Former human rights lawyer here: under international human rights law, bombing or gassing a medical facility is a crime against humanity. Last night, the NJ state police gassed the medic tent at Delaney Hall over and over and over again until medics had to abandon it and flee for their lives.

Elon Musk and MAGA now see "empathy" as the great obstacle to the fascist, militantly pro-hierarchy, anti-egalitarian future they hope for, and this "idea" now has a book purportedly devoted to explaining it. Good takedown of it here from @mattpolprof.bsky.social: jacobin.com/2026/05/saad...

Listen I don't want to see NSFW content on my feed and also I want people to be able to post, discuss, celebrate, and support NSFW content without their whole account being shadowbanned by puritanical tech bros trying to kick us back a century or two. These two positions are entirely compatible.

We're all just rats in a massive living global experiment conducted by Big Tech on our bodyminds, and the politicians and people in power who could actually do something about it are trying desperately to appease Big Tech instead

New -- I wrote about ChatGPT's April 2025 cross-chat memory update, which many people whose lives were upended by ChatGPT obsessions point to as an inflection point. It “takes people into cul-de-sacs... [my wife] is like a Waymo driving around in a circle endlessly.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

I know it’s a big ask, but everyone needs to watch more interviews and panels with CEOs. They are so disturbing and repellent but to really face the reality of not only the fact we’re in a class war but the nature of who it is we’re battling, and the future they are authoring, is essential.

En bok ikke engang forfatteren gadd å lese. Der har du en burn.

Another banger from Eryk Salvaggio. While exploring how AI Detection products fail and actually create incentives for destroying language that rhetorically reasons, he compellingly describes the differences between how AI seemingly 'reasons' and how humans actually do it.

a neural network is not an 'actress,' it is not the type of entity that 'feels' or 'wants'. this fetishisation of ai products, a cause of several deaths and harms – partly due to anthropomorphic design – is not only doing corporate pr, it is also dangerous

“If degrees are meaningless because they do not reflect skills anymore, then academia is also damaged beyond repair; as well as society in general in our ability to have experts.”

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

The essay lays out in readable language and arguments why "the ethical use and further expansion of GenAI in its current form is not possible." IMO it's a great course reading.

omg

Amnesty International understanding that this "generative AI" shit as currently conceived and deployed is a project which enables fascism and endangers the already vulnerable and marginalized populations of the world.

My mom finally switched from google to duckduckgo, and has already substituted "ask the Duck" for "google it" No notes

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

I am now encouraging every artist I know to stop using linktree, a famously common website linker in the art community.

¡ATENCIÓN! 🚨 El 5 de Julio de 2026 entra en vigencia la actualización de los ToS de Linktree. Esto incluye el uso de IA generativa (Dall-E de OpenAI) con los textos, imágenes y links que el usuario suba a su cuenta. Incluso compartirán toda la info del usuario con otros proveedores externos de IA ⚠️

⚠️ «...podemos procesar y almacenar las Entradas y los Resultados (incluido el historial de conversaciones) y compartirlos con proveedores de servicios (incluidos los proveedores de modelos de IA) con el fin de proporcionar, mantener, proteger y mejorar las Funciones de IA...» ⚠️🤦

Heads up for any artists/writers/etc currently using Linktree to point people to their work: from 5 July they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E.

Hundreds chanting, "FUCK AI!" "Hundreds of people marched through downtown Vancouver over the weekend to protest a proposed cluster of AI data centers backed by Telus, voicing concerns about water use, electricity demand, and what that could mean for local communities." www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

And yet, higher-ed administration are eager to impose AI upon us. EAGER.

Remember folks, they're all about "ethics" and "safety" this money is just the cost of bringing us utopia through beneficial "artificial general intelligence" and preventing the bad guys from creating the machine devil that will kill us all. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/05/...

I'm going to be documenting every time a "leader" told me we need to get on board with "AI", because my question for them is: "you've demonstrated catastrophically poor professional and ethical judgment. How do you plan to make amends, and why should we trust anything you say?"

"whatever, everyone already uses it anyway so it's fine" is just not really the message a sorry person promotes. I'm frustrated by how everyone just gave him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not feeling very forgiving when this is the messaging. I don't think I'm being unreasonable either

“The extractive data pipeline, inherent design choices made by tech companies and exploitative supply chains, to build generative AI systems have enabled a paradigm of technology development that opens up a risk of mass abuse of human rights.”

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

As @abeba.blacksky.app and colleagues’ work teaches us, when datasets powering AI models scale up, the presence of hateful and discriminatory content in their outputs also gets amplified, along with negative stereotypes and prejudices, especially along racial and gendered lines.

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

‘Amphibia’ creator Matt Braly speaks out against the use of AI in animation: “If you need to partner with AI to get a greenlight on your project, it ain’t worth it.”

Nazi getting ready to flee to Argentina. History has a funny way of repeating.

また明日❣️ #コーギー #corgi #dog #犬 #どうでもいい写真部 　 #夕焼け #sunset #誰そ彼時

I'm so fucking furious. So, here's my podcast in a podcast app, which now has this nice "show transcript" button Perhaps it's taking you to our free, high quality transcripts that we PAY A HUMAN to make? Absolutely not. 🧵

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Spotted in San Diego. “WE THE STUDENTS DO NOT WANT THIS AI IS MORE HARMFUL THAN HELPFUL”

its been one of those days where "what’s the point of it all?" hits hard

It's the alien pilot, embarrassed, having put away its phone, turned the ship around, and flying away a bit more careful now

“Separating the message from the messenger” or laundering information from its source is such a huge, huge problem

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

“It's making me dumber for sure.” www.404media.co/software-dev...

It’s no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too. In a new lawsuit, two authors allege that Guillaume Lample, while an AI researcher at Meta, torrented 70 terabytes of pirated books… 1/2

Thought i'd share some real old destiny concepts 😔

It's weird that we don't talk more about how Boeing killed that guy.

I had a telehealth appointment with a gastroenterologist last week and his office was VERY pissy with me when I refused to consent to them using an AI note taker for the appointment.

im dreaming of a time when using ai is widely considered as embarrassing and big ai is viewed as a danger to the public on a par with big tobacco and big oil

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About local LLMs: I can see how it's more energy efficient than the big ones (it still seems to required high-end GPU/RAM, so its debatable) But even if you disregard the energy component, weren't all these models were trained on stolen data? Are people just-ok to ignore that fact now?

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/