Two men in fatigues with their hands ziptied being arrested by Capitol Police
Dozens of people in fatigues lined up in the Capitol Rotunda with signage demanding an end to the Iran War
Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War.
Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social
Palantir should not be allowed to have any government contracts at any level because it is fundamentally opposed to the basic concepts of liberal democracy.
gizmodo.com/palantir-pos...
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.
one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"
To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance
I visited Budapest in 2009; biked its huge critical mass through the city; applied to CEU; have friends who taught there; now celebrate the freedom we all felt then. May it spread!
more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out
A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson, the "Hidden Figure" that sent man into space
A photo of Vanessa Wyche, director of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil service member
Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space.
And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history
A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"
I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment.
Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:
www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
Elon Musk didn’t go to the moon.
Jeff Bezos didn’t go to the moon.
NASA went to the moon.
As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."
Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.
...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.
October 13, 1925–April 8, 2013.
People keep saying that AI is inevitable. Like Bartleby, I'd prefer not to... We "have to use it!" My response to that is simply... WHY? Why is it being pushed so much and into so many things? Once you've gotten people to cede their decision making to an algorithm, eventually they'll stop thinking for themselves. Why would I outsource thinking for myself to a machine? I have a brain.
"You have to use AI."
...why?
I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...
And the new Bay Lights 360 just opened! Can’t wait to see that.
By using GenAI: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept these companies don’t have a viable business model. I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world. I accept that I am granting more power to the United States. I accept that all this effort could have been spent elsewhere. If any of these facts are new to you, you haven’t been doing your due diligence.
"On the acceptance of GenAI"
smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-accepta...
Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia
bluesky is and has always been a posting retirement home for elder millennials
Go to a climbing gym 🧗 there will be queer people there to welcome you and not be weird
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Some people I deal with in the Bay Area seem a bit too pickled, I have to say. I don’t expect everyone to say “I cranked the plagiarism machine”, but I will never not use scare quotes for « a i »
The colors are beautiful! I can’t wait to read the inside
Hadley seems to be good people, though perhaps seduced by robots a bit
by age 30 you should have no fewer than three fermented bean pastes
Ada preparing us for the “AI” hype bullshit since 1843.
Listen 👏 to 👏 women 👏.
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.
That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
I just go back to audre lorde. Their tools and their discourse are not just ill suited but laughably so, so we have to laugh at them.
