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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

This is going to be a disaster for disaster response communications

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

Increasingly, AI shaping our information environment.

AI and news report 2025 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/generative-a... via @reutersinstitute.bsky.social

64% in US saw an AI answer in past week.

Among those who saw AI answers, about one third (33%) say they always or often click links...

Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI’s role in journalism and society

Our survey explores how people use generative AI in their everyday lives, what they think its impact will be on different areas of society, and what they think about its use in news and journalism spe...

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago! (2025)

YOU ARE NOT

ALONE IN THIS

ABYSSAL DARKNESS.

I AM HERE, AND WE

SHALL FACE THE

CHASM AS

BROTHERS.

Here comes that fellow
"My goodness, how do you do?"

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

we have one of those and it's really neat

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🦍 It's Elections Time. Check Feed Pls @winterwarpath.bsky.social · 1d

they need to just pass a law that if californians catch you gating off a public beach, they're within their right to dismantle your stupid gate and throw the parts in a dumpster.

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Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 1d

Dude the solution is right in front of you: tech bros do the fucking chores. 100 years of atonement.

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Jason Copland @mingalabardreaming.bsky.social · 1d

3D printers sound so cool, but I am overwhelmed at the thought of the software to use. 😬

Suggestions are welcome.

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 1d

People need to read Ruth Schwarz Cowan's classic book:
hss.sas.upenn.edu/content/more...

More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave | HSS | Arts & Sciences

In this classic work of women’s history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to hous...

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 1d

Finally I have an answer to all those people who say to novelists, “I have such a great life story! You write it and we’ll split the profits!”

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 2d

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 1d

the thing is even if you took out all the possible issues one might have with it, the actual process of using it would be a literal nightmare for me. i cannot IMAGINE having creativeness being locked behind of the equivalent of standing over a co-worker's shoulder mentally begging Just Let Me Do It

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1d

Especially given that the word “robot” itself DERIVES FROM THE FUCKING CZECH TERM FOR “DRUDGERY” & “SERVITUDE”

www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the...

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 1d

I installed 2 wifi printers last month. Neither one detected itself. Both required me to search for and separately download scanner drivers since that somehow wasn't included in the install process.

Friends should not have to ask me for help with this in the year 2025.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Dear techbros frantically nutting at each other over your own god-like brilliance for making the Five-Boobed-Lady-Picture-Machine: I would at this point settle for you applying your alleged technical genius to making a printer that works

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Posts @porgus.bsky.social · 1d

they all give off the vibe like "I tried to draw a picture once and it pissed me off so bad"

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 1d

i have one in the lab and it's literally saved me thousands of dollars because i can fabricate equipment and models on the spot. yet the university keeps promoting "use AI in your classes!", when my students like Giant Molecule Models waaay more than the plagiarism box

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 1d

OMG ALL THE SNAPS

I'm getting my MLIS, and I cannot tell you how many guest speakers have mentioned that their patrons are disproportionately thrilled by working printers and copiers

it really is the small stuff that gets people going

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Dear techbros frantically nutting at each other over your own god-like brilliance for making the Five-Boobed-Lady-Picture-Machine: I would at this point settle for you applying your alleged technical genius to making a printer that works

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

He is a pit of evil who speaks nothing but evil.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

That fucking monster killed USAID and is killing millions around the world.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I will never buy a fucking robot made by that mass-murdering demon.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

and as a person who likes and cares about movies and music and cartoons and books, I really resent that the executives in charge of those things are looking excitedly at a future where they can cheaply produce the equivalent of if restaurants pivoted to painted, seasoned styrofoam

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

I fully acknowledge my self interest here; as a communications professional, I resent that mostly what I’m hearing from the tech industry and its acolytes “hooray, we can replace most of your job with a robot that does it 60% as well for free,” what am I supposed to do with that?

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Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets) @cursed.monster · 1d

Roko’s Basilisk is actually an inkjet that functioned long enough to end the world, which is the true desire of all printers

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I absolutely do not think that 1. This is going to happen and 2. That artists will actually WANT to do this, which was my original point with which you will see a ton of artists agreeing with me in my replies

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I believe my point still stands

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