Apps used to be exciting and now I hate every one of them

NEW: Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by @wired.com, suggest a workforce in turmoil. read @makenakelly.bsky.social:

I live in a neighborhood with lots of trees that lots of animals live in, but recently many trees have been cut down to build cookie-cutter homes for people who drive giant fuel-hungry trucks that have no green space to live in or rent out for profit. I am so sad we're killing the planet for this :c

10 years since Prince's death. It's hard to believe. This isn't anywhere close to my personal Prince top 100, but how many other artists could you even do such a thing with? RIP

In the past 11 years, we’ve lost roughly 300 million hectares of forest. Three ecologists explain why our current conservation strategies aren’t working.

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

Hello world, I'm moving down to Melbourne in a couple of weeks right around the time I lodge my thesis for examination. If you're an Australian-based academic looking for an RA with expertise in AI, literary/critical theory and digital media, please get in touch!

"It’s closed out. It's finished. We voted it down yesterday, and it's over, and we're moving forward." - Luxon “Cremated and buried”. - Potaka They lied. Despite over 90% of submitters opposed and massive divisions caused. National Govt continues to roll it out. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Re-sharing this since BlueSky was down yesterday ~

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So happy to have my first journal article published today! I argue that LLMs animate a paradox in which similarity only emerges through difference. I show how this paradox is operationalised by LLMs as they generate a natural language response (1/2) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join us for a workshop on The Politics of Algorithmic Life May 19-20 in Durham, free to attend and travel bursaries are available for PhD students and early career researchers. #politics #machinelearning #algorithms #AI More details & sign up here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/event/politi...

The US needs to be thrown out of Pine Gap immediately

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

It's Easter so I thought it would be appropriate to be back from the dead to announce that this is coming out at the end of this month: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792167...

Tremendous essay by Paolo Caffoni that approaches tokenisation in machine learning systems using critical translation literature with ideas from the study of political economy. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Fossil fuel money funds #climate lies. Then 'AI slopaganda' spreads it. #Australia has to fight back against misinformation about climate change, Senate report says www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Free public transport is exactly what we should do in NZ. It would actually reduce fuel use and give many people cheap transport options www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#GazaGenocide #SolidarityWithIranLebanonPalestine

The ultimate significance of AI will not be measured in processing speed or productivity gains, but in whether it alters our relationship to time, writes R Street Institute president & co-founder Eli Lehrer. In the long arc of history, structural change announces itself when ordinary rhythms shift.

Seeing Sora shut down is satisfying especially after how much shade they threw at Studio Ghibli for not wanting to associate themselves with AI animation

New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter... 1/

Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.

Appointment reading

Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military (David Jeans/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

#nzpol Never forgive, never forget, Aotearoa New Zealand. Vote National/NZ First/ACT out this election.

Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Me responding to Reviewer 2

Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time

Thinking about low res pikachu.

Super thrilled to have completed my final seminar today and to be told that I’m almost ready to lodge my thesis for examination :”) huge thanks to my supervisors @timothyjgraham.bsky.social @petamitchell.bsky.social and Benjamin Nicoll for their help over the past three years

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Our call for entries for “Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemologies and Computation” is open through 16 March. Here’s a 🧵⬇️ #cfp #ml www.biblhertz.it/3773193/2602...

This is the grim thing I keep getting stuck on... major AI platforms are telling kids to self-harm, *and* they're also the tools that lots of people are using because they don't have access to the better healthcare they deserve. So we have to find ways to mitigate the harms for people using them.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

A world war can be won, you want me to believe? youtu.be/-4wgB-04wHw?...

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

“humanity hanging from a cross of iron”

Saving the people of Iran from being massacred by their government in the streets by massacring elementary schoolgirls from the air.

It’s amazing how Anthropic already had partnerships with the US Military and Palantir, and its AI was even used during the kidnapping of Maduro. But now they’re a radical left woke company because they won’t agree to the US DoW using it for autonomous weapons that kill without human oversight.

Really enjoyed this paper by @nataliastanusch.bsky.social and Richard Rogers. Their term 'techno-hagiography' (performative writing of a mythology of AI and its spokespeople) and its relationship to temporarily is apt to describe future-making in the present. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Add this to research that suggests that as Musk took over Twitter (but before Twitter became X), the algorithm there was serving up content that leaned markedly to the right, even for users whose networks leaned left. www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.06129

“Why does the left hate technology” is not the right question. Instead we should be asking “why do most people hate the capitalist technologies sold as ‘innovations’ and forced onto society by a handful of mega billionaires and their toady sycophants?”

Completely agree with Ed, and would also add that the ethics of these machines are blurry at the best of times, but the development of AI-powered/assisted weaponry is completely incompatible with ethics. Having a human in the loop for systems that track, target, and kill is complete folly.

Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Submitted the first full draft of my PhD thesis today for my final progress review. And with a little break, it’s time for my annual reread of lotr :D

Absolute shame on all the class traitor labour parties of this country, federal and state, that have chosen to side with violent cops and a genocidal state over their own people. Extreme moral cowardice and an absolute waste of the best majority they’ll have in a long long time.

some thoughts on Moltbook for @nytopinion.nytimes.com