The coffee giant won't extend these benefits to its unionized stores, as it continues engaging in some of the most egregious and rampant union busting in modern US history. www.wsj.com/business/hos...

are you saying the system works futurism.com/future-socie...

where did workers go? a mystery in no acts

Well now the press is finally being honest apnews.com/article/leba...

Forget it, han, it’s Cloud City.

“Twitter is not real life” is what they always said back when it was like Bluesky is now. Which, ok, fair, true. But now that it looks like this, they think it IS real life.

You think it's bad here?

“He’s unwell,” “he doesn’t belong near power” are as beside the point as “he shouldn’t be allowed to do this.” They’re callbacks to an order that’s been broken. We know fascism is wrong. We must after 10 years move past the part where we keep rediscovering it daily with new shock.

people understand that this is intended to target EVs, right? It gets rid of the gas tax, which only affects internal combustion vehicles, and replaces it with one that disproportionately hits EVs, which are much, much heavier for a given body size. That is why GM and Toyota are promoting it.

This is what weaponizing the honor role looks like

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Because of course Sam Altman completely missed the point in his response. The issue isn't whether or not ChatGPT can execute a timer. The issue is that it tells the user it can execute a timer. And yes, we know (part of) why. (I covered this recently! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qGN... )

“These corporations steal our work to create sound-alikes, effectively forcing us into a ‘training’ role to which we never consented,” the Music Workers Alliance said in a statement. plus.flux.community/p/eddie-dalt...

Telling my daughter this was Blip Festival www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqjX... @nullsleep.bsky.social @fastram.bsky.social @bit.shifter.net

Waiting for the AI bros to come in and well-ahktually this one. It's bad to burn lots of carbon for absolutely no benefit, period.

Folks, is it grind mindset when your entire SaaS can be taken out by a well timed drone?

lasts until the end of this weekend!

if you seriously believed this would you still work on the slavery machine.

five television shows to get to know me: oops! exosquad Garth Marenghi's Darkplace any star trek with colm meany as a primary look around you (season 1)

NEWS: DOJ is appealing the Anthropic preliminary injunction. The appeal will go to the Ninth Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is the only good kind of April fools www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-tv...

Ok i blogged about it www.toilville.com/blog/2026/04...

The most interesting thing about the Claude leak is how much of their infrastructure is prompt management 1/

probably won't go down like this but it'd be cool if the hyperscalers imploded at the same time that the architecture to run this stuff securely and locally got really good

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

I wonder what insane new development in global affairs will overlap with the humans coming back to the moon.

How much longer y’all think people are going to pay Ivy League tuition for experiences like this.

The person delivering your Grubhub order may not have actually been working for Grubhub. Streetsblog found that Grubhub subcontracted to another app called Relay to skirt paying NYC's delivery minimum wage to those workers. Here's @sophlebo.bsky.social with more: youtube.com/shorts/Tom5V...

I'm teaching git again this year at @csee-scee.bsky.social's 2026 meeting in Toronto. Motivated by the recent announcements on Copilot training, this will be my first time teaching an alternative for remote storage: Codeberg! This below is just another example of the slop we shouldn't accept.

Free newsletter: The Subprime AI Crisis is here. I explore the disturbing parallels between the run-up to the global financial crisis and the heavily-subsidized AI bubble, and how Anthropic and OpenAI's rush to IPO accelerates the crisis further. www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/

Watching companies crash and burn can be oddly entertaining when not inside one.

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

I really wonder if “AI” as a brand has become tainted among a sect of the population to the point where if they had just built this into Bluesky’s search feature the same people would have otherwise accepted it.

I blocked Attie's account and will be actively seeking an alternative social media. They had no desire to make quality of life improvements to this trash heap of website to even mimic old Twitter but did go the AI road.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o... This Ezra Klein piece on how the adopters are using— being used by?— LLMs is horrifying. It hardens my resistance to ever turning one of these toys on at the same time that it makes me more sure that I'm going to be completely out of step and behind as a result.

i’ve achieved ultimate zen

me reading American Psycho when i was 14

JPMorgan Commodities Research: The world is facing a ticking time bomb from its supply of oil. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through Apr from E to W, causing major economic disruption worldwide. The disruption is precipitated by war in the Gulf.

There is a critical difference between holistic, authentic judgment enabled by embodied cognition, and AI's reductive simulation of the language patterns associated with such thought. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

TIL that Doctorow was talking shit about Audre Lorde (in the same way that y'all fave at Techdirt did on that podcast):

The mantra that AI is "just maths" not only ignores the materiality (humans have to mine rare earth minerals) but also the political & human harms like fascism and indentured labour. The idea that AI is detached ideas — and not stolen data & labour that runs on colonial lines — is harmful itself.

Beyond parody. Beyond satire. What a hell of a photograph.

Some speculations on the future of the software developer as a subcultural figure, post vibecoding open.substack.com/pub/isthisan...

Bugs is the only king. #NoKings

Planning a freak party for freaks

He raised us… our first anti capitalist globalist text was literally animaniacs

Regrettably the tribune education reporter *also* wrote an extremely credulous puff piece that does not mention the reporting that's been done around incoherent content, constant surveillance, or inducing an eating disorder