In retrospect, this was my joker moment.

This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key. “nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”

Ok but why is Elmo still posting on a nazi-run, csam-producing website? Why are brands like Sesame Street doing this?

They played the trailer for the new Leos Carax movie when I went to see No Other Choice and I said, "Ugh, fuck that guy," cause I got him mixed up with Jacques Audiard. But I mean, Annette was pretty unwatchable, too, so...

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

I'm assuming the @404media.co interview with Wikimedia CTO was recorded before they announced their new partnerships with Amazon, META, Perplexity and others. The way she giggles when she says "I think we are partners already" is disgusting. She's either naive or toeing a very fine PR line.

the outsized place of nobel prize as an actual thing in idiots' minds would be easily erased with its abolition

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

I don’t know how to help people on this app understand that you can just let people have happy moments! and in fact you *should* The world is shit, if someone is smiling for a second, AWESOME

Someone had to say it!

The section in this article that challenges the use of the term "AI literacy" is so good! I'm going to keep referring to this from now on.

Wikipedia is dead. techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/w...

Wild

Meta, Microsoft and Google are all coordinating with the European far right in order to dismantle EU digital laws designed to protect citizens, according to a new report. The recent 🇺🇸NSS strategy outlined regime change plans to support the European far right. A public-private partnership.

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

Okay, let me weigh in. “Birthrates” are a fake problem, the reason only conservatives weigh in on this is because they see it as a measurement of female subordination or racial purity or both.

Wrote this last night. Reflections on queerness, queer spaces, violence…

We love to see it! Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️ github.com/zoicware/Rem...

So the thing I was most dreading about going to grad school in 2025 has happened (in 2026). A (relatively minor) conflict with another student who was using AI for a group assignment. I ended up dropping a class I was excited about over it. I refuse to have my name attached to any AI-generated work.

Exactly! Are we really going to go down this path again?!!

This is the way!!

If I was in charge we would transfer the entire police budget to the public library system

It was successful in changing the conversation and moving a lot of people toward abolitionist politics, including me! I was already anti-police but defund the police (and the conversation around it) gave me the language to better articulate what it means to envision a society without police.

This is pure centrist nonsense. You don’t move the overton window by compromising IN ADVANCE! You move it by asking for radical change and THEN you compromise for incremental change.

In what fucking universe, though? Has this kind of tactic ever worked? A few years ago when anti-police sentiment was on the rise with the success of the Defund campaign, reformists argued for more training (and body cams) and this led to more funding and more militarization of police.

The reason no journalist in Canada is going to ask our prime minister why he still posts on a nazi website that produces and distributes CSAM is that those journalists are also still posting on that website.

This is funny because our prime minister, pretty much all elected officials and official government departments all have accounts on X and continue to use it to release official statements.

This is funny because our prime minister, pretty much all elected officials and official government departments all have accounts on X and continue to use it to release official statements.

KARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social Jana Shortal Renee Good’s wife has a statement. Hear it in full no edits, here.

when it's definitely going the way you thought it would

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Yeah. In the context of policing especially this is a reformist argument that actually leads to increased budgets, which just continues the trend of making these institutions more and more powerful. I’m an abolitionist, but definitely prefer structural critiques to “let’s give them more money.”

Agreed. And his framing of it as being about training is classic. That line of thinking leads to increased funding, because training costs money. He’s completely missing the mark.

Everything this administration does results in death.

I posted a mini thread dunking on Casey Newton but like a grandpa who doesn’t know how to use his phone, I accidentally posted in in reply to another unrelated thread. So I’m gonna take it as a sign from the universe that it wasn’t worth sharing after all.

A dozen people I’ve never interacted with have blocked me since I posted this.

I can’t believe those furry bullies drove Parker Molloy off of Bluesky. Wtf??

First class of the semester. Professor on use of AI: "I would encourage you not to use it, because... it's pretty crap" I like them.

Wow, The Guardian really can’t be trusted to report on any AI related issues since their partnership with OpenAI. Just basically a PR firm for AI boosterism at this point.

Why is our prime minister still posting on that neo nazi website?!

The media needs to recognize that there is a marked difference between the endemic problem of CSAM being posted to social media platforms and a platform giving users a tool to actively create CSAM.

This drives me crazy! “Grok generated synthetic text that mimics an apology in response to a user prompt” is not the same as “Grok apologized”! Journalists need to do better.

Holy shit

I only have one new year's resolution: be more intentional about the media/art/information I consume. (What, when, where, how and why.) Limit my exposure to algorithms, recommender systems, infinite scrolls, streaming platforms, and subscription services. Return to physical media as much as possible

Can you still call if enshittificafion if it starts as shit and then just becomes more shit? Also this was so predictable.

Remember when they insisted they would never did this? lol

Every time I listen to a PJ Harvey album I haven’t heard before I lose my mind because I can’t believe how good it is and how I spent all this time not listening to it earlier.

I wasted a lot of time today fantasizing about buying a mechanical keyboard and shopping online for a mechanical keyboard. (I did not buy a mechanical keyboard.)

Every day, a new article is published featuring the same "responsible use" argument, and they continue to be wrong.