social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

Banning social media for kids will make them more vulnerable. Online predation is real; kids need channels out from their own situations. Most of my friends as a kid were abused by their caregivers or caregivers' friends. Imagine those kids having a line to the outside world and taking it away.

So, literally ~2 months ago, on a whim, I sprinkled some leftover seeds from a pepper I'd cut-up for dinner into a couple pots and gave'em some water AND NOW LOOK AT THESE BEAUTIES?! Holy hell! I wish all plants were this easy to grow?! 😍🌱

new Big Walk trailer. what a good trailer. just looks like such a nice time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_uv...

HALP!!! They... they... they built a Nand Gate out of Goats in Age2!!!

Yes. Fascism never completely disappears, and every generation needs to defeat it anew. When we drop our guard, it rises again.

I’ve never understood the “no no don’t worry guys, we’re just using gen AI for concepts not final product” angle some execs are trying to take. Like concepts aren’t the time you want interesting fresh ideas, not amalgamations of existing stuff churned together

I want to see designers and artists advertising themselves to clients like "avoid the cheap look of AI by hiring a true designer! Pay for artwork from the talent source, not a ripoff or bootlegger! Customers can tell... and with a bespoke design, your service or product or will look better for it"

I'm so tired of being angry about the everything lately, but also it all sucks and it's really hard to stop being mad about it 🫠

Gawd, so many good games have been going on sale this week — my wallet is crying out in pain, and I'm still waiting on the Frame launch next month 😭

I dunno, I think it's fair. It's a little mean, but AI can easily be interpreted as the largest threat facing humanity right now. If a maintainer wants AI to stay the fuck away, it's very clear that asking nicely won't do shit. This will work. arstechnica.com/security/202...

This EP absolutely slaps — it feels like American Football did a collaboration with Maps & Atlases! Stick it on your summer playlists!

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

Parenting is heavily propagandised and anxiety about proper development makes us early mediums for power. Even arguing about how non-interference will cultivate desirable qualities is still a sublimated urge for control. An end goal of creating the right person is inherently corrupting.

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

I’ve never had a single problem sharing spaces with trans people, they’re just people living their lives for fucksake. I do have an issue sharing spaces with transphobes, people who think women’s bodies should be policed.

So, guidance's stated intent is to relieve an unfounded sense of fear or discomfort in the presence of transgender people. A trans-phobia, you might say

Yesterday Google made it very clear it will degrade Search to use the massive amount of traffic to goes through it to push its billions of users into generative AI tools they aren’t asking for. Search is no longer a portal to the web; it’s a portal to Gemini. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

ZA/UM did not just steal Disco Elysium from its creators, ZA/UM is the reason we will never get a Disco Elysium 2 think and feel whatever you want about Zero Parades but that's the unavoidable context they didn't just steal Disco from the devs, they stole it from *us*

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data. This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide. We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.

The message, if it needs repeating: for Labour to be an anti-immigration party means double losing. Racists hate you, anti-racists hate you. It attracts 0 votes. Literally all people who don't have a business boner for electoral politics understand this

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- "Gobbledigook", Sigur Ros - "Bright Horses", Nick Cave - "Sleep in the Heat", PUP - "Manchester", Kishi Bashi - "Great Expectations", Elbow - "These Are Your Friends", Adem - "Never Meant", American Football - "Scenic World", Beirut - "Happy to See Me", Hop Along -"Weird Fishes", Radiohead

replies are off, these are rhetorical questions. trump's death will not dismantle the machinery of oppression. we have to do the hard work of that ourselves.

Fun fact: When people see that you're into generative AI, they just quietly block you. 😶‍🌫️ *Also, if you're into generative AI, please block me 😊🤫

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Teenagers are not their parents' property and they have independent rights to speak and be spoken to, and as always, the "evidence" that social media is harmful to teenagers is deeply overblown. bsky.app/profile/raha...

Every now and then I'm reminded of how the @weatherfactory.biz's Book of Hours OST feels like wistful melancholy distilled into a delicious shot of heart-wringing, and I just sit back in my chair and listen and GAH, damn, SO GOOD! youtu.be/Q514zHH7Y5w

Butlerian Jihad now. You can support human workers, and artists, by buying our 'Destroy AI' merch from the Aftermath store: aftermath-shop.fourthwall.com/

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as fun as it would be to see starmer shamed into exile, i hope he sticks around as long as possible, honestly. let's see how low those labour numbers can go

congrats Hannah, greens, and gorton & denton!! get fucked labour and get ABSOLUTELY fucked reform 👍🏻👍🏻

FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS! 🥳🙌

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Be dangerous, my loves.

Adding to this: you should always have something planned for two months away. Gig/trip/social thing, whatever. is good for brain

We already had chatbots before AI! They were a thing! They also didn't cure the loneliness epidemic! You know what would make people less lonely? UBI and rent controls. Public transport. Education. But those are hard let's burn the planet instead

@everydaylouie.bsky.social - I've switched from Spotify to Qobuz, but your Byte Ballads album isn't on there! Can you prod whoever you need to prod to get it up, because "Scrap Heap" slaps and it's a core part of my 2025 playlist 😭🙏

Huh, I thought I felt my "I told you so" alarms going off

This looks dope as hell. I'm so game 🚀

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Prince Andrew’s titles have been removed. Good start — now let’s do the rest of them and abolish the monarchy.

Gah, this is the only time I've ever wished I could get a refund on a Kickstarter - it truly sickens me to have backed @playhawthorn.bsky.social and to see it still proudly flying AI-generated artwork everywhere 🤮 What a black stain on a brand new studio...

@bcmerchant.bsky.social - I'm really enjoying the book so far, but this one bit makes no sense if you pronounce the Welsh words correctly: "Lluydda" sounds like "Chloitha" 😅

I've been doing a pottery workshop the last few weeks to learn how to throw clay, and these are the survivors - pretty happy with how some of'em turned out!

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet! messenger.abeto.co