DeSantis is an AI skeptic and is pressing the state legislature for an AI bill of Rights to protect consumers during the special session he called for the end of the month. He frequently employs lawfare to move issues that stagnate in lawmaking. For once, he’s on the right side. Entirely by accident

Oh, gee, I dunno, maybe because "put CD in CD player, press play" is actually more convenient than "wait for phone to connect to car, open app, wait for app to load, search for album, scroll through unrelated results until you find said album, press pla--WHY THE FUCK IS THERE AN AD?"

a man in a blue turtleneck is sitting at a messy desk with senorgif.com written on the bottom Alt: a man in a blue turtleneck flips over a table

If I hear one more journalist say drafting with AI saves them time I'm going to

Watch when Tesla rolls out anti-cheat software to disqualify time spent sitting in traffic 🙃

This is me when I read every post from a university about using genAI to "write better," "read faster," or my absolutely fav: vibe coding for teachers to make their own Edu Apps!

Don't tell the tech bros this, but this system already exists! It's called Community College.

"There is a worrying trend of neurodivergent and ESL writers being accused of LLM use simply because of the way that they naturally write."

And that's because LLMs were trained on OUR writing to begin with!

Anyway, this is a good read!

‘Food security timebomb’: a visual guide to the Gulf fertiliser blockade UN says record numbers of people could face acute hunger if conflict continues

"The Gulf is also home to some of the world’s largest fertiliser factory sites and international organisations are sounding the alarm that a prolonged transport shutdown could disrupt production and increase costs."

E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" (1909) tackles some of them in an eeire, prophetic way.

The neurodiversity concept was developed collectively: An overdue correction on the origins of neurodiversity theory - PubMed This letter discusses the origins of the concept and theory of neurodiversity. It is important to correctly attribute concept and theories to the people who developed them. For some time, the concept of neurodiversity has primarily been attributed to one person, Judy Singer. We consider the availabl …

Resharing this to help dispel myths and confusion.

"both the concept of neurological diversity or neurodiversity, and the body of theory surrounding it, should be understood as having been collectively developed by neurodivergent people."

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38470140/

"August of last year, an often-cited MIT study found that 95 percent of AI deployments in the workplace had failed to generate the expected return on investment."

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

Are you in southern California or Baja? Let the USGS know if you felt the sonic boom from the Artemis re-entry! DYFI link: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

How Do You Want to Be Remembered? "The best way to honor Charlie’s memory," California Governor Gavin Newsom said, "is to continue his work." And so we've seen in the last week: the targeted harassment of those who've spoken out about...

The purpose of education, if there is "education" under techno-fascism/Christian Nationalism, is compliance and control. "AI" serves this perfectly. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/how-do-you-w...

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

"All in all, the use of ChatGPT for scientific purposes, in my honest opinion, clashes with core scientific integrity principles such as honesty, scrupulousness, transparency, responsibility, and independence."

*travels back in time to 1534*

Henry VIII: Since the Pope won't give me a divorce, I am now the head of my own Church. Fight me.

*hands him a newspaper*

Henry VIII (reading): Trump administration threatens Avignon Papacy 2.0.

(He tears up)

Henry VIII: I'm going to have a son!

Thank you!

Thank you for sharing this 🙂 It gives me more hope about my own writing!

Today is a good day to support news outlets (which do not include @propublica.org) that have instituted strong guardrails against Generative AI slop:

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Your feelings are valid and no less important! (FWIW, I've struggled with something similar for a while, so I completely empathize!)

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"The company on Tuesday introduced Student Spaces in Acrobat, a new learning space for college students to get personalized study help."

These PHYSICAL spaces already exist on college campuses. Adobe's "solution" is a cash-grab designed to further errode human connection.

I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

It's open season for refusing AI There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.

"The questions we are litigating now are less ‘is this AI product good or bad’ and more ‘we have seen what it can do, and do we want AI to exist in this space at all?’" writes @bcmerchant.bsky.social on the shift from rejection to refusal of AI that he documents across different domains.

Grassroots Efforts Bring Print Newspaper Back to Lumberton The Lumberton Post in Lumberton, Mississippi, is a new grassroots print newspaper created to help fill a local communication gap.

John Maroney, executive director of the Lumberton Main Street Association, helped launch the project and said it is meant to make local information easier to find and share, especially for residents who don’t use social media or lack reliable internet access.

This is what gets me in my department. Some filmmaking students are being taught to use technology that will replace the jobs their classmates hope to get—not to mention their colleagues in other areas of the university that intersect with filmmaking. (1/3)

Infographic titled “Words That Wound: Why Functioning Labels Harm Autistic People” by Autistic Realms and NeuroHub Community Ltd. Key message: Labels such as “profound autism,” “levels,” and “high” or “low functioning” are not neutral. They shape access to support, autonomy, and wellbeing for Autistic people. Section: “Understanding the Harm of Functioning Labels.” “Functioning labels deny needs”: These labels reduce Autistic people to simplified categories, obscuring the depth, variability, and context of lived experiences, and replacing understanding with assumptions. “Functioning labels cause harm”: They distort how Autistic people are understood, minimise real struggles, overlook strengths, and lead to unmet, delayed, or misaligned support. Images show: Two disabled people smiling and interacting (one in a wheelchair). A young child playing. A group of people in a supportive discussion circle. Final section: Moving beyond functioning labels creates space for understanding, respect, autonomy, agency, and meaningful support. Closing statement: “Functioning labels don’t describe us, they gatekeep access to support, autonomy, and opportunity.

Delighted to write this for @neurohubcomjournal.bsky.social
" Functioning labels don’t describe us; they gatekeep access to support, autonomy, and opportunity."
Read more:
news.neurohubcommunity.org/p/words-that...

The theme for May 2026 is The Tower: sudden but necessary change, distruction, chaos, the end of materialism, clearing out the old to start building something new, revealing the truth, liberation...

Might write more about this...

Christina Ricci. If she can't do it then there's no biopic 😂