Since so many people are calling this out for the eugenic charade that it is, here’s a piece @fractalecho.bsky.social and I wrote about Google’s efforts to morph the meaning of access from something democratic to something disabled so it can do evil. bsky.app/profile/lizj...

Take the time to read this whole thread. This is the final evolution of billionaire brain. Willfully destroying your own brand's reputation and stock value for the sake of based memes. This would have happened to Elon Musk a hundred times over by now if the U.S. still had any shared cultural values.

But more, Pichai is reducing criticisms of gAI to an emotional register of "fear" of change quite intentionally. He and other AIbros are rational, superior, and calm (and masculinized), while those who are critical of gAI are feminized, irrational, do not "understand," and are anxious.

Good book, but if Dekeyser had read @fractalecho.bsky.social’s Disabling Intelligences, his ideas on ‘Ontological Policing’ and what constitutes as human would have given eugenics its proper due.

INBOX: Facing ongoing pressure from anti-Flock activists, @dannyavula.bsky.social today announced a new restriction on RPD's use of Flock. It's a gesture at preventing RVA's surveillance network from being used by feds, but it doesn't guarantee that/other forms of misuse, bc ultimately nothing can.

spanberger putting up olympic qualifying times in the resistlib hero-to-gogirlgiveusnothing.png speedrun

Fun game. What is the most egregious company/mover-&-shaker on this list? There’s one that sticks out to me…

“Moderation, at a moment when so many people feel insecure - about their finances, their livelihood, their civil rights or our democracy - is not a virtue. In betraying her most loyal constituencies, Spanberger is positioning herself on the wrong side of history.”

Why would you ever

how does one's soul take the evils of this world

Search engines are failing me. I’m trying to find an article about the carbon emissions tree farm that caught fire in Canada back in 2022 I believe - the one that contributed to the bad air on NYC. Does anyone recall this or know a search term so I can find reporting on it? Thanks!

Also, what happens to users when companies fail or abandon the backend part of the tech? This constantly happens to people with medical devices made by techbros (or they guide someone into harms way). It's yet another reason why healthcare and for profit at any human cost are bad for everyone.

In response to this very important article (there's also a great Death Panel podcast episode about it), someone—without taking the time to read the whole thing— wrote three posts in a row and mentioned of "national defense" as a response. Time for BSky equivalent of grey rock.

I think some people will read what corroborates what they already believe, unfortunately. Part of it is them just not caring about who is being harmed..

I'm with "ban the pervert glasses" not "the glasses are bad at reading but they said sorry and I believe my glasses."

If you scroll through LinkedIn, you’ll discover Meta began hyping benefits to blind users the moment abuse became a surface issue.

Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

My latest. "No amount of explanations about how the Met Gala is for charity and costumes can erase the ennui of it all, and a dark fact: our current crop of tech titans wants to design a frictionless world that will be tasteless, odorless, and soulless." open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Dominion Energy customers likely to see larger bills due to soaring costs:

They just don't want them to know an important and efficient way to organize.

I think most people would agree that defending America from enemies foreign and domestic is the most important job of the President. Everything else is after that. None of his achievements matter if the next guy can dismantle it all with the snap of a finger. Biden wasn't cut out to handle the job

You ever think about how what's happening to Palestinians is actually worse than what's happening to us? Like, honestly, I don't mean to compare grievances here but the argument just kind of falls flat if you care about the suffering of others

Allowing an exception for rotisserie chicken and rotisserie chicken only really drives home the cynicism at the heart of all this.

Amazingly I could not give two solitary mouse toots about Chaya Raichik’s health insurance problems; she’s a monster plugged well into the billionaires feeding hate online and offline. She will be fine.

I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

this is real

OK so they have at long last allegedly found a Secret Service officer who allegedly “observed the defendant fire the shotgun in the direction of the stairs leading down to the ballroom.” Took four days? And there’s still no physical evidence? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

When is this bullshit going to end. When is the world going to be ashamed of mainstreaming genocide denial.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Every single time the media asks what voters think, it always turns out the voters have wildly incoherent, nonsensical, absolutely delusional beliefs. The story isn't that the voters are cartoonishly fucking ignorant, it's that the same media asking them, is the media that produced these beliefs.

They should throw an additional tax on investment properties and vacation homes left empty too. If you're going to leave, you should not be allowed to tie up prime real estate during a housing crisis.

Less than a year ago, Ogilvy cut hundreds of jobs in order to replace its workforce with AI. Can’t begin to imagine how many mass layoffs it recommended to its clients. sustainabilitymag.com/news/wpps-og...

I'm really curious to know how this goes over outside the US. From what I can see, KitKat has much greater cultural capital in a lot of other countries than it does here, & a simple, cheap Faraday pouch with bright KitKat branding could be a no-brainer promo item.

this is why you always have to ask these people to elaborate

it's actually wild to watch people take "the govt coordinated reactions to the shooting because the president only cares about his ballroom" and turn it into "they did a false flag shooting attack to get the ballroom", can we please not

I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

the worst thing about all of this stupid mess is how it will serve as the perfect justification for the unforgivable act of having been there at all. journalists should not have attended the president’s party, but now they can say, thank god we did. we covered the news there.

It really does change my understanding of this story that she had been enthusiastic about what happened to her happening to brown people and…just hadn’t realized it would apply to her and might not be pleasant

In addition to the bigotry and horror of this, it is absolutely incredible that they are trying to alter reality by institutional fiat. Their very need to try and fix gender into a binary presupposes, and acknowledges, that something other than a binary exists.

I interviewed @chanda.blacksky.app about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time. We discussed cosmic wonder, the mythology of genius, Deep Space Nine, and thinking beyond false narratives and manufactured inevitabilities. If your brain is stuck in the churn of bad news, you'll want to check this out.

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

Most Racket readers likely view U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar as a bloodless big-biz Democrat, one whose dated devotion to across-the-aisle centrism yields legislative wins so pointless they appeal to nobody rather than everybody. But hey, her campaign has a commanding financial lead.

Working in patient transport, I find the algorithm that’s used to assign trips to be a metaphor for life. Our trips are determined based on proximity to where the computer believes us to be. As such, yesterday I got stuck in a cycle of trauma.

This is news for today. Finally, someone (Microsoft) admitted that the real running cost of AI infrastructure massively exceeds the income from it. I expect similar posts from other AI giants to follow. github.blog/news-insight...

Forbes has long been a joke (who wants to tell Mika?) but this is below even my low expectations for it. Thoughtless greed. In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control futurism.com/future-socie...

We're in the celebrity shill section of AI death

"unlimited cheap beef" is unreasonable, unsustainable, and frankly evil but also i think one of the unspoken core tenets of 20th century american prosperity