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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 11d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 4h

coming to terms with the fact that the "Tank Man" photo of our time is going to be a shaky TikTok of an out-of-shape ICE goon shooting a furry in the face

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

any cop who walks because mamdani gets elected is almost certainly a cop who fears accountability and should never have been hired in the first place

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 8h

what idiot called it sora and not slop motion animation

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Joe Fulgham @joefulgham.com · 1d

Ugghhhhh

Somebody get through to the Canadian government(s) that AI is a Ponzi scheme and we'll succeed long term by telling it to fuck off

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Joe Fulgham @joefulgham.com · 1d

Remember when Facebook was a comfy log rolling down a friendly stream? Good times!

[LEAP]

Ah, Twitter, this is nice

[LEAP]

Ah, TikTok...

[LEAP

Ah, BlueSky/Skylight

[TENSES LEG MUSCLES]

Joe Fulgham @joefulgham.com · 1d

With TikTok being sold to Team Evil, it looks like the place to go now is Skylight Social, which is BlueSky's video doomscroller.

With how BlueSky has been going it feels like that'll be a brief lily pad in our eternal Frogger-inspired online lives

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Like Bari Weiss being stuffed by a billionaire atop CBS to lie to normies, this is billionaires stuffing rightwing ideas into AI systems to lie to normies.

The whole fascist takeover of the US is built atop an information war.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend

What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2d

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Joe Fulgham @joefulgham.com · 3d

Yeah, Ken Sim is a deeply stupid man, zero doubt

COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 3d

"A reckless and harmful election gimmick." - @seanorr.bsky.social

The ABC majority has passed a motion that throws out months of staff work, overrides Budget consultations with thousands of Vancouver residents, and will lead to massive uncosted cuts.

www.votecope.ca/news/ken-sim...

#vanpoli

Ken Sim’s Zero Sense property tax motion puts public services in grave danger — COPE Vancouver

ABC rams through motion despite opposition from thousands of residents and local unions representing workers providing threatened public services   VANCOUVER, BC – The ABC majority has pa...

www.votecope.ca

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Fandom Trivia @fandomtrivia.ca · 4d

Grab your Eggos and hop on your bikes because Stranger Things Trivia is coming to The Rec Room Granville on Sunday, November 9.

Hosts Joe Fulgham and Daniel Chai invite you and your Party to test your knowledge of the popular Netflix series.

www.eventbrite.ca/e/fandom-tri...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4d

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

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Gold Skull Games @goldskullgames.bsky.social · 4d

I think what these "big brain strategists" fail to realize is that if you don't want to support rights for trans folk, we are not on the same "team", your person winning the election isn't a win for me if you're not supporting rights for everyone

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

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OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 5d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Nate @thenatewolf.bsky.social · 5d

No, terrible public library website, I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at those who have failed you.

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Joe Fulgham @joefulgham.com · 5d

Me, crying to the heavens, "Your work here is NOT DONE, Leonard!"

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 6d

I enjoy how people with lists called "leftist pigs who deserve helicopter rides" are ignored so the devs can focus on what's *really* important, defending digital cancer

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 6d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Joe Fulgham @joefulgham.com · 6d

Summary of the early buzz says Tron: Ares will be the Highlander 2 of the franchise: So bad we'll all just pretend it never happened

Joe Fulgham @joefulgham.com · Jul 18

I'm fond of the Tron setting, but when you hire Jared Leto to be in your film I have little faith in your other decisions

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