I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

A thread about the farthest apart two humans have ever been

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

"Kinderen worden stelselmatig geschopt, geslagen, uitgescholden en met honden bedreigd. Ze worden bovendien gedwongen om zich in het bijzijn van anderen uit te kleden en seksuele handelingen bij elkaar te verrichten, of ze worden op hun genitaliën geschopt en geslagen."

Het is zo walgelijk dat de Nederlandse regering hierover niet heel hard met de vuist op tafel slaat.

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

If a toaster/microwave killed as many people as AI (or dirty water), it'd be taken off the market and there would be consequences for the company/executives. Not so for AI, somehow! (or water)

"Wellbeing is our highest priority"

'Heeft Rutte de president voldoende gepaaid?'

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

om je dood te schamen

This is the way.

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy

corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor

that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

Want: door verdomming van de bevolking maken facistische regimes meer kans. En als AI iets doet, is het mensen dommer maken door de mythe te hypen dat AI slimmer is:

bsky.app/profile/iris...

Hai covid

SARSCOV2 HAI

#SarsCov2 #HAI #patientSafety

Ze gebruiken nou nooit eens een foto van expats strak in pak hè

there are lots of valid reasons to hate AI, but honestly the #1 in my mind is that the companies pushing it are a bunch of sneering ghouls. they don’t give a single shit about any of us. they just want us to eat their slop, no matter what it is.

I will not accept that and give them what they want.

Ten eerste: sociaal-economische problemen leiden niet automatisch tot racistische of extreemrechtse keuzes. Veel mensen die te maken hebben met krimp, armoede of slechte voorzieningen stemmen níet op zulke partijen. Het idee dat materiële achterstand vanzelf omslaat in xenofobie is problematisch.

Not only that, but it’ll be slurped up into LLMs to further pollute the sloposystem.

one of the big reasons i need everyone one-shot by claude to get over the idea of a.i. being real and your friend is so we can get to the real discourse: how many of the "potential use cases" of an llm are actually better solved with the much simpler tools we always had this whole time

Headline from June 13 2025: Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels The Army is swearing in top tech executives from Meta, OpenAI and Palantir as senior officers to be part-time advisors. PATTY NIEBERG / PUBLISHED JUN 13, 2025 12:33 PM EDT / G ADD TASK & PURPOSE

Mar 31, 2026 5:25 PM Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1 Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among those on a target list released by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Shot, chaser.

Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

In case you missed this…

Dit hele draadje 🥰

[buying art from a Nazi holding a gun to a trans person's head]: I'm a good person if I don't pull the trigger

Concertgebouw weert musici en orkesten die schuldig zijn aan oorlogsmisdaden en genocide - The Rights Forum

Voor @therightsforum.bsky.social The Rights Forum schreef ik (als eerste!) over het Concertgebouw, dat stilzwijgend richtlijnen op haar site heeft gezet waarmee musici/orkesten kunnen worden geweerd die medeplichtig zijn aan genocide en oorlogsmisdaden. Lezen! rightsforum.org/concertgebou...

In Sidney Lumet's book 'Making Movies' he asks Kurosawa about why a certain shot was framed the way it was and is told because otherwise a power plant and an office tower would be on either side of the frame

Among all the other reasons to shame Square Enix till they reverse this, #NoTechForApartheid

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It should be so, SO easy to not do this deal 🤬

Hoe meer zgn "polarisatie", hoe meer gevestigde journalisten "neutraal" willen zijn. Maar ze zijn niet neutraal, maar wit en deel van de macht. Hun extra schep "neutraliteit" is dus geen betere, maar slechtere journalistiek, oftewel propaganda voor de macht, met fascisme als gevolg.

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