If you're discussing real world impacts of "AI" and you don't talk if not To then at least About folx like Emily Bender, Abeba Birhane, John Flowers, Timnit Gebru, Chris Gilliard, Meg Mitchell, Janelle Shane, Emily Tucker, Shannon Vallor, &c &c &c, then you are failing your audience.

Dear New Yorker, NYT, CNN, WaPo, &c: stop interviewing Sam Altman & Geoffrey Hinton, & start interviewing Timnit Gebru, Meredith Whittaker, Emily Bender, Chris Gilliard, Rua Williams, Ruha Benjamin, Margaret Mitchell, Abeba Birhane, Alex Hanna, Kendra Albert, Jonathan Flowers, Robin Zebrowski, Damie

For your Hugo consideration next year, "The Ones Who Mute 'Omelas'"

The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election. It won 51 seats - an outright majority. Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership. A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.

Takagi Haruyama, Hare, 1850’s

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

Just a double reminder-- Writers, this negging garbage was written by AI and designed to insult you, flatter you, dare you, and scam you. Scammers, this is embarrassingly badly done. Quit it.

I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam

You heard about the clothes from Temu, get ready for the yarn from Temu. @ancientwinters.bsky.social explains why you should avoid it and how to spot it, especially when people try to resell it as fancy yarn.

#Finland remains (almost?) the last country in Europe to allow fur farming - a deeply unethical and, in the age of pandemics, DANGEROUS practice. But! Fur farms aren't economically viable; banks outright refuse loans as too risky. So OF COURSE this joke of a government lathers them in subsidies.

At the risk of taking the gaze metaphor too far, the West gets double vision looking at us. What are we? Uncivilised hordes, the pure, noble savages of Ruritania, or criminals with no morals? It’s pretty funny actually

We’ve got just 9 hours left—shares needed, please! Every ounce of hope matters as our friends face what is truly an unfolding, massive massacre in Gaza City. Read that back. Bet on life. Believe in them. That’s eight families you can help to flee south. 195/1000

I’m reading ENDLING by Maria Reva and the descriptions of the Western gaze directed at Eastern Europeans are spot on.

Keep it up everyone, if we just keep making games with women and pronouns we can eventually ensure that the chuds never get to enjoy a single new video game ever again

Jenny coming in hot!

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

hades 2 this week!!! wahoo!!! #art

something which is not a person, and does not have feelings or intelligence, being designed visually in an aspirational, rich- and status-coded way and programmed to say it is hurt, while ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS who don't look or speak nicely are not treated as human. COMEMIERDERÍA

oh ffs

I read STAG DANCE by Torrey Peters. It’s a masterclass in genre writing: in what genre tropes and trappings can do for your themes and prose, how genre can be used to draw and surprise your reader. Just perfect, no notes

STAMPEDE!!!

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza. www.ticketmaster.com/voices-for-g...

My self-appointed task is keeping my loved ones comfortable and cozy; this one is for @ancientwinters.bsky.social

Massively shameful, decidedly uncool, pathetically pandering to OpenAI. Reconsider, @ox.ac.uk

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

I quite like the books that drop you in the deep end. A good book that does will slowly start to help you make the connections a recent one that worked for me was Rakesfall

ah they all just think being personally unpopular is the same as being oppressed lmao

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For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

Somebody said earlier today that the energy going into AI would be more socially productive if it were channeled into solving global warming, and I can't stop thinking it when I see a post like this.

They're having a fash-off with the US

Extra points to the underrated people at @futurism.com foe pointing out this isn't cute oopsie 'hallucinations' - this is people actively designing a massive and shockingly effective lie machine

Strange Horizons was the first zine that published me and it remains my favorite, putting out works that transform and redefine genre fiction. Happy birthday, SH!

As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.

you are allowed to include AI-generated images in your AI-critical article if you would also see no fault in sending a free pack of ciggies out with every copy of your cancer research journal

My next read sounds interesting #booksky #horrorbooks #norwegianhorror

Personally I consider Alien:Earth did an homage to the iconic Rose Schmits

Join us online Monday 15 Sept 2025 for @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social discussing Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) in Greenhouse #envhum book talk series at 16:00 in Norway / 15:00 in UK. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

And some mushrooms that I did pick

Some mushrooms that I did not pick today

On September 11, Several hundred protesters assembled outside London’s Royal Opera House, calling for the cancellation of four upcoming performances by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko.

Remember that this is what Bluesky does daily to people trying to survive a genocide while its CEO performatively cries about the loss of a white supremacist hatemonger.

I know "Russian bot" gets thrown around very nonchalantly but you've got a hell of a lot better than 50/50 odds on Moscow being somewhere in the mix of the most virulent culture war shit we've seen since the turn of the century

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

The Real AnatomyMoths. A new series I haven’t shared with you yet. They will be turned into stickers, 20x20cm prints and if my budget lets me: wooden pins! These are the first 4 ones, hope you like them!

Really struggling not to end up concluding that a genuinely industrial percentage of mainstream British society has basically decided that trans people are cancelled now and so you can just freely fund the second act of one of the most rancid transphobic bigots alive.

Polish social media full of right-wing accounts talking about how this is all a Ukrainian false-flag operation. As fucking expected.

keep calm and support Ukraine

My amazing #Wiki colleague @tiagolubiana.bsky.social has released this lovely video on the #BHLImageExporer. This tool (bhl-gallery.toolforge.org) explores @biodivlibrary.bsky.social images in #Wikicommons. It facilities image reuse in the #Wikiverse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9i... #ILoveBHL