Watching Independence Day for the architectural history

If you want to troll capitalisms defenders, just be like: "oh cool, I love capitalism too. How much capital do you own? I see you work a salaried job for a living, which is socialism, but maybe you own some farms or something?" "No? just stocks? Participating in co-ops is a bit too socialist for me"

Bahahah the big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that, under pressure, Democrats will eventually hide their Nazi tattoos.

if you, like me, are in the US and stably employed, consider giving (or giving more) to your local food pantry/rescue/bank next paycheck. shutdown means SNAP benefits won't go out and those places are already stretched thin. give money, they know how to stretch a dollar 10x as far as you do.

What sucks about the soulless losers trying to destroy creative work is that, because they've never done anything creative in their life, they don't understand the basic fact that it's the process of learning how to communicate something that makes it so that you communicate something interesting.

This is where the term "user" dies. The user experience has no boundaries when you're wearing cameras and microphones in public

@fasterandworse.com deleted the post this was a reply to but... if i had a nickel for every time a tech bro accomplished the thing he loudly promised, in proposed the time frame, i would still have no nickels

Are you really good with your hands? Do you want to make scientific instruments for physicists? @jila.colorado.edu has an opening for a Scientific Instrument maker! Come use lathes and HAAS machines for us! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #job #machinist

the crossover of car guy and salesman that is the average tire shop dude is a personality so viscerally slimy that i have to force myself to not say something mean

a lot of people are finally waking up to the importance of the 3rd amendment. As a 3A absolutist, i think it should be illegal for soldiers to be quartered anywhere in this country. they should be camping under the open sky at all times. all military bases and barracks are unconstitutional.

i can't

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

Honored? He invited ICE into our state and has the gall to celebrate Hispanic heritage. He does nothing to protect our residents from warrantless arrest and disappearance. This kind of tone-deaf, empty-gesture leadership must go. He needs to resign.

MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR

i work in a mentorship role with high schoolers. they are actively antagonistic (moreso than normal teen bahavior) towards their teachers who use AI.

i got to delete facebook, an undeniably excellent feeling

sam altman did not get bullied enough in school we all need to do our part now

every time i hear about countries where people generally kinda trust the government i get so confused

apropos of nothing, i make these stickers that will completely cover your neighbor's ring doorbell thus preventing it from facially recognizing fucking anything shop.interferencer.com/product/preo...

No one understands me like America's most evil airport

Sick burn. finance.yahoo.com/news/22-old-...

peoples! we did a big, exciting thing today! @rose-alibi.bsky.social & I strung up a full wave antenna in my backyard and sent/rec'd a little CW / morse code today over 20 meter band! next step: set it up off a 35 ft mountain drop to see if we can connect w/our pal in Berlin #amateurradio #cw

oh hank

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Ive spent so much time working with tech people doing tech things on tech deadlines. In the past few years my practice has turned to analog tools (print making, zines, drawing) in my own personal protest. 1/3

one of many oddities from today's visit to the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social - a gift from @rose-alibi.bsky.social: the Canadian Whole Earth Almanac?? from 1971! "Printed in Canada on Canadian Paper"

gotta catch 'em all (pokemon narc edition)

If you're somehow on the fence about the Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity collection, check out the abstract below libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...

commitment, dedication, power

DEVIANTS ARE SACRIFICED TO INCREASE GROUP SOLIDARITY

I'm just a girl, sitting in front of a computer, begging you all to learn just the slightest amount of nuance before you apply the marketing term AI to all forms of machine generation and analysis without understanding their fundamental differences

every transit company board member and exec should be required to use their service. daily.

ELIZA got sassy with us today...

were you... were you all trusting information coming from the FBI before??

if you really loved me you'd buy me a set of lishi lockpicks

At some point earlier I'd said I was willing to help onboard anyone considering joining Mastodon, & that I am also willing to speak candidly about drawbacks there. All that still stands... And, I have a just-out paper about user safety & moderation there: openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/Jo...

will they include an evaluation of their own salivating sycophantic uncriticality that helped bring the leaders of that same tech industry to prominence, i wonder?

liberate yourself from the tyranny of screens with slightly different screens! liberate yourself from the tyranny of money with slightly different money! liberate me from tech bros with an comically large hammer...

Alt text doesn't have to be anything elaborate, just 5-10 words that explain what you wanted people to know about. You don't need to describe everything unless it's relevant. And alt text doesn't need to be written in formal writing style either! Just chill.

free AI at the career fair ice cream bribery event

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

your conveniences are killing you

oh hey this is what 66 feet of antenna wire laid out across a back alley on campus looks like because one can't answer emails and be in zoom meetings allllll the time! #othernetworks @rose-alibi.bsky.social

Two models of Amazon smart glasses—one for hip consumers who can order products on the go, and one for wage workers, whose efficiency and whereabouts will be tracked continuously. One is a luxury item, one will be mandatory. Both ensure nonstop surveillance. Both are extractive. Both are handcuffs.

i caved and bought a thing from an internet ad and for once i don't hate it.

i am "wait is that podcast ad using an instrumental version of The Bad Touch as their backing music" years old