settling the GIF pronunciation debate once and for all based on which version makes this pun work

Saw this thought yep

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

an idea's been rolling around in my head about how what we lose with assuming everyone wants "answers" & not search results is similar to what we lose when "route" is the only kind of map we encounter I won't get the academic terms right, but it's some version of skipping an essential abstraction

Accountability for the past is a crucial part of how we move on to the future. They’re not alternatives, they’re complementary. We didn’t dwell on the past enough last time, didn’t do enough accountability, and instead of letting us move forward, we got worse backsliding, with more now to rectify.

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At work, our client is pushing us to use AI, but requires everybody to take training that says we're responsible for verifying everything it tells us. I don't know why they don't want us to skip the AI and just start out with the direct research.

Crypto finally has a real use-case (besides crime and terrorism): overt and unprecedented political corruption.

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Revenge = Comedy + Time

Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

I ❤️ NY

sorry, christian rock.

SF writers and readers are some of the nerdiest nerds on the planet. We love tech. We are so early-adopter that we imagined it before you built it. If you’ve lost us, you’ve lost the fight.

JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of #$TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

Stephen Miller's suit here shows one of the biggest problems with men's tailoring today. 🧵

Do things that bring you joy youtube.com/shorts/L_XhG...

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

I don't think enough people understand that for many autistic people, context isn't just important... it's necessary. "Do this thing" "Why?" Is not insubordination, it's context.

Just in time for the fourteenth consecutive Most Important Election of Our Lifetime™, @ginnyhogan.bsky.social and @shadesofgreaves.bsky.social’s Obey in Advance: How to Survive (and Thrive) Under Authoritarianism. Coming to you from McSweeney’s books this fall. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/obe...

“It makes the model speak less like a polite chatbot and more like a terse tool." Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen in an attempt to stop burning through AI tokens, @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @josephcox.bsky.social story here: www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Anthropic and Open AI are making LinkedIn Fortnite

I‘m sorry, but this reads like somebody with an addiction that genuinely needs help. If a friend told me they were talking and acting like this I’d be really worried!

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👀👀👀👀👀 I've only got as far as the cost @bparsia.bsky.social

"When I think about Amazon Prime Day, it saddens me to see how the holiday has become so cheapened. It’s all about getting the best deals, and no one stops to think about the true reason for the season: absolutely destroying independent bookstores."

To the “AI is useful” crowd, it might certainly be in theory, but we can’t ignore that it is being shaped by right wing extractive logics mired in cultural hierarchal commitments, that have very little interest in a utility that serves a broader social good.

If it was all they said it was, they wouldn't need to try and convince you. Instead, they'd be joyously talking about their favourite AI generated movies, their favourite 100% vibe coded game, the amazing book they read from some self-published prompter. Thing is, THEY don't believe it either!

Let’s take a look at how Apple’s auto captioning is working on Elmo

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Had @author-calnewport.bsky.social on Better Offline to talk about AI companies “doom-trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of those leading the scare-mongering. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

It's amazing what you can do when you remember that schools have a primary responsibility to the children they teach and nurture -- not to the ed-tech industry or gen AI profit margins.

screaming www.tumblr.com/reggiemess/8...

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

*stage whispers* All "Generative AI" Systems Do Is Fabricate Evidence

this is unsustainable

in retrospect we probably encouraged too many kids to be the change they wanted to see in the world

Boost your productivity with invasive, distracting, mostly incorrect summaries of emails you didn't want to read!

I am not being hyperbolic when I say (tech) capitalism is alienating (making strangers) of us at a staggering scale. Alienating us from ourselves, each other, touch, feeling, thoughts…from the intimacy and care of touch, bedtime stories, prayers, poems, drawings, community, love

In Germany, Google is liable for false answers in its AI "overviews" that pop up at the top of search results. I wish we had this in the States. Make them pay for misleading users. the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

You’re not lazy. You're exhausted from using pressure and panic as your main sources of motivation. That works - until it doesn’t. And when it stops working, the answer isn’t more panic. It's understanding your needs.

I said it in 2021, I've said it a bunch since, and I'll say it again now: You're not afraid of "killer AI" and "robot overlords," you're afraid of white supremacy, ableism, patriarchy, hegemony, extractivism, kyriarchy, and capitalism.

The function of "A.i." in business, education, and the arts is to create a temporary sliver of advantage for devotees, cheaters, fraudsters, and scammers while empowering massive corporations to dehumanize, disempower, and fleece everyone else.

Time to make a Starter Pack for “Academics Who Refuse to Let AI Write for Them”?

Why would anyone choose to dwell, for even a second, in the Kafka liminal zone of “by AI” or “with AI”? When you can do literally anything else, why would you do this with your one life?

So many options. Wondering if I base my viewing format on my love of the actor endorsing it? I mean, I'm kind of nostalgic for film, but Zendaya is pushing the Dolby experience. #theodyssey #imax #dolby #35mm #70mm #confused #perforations.

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.