"Jetzt ist es natürlich völkerrechtlich höchst umstritten, was da heute passiert ist". Ähm, nein, ist es nicht. #zib21

So we're both-sides-ing grossly illegal wars of aggression now. Ok. Cool. I mean... my expectations were low, but the EU found shovels:

Fog of War, The (noun)

ugh

Blockempfehlung - Troll @danemann.bsky.social

Just for the record - I never fucking asked to live in interesting times, and I'd like my money back.

Mein Artikel darüber, wie Frauen im Naturschutz ihr Leben riskieren (und verlieren). Und wie sie auch hier, wie in vielen Bereichen, unsichtbare Arbeit leisten:

People sometimes forget this, I feel. But it strikes me as particularly relevant today.

Apropos of...everything a reminder that I have a list of accounts that regularly post relaxing and random stuff. It features NO NEWS. If you're trapped scrolling and need to shift your attention to something calmer it's a good way to do it. You can also pin it to your feeds bsky.app/profile/did:...

Barbra Streisand

Ich hab bis nach 3 gelesen. Und die Nachbarn tun jetzt so als wüssten sie das nicht und starten mit der Heimwerkerei... Frechheit!!!

it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

This just in: calculator has apologized for saying BOOBS

[cough] @kalafudra.bsky.social [cough]

An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes.

I just stumbled across an honest to God ReadMe. I don't think I've seen a ReadMe in years. Decades? We're still ignoring those by default, right?

Please click through, and then appreciate the absolute perfection of *John Rentoul* not grasping what this line means.

In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder: The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.

Die aktuelle Grok-Geschichte (Grok & Kinderpornografie, hab ich da nicht vor Monaten was? Egal.) zeigt eins: Journos, die über KI berichten *müssen* dafür geschult werden. Wenn der Chatbot jetzt in der Berichterstattung anthropromorphisiert wird, bringt das riesige Probleme.

Can’t think of a better illustration of how visual media like comics get the point across in a way words alone sometimes, or often, are not able to

Grok is not a human representative of X, therefore should not be quoted as if they are a human representative of the company. The company’s AI chatbot generated CSAM of users bc human beings programmed the AI to allow such things What are we doing here

My gut says no, because "ewww - girl!"... but I'm not an expert. Does anyone know? @katquat.at or @nataschastrobl.bsky.social maybe?

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

This is getting closer to something I've long wanted: an in-depth book length account of just what the hell has been going on at the NYT for the last ten years, a story of oligarchs and old money NY clashing with labor and their own expanding readership, and its transformation into a gaming company.

Please let this be good and the start of a new Muppet Show. The world could really use some singing, dancing, and humor. youtu.be/i344NeaSoMw?...

The songs being changed up each year implies there's a scenario where whales experience the same Sudden Onset Nostalgia we get when That One Banger From The Summer We Were 17(TM) plays in a random shopping mall.

Bro. Bro! Do NOT tell me you are still singing the 2017 French Polynesian song. Bro it is 2018, bro. the lady whales do NOT dig the old stuff

Ich bin ja die Traumkundin der meisten Firmen, weil ich abgeschlossene Verträge zu lang laufen lasse und zu faul/unorganisiert für einen Wechsel bin... ... aber ich fürchte es wird Zeit für einen neuen Handytarif. [schwerer Seufzer angesichts der nahezu unzumutbar großen Aufgabe vor mir]

Terry Pratchett’s “Carpe Jugulum”, for this passage. Seems like a pretty good reminder to take into public service with me:

"Are you [looks at sheet of paper] 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳?" "Rawr!!" "You [hands paper to bear] have been served." "Rawr?!"

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

Carpe Jugulum. Actually, a single page from that book would suffice. #iykyk

First art of 2026. Setting the tone.

11 page Word document of me live-ranting to the "Fantastic Beasts" movies, which can never see the light of day because even bad attention is more than JKR deserves, but ... yeah. That is a thing that happened.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I just found "Black Bag" on a movie best of list. A non-ironic one. What..??

Scandal: Socialist understands and acts upon Vimes' Boots theory.

Somewhere in an underworld Caligula is losing his fucking mind

"Picknick by the Roadside" ebook - cool! Except it's in Russian. WHY DO I HAVE THIS?????

I'm still sorting through old storage and I just found a whole folder full of LJ icons. I need to find a use for those. They were fun! I mean...

For all intensive porpoises, this is an important reminder:

Ich fand dieses Neujahrskonzert 2026 das schönste von allen.

Bollywood or nap?

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Dear BBC, please hear me out: Sam Claflin and Liz Kingsman. (like I wouldn't be watching a new adaptation no matter who's in the cast... but still)

Okay, this is probably the most incredible "how I managed to find my specialist doctor" story ever: variety.com/2025/tv/colu... I hope her new specialist can get that poor woman some relief!

oh my God, who was going to tell me that Strong Poison was published in 1930 which means this #PublicDomainDay marks the public domain debut of my favorite character in all of literature, my queen, my angel, Harriet Vane? oh my God I'm going to cry oh my GOD who's going to make the new TV series?