@exhaustedqueers.bsky.social
📤 63
📥 90
📝 89
reposted by
Mark Chadbourn
about 14 hours ago
Pope Leo has released his first encyclical, on AI.
loading . . .
Pope Leo: Disarm AI to prevent it from dominating humanity — The Times and The Sunday Times
The Pope has said that artificial intelligence must be “disarmed” to prevent it from accelerating wars, slashing jobs and dominating humanity. In the first major document of his papacy, released on Mo...
https://apple.news/AZQ2SUCqfTiSpy4-vJOYeLA
31
932
282
reposted by
Iron Spike
4 days ago
I am actually going to tear my own face off and eat it
add a skeleton here at some point
3
1505
191
reposted by
Cambridge Somerville Independent
7 days ago
Cambridge vote calls for ShotSpotter gunfire detection to be turned off and dismantled within 90 days
loading . . .
Cambridge vote calls for ShotSpotter gunfire detection to be turned off and dismantled within 90 days
Supporters of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection technology made emotional pleas Monday and tried a variety of ploys to save its use for Cambridge police, but city councillors voted for the city manager to turn off the system and remove its microphones within 90 days. With a community debrief... The post Cambridge vote calls for ShotSpotter gunfire detection to be turned off and dismantled within 90 days appeared first on Cambridge | Somerville Independent.
http://dlvr.it/TScGwX
3
54
22
Inverse
@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social
!
add a skeleton here at some point
7 days ago
0
1
0
Listen to
@bloodwork.show
add a skeleton here at some point
7 days ago
0
22
4
reposted by
Nick Kapur
8 days ago
An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information
30
1180
659
Oh neat it's like inverted company towns
add a skeleton here at some point
9 days ago
0
1
0
Favorite so far
add a skeleton here at some point
14 days ago
0
0
0
reposted by
Carceral Abolition
24 days ago
Trans people could soon be banned from homeless shelters Shelters would have to house people based on their birth sex or lose federal funding, according to a new HUD proposal.
19thnews.org/2026/05/trum...
loading . . .
Trans people could soon be banned from homeless shelters
Shelters would have to house people based on their birth sex or lose federal funding, according to a new HUD proposal.
https://19thnews.org/2026/05/trump-administration-transgender-access-homeless-shelters/
0
2
2
Wildly disappointing to be reading Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "Green Earth" about... How to mobilize international response to this & other major climate events... And then realize it's not going to get better.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...
add a skeleton here at some point
23 days ago
0
0
0
reposted by
The Jack Parsons Project
about 1 month ago
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
67
9218
3467
Can't doomscroll on here because open phone, see this shit, put phone down and go stare at tree
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
0
0
0
reposted by
kay taylor rea
2 months ago
"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.
add a skeleton here at some point
12
2148
890
reposted by
JP
2 months ago
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I wrote a review for a Mexican-Irish fusion restaurant in Jersey City, but also wrote about American identity in an empire in decline ☘️
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/everyone-i...
loading . . .
Everyone Involved Needs to Be Arrested
A review of San Patricios, Jersey City
https://johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/everyone-involved-needs-to-be-arrested
34
737
246
reposted by
Carceral Abolition
3 months ago
Mom’s Last Gun My mother has severe mental illness. Our family has spent decades trying to keep her from using firearms to hurt herself and others.
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/06/g...
loading . . .
Mom’s Last Gun
My mother has severe mental illness. Our family has spent decades trying to keep her from using firearms to hurt herself and others.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/06/gun-oregon-mom-mental-illness
0
3
2
reposted by
Scott Horton
3 months ago
The NYT style guide
70
8212
3411
reposted by
ProPublica
3 months ago
“None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one intelligence official said of plans to share criminal case information with intelligence agencies. “There are a lot of privacy concerns out there, and nobody really wants to deal with them.”
loading . . .
Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files
“None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cia-law-enforcement-records-privacy-intelligence-community?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1772473983&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
6
381
175
reposted by
Colin Carlson
3 months ago
please don't make me tap the sign
1
9
1
reposted by
Joseph Cox
3 months ago
Meta's director of AI safety allowed an AI agent to... accidentally delete her inbox. This is supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests
www.404media.co/meta-directo...
loading . . .
Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”
https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/
21
452
210
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
0
0
0
reposted by
Carceral Abolition
3 months ago
Predicting inmate suicidal behavior with an interpretable ensemble machine learning approach in smart prisons
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
0
1
3
reposted by
Hypervisible
3 months ago
“It’s an auspicious coincidence that Sunday’s Super Bowl offered a counterargument to Ring’s dystopian vision in the form of Bad Bunny’s halftime spectacle, which featured the ‘La Casita’ concept that made his recent Las Vegas residency so critically acclaimed”
loading . . .
