good riddance

I know I'm always harping on about this but it really is corrosive to public life that our major media institutions are run by people who do not know how evidence works and cannot distinguish between a real social trend and something their algorithm feeds them on tiktok.

Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers ​to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad i...

Total workplace surveillance. Coming now to a tech worker near you, and soon to workers everywhere

AI is the industrialization of the production of management and oversight itself

it's never population level interventions like clean water and public vaccinations, it's always like experimental telomere injections made from rare goat balls

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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left activism without solidarity extended to all marginalized groups is inherently weak and exploitable, that's why the catholic church should never be a venue to be leading with this kind of stuff

kinda feel like this pope is helping set a template of an image of progressive anti-fascism that doesn't extend to trans people - an opportunity for any time you point out that basically to make you be ostracized as a whiny outsider for a niche cause and a representative of Our Side Gone Too Far

"Daily Struggle" meme with the caption "Suddenly realizing you've sent someone three texts about something completely unimportant" and two buttons marked "Take a deep breath and go for a walk" and "Send a fourth text apologising for the other three".

💯

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

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.

Islamic Golden Age–Inspired Puzzle Game YouTube video by AJ+

So @farisattieh.bsky.social, who dreamt up House of Hikmah, sent this to me with a big crying emoji and it's so cool to see the game ripple through media. It does leave a glaring hole - I do really wish Western media, who control Metacritic and all that, would hold more space for non-Western stories

was once New Amsterdam.

Orban was a cornerstone of the international anti-trans movements. Hungarian trans people were among the early targets of his authoritarian regime.

It'll take a long time to come back from it all but I hope Hungarian trans people sleep slightly better tonight.

On that note, always remember that Bolsonaro was voted out, tried to do a coup, failed, was tried and convicted, and is now under house arrest. And Duterte was constitutionally banned from running again, arrested by the ICC, and is currently awaiting trial in the Hague.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Thanks to AI, Google has become perhaps the largest source of misinformation in the world.

This one is just completely made up!

Just wrote my licensing exam (technically the first of two) and finally installing it was my reward to myself. Co-op, of course, would require having friends...

"Won" on my very first run. Huh.

Breaking: Ben Roberts-Smith arrested over war crimes allegations One of Australia's most decorated soldiers, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been arrested over allegations of war crimes.

Well, they took their sweet time on this! I was at Sydney airport late Mon night, soooo close to witnessing this! (Except probably he was in the int'l terminal about to leave the country!) #warCrimes #ausLaw #Afghanistan www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

This and it's not just covid.

When you read the accounts of people whose kids have gotten measles (I'm not talking about the anti-vaxx zealots or the religious people) they express real regret because they thought measles was like chicken pox (which to be clear... we've downplayed)

Claude Code's Source: 3,167-Line Function, Regex Sentiment Anthropic claimed 100% of Claude Code is AI-written. A source leak exposed a 3,167-line function, regex sentiment analysis, and 250K wasted API calls daily

Reflections on the Claude Code source code leak from @techtrenches.dev

“The leak isn’t the story.
The code is the story.”

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Oh you know the code he ships fucking sucks

The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit

Whole thing here.

YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS – Remake w/ Rachael Leigh Cook YouTube video by RECREATION Films

In 2017, Rachel Leigh Cook starred in a remake of her anti-drug PSA that criticized the war on drugs. Awesome stuff.

youtu.be/cLvphQ3O3Hc?...

If only there were some historical parallel we could point to. Alas.

Alex Krycek from The X-Files (his eyes are black because of alien goo)

Edgar from Men in Black (his face is lopsided because he's an alien bug wearing a human's skin)

Lee Zeldin doing his best impression of a human being

this guy's got krycek's eyes and edgar's grin wtf

Time headline: Who Is Lee Zeldin? Possibly Trump's Next Attorney General

you cannot convince me that this is not an alien wearing human skin