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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 6h

Distressed to hear Madeleine Habib’s boat has been intercepted & boarded by IDF. Yet another breach of int law by Israel. I’m in Canberra & liaising now with the PM’s office. Israel must immediately release all on board including our brave Tasmanian Madeleine #auspol #politas

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Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 1h

good to know that queer youth can access support services with community such as /lgbt/

oh no

Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 1h

to be fair 4chan is better described as anti-social media

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2h

Funny bit in estimates: Senator Fatima Payman pointing out that 4chan likely wouldn't be affected by the teen social media ban because it doesn't have accounts. eSafety Commissioner says she doesn't think that it was considered when making the ban.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2h

Funny bit in estimates: Senator Fatima Payman pointing out that 4chan likely wouldn't be affected by the teen social media ban because it doesn't have accounts. eSafety Commissioner says she doesn't think that it was considered when making the ban.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Nov 6

if you're concerned about information security, you should know Signal isn't actually secure. instead, try Mastodon, which is a website where you can be guaranteed no one will ever see what you post

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 3h

Every single European leader that hasn't taken steps to suspend or limit arms trade with Israel and divested from Israeli dual purpose interests deserves to have their name in the annals of genocide complicity.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Italy’s Meloni says ICC complaint accuses her of Gaza genocide complicity

A complaint lodged with the ICC points to the Italian government's role supplying lethal weapons to Israel amid Gaza war

www.aljazeera.com

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 5h

When @aceottorney.bsky.social first told me about this I said "this could change people's lives and stop developers from getting exploited" and having seen the final resource, I think I was not wrong. I'd call it a must-bookmark for indie devs.

René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 5h

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 6h

*glances over at my son who is currently using social media to chat with biologists on Bluesky and iNaturalist* tortured, eh?

I think News Corp Australia is terrified of what social media has done to its users profit margin and all it can do is pathetically invoke moral panic. The kids don’t care

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 6h

News Corp Australia chair says social media platforms are ‘true monsters’ and ‘torment our children’

Michael Miller also says media must unite against second ‘big steal’ by tech companies seeking changes to copyright law to access content for free * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Social media is to blame for social cohesion issues across the globe, News Corp Australia’s executive chair, Michael Miller, has said, as he calls for media to present a united front against the platforms and AI companies seeking content for free. Miller told the Melbourne Press Club on Wednesday social media was rife with “misinformation, disinformation [and] the rabbit holes [that] they drag you down. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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dr mo 🇵🇸 @redactedquirk.bsky.social · 8h

Wow....... a fascist scheme that wants to separate autism into useful people and impaired people..... this sounds familiar with some reason..................

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.

archive.ph/Whji1

Alt text: A screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart?” The image shows a woman with dark hair tied back with an orange patterned ribbon, smiling and leaning forward near a window with sunlight coming in. She is wearing a light orange top with thin straps.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15h

You cannot, by definition, be eugenicist to an LLM.
Thats not what eugenics was, is or means.
But also, it should worry everyone when tech people like Hailey dehumanize the actual survivors and ongoing victims of eugenics by making comparisons like this--its alarming.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 17h

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 14h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 13h

We went from deloitte having to refund a payment for a report because it was pure slop to paying someone to produce pure slop in record time.

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 13h

OpenAI has quietly inked its first Australian government contract, a small Treasury deal that could be a strategic foothold for a lucrative future. @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports.

OpenAI signs first ever Australian government contract

www.crikey.com.au

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Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 12h

people joke about WSU degrees being worthless but damn I never knew it was true /j

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BRAN @pupn1k.bsky.social · 15d

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 1d

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Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 16h

its been a Time seeing people crash out over "AI moderation" as if we should actually be turning more peoples' brains to mush by making them look at Everything themselves

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kata 🌊 aqua! ΘΔ @kadybat.ellen.zone · 16h

FWIW I am inclined to believe this. Generative language models that are trained on content are nowhere near the same as AI moderation and recommendation tools. The terms "AI" and "machine learning/ML" have become muddied by the existence of generative language models but they're simply not the same.

Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.

None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.

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Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 16h

there's a lot to be said about how bsky t&s sucks ass and gets things wrong but this is completely normal

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Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 16h

this is normal btw

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 21h

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 17h

People are saying that "oh so bsky feeds all our images into AI datasets!" when he's saying the opposite of this, all cos he's a tech guy and they have no comms people!

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Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 17h

Or even just "Social Media Startup Please Hire Comms People Oh My God"

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 19h

This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19h

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 19h

sorry to the good Americans (most of you) but we need to do something about this brand of guy

Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 19h

I have no quarrel with the American ruling class my enemy is the American people

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈. Once Trump Regime is buried and dead 🇺🇲 @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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no bonzo @nobonzo.bsky.social · 22h

cn: domestic violence
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your partner can beat and torture you leading to you fleeing them
then they can just call the police and get them to track you down and investigate you for a "crime"

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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