That is awful.

Oh no!!

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A RECORD surge in solar halted the rise of global fossil generation last year 🚫💨

Unpack the full story of the global power sector in 2025 👇

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This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Will the Government give a response that at least pretends to be concerned about the #environment? #hoc #GPC #EarthDay2026 #OilSpill

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"but only members in the USA will receive a tote"

See this extract bsky.app/profile/dier...

Fostering Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) in education and communication | Radboud University Critical AI literacy is crucial for the world we live in. In this project, we educate students, education professionals, and the public about how uncritical adoption of AI can harm society, and what i...

There is a branch of "AI literacy" that fortunately doesn't buy into the inevitability: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

FInally, the good news we've been waiting for.

What is a Book Ban? and other FAQs: pen.org/book-bans/bo...

PEN America Index of School Book Bans – 2023-2024: a searchable index of more than 3,000 titles: pen.org/book-bans/pe...

Tip sheets for fighting book bans, for community members, libraries, and authors: pen.org/book-bans/bo...

Banned Books List 2025 What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.

Most Banned Books of the 2023-2024 School Year: pen.org/banned-books...

The Normalization of Book Banning PEN America found that 6,870 books bans were enacted during the 2024-25 school year, across 23 states and 87 public school districts.

From PEN America, many reports and resources, including:
The Normalization of Book Banning, "a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025." pen.org/report/the-n...

American Library Association reveals preliminary data on 2024 book challenges Between January 1 and August 31, 2024, ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 414 attempts to censor library materials and services.

"...Titles representing the voices and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals made up 47% of those targeted in censorship attempts."

And preliminary data on 2024 book challenges — including stories of resistance: www.ala.org/news/2024/09...

Censorship by the Numbers Every year, the American Library Association compiles data on censorship attempts in libraries around the United States based on reports from the field and media coverage.

a Censorship by the Numbers report (www.ala.org/advocacy/bbo...), with details about who challenges books, why, and where: "The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by OIF in more than 20 years of tracking…. "

Top 10 Most Challenged Books Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the books most frequently targeted by censors based on reports from the field and media coverage.

Today I saw some very incorrect claims and false equivalences about book bans and challenges. In case you're seeing this nonsense too, here are some sources:

From the American Library Association (ALA):
- a list of the top most challenged books in the US by year: www.ala.org/advocacy/bbo...

“The single best predictor of what people believe is how many times they’ve heard it.” — FrameWorks Institute Via Urban Truth Collective

When it comes to spreading disinformation, dark money buys a lot of repetition, because repetition works.

Repetition works.

Repetition works.

Repetition works.

(Did we mention that repetition works?)

#UrbanTruth

this is one of the most interesting things I've read about AI. Ben Affleck just sold his AI startup to Netflix for $600m. it's based on his analysis - as someone who's worked in movies for decades - of what AI is *actually useful for*. which is eg: adjusting film lighting.

archive.ph/OLsfn

This is not good.

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a bluesky notifications tab, it says notifications, all, mentions below is a red stripe with an exclamation point and the word Forbidden

show me the forbidden notifications... i am ready

Meanwhile there is a moral panic about *library books*

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

WebinarTV Secretly Scraped Zoom Meetings of Anonymous Recovery Programs WebinarTV scraped and shared 12 steps-based anonymous meetings for people recovering from addiction and other private support groups.

this company is scraping and reposting anonymous support group Zoom meetings. Please be careful if you're using Zoom webinars for anything remotely sensitive www.404media.co/webinartv-se...

I have definitely been guilty of this one (although obviously on a smaller scale).

This is how you sell taxes!

Small things that annoy me:

Invitations or ads for events that give the date but not the day of the week.

Too many good books to read, not enough time. (Okay, this one is actually not small.)

One of the first rules I try to live by is really "try not to make things worse."