Bad Bunny’s Neighborliness Is the Antidote to Ring’s Dystopian Vision
More and more Americans are turning against the surveillance state—and embracing each other.
https://newrepublic.com/post/206568/bad-bunny-ring-surveillance-ice
2
73
18
reposted by
Carceral Abolition
4 months ago
Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
loading . . .
Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism - AI & SOCIETY
The rapid development of digital technologies, including AI, is having a significant impact on the social, economic, and political life. Yet, while presented as milestones in innovation and progress, ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9
0
0
1
reposted by
Benjamin Harnett
almost 2 years ago
I interviewed 300 high achievers about their morning routine, and you will never believe, they all have inherited family wealth.
19
1498
307
reposted by
James Brandt
4 months ago
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
add a skeleton here at some point
47
3874
2002
reposted by
Anthony Moser
4 months ago
by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread
#KirbyFraming
add a skeleton here at some point
10
754
383
reposted by
James Croxton
4 months ago
‼️MAJOR UPDATE ‼️ Last night, DHS used TWO canisters of Defense Technology "Large Style Maximum Smoke HC" at the ICE protest in
#PortlandOR
. This is the first confirmed usage of HC in almost five years.
2
61
39
You don't have to watch!
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
Margaret Killjoy
4 months ago
I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
97
9654
1521
reposted by
The Loch Ness Monster
4 months ago
HRT does have dangers, though. Like it’ll make you want to keep living, forcing you to do stuff like *shudders* come up with a ten year plan or clean off pile full of clothes chair
25
1055
194
I find it really difficult to recover from the shame of working homelessness. Even though my career now is in system-level work (with "lived experience") the narrative that I just made bad choices sits deep in my chest. Seeing discussion like this is an antidote & reminder that I'm not alone.
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
1
34
5
reposted by
Curb Your Malthusiasm
4 months ago
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
add a skeleton here at some point
36
8000
2357
reposted by
the Mountain Goats
5 months ago
The stone is rolled away; lo, He is risen if ever signs and wonders were, here is one atop the Cristo Rei, I survey Lisbon as Elizabeth Holmes is forcefem castration kinkposting from prison
add a skeleton here at some point
10
577
95
reposted by
Kate Puddister
5 months ago
Crime rates near Toronto’s supervised drug consumption sites dropped A recent study revealed supervised drug consumption sites in Toronto have not led to an increase in crime – in fact, most rates dropped or even declined.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...
loading . . .
Crime rates remained stable — and sometimes dropped — near Toronto supervised consumption sites, study finds
Study published in JAMA Network Open tracked rates of assault, auto theft, break-and-enter, robbery and theft over $5,000 from 2014 to 2025.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/consumption-sites-and-crime/article_bda8755d-a02e-4d69-9e2f-d3055fedb956.html
1
20
13
reposted by
Chad Loder
5 months ago
oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term
61
5884
1438
reposted by
Kai Kupferschmidt
5 months ago
“[P]utting data into GISAID is like dropping it in a mail slot in an unmarked building,” says
@colincarlson.bsky.social
. “It’s wonderful that there’s so much cool stuff in that building. It would be great if we knew who owned it, or who paid for it, or what they plan to do with it.”
#IDsky
🧪
loading . . .
Fresh conflicts erupt around giant database for flu and COVID-19 sequences
Critics say “autocratic” behavior by GISAID could hamper response to a future pandemic
https://www.science.org/content/article/fresh-conflicts-erupt-around-giant-database-flu-and-covid-19-sequences
4
55
25
reposted by
Michael Friendly
5 months ago
ggCheysson is based on colors, patterns of these _Albums_ maps collected by
@infowetrust.com
Cheysson fonts by
@kennethfield.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
0
29
8
reposted by
Darren Dahly
5 months ago
It has a name now 😜 Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed. ✅
zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
10
230
88
reposted by
Homestar Blade Runner 20X6
5 months ago
in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game
87
8480
2143
Incredible band name generator
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
old fruit pictures
5 months ago
japan blood peaches, painted by amanda almira newton, 1913
0
60
11
reposted by
Andrew Heiss
6 months ago
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning
#rstats
datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
14
329
130
reposted by
old fruit pictures
6 months ago
bietigheimer apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1905
1
55
15
reposted by
Aaron Schwartz
6 months ago
🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services. How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients? In
@jamahealthforum.com
, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
loading . . .
Payments to Physician Practices and Incentives to Serve Different Racial and Ethnic Groups
This study measures disparities across patient racial and ethnic groups in per-visit payment to physician practices from health insurers and other sources, adjusted for visit content, geographic marke...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2842055
3
141
108
reposted by
derek guy
6 months ago
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian
loading . . .
41
4017
836
reposted by
Dr. Damien P. Williams is under the vast indifference of heaven
6 months ago
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad. Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
loading . . .
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01681-y
9
389
256
Uh is this why Google drive is down?
add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
old fruit pictures
7 months ago
grano apples, painted by james marion shull, 1909
0
26
4
Load more
feeds!
log in