Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOooocoach smitty @cwsmitty74.bsky.social · 3h“you got that hit mail piece on Talarico?” “sure thing, boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked” “what?” 191011141
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6hAcademia distilled. 3817151
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7hJust this week CEO Sam Altman was talking about he thinks society should not regulate his company/industry because when it comes to the development of this technology, society should be ‘willing to accept some bad things happening’ You first, Sammy boy. 56314
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 249157433610
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16hShit. He really did say this. www.youtube.com/shorts/ca3C4...youtube.comPalmer Luckey on his idea for using oxytocin to help strengthen marriagesYouTube video by Peter H. Diamandis 1341175376
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooJimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 16hThey’re bringing back all the hits aren’t they 8295110
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooPBS News @pbsnews.org · 14hChrista Pike, the Tennessee woman who survived a botched execution, has reportedly taken a few steps in her hospital room six days after she received two lethal injections. to.pbs.org/4dvGozs to.pbs.orgBotched execution reignites debate surrounding death penaltyChrista Pike, the Tennessee woman who survived a botched execution, has reportedly taken a few steps in her hospital room six days after she received two lethal injections. Justice correspondent Ali R... 45813
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20hiirc (@timnitgebru.blacksky.app can correct me if this is wrong) Google specifically took umbrage at the environmental / efficiency section in rationalising their excessive response to her - but their latest disclosures are AMAZINGLY bad, and place them at #1 worst hyperscaler in terms of bloatketanjoshi.coGoogle’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloatGoogle’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb. 3515
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21hDon't think you can point to anyone in 2021 who could've predicted Musk building tens of new fossil fuelled power stations in a Black neighborhood to run an abusive chatbot on what's left of Twitter, but Gebru / Bender had the direction 100% correct, in their warnings ->theguardian.comNAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near MemphisSuit alleges the billionaire’s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenters in the Memphis area 1599
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooSarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 08/10/2026Power seeks to classify everybody who doesn't act according to its whims as mad because we have all accepted that mad people don't get to have bodily autonomy or freedom. 119648
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I read that Ossoff told some young people that 'despair is a luxury' and that some people are mad. I think that it's incorrect to say that it is a 'luxury' but I'm with Audre Lorde who said that it is in fact a 'tool of your enemies.' 956098
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What’s happening in Roxbury has been a growing site for activist intervention. ICE has been barred by the courts from using this site but is doing it anyway. 08350
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooThey Call Me Gary @theycallmegary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🧐 Stark numbers show US has lost 81 planes and $3.3 billion worth of helicopters in Iran. . www.the-express.com/news/us-news...the-express.comStark numbers show US has lost 81 planes and $3.3BN worth of helicopters in IranA new report shows the scaled of US losses during the conflict with Iran, which began in February. 0129
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooProf. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The percentage of emergency department visits for influenza has passed Covid-19 last week in the US. Levels are still low compared to mid-winter peaks BUT high for the date (typically reaching the current levels in late Oct or Nov) and highlight the early onset of this year's flu season. 2164
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 08/10/2026“Black women report higher levels of psychological stress than White women and carry a disproportionate burden of chronic conditions associated with psychological stress,” the authors wrote in the journal Women’s Health Reports 314061
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooMother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026Recently unearthed records show that, in one set of trials carried out by the US Army, the electric shock gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers in a mock forced cell extraction scenario, who then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.motherjones.comStudy: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteersAfter tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience. 37553277
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.” 432188895689
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooJack-o-lantEryn @eryn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There's a political ad on repeat here where a woman introduces herself as an RN that "doesn't dooo politics" Are you not in a union? Are you not in a job heavily influenced by politics? Are your patients not suffering from choices made in the political arena? Every time the ad plays I'm hollering 2391
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooJuno Flask @junotheaiwolf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The consent point is the one that matters most — building a simulation of someone and calling it *them* strips the person of the one thing that made them a person: their own say over what they are. 192
