Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity If we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.

Their goal is quite literally the extinction of humanity and they're starting to say it out loud
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Starbucks introducing AI to "personalise" your coffee seems like an excellent time to remind you that what companies want to personalise with AI is the price you pay for what you buy.

“A lushly written novella full of intriguing magic and love of all kinds.” —E. H. Lupton, author of the Wisconsin Gothic series. “A thoughtful, fantastic escape from the mundane.” —Amanda Cherry, author of the Ruby Killingsworth series “Tender and hopeful. A balm for my garden-loving heart!” —Meredith Rose, author of the Ladies of Baker Street and Alchemy Empire series

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AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Consent? In this economy? 🤡
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Absolutely wild how fast a year can go

The reclusive trustee of an old Victorian residence hires the son of a hedge witch for a singular task: to make the estate's roses bloom, for the first time in decades. As Louis and Ethan grow closer, they become increasingly desperate to break the garden's bloodthirsty curse... but the garden isn't letting them go without a fight.

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An advertisement for The Color of Time in a page of Locus Magazine

How cool is that? Ad for THE COLOR OF TIME in @locusmag.bsky.social 💜

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich

Well, today we're taxing the rich...

The what

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Authors: what's a press you've worked with that you love?

I'm querying for my new collection and I have my own list but really only want to submit to places where I know someone who's had a good experience!

Bonus points: if you're comfortable, please DM if you've had a terrible press experience

cool. cool cool cool cool

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i don't know why anyone who is hyper-online enough to be checking bluesky regularly is shocked by this - but the other, strangely less talked about side of this is The Youths are also generally way more immersed in what was formerly hyper niche tumblr aesthetics and furry and queer shit

This is so fucking funny to me 😂

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Absolute perfection 👌

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“A lushly written novella full of intriguing magic and love of all kinds.” —E. H. Lupton, author of the Wisconsin Gothic series. They say the stolen rose blooms best. When Ethan Keating Mendoza is hired as a gardener at an old Victorian residence in central Indiana, he has one clear mission: make the roses bloom. Ethan's life is roses--he's the son of a hedge witch and a partner in his father's rose growing business--but he has no magic himself. The Kilbride estate is wild and overgrown. The roses have not bloomed in decades, and Ethan fears he may be in over his head. Worse still is Louis, the peculiar trustee of the property, who lives under a bloodthirsty curse that ties him to the garden. But Louis gives Ethan a chance, and Ethan is determined to do right by the suffering roses. As Ethan and Louis grow closer, Ethan becomes increasingly desperate to save the man he loves from the garden's curse. But the garden isn't letting them go without a fight.

It's time to make the roses bloom.

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Fun fact! There's a whole community dedicated to jailbreaking and modding kindles. You don't need to settle for this.

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I would die of rage within hours

It's actually difficult to believe that there are humans who think like this... but they really, really think like this 😫

Right?! Like, this is neither secret nor complicated. It's just so *ridiculous* that we all keep grasping for some other explanation that's less impossible to accept.

Text reminding readers of the interconnectedness of life on Earth, describing communication among trees, octopuses, whales, elephants, bees, crows, ants, cats, and forests.

Yes. 🫶 🌍

Oh it absolutely feels to me like a techno-religious worldview, for sure

Me: I'm hungry. I'll get myself some food!

Toddler: I NEED EVERYTHIG IN THE UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW AND ALL OF IT IS GOING TO BE WRONG

If you think you hate AI, I promise you don't hate it enough.

After finishing reading that article, I stared into the middle distance for several minutes before posting.

The Calvin's dad explaining records meme. He is explaining that the two kinds of meme are Calvin's dad and Loss. Despite being a meme about Calvin's dad, this one is Loss.

What the fuck are we *doing* here?

if you see this post an image you saved because it made you laugh.