Reposted by Courtney WilburnLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is not accidental at all. 010839
Reposted by Courtney WilburnTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Criminalizing the hustle man instead of the hustle, example number 109,811,310 www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...newyorker.comThe Man Who Broke the Music BusinessHow an employee at a CD-manufacturing plant became the Patient Zero of Internet piracy. 011812
Reposted by Courtney WilburnAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists. 281114208
Reposted by Courtney WilburnStephanie Rewis @stefsull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In March, I signed up for my absentee ballot and it had four choices for why I needed it. I got my ballot in April. In June they cancelled me, so I had to fill the form out again this month. But the form has changed. They removed the option for being a citizen who's never lived in the US. Quietly! 5105
Reposted by Courtney WilburnAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it. 171752473
Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 05/10/2026ghee gives you the butter flavor without making the popcorn wet & soggy but I also have been known to also add zatar, aleppo pepper, and salt 271
Reposted by Courtney WilburnMalice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026sometimes (most times?) bad things that happen aren’t about you and there’s no real need to make them about you 1588
Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 03/10/2026where are my fellow audiobook lovers at? i have a question for you: have you every gotten an audiobook from Books a Million? if so, can you download the file and use a different audio player that's not the BAM app? 010
Reposted by Courtney WilburnChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026What’s up everyone, why are you on this one this week 239754
Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 02/10/2026I don't think that sweatpants should be available for sale without at least one rear pocket large enough to put more than lip balm in. it doesn't need to be wallet or phone sized but a folded dollar bill should not have to be stuffed in there. 010
Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 02/10/2026I finished the book "Addicted by Design" today and let me tell you something: if you're wondering how we got here with sports betting and prediction markets, this book will fill you in. 092
Reposted by Courtney WilburnEnrico Ariis AKA Gino Koltz @ariiscomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Nazis know NOTHING about women 416733
Reposted by Courtney WilburnAnil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material … 132458862
Reposted by Courtney WilburnOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one 201213209
Reposted by Courtney WilburnCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026this is so real and anyone with more than 5k followers on this website can attest to it 636759
Reposted by Courtney WilburnBlue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And if you're on instagram, you should go to your settings and uncheck these two boxes 59346
Reposted by Courtney WilburnOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Notice all the black writers being accused of using AI in their works. Notice. 110845
Reposted by Courtney WilburnTrans Rights Screenshot Generator! @transrightsbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#TransRights 093
Reposted by Courtney WilburnTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh. 322236587
Reposted by Courtney WilburnJamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Your support is our lifline and the only way for rebuilding our life after we lost everything No matter how much it's will be part of rebuilding our life 02019
Reposted by Courtney Wilburnfern🌿 @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026Thinking about starting up the Black MaGe art/craft group again. Pls repost to circulate, and like to indicate interest. 255
Reposted by Courtney WilburnPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026They want us to give up on each other. 4443112
Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 22/09/2026I was just reminded of the time the Today (US) show hosts dressed as the cast of Peanuts and I'm not sure if I'm laugh-crying or cry-laughing. 010
Reposted by Courtney WilburnPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Do you see any “overground railroads” where you are? What systems, networks, and relationships come together around you to bring people closer to liberation? 14210
Reposted by Courtney WilburnPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Our super talented friend and collaborator @noahjodice.bsky.social has another installment for @interruptcrim.bsky.social's "Imagining Overground Railroads" series. I shared this one with folks this weekend: the theme is "Learning Together." millionexperiments.com/zines/overgr...millionexperiments.comOverground RailroadsDo you see any “overground railroads” where you are? What systems, networks, and relationships come together around you to bring people closer to liberation? The different pieces of your railroad may... 26526
Reposted by Courtney WilburnIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/09/2026VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: It’s Fat Bear Week! I do love a fat bear 🐻 explore.org/fat-bear-weekexplore.orgFat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.orgExplore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity... 824678
