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bencollins.bsky.social
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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bradtjonas.bsky.social
fatherly love
panel 1: “Son, have I ever told you how much I love you?” a dad asks his son. “Yes,” the son says. panel 2: “More than the cat but not as much as the dog,” the son says. panel 3: “That’s right,” the dad confirms, “ although the cat’s been growin’ on me since started eating the mice in the garage.” panel 4: “Hint hint,” the dad says, nudging the son.
February 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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bradtjonas.bsky.social
Mikael goes to the beach
panel 1: Mikael sits on the shore. “Ees good day at beach for Mikael,” he says. panel 2: A fish appears at Mikael’s feet. “Hay-lo Mikael, ees me, feesh,” it says. “I am here to grant you weesh.” panel 3: “Thanks you, Feesh, but I already has everything I am needing. Is there weesh that Mikael can grant for Feesh?” Mikael asks. panel 4: “Mikael, by taking my feelings into conseederation, you are already granting of my weeshes,” the fish says. panel 5: “Very cool,” Mikael says giving a thumbs up. “Maybe though you are nudging beached feesh back into ocean,” the fish suggests. “You got it my friend,” Mikael says.
January 31, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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cabel.panic.com
I've been leaning towards Tubi being the streaming service, and now I think it's official: they have Season 1 and Season 2 of one of the best science and technology comedy shows ever made… "Look Around You".

Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.

tubitv.com/series/30001...
Look Around You
This unique combination of parody and homage to early 70s/80s British educational programs examines different scientific topics in each episode.
tubitv.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Shoji Yamasaki // LITTERED MVMNTS
January 24, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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citymystic.bsky.social
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/shame-is-a...

Wrote about the shortcomings of anti-ai activism, what it can learn from past and present movements, and why we need to bring back shame as a tactic.
Shame is a Weapon
If anti-AI activists want to win, they have to grow fangs
houseofmirrors.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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pseudonymjones.bsky.social
a quick comic about jesus
a comic titled “what would it be like if Jesus came back today?” The first panel shows Jesus standing on a bombed-out street. Several drones are flying into the distance. Jesu says, “do unto others as you would have them d” the text is partially obscured by an american bomb. the remaining panels are blank. a comic titled “what would it be like if Jesus came back today?” The text “— and he was born American” is added in red. In the first panel, Jesus with a hamburger is standing on a city street. He says, “do unto others as you would have them do unt-“ he is cut off as four operatives with guns and mismatched tactical gear tackle him. One tells, “DOWN ON THe GROUND ASSHOLE!!!” A drone circled overhead and an unmarked van pulls up. “STOP RESISTING” one of the masked men yells at Jesu who is already on the ground with his hands behind his back. More men, drones, and vans arrive. Finally, the scene is mostly obscured by vans and masked men jumping out of them. From back where Jesu was being held, multiple gunshots ring out. a comic titled “what would it be like if Jesus came back today?” The text “— and he was born AS A WHITE American” is added in red. Jesu stands on the city street with a burger. “Do unto— uh—“ he says. He sits on the burb and eats th burger hurriedly. “Shit, need to finish this before my next shift.” he also has a cigarette and is distracted looking at an assortment of things on his phone. He gets up and heads inside the building. “I shouldn’t have bought that burger now how am I going to pay rent” a comic titled “what would it be like if Jesus came back today?” The text “— and he was born as a RICH white American” has been added in red. Jesus, shaved and in a suit but still with a burger, stands by the window inside of a skyscraper. “do…” he says, “…you ever feel like you’ve changed so much about yourself in pursuit of wealth that you’ve lost what makes ‘you’ you?” He sighs and looks out the window while eating the burger. From behind him, someone says, “Mr. Christ your private helicopter to rich pedophile island has arrived.” “Ok,” says Jesus. He is gone in the final panel and a helicopter is flying away in the background. He appears to have smeared the remains of his burger on the window before leaving.
January 21, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
bad week 2026 day 13 - hot dog
A man sits on a rock with a hot dog bun between his legs, which is clearly marked on screen as being a hot dog bun. He says "i thought it would be funny to put my dick in a hot dog bun like my dick is a hot dog*" *there is a footnote explicitly stating that his dick is completely covered by the hot dog bun and does not violate terms of service on any platform with restrictions around nudity in art. There are no visible genitals in the drawing. the man continues "but it brings me no joy", as a bird flies in. The bird pecks at the hot dog bun and the man yells "oww my dick"
January 21, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Cancel your Spotify subscription.
umaw.bsky.social UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 28d
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more:

www.404media.co/police-unmas...
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.
www.404media.co
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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bradtjonas.bsky.social
what are we reading now?
panel 1: “Mm…mmhmm” a woman says while reading ‘Involuntary Sounds We Make’. panel 2: A man hides his face on public transit by reading ‘Ways to Hide Your Hideous Face in Public’ panel 3: “Oh God…” a woman says while reading a book called ‘Human Atrocities’. panel 4: “Hehe” the same woman chuckles, and the full title of the book is revealed to be ‘Human Atrocities with relevant accompanying Far Side comics’.
January 9, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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dervy.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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kilocheetah.bsky.social
Friends, gently, I must insist:
www.avclub.com/spotify-cont...
Spotify's continued platforming of ICE is indefensible
Spotify's continued platforming of ICE is indefensible
www.avclub.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:12 PM
2026 word of the year: “Orwellian”
January 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
I think it’s dopy when people talk and talk and talk about how everything is a distraction from something else, I’m not prone to conspiracy thinking but I do think it’s pretty convenient for tech guys that most of the oxygen is getting used on if AI is taking your job and not building the panopticon
December 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
2026 word of the year will be “Orwellian”
December 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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simpsonsqotd.bsky.social
"The garage?
Hey, fellas, the garage.
Ooh, la-di-da, Mr. French man."

"What do you call it?"

"A car hole."
Season 6 / Episode 23
December 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
Also, imagine the thrill of being able to ruin a horrible multibillion dollar company by posting
tylerfromtheinternet.com Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Dec 18
Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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jasonschreier.bsky.social
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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telodendron.bsky.social
A page that looks like a scan from an old game magazine. A circular graphic contains a watercolor illustration of an enthusiastic wormlike dinosaur thing with a smiling yellow star and a worried looking blue diamond. A box in the lower half contains an illustration of a treasure box with a funny face, decorated with white crosses. In front of it are a green potion, a gold coin, and a silver key. There are also 2 game screenshots. One is of a title screen, featuring the dinosaur like worm, and one is of the same character standing in a little stonework house before a blue spheroid face, which is speaking. The text on the page is one continuous statement and does not relate to the images. It says: Header: Wondering how young I’ll die. Featured text, next to round illustration: We now take it as granted that the western empires will collapse. Title screen screenshot: In a real sense, it has already happened. House and dialog screenshot: we were born into a dead world. Text below screenshots: and now decay begins. We, having prepared all our lives for a future that can never arrive, feel lost. We must go on living. But what will life be, and how long can it last? America has become a nation of endless plagues
December 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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westernstatescenter.org
WSC Culture Lab Artist, @sad13.horse, supports the #CancelSpotify campaign!

“They’ve given listeners like me even more reasons to stay away—surveillance tech, investing in warfare… If that’s not enough to GTFO, how about the abysmal sound quality?”
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
Even if you ignore the insane power usage, and the IP theft, and the workforce damage, the amount of fraud and abuse that gen ai enables is inexcusable and inextricable from the technology as long as it exists.
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
It is not a stretch at this point to say that, if you are using a Ring doorbell, you are an ICE collaborator.

Amazon readily provides data to LEOs and ICE.

Don't want to be an ICE collaborator? Then don't use Ring.
marlo.ooo marlo @marlo.ooo · Dec 1
remember that your ring doorbell starts using face recognition on every face it sees today :)
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM