.tv/dair_institute For us: noon PST = 9:00 PM CET […]

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

Palantir fasciitis

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Super excited to share that our #SIGIR2026 workshop proposal "Justice, Emancipation, Democracy, and Information Access (JEDI): The SIGIR Workshop on Resisting Corporate and Authoritarian Capture of Information Access Platforms" has been accepted! 🎉🎉🎉 cc: @acmsigir.bsky.social >>

Will be interesting to see the posture that people take around this today. For my part, I'm glad to see that the white supremacists continue to make it clear how anti-Black and racist they are. It goes to the very top. This is what their weaponization of "woke" was always about.

If you were to actually take his white supremacy and racism seriously, you would evaluate their impacts on every single decision and policy advanced by the administration. And you would be on board for future reparations.

nodding.

If the voters of Denton genuinely want change, the only vote is Green. Until the established parties see there are votes in community, unity, humanity, empathy, respect and decency, they'll continue drifting to the right wing, chasing the votes of bigots.

Our capitalists don’t envision automation as a bridge to human prosperity, otherwise they’d advocate for the types of fundamental societal changes that would make that possible such as UBI or investment in infrastructure through taxing their income. Their vision for automation is a robot with a whip

Remember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.” AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything

They say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha. We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

We are hoping to see applications from and bring together a diverse group of students across multiple disciplinary areas! If you are a graduate student and interested in FAccT’s scope, the Doctoral Colloquium is for you! #facct2026 #facct26

After Epstein, I think someone is going to have to develop a structural theory of elite cultures of homosocial predatory behavior that isn't conspiracy theory.

Black History Month matters, especially now. At the same time that politicians try to sanitize history, gut the Voting Rights Act, and roll back civil rights protections, we’re reminded that progress has always been contested.

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

Seems like there is a massive market opportunity for an agenda-setting news publication that is objective & pro-democracy.

I’ve watched this about 20 times already

Your semi-regular reminder that "left wing" men can absolutely 100% be vile misogynist pieces of shit too.

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

The tide is shifting. They're walking back the bullshit hype.

Once again, I note sadly the number of men who do not think women are people.

The reason it's important for normies to recognize that what they want & are doing to fight the regime is leftism is they don't have to reinvent the wheel, they can tap into what humanity has been building to take care of this, & listen to the humans who have been aware all along things need fixing.

Name them shame them

Yeah I think our position should be that we are demanding a repeal of their $$ from last year and want to put that money into ACA subsidies. Invest in caring, not killing, as the Global Women’s Strike says. That is an investment in Americans and ends the terror. That should be the message.

I appreciate the optimism here but the reality is that the executive will just flout 7 and 8, and they may flout any judicial attempts to enforce them too. The problem with creating new rules is that DHS literally just doesn’t care about them. Reasonable people can disagree on this but, yeah.

The end of the Strangers' Case speech always gets me. Always. And makes me feel so sad.

oh for real?