Reposted by apocalypse なおBrody Ambrosius 🍁 @scruffopone.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Out of everything Ed Zitron says, the thing he is most correct about is how embarrassed and ashamed the tech journalism space should be about themselves. Credulous ass kissers who don't know shit about anything spreading obvious lies to the public fed to them by billionaire interests. 212629 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue. 2049283218177 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 18/09/2025if kimmel is edgy we are so fucked 503338429 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 09/09/2025A better question that answers itself is why the Atlantic is giving space to a Peter Thiel bro who is obsessed with colonizing the moon 17612 0
Reposted by apocalypse なお404 Media @404media.co · 09/09/2025"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside." As we predicted, the end of de minimis has made every hobby that requires the purchase of items more expensive. 🔗 www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...404media.co‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside." 16613286 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 05/09/2025The demobilizing, deflating, and depressing effect of watching day after day as the dumbest, most vapid lickspittles alive are elevated and handed success beyond your wildest dreams is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarian / nationalist movements like this one. 426358 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/07/2025I sure wish we still had a press corps that would look into "what is being done to protect all those Columbia applicants who had their data stolen by a white supremacist freak, which the NY Times then merrily published." 344894 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおNicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The thing about Grok isn't just that it's a Nazi, it's that it tells on all the other LLMs. Outsourcing critical parts of your brain/workflows/team to systems tuned in more subtle ways by companies that may not share your values is just as risky as obvious bias or hallucination 3735194 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I know y’all don’t care about this but there’s a pretty fast spreading Covid variant going around and there’s gonna be a summer surge whether you like it or not. You can, of course, avoid this by getting vaccinated and wearing a mask but you won’t do that.cbsnews.comU.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in ChinaAuthorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year. 22591290 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおVirginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Historian here. The history of “little fingers” stereotype as a rationale for underpaying women and children is long and dishonorable. 9543157 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/05/2025imho, trying to use ai to subvert structural sexism and racism, to upend legacies of colonialism and for advocating social justice is akin to trying to dismantle the masters house using the masters tools 2279 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 24/05/2025the phones: they are not for you. they are not for me. neither is the entirety of modern society lol 52029 0
Reposted by apocalypse なお707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Just the feature I was looking for! Said nobody ever. 0156 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 24/05/2025nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house. 13746186 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Nathan Vass is a Seattle treasure 1393 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Counterpoint: it is an extremely good thing when a country has enough freedom of speech to make art that analyzes real world problems in a fictional setting. 938061 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I've said in multiple venues: if Kendrick taught us anything, it's that we haven't been hating AI hard enough 0192 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおParis Marx @parismarx.com · 22/05/2025AI Con is such a great starting point for people looking to understand what’s wrong with generative AI. It was a pleasure to chat with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social about their new book! 214228 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents: www.404media.co/american-sch...404media.coAmerican Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records ShowThousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps. 8314121 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおlawngnomesorceress @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025@cait.bsky.social had to do it to 'em 1458161 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおMaggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I got stoned last night and made this and then forgot to post it anyway I stand by it 72375779 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 15/05/2025i want someone to calculate how much these collective decisions cost, that it may radicalize us all, ferally 13849361008 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/05/2025i don’t understand when my fellow thirtysomethings panic about no longer understanding what the kids like and how they dress. the most perfect serenity ever devised by man or heaven is within reach and you’re pushing it away with both hands 1294458561 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Fucking THANK YOU. Like, for real, I need a lot of you to dispense with the fantasies of objective, impartial tech. You are watching the intended purpose of this shit on display as we speak as Grok is hammered into compliance behind the scenes. 346101667 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me 7815177211286 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Honestly, me too. 247562496333 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおConnie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.com‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrikeFatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family 5627382 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおMadeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Just spectacular writing from @quinnae.com... 0123 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおSos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 06/04/2025I'm gonna have to frame this one. 51986649 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおTempus abolere ICE (time to abolish ICE) @tempus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025“When systems are built to last for decades, we often don’t see the disaster unfolding until the people who cared for those systems have been gone for quite some time. The blessing and the curse of good infrastructure is that when it works, it is invisible….” 03413 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 27/03/2025Sounds like the rest of them really, like all the big ones claiming models that perform "reasoning" and such. Its the way of Silicon Valley. techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/a... Via @esraa.bsky.socialtechcrunch.coma16z- and Benchmark-backed 11x has been claiming customers it doesn’t have | TechCrunchLast year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory. However, nearly two dozen sources — including 410021 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおWayne Soon @waynesoon.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Best and clearest article on Long Covid in a while. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...washingtonpost.com‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognitionFive years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend to people who quickly recovered. 0217 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Some countries - Poland, Korea - have historically been in bad neighborhoods and suffered grievously for it. The United States has astonishing good fortune to be in the neighborhood it’s in, and it’s truly baffling as well as heartbreaking to see it wreck that advantage to appease a mad king. 1476 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩🔧) @eris404.rip · 27/03/2025i used to bash my head against the wall having the same arguments with bigots on twitter over and over, as though i needed to show the flaws in their arguments to justify my existence don't do that. that's a bad idea. do read julia's work instead, it's a much better inoculation against nonsense 14010 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Noem also made this content specifically with an eye to how it would be shared and promoted on X. The state producing content to feed the incentives of a commercial platform owned Elon Musk is yet another function of the newly emboldened tech oligarchy www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/deconstruc...bloodinthemachine.comDeconstructing the new American oligarchyMusk and Trump are showing us what authoritarian rule looks like when everything's computer. 410216 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおMarielza @marielza.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Clinicians using "medical" LLMs are essentially playing roulette with their patients' lives. 03711 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおTexas Observer @texasobserver.org · 20/03/2025From Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, the film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards.texasobserver.orgThese Librarians Won’t Let America’s Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle. 417571 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Our whole government is just one big "men's rights" subreddit now 11462133 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The overwhelming amount of news today came first, understandably, but DAMN is it a shame that this piece also published today because it was SO fucking great to interview THE Jeannette Walls on the 20th anniversary of her memoir. 093 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/03/2025"You don't eat soup in public" is so absurd and yet truly crystalizes how much these people would rather eradicate us for not being anywhere near as deeply, deeply, pathologically repressed as them than just fucking work out their own strange ass internal shit. 1828943 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおM. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 20/03/2025At a recent talk, someone came up to me and asked: "Isn't California just always going to be a lot more expensive than other states?" The simple answer is "no." We know it doesn't have to be this way, because it wasn't always this way until the 1970s. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mnolangr...open.substack.comThe Invention of the “High-Cost” StateAmerica Wasn't Always A Place of "Expensive" and "Affordable" States, Nor Does It Need To Be. 828458 0
Reposted by apocalypse なおprivateideation.bsky.social @privateideation.bsky.social · 15/03/2025WE MUST ANSWER THE CALLmedia.tenor.coma picture of a forest with trees and grassAlt: a picture of a forest with trees and grass, guys in corpse paint jumping out from behind trees, ready to make scratchy music for the devil 1658 0