Reposted by Efpraxia_ZPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Has any technology been so AGGRESSIVELY sold to the public as AI? I can't think of any other example in my lifetime. 771019131
Reposted by Efpraxia_Zjessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026You cannot save academia if you refuse to put your foot down on those seeking to abuse the subaltern. You must get rid of them and be decisive in it. Degrading the ability to stop people like this because "well, they're just harming trans people" is why creeps like Confas can get anywhere. 1144
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball." 38292032397
Reposted by Efpraxia_Z404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2026After laying out his “plan” for the officials before him, he revealed that it was all satire in protest of Flock. “I would never do this to you,” he said to the council. “Could I? Probably. But I wouldn't because it's wrong.“ Read @samleecole.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/casa-grande-... 13603209
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZOnly In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Boston is suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. The city says the companies deliberately designed addictive features like endless scrolling, notifications, and algorithms that harm kids' mental health. The lawsuit joins more than 1,500 school districts nationwide. 17485882115
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”thepinknews.comAbandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopherLeading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'. 93167436484
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZOpen Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Millionopenculture.comAlfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 MillionVillains who live in opulent, remote modernist houses may have been a cliché since the last century, but given Hollywood's addiction to the tried and true, they do still turn up now and again. Unsurpr... 05715
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZDystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Every time he says this the preserved corpse of Jeremy Bentham should appear at the door crying “who watches the watchmen?” and Michel Foucault should look down and whisper “no.” 0194
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026Every one of these guys: Totalitarianism is good bro, trust me. 22451101
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.” 17974392602
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/06/2026Experience: I met my husband in the Dull Men’s Clubtheguardian.comExperience: I met my husband in the Dull Men’s ClubLuke spoke about how he irons his T-shirts and keeps a strict budget spreadsheet. I was hooked 4315
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZDr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...open.substack.comOpinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is DiscriminationBy Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University 26505166
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZChristabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Extraordinary credit to Sadiq Khan for pushing through this deeply controversial policy. This is what can happen when politicians are prepared to stick to their principles. 20983268
Efpraxia_Z @efpraxiaz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...theguardian.com‘They kill games, we fight back’: the activists campaigning to keep video games playableWhen a company decided to shut down an online game’s servers, there wasn’t much the players who had bought that title could do – until a group called Stop Killing Games began lobbying for new consumer... 000
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZLuiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Suraj has a point. 85131264454
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZHolly Baleen @hollybaleen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The Chair of Sex Matters is currently crowdfunding for a quick SRY swab, to potentially use in schools. My Daughter is 20 now but if I’d heard they’d used something like this on her I’d have been down that school faster than shit off a shovel. It’s possibly one of the most evil things they’ve done. 3946272
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Somewhere in your company is The Spreadsheet. At least one person is responsible for updating The Spreadsheet. Multiple people update other databases based on what The Spreadsheet says. As long as The Spreadsheet exists, nothing can be automated. 10454
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?" 468320896925
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Puts me in mind of the famous Eric Williams quote, “British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it” 530562
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZElizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 10/06/2026my siblings in Christ those are some bold assumptions 5655
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZRest of World @restofworld.org · 05/06/2026Wikipedia editors vs. AI Slop: The volunteer army wrangling the world’s chatbots restofworld.org/2026/wikipedia-ai-t…restofworld.orgThe volunteer Wikipedia army protecting against AI slopThe editors are both populating and fighting the world’s regional language AI engines. 1297
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZNorman @noaasm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The European Parliament will this week replace Google with France’s Qwant – a European alternative search engine – as the default on its computers, according to an email seen by @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/europea...euractiv.comEuropean Parliament to ditch Google for European alternative | EuractivFrance's Qwant will this week become the default search engine on MEPs' computers 082
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZBassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer 130198284938
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZMartin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026@drdavidnicholl.bsky.social & I argue that Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk is entirely within his rights to block the Met Police Palantir deal in our letter in The Times. Not obvious that his critics have read the legislation or understood the highly questionable process used here. 112563
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Please take care of yourselves and each other. LGBT+ Helpline Scotland (0800 464 7000 helpline@lgbthealth.org.uk) is open until 9pm tonight (Thursday). The UK national LGBTQIA+ support line (0800 011 9100 switchboard.lgbt) is open until 10pm every day. You matter, you are needed, you are loved. 75636
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/05/2026These guys really could have sold AI as “this is going to make your lives better.” Instead they picked “this is going to take your job and ruin all the art you love and you better embrace it or get left behind.” And they expect applause at commencement speeches! 361687337
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Half-expect to be told next the £5m was for a secure ballroom in Clacton. 23942183
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't. 991272856876
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog... 10346041226
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future 5534708764
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZReuters @reuters.com · 27/04/2026Oruka's experimental drug helps clear psoriasis in mid-stage study reut.rs/41TQyUnreut.rsOruka's experimental drug helps clear psoriasis in mid-stage studyOruka Therapeutics said on Monday that interim results showed its experimental drug helped clear psoriasis within 16 weeks, meeting the main goal of a mid-stage study and sending shares up 43.4% in premarket trading. 0154
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZLisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 27/04/2026There are teens out there who've survived more than one mass shooting 210116
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem. 2577150
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Life as a neighbour of the EU is a permanent negotiation whatever your relationship status. And you have to compete for attention with all of the others in the same position. Which is the reality more than saying the EU isn't interested but... what can you really offer? 1225
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398... 20140031647
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZAlex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I hope Bsky doesn't ban me for this, but after this ep I had to provide a selection Ancient Delos penises as proof. Including giant statues of penises, decorated with penis-bird-creatures, or a carving of a penis meeting a penis, with a penis for a tail, and another penis for a penis. So sorry. A x 5478
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZStephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet… It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.” 415120692542
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZNick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 17/04/2026She's gonna print out 95 pro-Trump tweets and nail them all to the door of the nearest church 0561
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZSimon Woodgate 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @simonwoodgate.bsky.social · 13/04/2026"But we're not immigrants, we're expats" 074
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at 794271669
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Above all, there are no winners, only losers. Iran is left with a brutal state, a traumatized population, a decimated infrastructure and worse economy. Lebanon's best chance at a viable state in a decade is obliterated, with yet another generation of rebuilt infrastructure bombed to rubble. 323756
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata. 35977511863
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZMaking a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 06/04/2026As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though 681775487
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers 101089324
Reposted by Efpraxia_ZElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 24/03/2026neal stephenson also dislikes the pervert glasses www.theverge.com/tech/899797/...theverge.comThe man who coined Metaverse now says Meta’s glasses are creepyNeil Stephenson has changed his mind about VR and AR. 322350