Reposted by Angela JobsonBritish Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay 11319135
Reposted by Angela Jobson🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com 25838971
Reposted by Angela JobsonAimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 21/09/2026Today is your monthly reminder! Back. Up. Your. Stuff. 💻💽💾 Art, writing, personal photos, etc etc... Back it up back it up! Repost to remind a friend and save a life 3960726
Reposted by Angela JobsonJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401522709
Reposted by Angela JobsonNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140586475
Reposted by Angela JobsonMadame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Saw this attack in the wild for the first time, in a purported ebooks site claiming to be using Cloudflare. I expect many (most?) of you use Linux or Macs, but just in case: This is trying to get you to run a Windows program that will infect your computer. If you ever see this, run away fast. 22685356
Reposted by Angela JobsonAndrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.orgscience.orgShattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder 992954927
Reposted by Angela JobsonMumko69 @mumko.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...you.38degrees.org.ukStop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition. 47760
Reposted by Angela JobsonJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I think we maybe need less focus on intelligence and more focus on wisdom. 4036687
Angela Jobson @jobbbo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Interesting that the negatives are presented using positive language. As if that is going to fool anyone with any common sense 🙄 100
Reposted by Angela JobsonGlendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 22/07/2026Dangers include: 🤖Willfully ignoring consent & copyright for training 🤖Learned helplessness / trust in false expertise 🤖Eroding critical thinking in regular users 🤖Unnecessary power consumption 🤖Misinformation on mass scale 🤖Lack of guardrails for abuse 🤖Environmental devastation 🤖Security risks 26328
Reposted by Angela JobsonJonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I got Covid for the *first time* a few weeks ago and let me tell you, please fucking test before you go to an event. Don't be that asshole. And if you are positive stay the fuck home. Some performers and event folks can't mask. The least we can do is test, the best we can do is mask. ✨ 324967
Reposted by Angela JobsonEd Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/20261. I can't believe the govt would actively want to invest in companies that use the copyrighted work of British creatives without permission. Doing so is (i) illegal in the UK, (ii) possibly illegal elsewhere, and (iii) clearly antithetical to protecting its citizens and treating them fairly. 7/10 318329
Reposted by Angela JobsonEd Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10 11788465
Reposted by Angela JobsonCharlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Today’s news includes an archive collection to be broken up and contents sold at auction, and academics to be laid off and replaced by hallucinating plagiarism machines. What a time to be alive. 14213
Reposted by Angela JobsonAndrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 21/07/2026AI companies are destroying our collective shared history to put it into their slop buckets, because the slop they push out would destroy their models if they tried to re-input it 10987678
Reposted by Angela JobsonMatthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/07/2026"AI" is a way for Google etc. to avoid actually doing searches anymore, to keep you from following links and sending traffic to anyone but them. "AI" is the *opposite* of a search engine. 03810
Reposted by Angela JobsonMatthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/07/2026Class, repeat after me: "AI" is not a search engine. "AI" does not search webpages and return results. "AI" scrapes together random shavings from the internet and presents them as though they're answers. If you use "AI" as a search engine, you're better off consulting your own rectum with a mirror. 311145
Reposted by Angela JobsonRSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026You look like you need a Puffin. Have a Puffin. 📷️ Sue Wood 18862225
Reposted by Angela JobsonThe A.V. Club @avclub.com · 11/07/2026The tech company admitted "this feature missed the mark," which is corpo-speak for "Literally everyone's been yelling at us."avclub.comMeta successfully shamed out of its terrible "remix total strangers' Instagram photos with AI" planMeta successfully shamed out of its terrible "remix total strangers' Instagram photos with AI" plan 319846
Angela Jobson @jobbbo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ba...megaphone.org.ukBack Workers. Back Our BBC.Nearly everyone - 94% of adults in the UK - uses the BBC every month. The BBC has an incredible range of TV, audio and digital services - from Planet Earth to the Proms, from BBC Bitesize and The Worl... 020
Reposted by Angela JobsonNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world. 7043322446
Reposted by Angela JobsonJordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future. 31861641583
Reposted by Angela JobsonBlue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I'm begging you to PLEASE pick up a history book. We are in the midst of history repeating itself. 1883498697
Reposted by Angela JobsonKim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal 166822662
Reposted by Angela JobsonDavid Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share. 8311545
Reposted by Angela JobsonJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one. 381279380
Reposted by Angela JobsonChris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Biddy Baxter laughs ruefully and pours another glass of wine. 727636
Reposted by Angela JobsonDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 12/06/2026One to report for spam and block immediately @advantage87.bsky.social 022
Reposted by Angela JobsonAmanda Lillywhite @amandalillywhite.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Currently just over 2k signatures. We need 10k for a government response. If you are in the UK please consider signing this petition. 06365
Reposted by Angela JobsonCurator Rob @curatorrob.bsky.social · 29/05/2026As far as archaeological photography techniques are concerned, this is... erm... "different". 😬😂 1114728
Reposted by Angela JobsonLori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 05/06/2026"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...businessinsider.comShe won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations. 5847271618
Reposted by Angela JobsonDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/06/2026one for your block finger (it's a chatGPT bot that autoreplies to posts with google search related text). 1136
Reposted by Angela JobsonÚna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning. 1380398976
Reposted by Angela JobsonLemuel Lyes @lemuellyes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Why is it okay to do this to a person, but not okay to do it to a fictional mouse? 25810
Reposted by Angela JobsonDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026If this were a human imitating Dr. Fitzharris, it would be fraud, identity theft, and blackmail. But because an AI company has stolen her likeness and public health work, there is unlikely to be much recourse. This is why they use the language of non-consent. Because this is a violation. 114476
Reposted by Angela JobsonEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Here’s a spot of (legal) poppy-based dopamine for you as there are…a few in the East of England just now 🌿: 1547962
Reposted by Angela JobsonAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/05/2026You know why women are the ones who don’t use gAI/on the frontlines of resisting and critiquing gAI? Because of shit like this. This feels like such a violation. 824367
Reposted by Angela JobsonStephen Fisher @seaspitfires.com · 29/05/2026The Town Hall of Breville in Normandy are reporting that the 51st Highland Division memorial on Breville Ridge has been stolen. 📷 Mairie de Bréville-les-Monts 42110
Reposted by Angela JobsonNorth West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 26/05/2026There's still time to sign and get the number of signatures over 100,000. That would mean the petition will be considered to be debated in parliament. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UKWe believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ... 098
Reposted by Angela JobsonEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and... 11678922021
Reposted by Angela JobsonJ Alley @alleyj.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Very wise words from @effinbirds.com 111015
Reposted by Angela JobsonAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3) 432659735
Reposted by Angela Jobsonthewomenslist.bsky.social @thewomenslist.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Not Drowning but Waving – ½ Hour – Caroline Mabey Viv (49, hormones raging) lives for her weekly cold water swim, but when she finds a body at the lake her life is turned upside down. Who was the dead man? Why does nobody else care? And how can she stop treading water and make her own life count? 012
Reposted by Angela JobsonJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/04/2026OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...mashable.comSinceerly is an AI tool to 'un-AI' your writingA new ouroboros in the tech world has emerged. 14357101327
Reposted by Angela JobsonThe Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I know some of my mutuals have a passion for railways, so, before we flog them, are any of you interested in any volumes of my dad's collection of railway magazines, as pictured, for a donation to charity? He'd have wanted them to go someone who appreciated them as much as he did. 21926
Angela Jobson @jobbbo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026In today's episode of Why does my tech not work: The transportation lock on the scanner is in the locked position. 010