Bad Bunny

i am recovering from a successful lobectomy, yet here i am, tubes sticking out of me like i’m weapon x and stressed about all this. i need the insurance. i need my medical team here. please please let us all be ok.

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL

It can end badly or it can end worse than badly. Those are the realities we're barreling towards

Not only has Gene been a fixture in gaming journalism for years, he has also fought back against some of the most toxic sludge trolls I've ever seen on social media. A fighter through and through. Please donate or share his donation resources, whatever you are comfortably able to do.

I'm back on QAA this week, talking about the YouTubers who travel to London to tell their audience that western civilization is collapsing, and that England's supposedly lawless, multi-ethnic capital city is at the heart of it. The episode is called London Has Fallen.

if you prefer venmo. thank you all so much. i can’t begin to express my gratitude.

Fun fact: Gene was there the second I met Kat. He was dressed like a hitman on a tropical vacation. He glowed me, a schlub, up pretty good despite being much cooler than I am. Which is what cool people do. Rest is history.

Gene is a wonderful person who has absolutely fucking walloped cancer in the past. He’ll do it again.

hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it. my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...

Yes

Many people don't know what the definition of 'doxing' actually is so they weaponize the word to accuse innocent people of committing some heinous act when in reality they are often sharing publicly available information

Beth Israel synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in September 1967. Fifty-eight years later, it was set on fire, with a suspect now in custody and charged with arson.

Like I said

It is easy to fall into despair right now, but even if it doesn't feel like it yet, history will require that we remember and document what is happening in this moment. Do the research. Archive everything. Look in places that other people aren't looking. It will be necessary

This is an underacknowledged phenomenon, IMO: Real events, even those with actual proof and documentation, being falsely depicted in the form of AI outputs. When fake content is based on real info, the everyday social media user is left with no choice but to call every image into question

AI literacy education is sorely and increasingly needed—not just because AI-generated content can be so convincing, but because its very existence sows doubt in authentic content AND it also needs to co-occur with standard media literacy education. Without that foundation, it won't be enough

Melissa was part of the “Be Here for the Cure” campaign in 1993. She was 21 yo. She’s still here, more than three decades later. Sometimes, when the present makes me sad or scared, I think about the courage that those young people had to stand up and fight — for their lives — against the stigma.

Keep thinking about this excerpt from a recent @cwarzel.bsky.social article on the X "user location" fiasco, and what it means in a climate where intel that once seemed reliable now feels like a mere suggestion, if not an overt manipulation of the truth. He writes:

I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...

When Landry is balling out for the Knicks

But yes, Huntrix is also nominated, despite being fictional and a front for a demon-slaying operation

one of the most harmful things about the contemporary internet is the propagation of conspiracy-type thinking en masse it's gotten to the point where the average highly online person is part of at least one epistemological community that's totally divorced from the rest of reality

"Hell is empty & all the devils are here"

I've watched this video maybe 20 times in the last day

Hi, ASL interpreter of 30 yrs & a person w/ Deaf family here. In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around: ASL and English are not the same language. ASL has no written form. Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.

Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

"We are the media now," say the people who share every unverified claim that they hope is true -- and then point to the few that turn out to be true as "evidence" that ... "we are the media now." It's a destructive circularity that refuses to be held accountable for spreading harmful falsehoods.

It's presently unclear why, but over the past year someone has created a network of fake Facebook accounts pretending to be employees of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Many of the accounts in this network have GAN-generated faces.

In a surreal twist, Mike and I were supposed to be on a panel in St. Louis together this weekend. Obviously neither of us are there, and he's dealing with an indescribable loss. Please help him and his family get through this awful time. bsky.app/profile/roth...

The numerous images purporting to show the iconic Hollywood sign engulfed in flames are fake, and some appear to be AI-generated. The chair of the Hollywood Sign Trust told me, and AFP journalists in Los Angeles confirmed, that the sign has not been burned by the wildfires.

I'm starting to think it's all this cartoon's fault.