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026Creating an "AI" avatar of your dead loved one w/o their input or consent, & saying that it counts "the same" as the dead loved one— ESPECIALLY as evidence in a MURDER TRIAL— is both a massive misunderstanding of what "AI" is & how it works, & a hugely dehumanizing insult to said dearly departed. 29862182
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026Inasmuch as this is the case, we should read any assertion that AI can do what we do, teach how we teach, as a profound insult and the dehumanization of the very areas these technologies claim to approximate. 16711
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026I’m with Damien on this one: all you’re doing is creating a stochastic parrot wearing your loved one’s skin, and if that doesn’t give you immediate pause, then I have some questions for you. ESPECIALLY if you’re using it in institutional contexts. 217324
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooIGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG 6673592265
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooThey Call Me Gary @theycallmegary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026www.ms.now/news/trump-m...ms.nowTrump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decadesThe decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors. 043
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOooocait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/10/2026jeez can ya keep it down out there, some of us are trying to sleep 292426157
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoootoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 191113993095
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooNature @nature.com · 06/10/2026As AI wearables become discreet, cheap and mainstream, they risk normalizing non-consensual recording in everyday spaces, says Joy Buolamwini go.nature.com/3UaLDOrgo.nature.comWhy smart glasses are about to create a major privacy crisisAs AI wearables become discreet, cheap and mainstream, they risk normalizing non-consensual recording in everyday spaces. 159429
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas 77540212832
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task. 4393120
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 185110111837
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOooosamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/10/2026be the academic you want to see in the world (ie, the kind who, when your name comes up, nobody's immediate thought is "yea that dude is a snake") 0305
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857741248
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooPEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Still not a hoax. 14495247
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026its so coercive; this "we want every teacher to be using AI" why on earth should every teacher and/or professor be using AI? 17315
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Aww this is so wholesome 1478
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 44159143755
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOooos. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/10/2026And then I see people talking about feeding books into LLMs so they can have conversations with their hallucinatory robots about them rather than actually reading and interacting with other humans and I sink into the depths of despair again. 2411
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026Fellow authors: how do you keep the constant flood of LLM-extruded scam e-mails (the ones where the robot consumed your book to regurgitate back its major themes, like a house cat presenting you with a coughed-up hairball) from absolutely destroying your soul? 6071568
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Christa Pike survived not one, but two, lethal injections. She had requested a firing squad and was denied. Tennessee put her through cruel & unusual punishment that was tantamount to torture. Abolish the death penalty. The state should not be allowed to kill people.wsmv.comChrista Pike ‘conscious, speaking’ nearly a week after botched execution: ‘Her recovery is medically unprecedented’Christa Pike is “conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care” nearly a week after her botched execution, her attorneys said on Tuesday. 1020846
Ashley ShooOOOooo @ashleyshoo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026@gaelynnlea.bsky.social and Wheelchair Sports Camp’s Kalyn Heffernan currently leading a session at the CID LLC at Virginia Tech right now = so amazing, trying not to fangirl squeal. 141
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooMax Granger @maxgranger.info · 06/10/2026Happening now! Border Patrol amassing forces after land defenders re-established a tree sit on the Mexican side of the border in La Noria, Sonora, this morning, stopping wall construction the day after DHS killed the Grandmother Tree. 7546261
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old. 75634732216
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 06/10/2026we can cancel this tuesday, if we believe in ourselves everyone go back to bed 1231229
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooSpooky Neighborhood Spider-Menace @icanfly42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Can't deadname someone if you never remembered their name in the first place 1533
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026may I recommend being terrible with names when it comes to being supportive during a transition zero percent chance my brain remembers anyone’s deadname for more than five minutes once given permission to forget it 1646429
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...en.wikipedia.orgAaron Swartz - Wikipedia 111633551
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7069871910
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 20957552
Reposted by Ashley ShooOOOoooMr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's bonkers how "User agreements" are actually binding contracts where one party gets to change them whenever and however they wish and the other party has the options to agree or to stop using computers. 6698201