Reposted by Courtney WilburnAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we currently know it. I've been thinking about this book for over 5 years, and am excited to finally write it. 2943858
Reposted by Courtney WilburnDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026MLK said in TWO PLACES that the ultimate logic of racism and segregation was the genocide of the segregated. I feel like folks intentionally forgot this extremely basic fact for the sake of political expediency. 71854531
Reposted by Courtney WilburnAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026i think it’s incredible how people claim that if you say “llms don’t think” you are a “physicalist” or, even worse, a secret dualist it’s a basic manipulative trick, you know extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and they don’t have any there’s NO evidence for llms being conscious 611627
Reposted by Courtney WilburnIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this 3813331153
Reposted by Courtney Wilburnsiobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 10/09/2026for those who aren’t familiar—the NAACP’s solidarity with trans people and willingness to recognize “similarities between exclusions of transgender kids and racial segregation” is something i find genuinely moving 1453153
Reposted by Courtney WilburnTrans Rights Screenshot Generator! @transrightsbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#TransRights 041
Reposted by Courtney Wilburnjenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 20/09/2026i have been coaching a few friends still in the software dev industry through low morale attributed largely to seeing ai agent accessibility prioritized in a way they never saw human user accessibility prioritized 513426
Reposted by Courtney WilburnPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Every chatbot prompt box says "check answers for accuracy." But increasingly, "humans in the loop" refuse to do that. Instead, they become complicit in the AI industry's project of destroying the provenance of information. But you are person, and it is an app. It can't take responsibility for you.productpicnic.beehiiv.comAssigning agency to AI means surrendering your ownClaude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product. 825485
Reposted by Courtney WilburnPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights 493591360
Reposted by Courtney WilburnTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize. 102623626
Reposted by Courtney Wilburnjenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 17/09/2026a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world 71055197
Reposted by Courtney WilburnCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com 8633961213
Reposted by Courtney WilburnAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026ALL hits, NO misses. Absolute legendaric run. 16614
Reposted by Courtney WilburnAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 14/09/2026As a reminder, most of these people are not charged with crimes of any sort. Not that it would make it okay. But it just underscores that this is concentration camp, not a jail or prison. 419166
Reposted by Courtney WilburnJazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026Was again thinking about how this generational crashout is because folks are scared of death and the unknown of a radically changing planet due to climate change. Extreme fear and an extreme scarcity mindset to go with it? Yeah. 2274
Reposted by Courtney WilburnMike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 13/09/2026this dog is rad as hell 231240171
Reposted by Courtney Wilburncait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/09/2026WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!! 663465
Reposted by Courtney WilburnSandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Democrats' failure to actually support trans people is obnoxious for a few reasons. First, I'd like to live, thanks. Second, it's a losing strategy. There's already an entire 'our whole thing is we hate trans people' party. 650299
Reposted by Courtney WilburnIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/09/2026I got to share my favorite computer fact today! Did you know the origin of UNIX was that some guys wanted to play a video game for free?en.wikipedia.orgSpace Travel (video game) - Wikipedia 1726220
Reposted by Courtney WilburnAtmosphere Community @atmosphere.community · 12/09/2026The team at Blacksky is looking to hire for two key roles. The one below is for a founding engineer Check the all jobs page for a link to the founding designer role blackskyweb.xyz/about/jobs/ 03720
Reposted by Courtney WilburnA.J. Wilden🏳️⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message" 52144995761
Reposted by Courtney WilburnJamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 27/07/2025It’s Jamal from Gaza. My family lost everything. We are going through difficult circumstances All I am trying to do is help my family in these crazy circumstances and rebuild their lives. Donate if you are able or share the post if you can’t and give us life Repost pls chuffed.org/project/1389...chuffed.orgHelp Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f... 16094
Reposted by Courtney WilburnRude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 08/09/2026Tech people: help @marisa.blacksky.team out with her PhD research. Details below. Share widely. 06876