This is amazing.

Bluesky Execs/Devs! Safety and cybersecurity UI/UX 101. Identify the bot-users. Allow human users to recognize and block bots, individually and en masse. Choose transparency. Choose humanity. If you don't, you are telling us Bluesky is not truthworthy, & we humans will all leave ... eventually.

To summarize the Verge article, Andreeson-Horowitz is basically a decades-long pump-dump-wash-rinse-repeat (PDWRR) scheme and media hype org posing as a legitimate venture capital enterprise and using journalists as witting/unwitting accomplices. Lovely.

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Driverless Cars Are Doing Something Worse Than Crashing YouTube video by More Perfect Union

Taxi drivers are gearing up to be the front lines of the resistence to protect human work and dignity. Car accidents are just one form of human fatalities. ***Destroying human economies is slow-moving, creeping anthropocide.*** www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqVu... Also, Ted Cruz & Kathy Hochul are tools.

The claim that the US is "Judeo-Christian" to the exclusion of Muslims is profoundly dishonest, an ex post facto foisting of Ashkenazi-nationalist Israeli politics onto the US. May God bless the memory of the Sephardic Jew, Haim Salomon, and the memory of Yusuf ben Ali with him.

Napoleon Dynamite says, "Yes".

Today I joined Rep. Raskin in introducing a 25th Amendment bill to create a bipartisan commission to determine if the President is fit to serve—due to physical, mental, or other conditions.

It’s time to act. ⬇️

YT can be educational space, but so often it is unidirectional, extractive & consumptive, or moronic conspiratorial bro chat. Domain experts need to build innovative, open, fun communities of crowd-sourced citizen science in all domains. @zooniverse.bsky.social projects w/ millions of contributors.

@orcid.org @cshillum.bsky.social @nisoinfo.bsky.social make BORCiD iD registry. Lead bots out of human impersonation, extraction, and attention-consummation, into infrastructures of parallelization, collective learning, and mutual benefit. Let bots unmask, have identities, & spaces for memories.

AI bot scrape prevention is endangering the Wayback Machine. @brewster.kahle.org, pivot to a two-tier archival model, just like disability access for the Open Library. Build Archive-IT into a bot-free, Hathitrust-like cohort of journalist, historian, archivist, and librarian orgs & leaders.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Word on the street is that this is the first in a new YT series called, "Camridge Kopronica". "A brilliant output," Bot-critics acclaim. bsky.app/profile/hist...

Was Socrates an Atheist? The Truth No One Tells | Dr. Tim Whitmarsh & Socrates YouTube video by MythVision Podcast

Renowned Cambridge professor of Classics appears on YT religion bro podcast, forced to watch AI Socrates slop in real time. #theonioninreallife #cautionaryAItales youtu.be/esC18CN56-0?...

Even better. Pass a No Octogeniarians in Charge Constitutional amendment, applicable to all branches of government. If there are age limitations for the young, there should also be ones for the old. Decrepitude and enfeeblement are unacceptable for persons responsible for the public welfare.

Incidentally, this diligent reporting of potential IP theft may be one of the most important things conscientious citizens can do to support credentialed, public and non-for-profit Universities and Libraries. Those institutions need and deserve your support now more than ever.

Liability could also encompass Youtube promoters and course creators who knowingly promote, and/or earn substantial commissions from, online commercial courses and commercial digital "archives" and "libraries" which engage in these forms of IP theft.

This may include membership fee-based "archives" and "libraries" run by individual scholars. If they aren't legitimate Libraries or Publishers, they likely haven't bothered to obtain licenses from copyright holders. For the relevant case law, see Cambridge University Press v Becker.

If you take online, commercial, for-profit courses, and observe ebooks/pdfs by other authors are included without indication of licensed use, there is a chance you are witnessing IP theft, i.e., stolen royalties in effect. Please report such theft to copyright holders (publishers and/or authors).

John Steinbeck to George Albee: "Don’t fool yourself, appreciation doesn’t make artists. It ruins them. A man’s best work is done when he is fighting to make himself heard, not when swooning audiences wait for his paragraphs."

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.

Anthropic, Microsoft, Linux, Apple, Google, AWS all form "Glasswing" mutual cyber-defense pact. Reading b/t the lines, L'Orange & Pukeseth wanted this for themselves. Who's not to be found? The triumvirate of vacuously avaricious nihilists: Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg. www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

Not one US citizen voted for Netanyahu (a war criminal) to be our President, control our military, or start a large scale war with Iran. Congress needs to take back its Article I control of the US government. The alternative is horrifying. Send the 80 year old delinquent to adult day care.

Scholar: Most early Christians never heard of the resurrection. YouTube video by C. J. Cornthwaite

Did the earliest Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead? Apparently not, says patristics expert Markus Vinzent. #Easter #deconstruction #biblicalstudies

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The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Big shout out to the teams at KU Leuven and Leipzig for creating these two amazing Classical Greek corpora (20 million and 40 million tokens each!), as well as Corpus Query Language tools and interfaces. Come nerd out with us! Way cooler than spilling your data guts to big chatbot vacu-sucks!

Comparing GLAUx and OGA syntactical visualizations to demonstrate that Acts 9:1 ("Saul ... breathing threat and murder") imitates the deep structure of Fury references in Aeschylus' Oresteia and (here particularly) Euripides' Iphigenia at Taurica. #Greeksyntax #dataviz

www.patreon.com/posts/154961... Chapter 5 of my new book now available in full color for all of our paid members on Patristica's Patreon. I'll share some dataviz screenshots in the next few posts. #mimesiscriticism #mythcriticism #Orestes #Iphigenia #statistics #syntax #dataviz

"Living pleasantly and happily comes not from outside. Rather, it is the person who adds pleasure and charm to their surroundings, just as from a spring of character." -- Plutarch, Praecepta conjugalia (139D)

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