Any attempt to save kids from online harms should start with saving kids from online *surveillance*, but that's the *opposite* of what we're doing today. 19/

Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

I get what people are trying to say with the whole "libraries are the original data center" or whatever but... no. Just no. I love you for opposing AI. But we aren't the same thing. And we don't need their language.

@markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov STOP supporting these internet censorship bills!

If you live in the USA PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS TO SAY NO TO KOSA AND OTHER ACTS SIMULAR TO IT. They violate the first amendment and are very very bad for internet privacy

Given the choice between people and machines, please my friend, choose people. Given the choice between people and viruses, please my friend, choose people. Given the choice, everyday you are given the choice, so please my friend, choose carefully.

Please, my friend, do not despair if you find yourself unable to convince anyone that the pandemic isn’t over, after all, my friend, catching Covid repeatedly isn’t enough to convince them either, but please, my friend, keep trying to convince them, please keep trying.

The professor told me she is worried that these days: “people would rather do what’s convenient than take the time to protect their minds,” and when I asked her if she was talking about Covid or AI, she simply responded: yes.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

This should be the headline story on every news publication and telecast including local news every day for several days. But it won’t. It will be shrugged off like so much else by so much of media. The most corrupt thing that has ever come out of the US govt.

The people who are the most right about things have the least power and those who are wrong about everything rule the world.

You probably have a lot you'd like to say to your friends who stopped caring about Covid, but are freaking out about Hantavirus now. I do too. So I wrote a letter to them on our behalf. guinesspig.ghost.io/dear-friend-...

Just to reiterate something that @ali-alkhatib.com says continuously -- to reframe AI as a political project and not as a technology.

The lib influencers of BlueSky are very quick to condemn RFK Jr.'s anti-vaxx narratives (good!) but slow to see how ignoring the current pandemic & criticizing maskers aligns with his same eugenicist logic

If you’re in Virginia, for the sake of everything that matters to the rest of the civilized world, please get out today and vote yes on the constitutional amendment

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

“AI tools exist so we *have* to embrace them” is such mushy brained nonsense. There is no reason to use them, obvious from the tech oligarchs violating our consent constantly. I am so tired of this BS.

The rights to read, to information, and to an education are human rights. Human rights don't come with age limits.

A mistake people often make is assuming that highlighting the downsides of AI means you’re anti-tech. I am hugely pro-tech, but I think generative AI, on the path it’s currently on, will be net negative. I think many feel the same. Opposing AI boosterism ≠ being anti-tech.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

So much AI propaganda about “saving time” is capitalist propaganda. You need to do things faster so you can make more money because work has been devalued and full-time jobs are harder to come by. But AI isn’t going to make YOU rich. It’s already devaluing the work and the jobs even more

A jar of Nutella just gracefully drifted across the space capsule and if the company doesn’t make this an ad IMMEDIATELY, they are fools.

The only way to end the sexual abuse of children who are detained and incarcerated is to stop detaining and incarcerating children. There are no "reforms" that end sexual abuse inside.

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

After the State of the Union Address, House Republicans immediately introduced a bill that would ban books at schools and libraries nationwide. The bans would, of course, target queer titles (and people). www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

People don't want data centers polluting their cities. They don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into ICE prisons. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

I don't hate technology. I don't like scams, fraudsters, grifters, the harm to the environment, the gross and unethical behavior, the privacy violations, humans losing their jobs so sleazebag billionaires get even richer. And that's basically all what Big Tech and especially AI is now.

Amber Glenn is amazing. Such mental strength and grace.

@kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social

If we had an administration which respected the constitution, Senate Democrats' demands to restrict ICE wouldn't be terrible politics. But, we have a lawless regime which does not respect the constitution or the rule of law. Under authoritarianism, the opposition can't fund the regime's enforcers.

This is why the profession should be opposing AI instead of inviting it in. Defend reality, defend creators, defend the profession.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here? 2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?

This is an outstanding essay from @arealmattgreene.bsky.social, where I found myself highlighting multiple sections (check out his latest novel, The Definitions, which is also excellent) lithub.com/on-the-rise-...

Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection. But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk. They are still worth getting. Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.

I am so tired of living in a covid-filled world. But, I am even MORE tired of needing to overcompensate for, and navigate around, the majority of people who are determined to act as though we are still living in a 2019 world.

If you invented a robot that sometimes cleaned my house really well & quickly & saved me lots of work—but *often* just moved things around without really cleaning—& *sometimes* added germs *to* the surfaces—such that just to be safe, I always had to clean after it I don’t think I’d buy that robot

If no one in your timeline is grieving the loss of Alice Wong today then you’re not hearing from enough disabled people or even people who listen to disabled people. That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later

Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work. Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.

Everything about SARS-CoV-2 weakens us as a species. Population-level immune dysregulation leading to both reactivation of latent pathogens and creating niches for new ones; the politicisation of our response regressing public health and massively amplifying anti-vax ideology.

There’s more than one type of “living in fear”. You can rationally be worried about a virus and take precautions… not really living in fear… more similar to putting up an umbrella in the rain. Or irrationally avoid the whole topic and take no precautions & get soaked in the rain.

Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

I am outwardly calm but inwardly incandescent with rage.

It makes no sense to fight for one single thing for 5-6 weeks and then suddenly just stop fighting for that thing.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...