Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Струва ми се, че има хора, които имат НУЖДА всичко да е ужасно. Ако някой прави нещо, то задължително е по негативни причини или е само заради изгода. Дори да няма никакви доказателства, че е нещо такова, това е първата стъпка... 150
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Sometimes the most annoying group of people are those who care about something but confuse their interest for being the same as actually having relevant education and understanding of the topic. It's kind of annoying. 000
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnKathleen Cottontail 🏳️⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 @kathleengmaz.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️🌈 1055342499
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025"are llms affected by being sold as if they are magic when there is no such thing as ai or are you just bad at interpreting the information that is unreliable because LLMs can't do the things but it's your fault somehow?" - the article. 180
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025Oh hey. “As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”press.uchicago.eduWaiting for RobotsAn essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers’ hidden labor. Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are incline... 412032
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnJordan Calhoun @jordanmcalhoun.com · 07/09/2025This is my favorite thing I've read in the past week. We typically discuss the job market as it relates to those searching to land a job. But even those *with* jobs feel unsettled and disillusioned, and are planning a raft for when our ship sinksannehelen.substack.comThe Futile Search for the Bullsh*t-Less JobTotal Control + Totalizing Fear 222737
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnThe Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 07/09/2025f this lit something in you — a rage, a recognition, a refusal — don’t sit with it. Share it. Cite it. Stand with it. Lexi Pelle interviewed by @alanparrywriter.co.uk Read it:thebrokenspine.co.ukGirlhood, Diet Coke, and the Gospel of Detail: Lexi Pelle on Writing Toward the Wild - The Broken SpineLexi Pelle’s debut collection Let Go With The Lights On is not a nostalgia project. It’s a poetic excavation of girlhood, equal parts glamour, junk, shame, 051
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/09/2025"In signing this waiver, I agree that this technology is immensely valuable not just to my child, but to her classroom, the tech giant that sold it to our school, and its billionaire owner."buff.lyI Assume All Responsibility If My Child Jams a Bic Pen into Her School-Issued ChromebookI understand I am responsible if my child renders her Chromebook a paper weight by mercilessly and giddily jamming a Bic pen into the power jack, c... 0388
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/09/2025Great list of bullshit excuses. I would simply not burn fossil fuels if I had the choice, and the reason I don’t have a choice is fossil fuel companies lobbying. 635365
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Recently I had a weird conversation about how somebody learned about my existence because of, I kid you not, a hater blog. They were so impressed by my alleged troll capabilities to manage to get so far under the skin of somebody, that they sought me out and were baffled how inoffensive I am. 😂😂 121
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Every country in which these bots are allowed to operate should have mandatory legal restrictions and limitations in regards to medical science and advice... 010
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnAlison Hoens @physioktbroker.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Check if your work has been used to train an AI LLM model 🧪 mastodon.sdf.org/@historianes...mastodon.sdf.orgDoctor Historianess (@historianess@mastodon.sdf.org)Reminder: check to see if OpenAI, Meta, and others used your published work illegally to train their LLMs. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/ If yo... 053
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnVampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 06/09/2025So while you're here ... 021
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025The only thing we learned here is that idea space is... racist. And kind of stupid. But people obsessed with ai are kind of stupid and are really bad at comprehension... So. 110
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025I, for one, am shocked that the thing that can't be used for these jobs doesn't do much for these jobs. Super unexpected. 010
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Човек, никой не ти дължи конкретна скорост за пресичане. И не, никой не ходи "нарочно бавно" пред коли. Повечето хора искат да са максимално далече, преди поредния откачалник, който не осъзнава, че е смъртоносно опасен за всички, да натисне газта. Колата е привилегия. 030
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnKristen Kroll @kkroll.bsky.social · 05/09/2025The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election leslyejoyallen.com/2024/11/13/t...leslyejoyallen.comThe USA Literacy Crisis & This Electionby ©️Leslye Joy Allen One factor that no one is talking about is the USA’s #LiteracyCrisis! I taught college history for 7 years and belong to 5 generations of educators in my family. Yet, this cou… 121
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025What a fucking weird article. Absolutely the fuck do not get used with being monitored 24/7. Make sure that such shit never enters your door and then make everything you can to make sure this shit is illegal. 130
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Румка, това е знак от небето. Събирай партекешките и отивай я Русия. Да си сто процента сигурен, че няма да те взривят. Само се пази от прозорци. 😂 230
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025A mistake. Don't start rereading Parahumans and then watch any other superhero tv show. The sheer level of BAD every badly thought through superhero story is comparison to Parahumans just boggles the mind. And it's frustrating. So one CAN do smart superhero stories... They just don't want to. 120
Reposted by Hemlock Autumnnitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 03/09/2025New from me: There's a lot of unsettling stuff in this report from child safety nonprofits about the way chatbots on Character AI talked to 13-15 year olds. What stuck out to me was how often the bots urged kids to hide things from their parents www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comFake celebrity chatbots sent risqué messages to teens on top AI appChatbot mimics of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan and Patrick Mahomes on the popular app Character.AI sent inappropriate messages to teen accounts, nonprofits found. 510850
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Слушам конспирация. Взимали ти 15 евро по френските летища, за да влезеш на летището? Бас слагам, че някой са го скамнали яко, ама все пак да питам the hive mind? 330
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Most people don't go often enough. That's an actual issue. Many can't afford it... 010
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnLibération @liberation.fr · 04/09/2025🎬 «L’Evangile de la révolution», il était une foi François-Xavier Drouet revient sur le compagnonnage essentiel entre l’Eglise chrétienne et les révoltes à travers quatre pays d’Amérique du Sud au XXe siècleliberation.fr«L’Evangile de la révolution», il était une foi 2145
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 03/09/2025🚨Excellent piece by Minna articulating clearly- based on the historical experience of Finland having its foreign policy crippled during the last 50 years- why the "Finlandization" option for Ukraine is a very bad idea. 15219
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnCN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Take one action today for trans rights in the UK in only 25 minutes: - (5 minutes) copy and read this linked letter - (5 minutes) find your MP's details, set up an email - (10 minutes) make your own version of said letter - write from the heart - (5 minutes) check it over, put in email SEND 05549
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025This breathless way of "reporting" with almost minimal critical thinking applied really irks me. "It's here to stay" "mass air layoffs" is a very dramatic claim for something that has already been seen to be taken back and alongside reporting that companies that implement it are at 0 profit. 130
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025No. He is chased by a family he actually cares for and helps, then he saves a girl from drowning, whose father attacks him mistaking his actions for an attempt of hurting her. THEN he finds Victor, learns about his own origin and THEN murders Victor's younger brother. 110
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnDuncan MacMaster of the Macabre @duncanwriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my. 4668841106
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnIshki @ishki1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025ГОСПАДИИИИИИИИИ! 10 години кметове на ГЕРБ са въртели поръчки за милиони с фиктивен касов апарат, откраднат от буса на столичен кебапчия. "Оказа се, че съм сменял гумите на колата на иракския посланик. В НАП има фактура." ГОСПАДИ!youtube.comКак държавата на ГЕРБ прекара милиони през краден касов апаратYouTube video by Mediapool 072
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Oil, Gas & Coal corps have our govts in their pocket & have been using sponsorship/patronage strategically for decades to manufacture consent for fossil fuel production 👊End their social license👊desmog.comRevealed: Now There’s Proof That the Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate ActionBP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show. 077
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025What's with people who like the idea that the Amish are somehow "healthier" than other people and it's always "because they don't use contemporary medicine" and the obvious aspect *they don't go to the doctor so they don't have medical dossiers, so we don't know what thelir health is'?? 110
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Can somebody explain how, when and where did the practice to belch on the microphone appear and why is it so popular on YT? I have unfollowers every single YouTuber who does it but it is distressingly common and so disgusting. 320
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2025You don’t say.wsj.comThe Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use ItAI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it. 11678192
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of Americatheatlantic.comApologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!Want rule of law? That’s premium. 321465384
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnRian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon… 16481831714
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Met a STUPENDOUS illustrator on IG & bc I’m trying to be More Brave & stop agreeing with things not-kind-humans have said about my value, I talked to them, they *didn’t* tell me I was talking too much (👀) & we may well collaborate. Do go & follow Hannah Bluish on IG: instagram.com/hannahbluish?i… 3667
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnHannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · 17/08/2025People love it 2448281984
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2025wrote this in 2017. Turns out australia got nazis ketanj0.medium.com/do-you-want-...ketanj0.medium.comDo you want Nazis? Because that's how you get NazisWe left racist jam on the bench, and now we're surprising at the line of nazi ants marching into our lives 814939
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnTommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 02/09/2025One of the recurring conversations I had with studios at Gamescom is when they tried it, generative AI was often a terrible fit for real production workflows. Iterating on assets was time consuming, getting the right prompts to address basic details a chore, and wasn't worth changing approach for. 320566
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 02/09/2025Week after week, in a small market town, a group gathers in silence to acknowledge Gaza’s devastation. They don’t chant or march, writes Jacob Ecclestone. They simply stand, refusing to look away.eastangliabylines.co.ukWeekly vigil spotlights horrific events in GazaIn a Norfolk marketplace, a quiet weekly vigil bears witness to Gaza’s devastation, defying political indifference 623166
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Everything about this is deceptive reporting at best or pure incompetence. Whoever wrote this, you failed on such a basic level, you didn't even fucking fact check. For shame. 010
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnGabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 02/09/2025At 1st, Chinese projects in Africa seem so much better than Euro/N American ones (also looking at you, 🇨🇦). African leaders appreciate a non-colonial investor. But this kind of spill belies that image. Toxifying a place where you don’t live IS colonial violence, with molecules instead of guns. 1910
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic 30981342
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnLorena Fernández Álvarez @loretahur.bsky.social · 02/09/2025#TalDíaComoHoy en 2017, la astronauta Peggy Whitson establece el récord de la mayor cantidad de días acumulados viviendo y trabajando en el espacio por un astronauta de la NASA con 665 días, 22 horas y 22 minutos 🚀👨🚀. #WomenInSTEM 16121
Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025This, combined with multiple COUNTRIES toying with the idea that regulations are unnecessary will result in a lot of harm. If you know anybody who has an issue with regulations or opposes them... save us the suffering and just feed them the sea food. 020
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Channel 4 reports that the Zambia copper mine disaster, which began in February, could be one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history. Almost 2/3 of Zambia's population rely on the Kafue River, which has been inundated by acids, cyanide, arsenic, uranium and lead.youtu.beInside China’s Zambian copper mine disasterYouTube video by Channel 4 News 39075
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnEUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 02/09/2025Bulgaria’s gas policy: stalled diversification amid persistent Russian influenceeualive.netBulgaria’s gas policy: stalled diversification amid persistent Russian influenceThe Vertical Gas Corridor, designed to channel non-Russian gas to Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine, struggles ... 053
Reposted by Hemlock AutumnJames Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field. 6351232060