hiverious
@hiverious.bsky.social
They/them. Disabled, ND, forever sleepy.
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iTalki now added to the list of language learning apps to avoid/delete.
The *only* way we push back against AI (in this case to non-consensually record audio!) is to refuse to use it.
The *only* way we push back against AI (in this case to non-consensually record audio!) is to refuse to use it.
I used to recommend italki for language learning but they've gone full anti-user by forcing their AI on everyone and recording and using lessons without consent. I'll be deleting my italki account.
cool cool 🙄 #langsky
This teacher has AI recordings turned off but that AI summaries are still given after lessons. "As someone who works in software development the only way for that to happen is for at least audio to be recorded and then fed into an AI model."
via www.reddit.com/r/iTalki/com...
This teacher has AI recordings turned off but that AI summaries are still given after lessons. "As someone who works in software development the only way for that to happen is for at least audio to be recorded and then fed into an AI model."
via www.reddit.com/r/iTalki/com...
February 8, 2026 at 7:16 AM
iTalki now added to the list of language learning apps to avoid/delete.
The *only* way we push back against AI (in this case to non-consensually record audio!) is to refuse to use it.
The *only* way we push back against AI (in this case to non-consensually record audio!) is to refuse to use it.
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Part of the reason we have to so thoroughly shut them out is because if you give them an inch they’ll take a mile. It’s not just that for example Laurelai Bailey keeps returning under different names, it’s that every time she does she also starts another cult with herself at the head
February 8, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Part of the reason we have to so thoroughly shut them out is because if you give them an inch they’ll take a mile. It’s not just that for example Laurelai Bailey keeps returning under different names, it’s that every time she does she also starts another cult with herself at the head
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Monsters constantly decry the court of public opinion but I frankly think they’d skate a lot easier if they made a full and frank disclosure of what they did, threw themself on that court’s mercy, and stuck by both decisions. But for some reason none of them ever do
February 8, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Monsters constantly decry the court of public opinion but I frankly think they’d skate a lot easier if they made a full and frank disclosure of what they did, threw themself on that court’s mercy, and stuck by both decisions. But for some reason none of them ever do
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Part of the reason we drive people who do really evil shit out of communities isn’t just that what they did was really evil. It’s that they seem to be absolutely allergic to admitting it, apologising, or stopping
February 8, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Part of the reason we drive people who do really evil shit out of communities isn’t just that what they did was really evil. It’s that they seem to be absolutely allergic to admitting it, apologising, or stopping
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Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
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The way people talk about e-bikes/motos in such hyperbolic terms drives home that this is simply a moral panic. Because if they actually cared about safety they'd reserve such rhetoric for cars.
February 7, 2026 at 11:20 AM
The way people talk about e-bikes/motos in such hyperbolic terms drives home that this is simply a moral panic. Because if they actually cared about safety they'd reserve such rhetoric for cars.
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Are they going to call for cars to be taken away and crushed too?
February 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Are they going to call for cars to be taken away and crushed too?
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‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities | Social media ban | The Guardian
https://alecmuffett.com/article/144675
#SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship
https://alecmuffett.com/article/144675
#SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship
‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities | Social media ban | The Guardian
“it’s okay, she should be outside playing sports” — no? “I have autism and mental health things, it’s hard making friends in real life for me,” she says. “My online friends were e…
alecmuffett.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:05 AM
‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities | Social media ban | The Guardian
https://alecmuffett.com/article/144675
#SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship
https://alecmuffett.com/article/144675
#SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship
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when i started working as a journalist in 2014, there were trans reporters in multiple national newsrooms. almost all have left. the high output of anti-trans articles & the near absence of articles by trans journalists are two sides of the same coin: institutional transphobia in the UK media.
And now @ludovicparsons.bsky.social highlights the huge increase in anti-trans articles over the last 10 years, as the number of trans journalists falls. The challenge to get positive ripples of trans lives covered, in a sea of gender critical misinformation
February 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
when i started working as a journalist in 2014, there were trans reporters in multiple national newsrooms. almost all have left. the high output of anti-trans articles & the near absence of articles by trans journalists are two sides of the same coin: institutional transphobia in the UK media.
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I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities
Despite the ban’s aim to protect young people, experts are concerned that those in marginalised communities or living with disabilities could lose vital support networks
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:06 AM
I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities
Despite the ban’s aim to protect young people, experts are concerned that those in marginalised communities or living with disabilities could lose vital support networks
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
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Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
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Kind of an awkward PSA because I've had some artist mutuals recommend these sites/tools, but
"ai image detection" tools are snake oil, and I feel like nobody bothered to scrutinize them.
So I opened photoshop cs6, drew a smiley face, and uploaded it to the "accurate" detector:
"ai image detection" tools are snake oil, and I feel like nobody bothered to scrutinize them.
So I opened photoshop cs6, drew a smiley face, and uploaded it to the "accurate" detector:
February 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Kind of an awkward PSA because I've had some artist mutuals recommend these sites/tools, but
"ai image detection" tools are snake oil, and I feel like nobody bothered to scrutinize them.
