Rejection of AI slop cannot be couched in an adherence to the past! Without an articulable vision of the future you are doomed to be beholden to someone else’s. Why do we keep playing this game??

part of being a leftist is resigning yourself to prominent sentiments in the left being reactionary, ineffectual, and completely out of touch with wider society. is there something new here?

As I said earlier, expensive electricity is a policy choice, not an inevitable product of AI If this can happen under Trump, imagine the possibilities under someone who actually gives a shit

All of this water pollution is coming from local agriculture. Trying to frame this as an AI problem is blatant reactionary fearmongering.

Automatic license plate readers may seem like a good idea until you hear about the ways they enable cops to abuse women, all while not actually making you any safer skepchick.org/2025/11/the-...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Lmfaoooo absolute legend

the pope also believes you should not take exogenous hormones & that doing so comprises a failure to stand in authentic wonder at the beauty of god's creation so u really need to consider the entire worldview before getting headshotted by propaganda & doing the whole "wow, based pope" routine

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.

I would rather want water being used for a network of worker-owned datacenters in all municipalities (regardless of how AI develops as they would even without AI still be a way to get away from the current monopolistic cloud providers) instead of it being abused by the animal torture industry.

The TikToks describe H Marts as "predominantly Asian spaces," which is honestly kind of hilarious to me in Atlanta. Black and Hispanic shoppers both seem to outnumber Asian H Mart shoppers here. I love living in such a multicultural city!

There's apparently some TikTok stuff going viral about how white people shouldn't go to H Mart. Stop trying to make segregation woke, jfc I will continue to shop there respectfully as I have for over a decade, which also helps put money in the hands of the Asian-American community

The majority of people use AI now. The idea that there's a serious chance of stopping it is because Bluesky is a bit of an anti-tech reactionary echo chamber. Fight for the success of open source AI and freedom from the rent-seeking of the Elons and Sams of the world, not against progress.

A lot of people want to use xAI's Memphis data center as representative of what data centers are necessarily like, but no, that's Elon just being an evil motherfucker flaunting environmental regulations.

A left without an exciting, inspiring vision of the future is one that will lose. The idea that they "destroy communities" is absolutely absurd, and one of the top priorities of the left should be rolling out tons of solar, which is absurdly cheap now. Expensive electricity is a policy choice.

To be fair: even I only accept locally running open weights and open source LLMs and was always very critical of cloud based LLM providers like "Open"AI, etc. and think they should be seized and their proprietary AI models be open sourced so they can no longer monopolize all computational resources.

i find this passage illustrative

Marx would very clearly want to liberate AI from Capital rather than destroy it. The man *loved* technological efficiency gains.

i have the grim portent that ten or twenty years from now at least one very important thing happening right now will be similarly forgotten and any sourcing will have bitrotted out, and i will have to say something similar to this again

the original reporting on this had estimated body counts and they were not low. anyway i obviously cannot confirm this because i cannot find it any more.

by "eventually" i mean literally years later. i don't know how much damage being priced out of antiretrovirals for years does in the places where it happened (eg, south africa) but it is not a small amount

the tldr as i recall it is basically that antiretrovirals were mostly still under patent and Gates Foundation recipients were strongly prohibited from buying illegal or gray market alternatives. the Gates Foundation eventually compromised by getting the IP holders' signoffs bsky.app/profile/tezu...

i cannot even source it. i am positive it happened. it is before the event horizon in the past when all of this sort of thing started getting frozen onto the internet forever

the fact that thousands of people can die because of the misdeeds of a bureaucracy and it can simply be forgotten by everyone except information junkies like me who retain it in their heads for decades is pretty horrifying

Gates Foundation IP maximalism killed a ton of people when pepfar and HIV prevention was spinning up but that was long enough ago that it's forgotten now :)

Gates insistence on prioritizing intellectual property rights before distributing the COVID vaccine definitely resulted in unnecessary deaths of children. www.wired.com/story/opinio...

I feel like 'does alien life exist' (almost certainly) is a very different question to 'is complex alien life common' and 'have aliens visited Earth in human history' (unlikely imo), but the former is often used as a proxy for the latter.

I think it's dumb to blame data centers for hogging electricity when you can look up how dismally we have neglected expanding nuclear energy both in terms of conventional or non-conventional (thorium) reactors. Mfers just never know how to start epistemically. Not to mention solar's also neglected.

the Ipsos Pride survey is genuinely an awesome product, but jesus the difference in the UK/US on trans issues is nuts

Glad to see that Germany is somehow still one of the better countries on this list and that the population of Italy somehow doesn't seem to be as evil as their current fascist government but damn, the UK is unfortunately completely lost by now, isn't it?

they/theming a she/her when they disagree with your takes that you think are politics: this too is patriarchy

increasingly glad i did not meet any of these people before they became officially a murder cult because this is, unfortunately, hilarious and i would have been extremely into it

The idea of derivative works under copyright law is hilarious because literally what piece of art newer than the stone age isn't ripping off a billion things at once

bro copyright is so good for creators you can make something that's about to be turned into a huge fucking franchise directed by michael bay and some predatory company can take it from you for pennies and lock you out of it with legal threats

This guy is claiming infertility is worse than death.

don't give them blockers give them hormones then. blockers were the compromise

Damn, I didn't know a sequel to that famous non-game was in the works and it will even release in 2026... oh wait... in 9202 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSSL...).

next up will probably be Qwen bsky.app/profile/keyt...

I don't know if anyone realizes this, but all this stuff will not do anything to curb AI songs on Spotify and will mostly serve to benefit the proliferation of Chinese models. www.wmg.com/news/warner-...

everyone is a pedophile now, donald trump normalization process underway

To balance out my burst of pro-AI poasting: fuck Sam Altman fuck Elon Musk they deserve to be stripped of power and have their assets redistributed

People who already hate AI focusing on the (greatly overblown) environmental impact of AI are giving themselves the permission structure to not examine their own carbon footprint. Who cares if you're driving everywhere and scarfing down beef? You're a good person for not using AI.

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

Western values are when we needlessly kill animals for culinary entertainment but in some different way that's irrelevant to the animals being killed anyway but that we can be racist about

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

we have one of the most popular anarchist youtubers talking about game theory i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Bt...

"Is 'Open'AI bankrupt yet?" gimmick-account or -website.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAxW... New commercial from Fangamer! I wrote the spoken text, but I didn't end up seeing most of the visuals until the commercial was basically finished. Steve and Everdraed did an amazing job with them. (Also, it goes without saying, but commercials are non-canon.)

Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.