🏴🚩 Licenciements, liquidations, entraves… : appel national à la grève dans le jeu vidéo Notre industrie est au bord du gouffre, et subit sa pire crise sociale depuis plus de 20 ans. Le STJV appelle à une journée de grève mercredi 27 mai. www.stjv.fr/2026/05/...

Idiots everywhere.

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

“A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.” [beyondplastics.org]

Google I/O summary - shipping an LLM to your Chrome whether you want it or not - destroying search once and for all - pervert glasses 👍

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

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

This is good I think, right? Are we winning with AI yet?

Has anyone built tools to migrate multiple repositories from one code host to another? Tryna leave #github altogether.

For my newsletter, I wrote about the killing of Juniper Blessing and ruminated on who the media thinks deserves attention in death. Friday newsletters are usually paywalled, but I have made the mini-essay portion of this post free to all: www.burnsnotice.com/her-name-was...

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Thread. And why ad-blocking matters. Not only are ads the single largest source of spyware and malware, they are literally a memetic poison designed to disenfranchise. As long as ads are toxic, they need to be blocked everywhere.

I launched an indie webcomic hosting platform several months ago that offered a free and a $4/mo paid plan. This was purely to cover the cost of the infrastructure. But in seeing it grow, I'm no longer worried about the cost. So yeah Webcomic Studio is now free. webcomic.studio

Some #css fun for an animated button. I wonder if there's a way to achieve this without a nested element 🤔 codepen.io/deammer/full...

Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it

Pakistani passports are based

We hate Sam Altman.

I hope it all balances out in time. That the janky experiences and poor builds get too much, and companies realise they need the human expertise after all. Or you know, maybe it's so cheap that it's "good enough". Right now it seems they don't care. But we care. And it hurts. 4/end

Sucks that, with the #github exodus, people's contribution history could be lost. Wish there was a profile federation platform that could help with this 🤔 Like show my Codeberg, GitHub, and CodeFloe contribs in one place.

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

And we can tell!

Once again, I am holding a FREE event to help publishers leave Substack this Thursday. luma.com/qho2psws

In a survey of over 3000 men 18-34, 95.1% admitted to having used coercive tactics to get a woman to have sex with them. We keep not really facing these results as a society because they’re an absolute nightmare. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Burn the UK government to the ground.

Illegal UK weapons shipment intercepted in Belgian airport bound for Israel

congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers

Microsoft starts removing "unnecessary" Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps. www.theverge.com/news/909640/...

So the US has now openly threatened Greenland, Denmark, Spain, and the Netherlands with military force, and Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, & the UK with economic damages. It has destroyed our energy infrastructure, funds Russia in attacking Ukraine, and openly meddles in our elections.

Jess and Carmen are amazing people and teachers, go learn how to web!

I like the web and I like people learning new things. So we're running a free 10 week web development bootcamp online, starting April 24th. 📍Free and not selling/pushing anything 📍Livestreamed lessons with Q&A 📍Expert guest speakers 📍Chill vibes 📍Kind learner community

This seems to be the most recent update of the death toll in Lebanon following today’s Israeli strikes

Abolish the presidency

Call Congress and tell them to do their job: 202-224-3121

You either view trans rights as your rights, even if you're not trans, and stand up for them. Or you help take the first step towards losing the rights that will personally impact you.

So much AI propaganda about “saving time” is capitalist propaganda. You need to do things faster so you can make more money because work has been devalued and full-time jobs are harder to come by. But AI isn’t going to make YOU rich. It’s already devaluing the work and the jobs even more

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

Happy trans day of visibility! Celebrate by firing your trans employees for pushing back against AI slop and holding C-levels accountable!

Researchers also found that a single interaction with a flattering chatbot was likely to “distort” a user’s judgement and make them less likely to admit wrongdoing, apologize, etc. Instead, users were more likely to dig in on the AI-reinforced narrative that they were the one in the right.

If you use #github, they've automatically opted you in to train their AI on your code. Disable it below, and then consider ditching GitHub if you can. github.com/settings/cop...

Fuck yes

"AI is going great!" says company that sells AI products. This is begging to be ridiculed by @edzitron.com. Not a single link to the "research" conducted, either. Great "journalism", @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/ai-coding-bo...