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
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.
IF GOD HAD WANTED YOU TO LIVE HE WOULD NOT HAVE CREATED ME
Exactly one year ago today:
the human made icon
I want to be a better steward for the Human Made icon. If you have any ideas on how I can get the word out for it more please let me know. Do you think game retailers would be interested in stickers they could pass out? folks interested in pins? What can I do to support you using this icon? a zine?
…20.5 million dollars is a rounding error for Amazon. They need to be made to pay damages that not only reflect the harm done & the cost of remediation (which STILL means way fucking more than 20 mil), but also make them stop & reconsider their fucking practices.
Which is to say, fight them HARDER.
Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.
As a therapist and a healthcare worker, chatbots are becoming a public health crisis, and I’m tired of hearing people who don’t see the harm every day explain why this is totally fine and just like people pearl-clutching over cellphones. It’s getting worse and we haven’t scratched the surface.
Adding the Data Center Proposal Tracker, a "citizen-run collaborative mapping project [that] tracks and visualizes proposed data center projects and related development activity in the [US], aggregating public records, company announcements, and local news into a single searchable database."
A post from: amber.sultes 7h When small minded "pastors" talk about taking away the right for women to vote and you see a room full of smart, capable women overseeing Artemis's mission to orbit the moon, you realize how irrelevant these podcaster theobros are. There is a woman orbiting space right now without their permission, which no one needs to ask for. Keep on.
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In December 2008 one billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, covering 300 acres, destroying homes, poisoning rivers and contaminating coves and residential drinking waters. (Photo courtesy of United Mountain Defense)
Happy Earth month! Yesterday, the EPA published a draft rule to effectively gut federal coal ash regulations. Coal ash is the toxic sludge that power companies have dumped in unlined pits for decades, it's leaking and contaminating water across the country. earthjustice.org/press/2026/e...
As a person that works on digital tools that resist capitalist and imperialist intentions and efforts, this is a must watch.
I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail.
Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.
As many as 30,001 people lost their jobs this week
Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors
may this define her for the rest of her life.
she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired.
girl, bye.
"Just double check! You should always double check any information source!" is the fig leaf that "smart" AI boosters use. But it's a transparent lie. The entire point of an omnipresent machine that blurts out answers is that your lazy ass doesn't have to open a book.
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."
The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
This is the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social's North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit, a set of policy and action recommendations for fighting against "AI" data centers at the local, state, and federal level.
datacenters.ainowinstitute.org
Friends, I haven't seen much of this yet, but let's nip it in the bud.
In an era of needless war and and the gutting of public resources, maybe let's just not "why are we going to the moon when people are sick and starving here?"
NASA is not why people are suffering.
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
A screenshot of the linked Instagram clip of a man leaning over a portable flat stove “painting” with a squeeze bottle of green pancake batter
Idk man, I feel like “ai is gonna make artists obsolete” is overblown bc I just watched a man do an (honestly incredible) detailed portrait of Chester Bennington from Linkin Park in pancake batter bc humans will find ways to create art with literally anything
www.instagram.com/reel/DWHEa1I...
So, a reason I keep sharing alterna-reads to HP is bc I'm not talking to superfan adults, I'm talking to parents/teachers/librarians who are making book purchasing choices for kids -- I really think it's a needed step in killing the cyclical support this series gets
Turns out those Chinook salmon that finally showed up in the Upper Klamath last year were doing more than just posing for photos.
🐟🧪🌎
www.opb.org/article/2026...
Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.
The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis.
My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives?
So I picked up my camera 👇
This is so vital. AI — like the internet — benefits when we refuse to consider its materiality.
HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM?
SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here:
www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...
map of the world showing how much sea there are. the text reads "salt water perfect to put in AI database! inside very cool data cool down comfortably put salt water in AI database. No problem ever using salt water because salt water everywhere and support data big many data. Salt water yes a water to cool down machine put salt water in AI database can trust salt water to cool down AI database. Friend salt water."
put salt water in AI database
