hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

The wildest part of articles like this (to me) is that they never consider that these tools don't have to "work" technologically in order to "work" as tools of oppression and fear.

Facial recognition and ICE databases are notoriously flawed, but still deployed and used to justify arrests.

They should also come with "Creep" written on them with big shiny letters

'We must become less reliant on American tools': Windows 11 is so bad the French government is switching to Linux — and Microsoft should be worried Is 2027 set to be the year of Linux? There are signs that this might actually be the case, this time.

This article is weird. France isn't switching to Linux because Windows is bad - it's switching because Microsoft is a US company, US companies fall under US law, and thus simply cannot be trusted with EU data. Windows can't "solve" this. There's no "fix" here.

www.techradar.com/computing/wi...

When you think news media cant get any lower they find ways to dig even deeper

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this is an organization that exists to kill people. you should want it destroyed and you should be trying to put as much distance as possible between everyone that ever worked for palantir and any amount of power. this shouldn't be a moral quandary for you. hesitation means you failed already.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of.

Call your reps NOW.

In a delightful progression of technology, misinformation can hit the broad web within mere seconds of a tongue in cheek joke, misrepresented as objective fact to the masses! What wonder! What a way to spend trillions of dollars!

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

that's fuckin slavery

remember when celebrities seemingly randomly started coming out talking about how much they loved NFTs and thought it was super valuable and the future?

So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A meme in the style of a page of a Frog and Toad book. They are happily conversing outdoors. The text reads "Maybe it will happen today," said Frog. "Yes," Toad said, "maybe it will happen today."

one more for the "this meme must surely already exist but i couldn't find it" file.

We're having June weather in April, and I'm not looking forward to the weather are we going to have in June

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme?

3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice”

Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

Eel is delicious

Unrelated, but why does the US name their ships after our cities?
Dont you have cities of your own?

Can I have the something I want app now please

Bsky staff is scrambling to convince ppl that today's outage has nothing to do with their embrace of ai. That's great. We should make them scramble more. The cost of replacing competent humans with AI needs to be greater on every single level for every single company.

No permit, no work, no future: inside the lives of West Bank workers crushed by Israel’s labor ban After Israel revoked the work permits of over 200,000 Palestinian laborers following October 7, West Bank families are burning through savings, skipping meals, and losing hope for any kind of future.

After Israel revoked the work permits of over 200,000 Palestinian laborers following October 7, West Bank families are burning through savings, skipping meals, and losing hope for any kind of future.

mondoweiss.net/2026/04/no-p...

#Palestine #Israel

Time to turn myself off then on again (going to bed)

*continues to refresh bluesky out of spite*