Anakin Padme meme: To defend the civilians being threatened by US and Israeli military aggression?

Truly a perfect news alert

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim.

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Also according to the article "you can keep serial killing for another 18 months while we consider your petition to be allowed to murder people"

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

I feel like I've gone insane reading this. The imagery in the article shows surrounding city blocks reduced to rubble, and we're hand-wringing over the corner of a cemetery. I guess 100 year dead Australians are more newsworthy than Palestinian lives. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."

Dang some of these are absolutely seared into my childhood brain. Farewell Bob.

Not 50 yet, but on a slippery algorithmic slope towards "buying tools and making jigs for building garage storage for storing the tools and jigs you need to build garage storage"

So the urban myth is true! Someone *is* poisoning Halloween candy (the manufacturer).

So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.

*whispers* hey. hey i have a question confidence to do what

Anyone at the so-called #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay rally in #Naarm #Melbourne today, please be careful when leaving the rally. Large numbers of fascists reported near #Flinders, assaulting anyone travelling to/from the protest. This alert just went out, please share widely. Thanks 🙏

Legit curious as to what Gramsci would have made of a "commemorative" bumbag with his name on it. bsky.app/profile/work...

Evergreen.

So they're going to build a little prison at the hospital? In a country where building a hospital appears to be almost impossible. So instead they're building a prison, which can always be afforded.

As a horrified onlooker I appreciate David's excellent writing on the specific socio-historical stuff playing out in the US rn, but "that guy" sure as hell exists here too, and there's no shortage of self-interested numbskulls who'd love to wind him up and "front toward enemy".

I know this is far from the most important thing about this but... Is my guy wearing a raincoat at an official state event? Paging @trufelman.bsky.social

Feeling very fortunate to have friends and community that will take us and our various animals in after a (to be totally honest, underprepared) escape from the situation in central Vic. Our power going out was the last straw. Hoping everyone out there has been able to find safety.

without revealing your age, get off the internet

In a fit of pique yesterday I reported xdotcom on the google play store for violating the Australian online safety act. They came back saying I needed to cite "specific laws" (which I did?) I guess "we finally figured out non-consensual nudes and CSAM as a service at scale" is just nbd these days.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Rotated my torso to the left while vacuuming, slipped a disc

"if you scoff at the idea that one should have any ethical boundaries at all, and think that there’s no reason to care about the overall utilitarian impact of this technology, that it’s worth using no matter what else it does as long as it makes you 5% better at your job, that’s sociopath behavior."

Look upon my works ye mighty and despair

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

I would 100% watch an alt-Eurovision of say 5 entrants from each of these countries. You've got your Euro disco classics (Netherlands, Iceland), some unapologetic easteuro pagan psy-pop-metal (Slovenia) and your "wildcards, with unsubtle socialist messaging" (Spain, Ireland). What more do you need?

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

Spoilers for Season 2 of Andor, but still reeling from the inspired creative choice in ep9 to posit that Galactic Standard is exactly the same as modern English, except for how they pronounce "adversaries".

The only reassurance I can take from this is that I'm pretty sure that if you actually did that, people would shit talk you about it forever.

Knew their work, but until today, not their name. Consider donating 'strayans, this might be the most important oaf we have.

Ahh for the halcyon days of mid 2022, when you could be confident that every drop in the torrent of SEO effluent was lovingly curated by human hands... (I will use this tho)

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”

Times like this I feel my colonial-rootlessness most keenly, in that I don't have an appropriate ancestral curse to bestow upon the mendacious cunts running the land that made me.

The Songs of Innocence distribution model

Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. . Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!

Wonder if this is the start of a trend to launch "authentic" and "retro" social media services to generate "real" content that can be used to create more slop for the slop god.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Earth's atmosphere getting its hams steamed by solar radiation again

Tomorrow is the Fifth of November – but let’s forget Guy Fawkes and his actions against an arrogant Protestant king and instead look to our own history: the unlawful attack on Parihaka and, by extension, Māori sovereignty. 🧵 #kikorangi

#nzpol For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter

Wonder how MasterCard et al are going to respond to this? www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Future generations will not look kindly on our penchant for intentionally mutating dogs into forms that are detrimental to their health and wellbeing because we think it looks cute.

Israel is also holding approximately 10,000 Palestinian hostages. Please consider all the hostages next time you’re talking about this. Too many only care about the 50 Israelis.

Because a huge part of the promise of 'AI' is "what if we made it so that economically precarious people still had to do all the shitty jobs but we ALSO didn't have to see them?"