Reposted by Al (as in AL)dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026this is how you have to treat these guys. with genuine contempt. your genuine contempt makes their smarmy fake contempt look weak and inauthentic. it immediately exposes their game. these guys are just losers who have sworn revenge for every humiliation. humiliate them again 172753390 2.8K
Reposted by Al (as in AL)rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026puppet 819185 191
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵equator.orgApocalypse Now and Then • EQUATORArtificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination 9315164 315
Reposted by Al (as in AL)The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"The (gas)Light on the Hill" a new cartoon from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social See today's cartoon on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/261015-the… 08742 87
Reposted by Al (as in AL)VBG 🇷🇸 @256bit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Meanwhile in #Tirana, #Albania 😂👌 1329 32
Reposted by Al (as in AL)(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation. 17557241719 5.7K
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Alright, new press secretary 4476174 761
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"they were furious that the taps at home had run dry, while the data centres in the new Nongsa Digital Park seemed to have enough water to protect their machines from overheating. "Not a single drop has come through our taps for the last three months..."" 15139 51
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Nick McKim @nickmckim.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Work 11 hours a day. Pay a fortune in rent. Get gouged at the supermarket. Hand over more of your wages to privatised corporations. And somehow, you're told that migrants and trans people are the problem. 1121466 214
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comDrone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe ItA viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online. 481547661 1.5K
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Brilliant work by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 4607253 607
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026🤏 oooh so close to getting it. Hopefully they’ll oblige us all soon. Looking forward to the revelry 010 1
Reposted by Al (as in AL)By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026You can't vote Barre Seid out of office, because no one elected him Pigeon Shit Czar. He has assumed that office by right of conquest. 1597 59
Reposted by Al (as in AL)By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026That's the thing about billionaires: as Peter Thiel wrote, democracy *is* incompatible with freedom (to be a billionaire). The fact that Barre Seid's desire to transform Lincoln Park into a pigeon-shit manure lagoon is wildly unpopular with Chicagoans is irrelevant. 1645 64
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026For all this talk of Russian bots being defeated by the Yandex strikes I'm still getting the usual Matryoshka emails with the same fake news posts and purchased bot engagement. Seems more like wishful thinking based on misinterpreted data than reality. 34465100 465
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated. 16715293 715
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026* Leaving aside whether or not these strikes have actually curbed Russian troll bot activity, (the evidence isn’t convincing) 000 0
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026Whilst I applaud the destruction of data centres generally and Russian ones specifically. Hoping that eliminating Russian troll farms, even if you could, would end our disinformation malaise seems like wishful thinking. * Particularly when the calls are coming from inside the house. 110 1
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 12/10/2026everyone is making pretty bold anecdotal claims about the Yandex DC going out resulting in less right wing content, but all the actual data I’ve seen has been saying it hasn’t moved the needle at all. I would be very skeptical of these claims; they will almost certainly turn out to be totally false. 1462592 625
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026Seems like wishful thinking mu.social/profile/anti... 011 1
Reposted by Al (as in AL)antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️ 32952481 952
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It was, if the spirit of Iain Banks will forgive me, the day the pope exploded. Well, to be strictly accurate, today is the 68th anniversary of the day a botched embalming saw Pius XII’s rotting torso break open while he was lying in state. (Yes, sorry. This thread is absolutely disgusting) 15341107 341
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Clothes make the man. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social @sydmorningherald.bsky.social cartoon 10344124 344
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue. 14929283 929
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026If the court sketch is anything to go by, he doesn’t seem too bothered. 000 0
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings? 3078412030 7.8K
Reposted by Al (as in AL)By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them. 1325397 253
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026Exhibit 467864357896554 mu.social/profile/doct... 000 0
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Rick doesn’t go gentle and nor should anyone who has a shred of care for humanity. This tech is being foisted on us by the most loathsome ghouls alive, in an effort to subjugate us. The only power we have at this point is our refusal to use it. Fuck a.i. 100 1
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026The far right power grab is global and entirely organized, moneyed & interconnected. No matter where it happens, every pillar of free society that falls has been and will continue to be everyone’s problem. It’s a domino effect. 3807282 807
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026Is Australia is still a sovereign state? Has it ever been? Embarrassing excuse of a country. #auspol www.canberratimes.com.au/story/936188...canberratimes.com.auAustralia closes Brazil embassy over security alertAustralia's embassy in Brazil has shut its doors ahead of the country's national elections, citing security fears after... 063 6
Reposted by Al (as in AL)It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan! 231035382 1K
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You could show more confidence as a country by putting AI nowhere near centre stage, and shouting that you won’t be taken in. That’s a confident move. Just like you would magic beans, or a perpetual motion machine, or Bagpuss’ Mouse Mill with the chocolate biscuits. 612125 121
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment. 171475490 1.5K
Reposted by Al (as in AL)jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule. 942832461 2.8K
Reposted by Al (as in AL)MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 27/09/2026The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom?trib.alWhat’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gambleThe AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom? 6126 12
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released. 7537971266 3.8K
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hello Saturday. 🐇 A little marginalia. #InternationalRabbitDay 4802189 802
Reposted by Al (as in AL)rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026move along 111865 118