So I opened photoshop cs6, drew a smiley face, and uploaded it to the "accurate" detector:
"ai image detection" tools are snake oil, and I feel like nobody bothered to scrutinize them.
So I opened photoshop cs6, drew a smiley face, and uploaded it to the "accurate" detector:
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They're seriously trying the "actually it's good to be a pedophile" defense now.
Over on X, the Everything App, serious conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza shared a video of an AI-generated woman on a fake podcast he seemingly thought was real, telling the audience that young women should get with older men. Dude, wtf?
February 6, 2026 at 6:05 AM
They're seriously trying the "actually it's good to be a pedophile" defense now.
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literal cannibal pedophiles manufactured a moral panic, and you're willing to just... adopt their talking points and stances to better gain the votes of Nazis who HAVE THEIR OWN PARTY AND HATE YOU? Really?!
February 6, 2026 at 3:02 AM
literal cannibal pedophiles manufactured a moral panic, and you're willing to just... adopt their talking points and stances to better gain the votes of Nazis who HAVE THEIR OWN PARTY AND HATE YOU? Really?!
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Finding out that a billionaire pedophile cult astroturfed the entire anti-trans movement makes me hate liberals who are willing to sell us out all the more. What the fuck do you mean you're not willing to oppose the work of the actual pedophile billionaires who EXPLICITLY made this happen? These
February 6, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Finding out that a billionaire pedophile cult astroturfed the entire anti-trans movement makes me hate liberals who are willing to sell us out all the more. What the fuck do you mean you're not willing to oppose the work of the actual pedophile billionaires who EXPLICITLY made this happen? These
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Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
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This is some bullshit. Never enter any contest like this.
Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3
February 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
This is some bullshit. Never enter any contest like this.
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YES THEY FUCKING ARE!!!
Go fucking back, read what the colonists did to indigenous people, to my fucking people, and observe their contined abuse.
Shame on you all, i hope you fucking choke.
Go fucking back, read what the colonists did to indigenous people, to my fucking people, and observe their contined abuse.
Shame on you all, i hope you fucking choke.
It’s time to put Billie Eilish’s theory of property out to pasture, Richard Epstein and Max Raskin write.
"Americans are not thieves who built on stolen land." https://wapo.st/4rDYzrn
"Americans are not thieves who built on stolen land." https://wapo.st/4rDYzrn
February 5, 2026 at 9:53 PM
YES THEY FUCKING ARE!!!
Go fucking back, read what the colonists did to indigenous people, to my fucking people, and observe their contined abuse.
Shame on you all, i hope you fucking choke.
Go fucking back, read what the colonists did to indigenous people, to my fucking people, and observe their contined abuse.
Shame on you all, i hope you fucking choke.
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funny to imagine these actually being Sony legacy characters cause none of the actors that voice for their big modern games will do it
Sony has patented the idea of AI-generated podcasts hosted by characters from its games.
The idea would see players getting their own bespoke podcasts on their console, telling them what's new, hosted by the characters of the games they've been playing.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-pa...
The idea would see players getting their own bespoke podcasts on their console, telling them what's new, hosted by the characters of the games they've been playing.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-pa...
Sony patents AI-generated podcasts voiced by characters from its games | VGC
Players would get their own personalised podcasts on their consoles telling them what’s new…
www.videogameschronicle.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:45 AM
funny to imagine these actually being Sony legacy characters cause none of the actors that voice for their big modern games will do it
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Deadlock... with friends!!! surely ONE of us will roll Silver, right
NOVA_BUSTER_ - Twitch
the quest to actually play Silver Deadlock
twitch.tv
February 5, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Deadlock... with friends!!! surely ONE of us will roll Silver, right
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February 5, 2026 at 1:54 AM
If you can't make it this weekend you can donate to the cause via the Tiltify.
tiltify.com/@vgmtogether...
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This weekend I'll be joining with other members of the VGM Community to help raise as much for The Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.
Come listen to some of your favorite VGM music and help us support those in need!
Twitch.tv/vgmtogether
#Vtuber #Minnesota #VGM
Come listen to some of your favorite VGM music and help us support those in need!
Twitch.tv/vgmtogether
#Vtuber #Minnesota #VGM
February 5, 2026 at 1:54 AM
This weekend I'll be joining with other members of the VGM Community to help raise as much for The Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.
Come listen to some of your favorite VGM music and help us support those in need!
Twitch.tv/vgmtogether
#Vtuber #Minnesota #VGM
Come listen to some of your favorite VGM music and help us support those in need!
Twitch.tv/vgmtogether
#Vtuber #Minnesota #VGM
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i think every executive at microsoft and nvidia should be in prison with 200 consecutive life sentences
Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing. Valve is now aiming to launch its Steam Machine in the first half of 2026, rather than early 2026. How much will it cost, though? www.theverge.com/games/874196...
Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing
You’ll have to wait a little longer for Valve’s new hardware.
www.theverge.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
i think every executive at microsoft and nvidia should be in prison with 200 consecutive life sentences