We are thankful to students and faculty at the Reynolds School of Journalism who have helped us build Atlasofsurveillance.org, the biggest database of police surveillance in the United States.

In 2019, TikTok admitted to suppressing the content of fat, disabled, and queer users. In 2020 they claim a “glitch” caused the suppression of George Floyd content. Sora exists to manufacture and disseminate racism, misogyny, and misogynoir at scale. These systems are operating as intended.

Please watch this. The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill. You need to know this, so you can help stop it.

I just feel we need to keep saying, over and over, that the problem with DOGE was not its failure to cut spending. the problem with DOGE is that it CUT GLOBAL AID LEADING TO THE DEATHS OF 600K PEOPLE AND COUNTING. 1

"AI doesn't care if you die" about sums it up.

I no longer tell my students to visit the CDC website.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

If you’re seeing these, know that they are showing proof that much MUCH of the rightwing propaganda we are seeing is from abroad. Know also that this has been the case since 2016. The public square has been turned into a superfund site.

Welp I'm out.

It me. Well I'm not an AI worker per se but it still me.

I don’t know what her next act will be but please keep in mind you do not ever have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene

I really want to note, this is the least of it but, there's are no truth seeking AIs. That's not how this works, that's not how any of it works.

The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.

Smash and grab crooks smashing and grabbing.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Google Gemini is also in the game spreading its tentacles into all Google Ed products. This popped up in a student's programming project yesterday. Mere weeks before the end of the semester when everyone is tired and easily seduced by "time savers". I'm going to flip my lid.

1. They are eugenicists. 2. Viruses don't care about your daily step count.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Tis the season for literal crap generated by crap decorating your crap.

One time I was out to dinner with @temvald.bsky.social (plus others) and his chair broke appropos of nothing and all I could think was well at least it wasn't the fat girl (me).

First, Donald Trump sided with his billionaire Big Tech buddies and endorsed the AI regulation moratorium. Now, MAGA Republicans are trying to sneak it into the defense bill. Democrats must stand up to this all-out attack on AI regulation.

Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.” Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.

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We have an all SNAP day today: stories about the food assistance program, how it was damaged in the shutdown, and where it goes from here. Here's the lineup at prospect.org:

I resent spending my time rooting around user interfaces to turn off the AI. I should track these as billable hours and invoice Sam Altman. Wasting my time in a way slaveholders could have only dreamed of owning my labor.

indeed i've begun to refer to generative models as "rhetorical technology" because they're only really genuinely effective for narrative support, arguing positions and post-hoc rationalizations for invidious actions (built on a foundation of bullshit, of course)

"LLMs use fewer resources doing $task than humans so using them isn't an ecological problem." So what are you arguing for? What happens with the humans we no longer "need"? That argument leads only to monstrosity.

"Man with massive financial interest in the success of AI makes bold claims, without evidence, of what AI can do"

I had a long discussion with @alexshultz.bsky.social of @hardresetmedia.com about how the rise of Amazon undermines work for delivery drivers and wider impacts on labor. www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...

I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy

Don't love podcasts but really enjoy @hypervisible.blacksky.app so I sucked it up.

every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable

Christian Nationalists: QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution? ANSWER: Zero times.

Texas is trash, AI is trash and the willful corrosion of eduction in the US continues.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles

every company in 2025

in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

This is the Jefferies I want to see in the world.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Welp, Rand Paul is showing more leadership than Schumer and Durbin combined. That's some shit.

Ed continues to hold our purse.

UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits. Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families. It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.