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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Jul 22

Love that how Bluesky is handling 85% of the people from Gaza entering stage five of a famine is by mass deleting their accounts again

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · Jun 25

Imagine not just the sheer physical amount of waste produced, but the amount of investor cash spent on this folly.

Anthropic isn’t a company, it’s a black hole for VC cash. $5.6B in losses last year, much more this year.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 25

The part in the sci-fi story where the villain explains that the only way they could create their monster was to destroy millions of books.

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

arstechnica.com

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Alida Sun @alidasun.bsky.social · Jun 25

Nope, this happened.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · Jun 22

really enjoying reading _The AI Con_ which just came out! "To put it bluntly, 'AI' is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase 'artificial intelligence' is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies + 1/2

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Jun 22

The whole idea of "antiwar" Trump has long rested on a confused reading of his hatred of multilateralism, the international order, and the Deep State. He doesn't hate those things for "dovish" reasons. He hates them for degenerate/corrupt reasons.

Thoughts on that:
newrepublic.com/article/1969...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jun 14

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children

The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted

Women and children in parks

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Heather M. Collins🗽 @heathersdesk.bsky.social · Jun 14

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO?

#NOKINGS

View of the No Kings protest from the 4th floor of the Boise Capitol Building

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · Jun 14

that’s a residential apartment building, Bevan.

Sydney morning herald front page. The headline above a photo of a bombed apartment building says ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · Jun 12

Gen-AI moment is like early 2000s when aerial images proliferated but cultural aerial vocab lacked so the state read them for us as pseudo-empirical images. The power that produces such tech paradigms always takes advantage of the novelty period where interpretative lexicons are still developing.

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jun 12

“The deportation videos… help us see that the same quality of languid abstraction, of weak feeling unmoored from thought, that came to characterize so much media in the imperial years of the platform era is now the state’s official authoritarian style.”

Agit-Slop

The White House’s Numbing Aesthetic

www.thedriftmag.com

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Douglas Bridges @dougbridgesesq.bsky.social · Jun 11

It's like all the tech bros trying to defend AI after ChatGPT lost at chess to an Atari. Their argument is that the Atari is custom built to play chess. And that is the point. LLMs are great at synthesizing data into something that sounds good. But that doesn't mean they can actually do the work

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · Jun 9

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

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Alida Sun @alidasun.bsky.social · Jun 5

First messy breakup of Pride Month 💅

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Alida Sun @alidasun.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Alida Sun @alidasun.bsky.social · May 31

“𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺.”

- Nam June Paik

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Alida Sun @alidasun.bsky.social · May 31

Vibe researching

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · May 25

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · May 25

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

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Alida Sun @alidasun.bsky.social · May 18

Alas no!

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Alida Sun @alidasun.bsky.social · May 11

Did Native Americans have habeas corpus when they were death marched to reservations?

Did African Americans have habeas corpus during chattel enslavement & mob lynchings?

Did Asian Americans have habeas corpus during purgings & Internment camps?

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · May 10

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?"
Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · May 11

At some point in the last 25 years, corporations managed to convince people that it was worthwhile to trade control over our own information and actual ownership of the things we purchase for convenience. Things that used to be "normal" are now seen as "luxury goods" that demand a premium.

Why Physical Media Deserved To Die

Over the course of more than a decade, physical media has gradually vanished from public view. Once computers had an optical drive except for ultrabooks, but these days computer cases that even sup…

hackaday.com

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Alida Sun @alidasun.bsky.social · May 10

Are you talking about the performing artists or the crowd?

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · May 2

NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out misinformation-littered AI slop for profit.

futurism.com/emerson-coll...

Futurism

AI Killed the Radio Star

May 2, 9:51 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College's Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Site

"It undermines our community for lazy profit. Exactly the opposite of our greater goal."

/ Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Slop/ College/ Radio

Image: A skeleton in a suit looking at a computer screen featuring a photo of Richard Gere, with the text "HOMELESS????" overlaid on it. In the background is a radio tower.

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · May 6

everybody gets digital mummies, lifeless nth-order approximations (as are we all), and the most wifeless neckbeards ever will chime in chorus "our consciousnesses have been DIGITALLY UPLOADED, we're gonna live forever maaan" (digital soul lost to data corruption, under/over, 20 years)

ponder @ponder.ooo · May 6

i think corporations using ai to make wretched sockpuppets of deceased celebrities is fine tbh. fine when anyone does that. corporations should be hated for other reasons like doing material harm in the real world, rather than "intellectual property" and "respect for the dead"

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Free Gaza Australia @freegazaaustralia.bsky.social · May 2

The Freedom Flotilla’s ship ‘The Conscience’ has come under attack in international waters by armed drones. The ship was unarmed and onboard were 30 non-violent humanitarian activists preparing to sail to Gaza and challenge Israel’s illegal siege and blockade.

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