JUST READ, BABY.

this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls

"Liked by 20 users". Nuff said.

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

I think part of the problem is discovery system themselves. Their use encourages purchase and use of resources that agree to have their metadata ingested into the mothership. Like Google, perhaps time spent on the platform is the metric of vendor choice rather than patron satisfaction.

"I'm so sorry this is happening to you, bespoke AI prompters," I try to articulate, in-between bouts of hysterical laughter.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Applying dead Internet theory to the scientific method. Cool cool.

And what if it isn't? (Spoiler: it isn't) What then?

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All of them. Every single one.

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

They misspelled destroy.

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

This is a heads-up about fake AI accounts which have proliferated across social media. The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies. The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.

Came across this on a website. A fake CAPTCHA which, if the steps were followed, would download information-stealing malware. This will catch out some people. Probably years old, but...

This is an excellent thread

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Fuck Slavia Prague and fuck Spurs for capitulating.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Extremely disappointing.

Post a banger that's not in English m.youtube.com/watch?v=fU-w...

Me, after that explanation.

Any chance of the actual world cup draw happening before next summer?

When I say Spotify is Surveillance, I don’t just mean it’s creepy that they are tracking what music you listen to and using that data to serve ads. I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.

Actualising the dead Internet

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

My holiday trip to Syria & Jordan got moved from May to August.

Well done, Scotland. What a game!

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

This is the way.

Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction

this guy is such a fucking chump and every day he continues to draw a paycheck further enshrines how busted this place is.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now

Reminder that no one outside of that miserable little island is under any obligation not to name David Cleary villagemagazine.ie/soldier-f-na...

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Reminder: Chris de Burgh owns the chest burster from Alien (1979)

This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet

"Cloud infrastructure should be nationalised. Discuss". Can't wait for the day Bezos holds the world to ransom by threatening to bring down 75% of the Internet.

Oh, just eff off with this will you, Clarivate.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Last RT - A big cause of low water avalbabity will be use of the brain-rotting hallucination machine.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Smoking is bad for your health but you must keep smoking and teach your students how to smoke responsibly. Excellent thread

At an "edtech" conference and I think overall there should be much less tech and much more ed

"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent." Sociologists and Anthropologists in the future - if there is a future, will call this the Age of Madness.