Reposted by Alex Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING. 1253494834
Reposted by Alex thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026thinking about this again and smiling 3463941442
Reposted by Alex jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 01/10/2026I was adding citations to the transcript of this for my blog (RSS/text-based-media 4 lyfe) and realized I made a big math mistake in my talk, lol. I said Zuckerberg's net worth increased more in 15 min than a LTC nurse in Ontario makes in a year, but it's actually ONE minute. Anyway [redacted].phirephoenix.comworkers can take back techLast week I gave a talk for The Walrus, a gem of a Canadian magazine. I was invited to contribute the tech angle to a Walrus Talks panel “The Billionaire Problem” (spoilers: I’m anti) so of course I t... 0163
Reposted by Alex Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237761249
Reposted by Alex Music Video Time @musicvideotime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just wanna say this video technically counts as talking about lost media due to one of the videos to "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" is not publicly available. Would love for people to be aware of how music videos tend to be undervalued in this era of preservation. 073
Reposted by Alex blair @blairaf.com · 01/10/2026The operational backbone of Canadian government & academia exists on Microsoft Google AWS infrastructure but instead of a serious conversation about building foundations for public interest digital infra we are much more fixated on the hot shiny AI toys 12310
Reposted by Alex David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as 'AI', not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high-stakes scenarios."theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 021
Reposted by Alex Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard). 1021678
Reposted by Alex Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just because you/I don't understand AI doesn't mean that no one does. So many people buy into this 'poorly understood' line that lets commercially-motivated tech companies off the hook for harms & near-catastrophes. Kudos to @emilymbender.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.blacksky.app for this. 28926
Reposted by Alex Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026not "millennial gray" - it is "landlord gray" or "flipper gray" 3344
Reposted by Alex Marty @martincrownover.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The perfect way to put it. They found a way to worm a subscription between you and your normal work. 3387161
Reposted by Alex Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571502051
Reposted by Alex 404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026The idea is that, since USPS trucks are constantly traveling anyway, they can be used as a way to collect data, eventually potentially across the nation.404media.coUSPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. 120622378
Reposted by Alex Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts. 31651334
Reposted by Alex autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ 1233860754
Reposted by Alex Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The hotel I'm staying at made me talk to a chatbot, which immediately gave me incorrect info. What are we doing here 41479
Reposted by Alex Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is your future that's going to leave me behind? This is what the left isn't taking seriously enough? A chatbot that when asked simple informational questions related to the core function of the business immediately just makes something up? 11317
Reposted by Alex Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔 6529200
Reposted by Alex jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 29/09/2026I gave a talk last week about tech billionaires (we really don't like them) and how to fight them (labour organizing, it's always labour organizing). Come take a 9-minute break from producing shareholder value and watch! Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for inviting me for #WalrusTalks 🍁youtube.comJenny Zhang: Workers Can Take Back TechYouTube video by The Walrus 711046
Reposted by Alex Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the publicnytimes.comOpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. ModelsEmployees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen. 6458108
Reposted by Alex evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 10120161022
Reposted by Alex Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You can't adequately assess information without context and provenance. You simply cannot. 0298
Reposted by Alex The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/09/2026More than 38,000 residential school survivors testified to the abuse they experienced as children. Next September, Canada plans to destroy their records.thenarwhal.caCanada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women are trying to save themThe 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating 12369279
Reposted by Alex Jill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then... 12715375
Reposted by Alex Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic. 984461969
Reposted by Alex Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892122873
Reposted by Alex âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's wild how the same symbol can be assigned very different meanings - and yet neither of those conversations has space to discuss settler colonialism. 06214
Reposted by Alex Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Saw a British guy on tiktok complain about Americans not using the 24 clock because if someone says something is at 10 he doesn't know if they mean am or pm, and the thing is I can't think of a single event where context clues would not make that abundantly clear 8866
Reposted by Alex Ramiel 🐇 comms OPEN @pawberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Fandoms used to be full of nice ppl before covid and then all the bullies and popular kids joined" is literally an "the earth is flat" tier false belief to me 1443988885
Reposted by Alex Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026From Serena Jampel, one of the writing tutors I worked with at Harvard on the difference between the human tutor and AI and how a writing tutor can help a student find their voice. Lots of wisdom and also this truth: "the more you use it, the more you use it" www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h... 312447
Reposted by Alex Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073682300
Reposted by Alex Llewellyn @llewellynrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026watching resident evil: welcome to raccoon city 27211
Reposted by Alex hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026APA should learn to fight capital, not Capitals. 152
Reposted by Alex Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is my take as well. If you create a car that spontaneously accelerates because of how it’s designed, nobody says the car went rogue. You, who designed and sold the car, are on the hook. It’s not everybody else’s problem. Can’t keep it from spontaneously accelerating? Don’t sell it. 424749
Reposted by Alex Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026every generation gets the Horse_ebooks it deserves 213023
Reposted by Alex Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970142263
Reposted by Alex Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026[googling stuff in 2011] this is fine, I guess, but I wish I had to scroll past bad information regurgitated by a robot to find anything useful 510115
Reposted by Alex Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Called "strategic ignorance" in the history & philosophy of knowledge, they pretend certain inconvenient "uncomfortable knowledge" doesn't exist in order to divert & frame the conversation in ways convenient to their bias & position. But there is a mountain of critical scholarship from all angles. 0289
Reposted by Alex Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's interesting how the invisible mechanics of daily life seem to get more and more visible as things get worse. Feels like this time next year we'll be gathering to hear proclamations of our potato yields and the tonnage of zinc we mined last year. 28514
Reposted by Alex Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Donald Trump's "deal" with Belarus on potash was an obvious (and empty) bluff. And yet, Pierre Poilievre's MPs were more than willing to believe it -- and blame the federal government and a non-existent carbon tax instead. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/23/o...nationalobserver.comPierre Poilievre’s Conservatives can’t wait to buy Trump’s bullshitDonald Trump's latest economic threat involves replacing Canada's potash with imports from Belarus. The official opposition decided to blame ... the carbon tax? 40351143
Reposted by Alex Colleen 🇵🇸 @colleenmay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I thought I was offended by having a professor present class materials and assignments that were obviously written by genAI And then I realized she’s having it GRADE all the assignments too Why am I paying tuition for someone else to just feed prompts into ChatGPT?? 1113
Reposted by Alex Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026there’s a conversation to be had about whether and to what extent social media could be categorized as addictive, but anyone just saying “oh so you can be ADDICTED to talking to your FRIENDS??” is not honestly engaging in that conversation 49121182
Reposted by Alex Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide. 25908131
Reposted by Alex Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.motherjones.comAI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening. 12395193
Reposted by Alex Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration. 482438548
Reposted by Alex Carrie Stewart @carriejay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them.' 04312
Reposted by Alex Koen Sebregts @dorsalstop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines." 02415
