sebs
digitalism.bsky.social
sebs
@digitalism.bsky.social
trying to do this whole artist thing...key word "trying"

i do talk about the political and economic state of the world here

creative techie, writer, data person (sometimes developer), and more (ig??)

[email protected]

she/her


📍occupied land
why does it feel like nothing ever works in aws because wdym access to this foundational model just disappeared overnight
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 PM
the mentally ill urge to start a discord server to do virtual events easily...that I will not end up doing I know it
February 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
doing something scary (trying to socialize)
February 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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so close to being done
February 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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EpsteIn—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here:

www.404media.co/this-tool-se...
February 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Data Poems | Luke Steuber
Short stories I tried to tell with numbers.
dr.eamer.dev
February 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Hour-long YouTube training session on how to observe & record ICE/CBP. “This call will give you the tools to exercise your rights in a moment when federal agents are terrorizing our communities and using excessive force.” [youtube.com]
Eyes on ICE: Document and Record
On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in front of witnesses.  Enough is enough.  Exercising our constitutional right to document and record
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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“If illiteracy was a key form of oppression, then books were a pathway to freedom. No wonder, then, that Black-owned bookstores have been a central rallying point for Black resistance throughout US history.“ @prisonculture.bsky.social on D. Ruggles Books, the first Black bookstore in the US
Prisons, Prose & Protest - #35
Rants, Musings and More
prisonculture.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
just saw the bookshop.org and spotify collab annoucement...im tired
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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A group of 50 Chilians recently spent several hours powering a human-operated chatbot. Some questions were answered quickly but “when they didn’t know the answer, they walked around the room to see if someone else did”. [apnews.com]
A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why
About 50 members of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll and water usage of artificial intelligence data center
apnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
February 5, 2026 at 5:14 AM
just reading through the thread now...holy fuck
If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:

drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 4, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public
February 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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here's a gift link to @nitasha.bsky.social's story, which shows just how forcefully Musk is pushing sexual content, including sexual abuse and harassment content—including of children.
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
February 4, 2026 at 10:53 PM
the moretthe alt man tries to seem human, the less he does
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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A few reading recommendations for the moment:

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

Charles E. Cobb Jr.

app.thestorygraph.com/books/9e4caa...
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist Wi...
app.thestorygraph.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’ by Bad Bunny wins the #GRAMMYs  award for Best Música Urbana Album.
February 2, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album:

“Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”
February 2, 2026 at 2:20 AM
latex is a skill everyone needs to recognize that now
February 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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Full Bad Bunny speech
February 2, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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There have been multiple children trafficked from a Columbia Heights school in the last few weeks
Kristi Noem: "Zero children have been trafficked in the last 12 months because of President Trump's leadership"
February 1, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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I took a close look at the latest Department of Homeland Security AI use case inventory, which details over 200 applications across DHS component agencies, including CBP and ICE. DHS is rapidly deploying these tools in US cities, while increasingly engaging in violence and defying court orders.
DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts
A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.
www.techpolicy.press
February 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM