Reposted by throne stowawayAaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 2hThe ways the people behind it are trying to infiltrate every aspect of our lives, I think most people are better off not using any of it. Most people aren't coders. Most people shouldn't offload their thinking. 2399
Reposted by throne stowawaySarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1hYeah anything garden or agriculture-related does that too. ...That's why I had to figure out ways to cleanse the timeline 8888
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 2hThis kind of imaginitive data visualization is only possible from people with advanced MBA degrees from prestigious institutions 000
Reposted by throne stowawayJeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/20263rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.comBREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI trainingOpinion under seal for now. 111012303
Reposted by throne stowawayBen K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn... 291201267
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026static.klipy.comThe Office: Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) - Same PictureALT: The Office: Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) - Same Picture 020
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Is there anybody who left who doesn’t think the US military would be doing better with more woke? 010
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Privacy and intimacy As we know it shall be a memory Among many to be passed down To those who never knew” youtu.be/R9gvbZbR7-wyoutu.be1,000 EyesYouTube video by Death - Topic 000
Reposted by throne stowawayAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America. 15980303605
Reposted by throne stowawayJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 8177132
Reposted by throne stowawayTheodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026JCO for the win. 231450223
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“The slow blade penetrates the shield” By not signaling itself as an attack using conventional framing (harsh tone of voice, stark contrast/b&w photos, red text, direct condemnation etc) this slips past the defenses of people who aren’t necessarily predisposed to attacking Paxton. This stuff works! 020
Reposted by throne stowawayKen Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It ends w/ Belafonte consoling Fozzie & a performance of "Turn The World Around". The message, & its resonance, remains undiminished... “Do you know who I am Do I know who you are See we one another clearly Do we know who we are” Belafonte would later perform this song at Jim Henson’s funeral. 411944
Reposted by throne stowawayDEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 29/09/2026However much you despise the Republican Party, it’s not enough. 011
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When the AI bubble bursts, their corrupt strategy of entangling everyone in their downside risks and bribing politicians will bear out in the all too predictable bailout beg-a-thon. Shed not a tear for these fuckers. Watch their fortunes evaporate, it’ll be worth every penny. 000
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Meanwhile, at “Alpha School”static.klipy.comEd Edd And Eddy Binge WatchingALT: Ed Edd And Eddy Binge Watching 010
Reposted by throne stowawayLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026and right when people were making algorithmic bias/inequality more visible, many of those processes were **mysteriously** relabeled "AI" and that whole conversation got erased... 17133
Reposted by throne stowawayA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 963619663
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is good. I’m routinely disgusted at the gall it takes to put a bag on a seat, depriving people of using the seat. 000
Reposted by throne stowawayEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op... 21637137
Reposted by throne stowawayTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions. 141210614
Reposted by throne stowawayLillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I continue to hate that the “computer-illiterate elderly people falling prey to computer-oriented scams” demographic seems to include every American politician. 231554
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“I was promised Mars colonization and all I got was a lousy sky cluttered with junk and falling debris” 000
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s real irony in asserting that someone who isn’t plugged-in to what corporate record labels want them to listen to—manufactured and deployed by producers and accountants (and botnets)—lives in some sort of bubble, is rich. The commercial apparatus literally builds a bubble around you. That’s 130
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026True, but they gotta come correct. Dems’ worst weakness with this crowd (and independents generally) is that they often come across as prissy. One of Biden’s biggest strengths is he did not. Going on this show in the first place filters out a lot of of that, just be sure to bring the gusto 🔥 100
Reposted by throne stowawayRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming 17708235
Reposted by throne stowawayFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 581940467
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I expect the answer to this shares insight with why Elon Musk thought it was a good idea to fire all the coders who produced the least lines of code (aka most efficient) Tech dweeb epistemology sees bloat as indicator of veracity? Herzog: “But why?” 000
Reposted by throne stowawayGhostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Now you either show me what is down there or I come back with a court order. 021
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fritz Lang articulated the soul of fascism well in Das Testament des Dr Mabuse, using the villain’s criminal ambitions as an allegory: The Empire of Crime: "Humanity's soul must be shaken to its very depths, frightened by unfathomable and seemingly senseless crimes. Crimes that benefit no one… 100
Reposted by throne stowawayFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today. 25716247
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Really important point here, which is that intelligence doesn’t necessarily make you immune to bullshit. Belief formation typically overrides rationality — irrational belief is the baseline, and it can be hacked. Now what makes people more vulnerable to the hacking? No simple answer I’m sure… 010
Reposted by throne stowawayeileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2024One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.” 191077452
Reposted by throne stowawayAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I wonder how many of us had a similar lightbulb moment. For me, it was walking through the Hall of Mirrors and then seeing, on the other side, this painting called “Louis XIV Presenting Peace to Europe.” Looked at it, read the plaque, went “yep, glad they all got guillotined.” 1216925
Reposted by throne stowawayTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor. 8488138
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Telling when people do not evaluate a person’s actions or statements directly, but rely on the personal characteristics of the source as a proxy for veracity or morality, and confuse the proxy with—or refuse to distinguish it from—what’s meaningful. It’s not just stupid; it’s dangerous thinking. 020
throne stowaway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Of course the morons who don’t grasp their own nature come out of the woodwork—like rats—to attack him. Better mongrel than moron, if you ask me… 010
Reposted by throne stowawayDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text: 131103401
