Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

whatever you did, good job :)

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

ANTI FACIAL RECOGNITION

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

The reason they create devices is not to solve a problem but instead to build something that makes you a more perfect stream of data for them to monetize.

www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social

NEW: Neon, an app that pays you to record your calls so your audio can be used to train AI, and already rose to the top #5 free apps on Apple's App Store, has gone offline after a security lapse.

We found the app exposed users' phone numbers, call recordings, and text transcripts of those calls.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

ruin a book with a car:

Dead Pintos' Society
(too plausible?)

i miss a long ago internet where people had tough days and - my privileged experience, at least - was that others who happened to be up at the same weird hours crawled outta the woodwork with empathy.

pre 2012, before the dogpiles took over.

i hope tomorrow is easier?

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

nobody deserves that kinda judgement. i'm sorry that happened to you.

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social's latest in the Chronicle - on welcoming AI critics to the table when deliberating on policy - is spot on: www.chronicle.com/article/some...

...and by 'great learning experience' they actually mean 'more content that keeps you clicking' whee wut

Still haven't raptured, this is some bullshit right here

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

we got a rapture coming on the day kimmel is supposed to return to network tv. #rapturetuesday is about to be lit 🔥

OpenAI: oh shit, we're losing gobs of money. Nvidia, help us!

Nvidia: why should we help you?

OpenAI: if we go out of business, we won't be able to buy your products anymore!

Nvidia: solid sustainable business plan for all involved. Here's a boatload of money.

profit, surveillance, & authoritarian destruction of democracy: Thiel all the way down.
"Palantir is the corporate backbone of Ice that the agency is relying on for surveillance and deportations"

i mean, this seems illustrative of your point but...good grief. this feels surreal.

"The incoherence is the point. Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology."