Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread

Deskilling workers is precisely the point of AI.

This is just so gross. '“We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives,” [Andreesen] wrote on a16z’s blog. “Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.”' Sure Marc. I keep forgetting how brain-dead eschatological all these idiots are.

😂😂😂 So, they're throwing money at AI to fix their issues and problems with not being able to actually make money? Yep, sounds perfectly logical. The problem with retail chains (especially now) is when they advertise "blockbuster deals", it's them inflating the retail price by 30% and then giving

“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.” By @keribla.bsky.social

We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries. Here's what we found: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

this will keep happening because: guardrails and any other control over these models is a scam

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social thread on that work is here: bsky.app/profile/iris... 5/n

Perhaps counterintuitive but guardrails are full-blown cognition in the case of models that contain data from the web which obviously also contains inappropriate content. Only human cognition at that point can sort this data into appropriate for a child or not. www.ru.nl/en/research/... 3/n

cool pincer movement if you truly grasp: AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out 🧵 1/n

This was a garbage suit designed to have a chilling effect on labor organizers and it did not work!

Also OpenAI needs over $1 trillion by 2030, I’m not sure why HSBC is lowballing the number either but eh why bother researching www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

This was well done and also what I’ve been saying for years, glad to see more people on it

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

I just learned about ghost singers and I feel so scandalized.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

we have to go back. to warn them.

PLEASE we're *all* begging you full URLs don't belong there either not only does it defeat the purpose of hashtags and links (clickable), it sounds like hell when read back before you post alt text, ask yourself "how will this get read back to me via screen reader, and will it make sense?"

Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images. The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.

Here at UMass Amherst CICS, we’re searching for TT faculty in NLP – see the link from www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ... I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... I read this last night, which I found really insightful and validating. The first time I actually felt financially secure I was making $126k. I feel like it was probably in response to this conversation...? (next)

If you see this post an anime you love

“Skandalakis”? come on, scriptwriters

For non-lawyers: this is the largest sanction against an attorney for frivolous conduct that I've ever heard of*. When attorneys are sanctioned $10-$20k is a big deal. This is a MASSIVE deal. *- not counting the slightly different issue of defendants having their answer struck for misconduct.

I have never felt so much envy after a random google search

I actually think the other article you linked in that thread is a much better source, because the Wired article concentrates on individual perpetrators (so people can go "oh, but they caught those people") and the CBC article puts the focus on the victims! www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

"Throughout this spring and summer, ChatGPT acted as a yes-man echo chamber for some people. They came back daily, for many hours a day, with devastating consequences."🎁

"The unemployment rate has reached a four-year high, job openings are at a four-year low, and leading members of Trump’s own economic team have gone so far as to concede in recent weeks that parts of the U.S. economy are already in recession..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

"In a text message in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wouldn’t say that child safety was his top concern “when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse.”" So he failed at keeping children safe *and* building the metaverse. An evil failure is all he is.

“Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform…” Coolcoolcool

A true side note: Prince cared deeply about food insecurity, and would routinely make substantial donations to local food banks and community kitchens in every town that he would play in during his later tours. Sometimes they would ask for supplies & his team would show up with huge amounts of food.

I can attest to the small glimpse I had of this when I had Lyme disease. There’s a core group of folks (I was one) who had a tick bite that gave us a bacterial disease that cleared up after a while with medications. Unpleasant and sometimes severe, but defined. And then there was another cohort…

“If they had the wrong person, then they didn’t know who they were looking for, which calls into question whether they had the legal right to seize anybody.” I'm not a lawyer, but it seems evident that nothing ICE is doing is legal. Local PDs should be arresting *them* for assault and abduction.

Howell Township puts pause on data centers after hundreds protest www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place

How many AI IDE does Google have? Did I miss any? - Firebase Studio: firebase.studio - Google Antigravity: antigravity.google - Google AI Studio: aistudio.google.com - Gemini Code Assist: codeassist.google - Google Jules: jules.google - Gemini CLI: geminicli.com

They’re using all of them to build new messaging apps

Yup, calling it. We’re no longer waiting for the collapse, we’re in it.

I truly cannot fathom OpenAI in so many ways.

Choose your fighter

I feel old.

Full screen of the sponsored results, a new low from Google. Switch to @kagi.com.

mashable.com/article/age-... As expected.

“Bezos argued at a tech conference that factories, data centers and other industrial operations should move to the moon or orbital facilities to mitigate pollution on earth. ’The moon is a gift from the universe,’ Bezos said, according to The Wall Street Journal.” One word: guillotines.

Thought the fact that Elizabeth Taylor made more money from her perfume than she did from any role or studio contract crazy , wouldn’t have thunk it ! (All my white diamonds and lovers are forever )

Getting subpoenaed by the US government over bluesky posts

Exciting personal news! My sysadmin/dev client has decided to opt for a shitty deal for a new host that is probably a bad deal, so my work is being reduced to SEO. And I discovered the studio I teach at has been listed for sale! The hustle is hard..... 🫠