Reposted by firegravityJames Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Journalism is about holder power to account. If the power you’re going after right now is the secular hijab accessory person from twitter, you’re really just making content. like, how different are you from the people you’re laughing at when you’re tearing people down to get money and attention? 11094
Reposted by firegravityEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...technologyreview.comDon’t be fooled by this summer of AI hypeBreathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny. 8345192
Reposted by firegravityIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...irisvanrooijcogsci.comComputational complexity for hype immunityUsing some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity… 917467
Reposted by firegravityA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury. 5058572041
Reposted by firegravitybeetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A New Color (1/5🧵) 84112243738
Reposted by firegravityKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/07/2026there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue" 1. product marketing misrepresentation 2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money 3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation 4. distracts from technofascism 5. distances execs from accountability 6291128
Reposted by firegravityfiregravity @firegravity.bsky.social · 21/03/2025DOJ designates refusing to have cybersex with Grok AI as Domestic Terrorism 0183
Reposted by firegravityEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026McConnell has released a proof of life photo 435737
Reposted by firegravityBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Happy Bastille Day 362500752
Reposted by firegravitymattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 30/11/2023posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch 1882672742
Reposted by firegravityJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed. 4792211880
Reposted by firegravityEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026A beautiful day for Zionists to project their blistering, bottomless self-hatred onto Jews who refuse to assimilate into fascist norms: 531250159
Reposted by firegravityfiregravity @firegravity.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Honestly we're like a year out from MAGA Lysenkoism 11123
Reposted by firegravityShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school 140233655882
Reposted by firegravityEndless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 28/02/2026AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH 5728309
Reposted by firegravityThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026From The Archives:theonion.comChuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid... 5366271489
Reposted by firegravityLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026With this salvo, Kansas has escalated what will be a federal effort to establish a Jim Crow system of lawfully enforced second-class citizenship aimed at trans American It was already the case but now it's inarguable; anyone who doesn't fully support trans people is an enemy of all civil rights. 62027700
firegravity @firegravity.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Claude, people don't believe that I'm productive because of you. They didn't believe it when I refused to measure and said they simply had to accept my conclusion because it's obvious to me Tell me the scientific theory of why they're snowflakes in an echo chamber (1/100) 1233
Reposted by firegravityIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it. 784404048998
Reposted by firegravityCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 06/12/2025A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...doi.orgRedirecting 4130971251
Reposted by firegravityBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once 2184441466
Reposted by firegravityBeatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often. 71890532
Reposted by firegravityChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1wapo.stAlice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14. 103297777
Reposted by firegravityfurby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again 48189405471
Reposted by firegravitydrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 21/08/2025age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends 465591466
Reposted by firegravityAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.anthonymoser.github.ioI Am An AI HaterI am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater. 17458412005
Reposted by firegravityBeatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Family abolition is about ending the state’s exploitation of family as a stand-in for public infrastructure. No housing? Rely on family. No healthcare? Family. No safety net? Family. The neoliberal family formation is privately subsidized state abandonment dressed with a sentimental smokescreen. 118556
Reposted by firegravityPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/07/2025NYT editor doing a magical girl transformation sequence that ends with him becoming J J Jamerson shrieking about getting scooped by a substack nazi named NorseWulf1488, who he is in groupchat with. 022023
Reposted by firegravityBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 06/07/2025I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore. 351136342049
Reposted by firegravityNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/... 3922331178
Reposted by firegravityPhilip Nelson 💻🧙 @blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network · 16/06/2025oh no... they shuttered the United States Chemical Safety Board.... grist.org/energy/trump...grist.orgTrump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosionsThe Chemical Safety Board, a federal agency that investigates large-scale industrial chemical disasters, will close under Trump's orders. 22373216
Reposted by firegravityDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/06/2025A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax 13423721270
Reposted by firegravityBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice. 5704848614660
Reposted by firegravityPhil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 05/06/2025DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2 6330681475
Reposted by firegravityScreaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 23/05/2025every college degree has only two pathways for careers for example, if you get a degree in psychology, you can 1) help poor and underprivileged people: $30,000/year 2) research new ways to make people gamble even more: $700,000/year 272236493
Reposted by firegravityTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself. 5393578110765
Reposted by firegravityEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025JD Vance Facetimes His Family 424133671
Reposted by firegravityMolly White @molly.wiki · 03/02/2025an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal 226115503199
Reposted by firegravityJack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Going to have to update this to 'when a cis person tries to murder a trans person.' 122077382
Reposted by firegravityThe Onion @theonion.com · 31/12/2024LeBron James Denies Son Receiving Preferential Treatment When Being Lifted Up To Dunk theonion.com/lebron-james... 253231170
Reposted by firegravityдядя играет @rexadecimal.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Today is the last day you can post this picture 30146578104
Reposted by firegravityborderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet... 1811025411127