a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

Justice is not enough to get the world you want.

The just world fallacy exists because people refuse to see that the "justice" which it presupposes is predicated on violence which remains unseen and unfelt by the majority. Justice, as popularly understood (yes, even on the Left) involves violence -- social, physical, and, epistemic.

Learn the wisdom of pharmakon -- sometimes the poison is the remedy and the remedy is the poison.

Hey folks? Doesn't matter if you consume only the purest diet, the purest media, and behave in the purest way. You are inter and intra-elated with the world. The microplastics are just as inescapable as the way your genes will respond to circumstance. You aint in control.

Just in case anyone else missed this too... 🙏

Challenge: How many times can I post the same reaction image about eugenics in one bloody day.

It's telling that, according to her CV, her two appointments are at OpenAI and Anthropic, and the majority of her publications are stuff on "objective morality" and so on. It's pretty much a lot of disengaged, disembodied philosophy which is... bullshit.

very good thread of a lot of very concerning things re: AI. we need to resist and reject this shit where and when we see it.

Hi. It's the eugenicism from the wellness industry leaking and highlighting that we live in a eugenicist society, which has been obsessed with control and discipline of bodies and their "control" for several centuries. Fundamentally, a reactionary response.

And another write up: bsky.app/profile/hype...

Link to study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“One FDA report in June 2025 alleged that AI software used for prenatal ultrasounds was misidentifying fetal body parts. Called Sonio Detect, it uses machine learning techniques to help analyze fetal images.”

“Their review showed that 43% of the recalls occurred less than a year after the devices were greenlighted. That’s about twice the recall rate of all devices authorized under similar FDA rules, the review noted.”

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

⚔️WELCOME BACK DANIEL VEGA!⚔️ @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art, gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives, and sign up to be alerted on launch day 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

De-escalation can't really be done easily in a landscape that rewards and privileges escalation. Whether that be for clicks, views, or other affordances. De-escalation, almost by definition, is a slowing and lessening of reactivity -- widening and deepening of context.

"Big emotion is not the same as big empathy. Indeed, I have often observed that it leaves little room for anything but itself, driving out all nuance or space to feel anything at all." -- SLOW GODS, Claire North

"My script ran `rm -rf` on what it thought was a separate empty folder, but it actually deleted your existing 'photos' directory and its contents" you can't make this up.

uk labour has figured out mitosis

EXCLUSIVE: The Capitol Hill National Prayer Breakfast organizers are at war with The Fellowship Foundation, aka The Family. They’re fighting over “National Prayer Breakfast,” the name they both use for their events promoting how prayer helps us stop fighting... ...and they're spilling tea...

The competition has billions of dollars, billions of users and deep political connections. Quit the crabs-in-a-barrel mentality if you care about all of our collective work meaning something in this lifetime.

So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

I’m not surprised that someone at a march for billionaires has a “I’m in a polycule with aella” shirt honestly

A super bowl indeed!

watching Twin Peaks is a chthonic mystery initiation, in this essay I will

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, you know what that means everybody, argue about The Cold Equations for another six decades, sorry i don't make the rules

I'm sorry, did you mean "vodka?"

PROJECT HANUMAN by Stewart Holston is great. Loving it. But, whoever sent the kindle file to Bezos in the UK at @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social should probably know that there are at least 15 times where an aircraft/ship bay is referred to as a HANGER instead of a HANGAR. Breaks the immersion.

Yeah if you want to make an atproto app that has other off-protocol features that’s fine If you want to have private posts exclusive to your app like Blacksy did that’s cool You don’t need to slippery slope everything

As a society, we need to stop treating people in debt as if they are criminals who committed a crime.

Database of decisions/penalties in legal cases where "AI" was found to be used by either a litigator or a judge; does not count *All* cases of "AI" used in court filings, just those where it was a) found & b) officially remarked upon or penalized. Incredibly useful collection & arrangement of data:

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Take ten minutes and watch Mark Kermode absolutely eviscerate ‘Melania’. It will cheer you up.

⚔️WELCOME BACK MATT JOHN!⚔️ @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social will have a brand new story in one of this year's issues. See cool art, crowdfund exclusives, and other exciting details here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

OKAY GANG BUCKLE UP we are PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE OFFICIAL for WICKHILLS Thank you to @mkcurry.bsky.social and @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and @torbooks.bsky.social for making it happen! Prepare for me to NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THIS MOTHERFUPPIN BOOK (when I am less busy)

Awesome! Now it's time to bring publishing into the conversation we've been having in music for the past 20 years: DIY or die becomes a one way ticket to burnout for a lot of people. No money in DIY means no rent money, no grocery money, and rich people are prioritized again for having resources

"Join us for the dehumanisation sequel of the century, where people are just bodies, and any life they have is ruthlessly extracted in fascinating biopolitical and necropolitical ways: MECHANICAL TURK 2: Let's All Go Down to Fascist Company Town"

"browse humans" "find meatspace workers for your agent" Reminds me of what Aliya Rahman said about the dehumanising language at Whipple: they refer to people as 'bodies' and when you hear that word being used you don't image you are leaving the facility alive.

Tis truth.

It's issue 10's cover! Illustrated by @smuggerby.bsky.social 💀TIMEWORN TERRA🌏️ is our special issue of tales set in futures so far they feel ancient, where magic & technology blur together, and Earth's days are short yet still we lust & laugh! Learn more here👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Check out this post for more: kettering.org/five-element... And this highlights the evidence of the threats CN poses to democracy: kettering.org/how-christia...

Christian nationalism = *A Desire for a Traditional Social Hierarchy *A Commitment to Strong Ethno-Racial Boundaries around National Identity *Idealizing Free-Market Capitalism *A Preference for Authoritarian Social Control *An Embrace of Populism, Perceived Victimhood, & Conspiratorial Thinking

*reads the White House post* *chuckles at folks questioning whether Christian nationalism exists*

Dave Bell's new article on The Howard-Verse is an exhaustive rundown of the current CONAN comics (and related titles) being published by Titan Comics. Beyond the high praise, it's a solid overview of what's coming out and where to start reading: howard-verse.com/current-cona...

I always find it funny that US folks pick justifiably, on the British Isles for colonial horrors inflicted on the world. Much of the time they admit what colonialism has done on the soil of NA. But the minute one suggests US hegemony is an EXTENSION of that, folk try to say it's somehow different