Reposted by Jonathan StephensTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 20hFriends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....dair-institute.orgSurveillance WatchThis interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. 3216133
Reposted by Jonathan StephensRobin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Remember this @404media.co report about the Vegas Amazon facility destroying rare books? Today in my AI class, one of my students realized we were talking about the facility where he had worked. He had no idea what the purpose of the book scanning was - they were told they couldn't know.404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 0158
Reposted by Jonathan StephensErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Friday! If you or anyone you know needs help in these times when promoting your stuff is all on you and it can be such a grind. www.eventbrite.com/e/self-promo...eventbrite.comSelf-Promotion ClinicWe will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there. 1118
Reposted by Jonathan Stephens✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026This country is horrifying 822080
Reposted by Jonathan StephensDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogueDecision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways 20815322
Reposted by Jonathan StephensJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/09/20269-year-old: What do birds eat? Husband: Mostly bugs and worms. 9: That's not nice! Me: It's the circle of life. We eat birds, and birds eat worms... Husband: And worms eat us. 9: What!??!? 162159
Reposted by Jonathan StephensDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Think my students will notice? 1223222
Reposted by Jonathan StephensLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They didn’t go fucking rogue, they were put in a leaky box and given bad instructionsnytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education Department, Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission. 13408100
Reposted by Jonathan StephensJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892863055
Reposted by Jonathan StephensPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073072278
Reposted by Jonathan StephensChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026GenAI involvement would lead to a different result that was more detached from a deep engagement with my intellectual positions, point of view, and capacity to use the work of others. And if it would impact me, an award-winning author, in that way, consider what it does to people who are learning. 19311
Reposted by Jonathan StephensGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/09/2026admitting you were wrong about something costs you absolutely nothing and i wish more people understood that. i train people for a living, i get things wrong live and in real time in front of people to whom it matters a lot for their jobs, acknowledgement is always better than denial. 1247961
Reposted by Jonathan Stephens✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026Everyone who says that the current war is inconsequential, police are not funded enough, that AI is an innovative boon, or flatly refuses to acknowledge that there is a recession or depression, economic or otherwise, always comes across as this. 735897
Reposted by Jonathan StephensStef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A list of online free, no login no install utility tools, to handle text, files conversions, but also help you with construction, finance, cooking and more. There is even a dice roller, with modifier! www.normaltools.com/tools/dice-r...normaltools.comNormal Tools — Useful online tools, no nonsenseSmall, useful online tools that work directly in your browser. 14614
Reposted by Jonathan StephensThe Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 20/09/2026The Flytrap's content is 100% human-made and we are so proud of that! This will never ever change, but to continue doing this work, we need your support. And right now, you can support us by getting an annual subscription at 40% off. f.mtr.cool/96kd0qvk11 1124
Reposted by Jonathan StephensCrip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I reposted & commented on an @aptnnews.bsky.social story about this a week or two ago. Looks like the CBC has followed up. You should know about how AI is being used to steal the work of indigenous writers, repackage it via LLM, conceal the theft behind fake pics & then steal traffic & income. 04221
Reposted by Jonathan StephensChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026Certainly there can be a temptation to name a range of other empiricisms to go with it, and I have always felt that people could have more to say about it, but I think it's important to recognize "white empiricism" as a structural feature built around a power structure, not individual identities 237847
Reposted by Jonathan StephensShannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As a human being, I think this is a horrifying. As a history teacher, I think this is horrifying AND Wow, what clear primary source about Congress's surrender to technofascism in 2026. 0103
Reposted by Jonathan StephensThe Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"You're on the Island of Conclusions. Make yourself at home. You're apt to be here for some time." "But how did we get here?" asked Milo, who was still a bit puzzled by being there at all. "You jumped, of course," explained Canby. "That's the way most everyone gets here." 0143
Reposted by Jonathan StephensMisa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A 32-hour work week would make the workplace more accessible to many disabled people and allow full-time employment for those unable to work a full 40 hours. A shorter work week would also allow for increased flexibility for appointments, symptom management, and self-care without missing time. 1308
Reposted by Jonathan StephensStimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 16/09/2026Stimpunks is not only stimpunks.org. Five smaller sites, each doing one thing the big site cannot. All free, all open-licensed, all made with Helen Edgar. We built them one at a time for a year and never said so in one place. Now we have. stimpunks.org/2026/09/15/o... 076
Reposted by Jonathan StephensMonteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tipshowtovote.tipsHow to Vote / Cómo VotarA free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print. 1376200
Reposted by Jonathan StephensChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026"Defund the police" in action 724842
Reposted by Jonathan StephensUAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil. Scientific colonialism meant that the people there received nothing. Here's what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied. ca.news.yahoo.com/billion-doll...ca.news.yahoo.comA billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studiedCancer. Diabetes. Aging itself. Rapamycin’s potential to treat an array of diseases has been a source of scientific fascination. But many aren’t aware of its origins – and its complicated legacy. 13721
Reposted by Jonathan Stephensc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026You're watching a sand bubbler crab hard at work. And bubbler crabs have one job: make balls. Lots of balls. With your mouth parts. They're filter-feeders/detrivores, combing through damp sand for microscopic food & the balls let them organize the "cleaned" sand so they don't nom it twice. 19879177
Reposted by Jonathan StephensStephanie Rewis @stefsull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Stochastic terrorism… Was it scripted? Maybe. That doesn’t change the effect. What is the reference to Mamdani’s “seize the means of production?” I’ve never heard anything like that from him… Is that made up out of whole cloth, or is there a tiny seed they pulled that from? 031
Reposted by Jonathan Stephens🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Sustainability. Diversity of resources Most of this is covered in DEI and Labor concerns which is the first thing AI and the right attacked . Marginalized people were not lying about how the homogeneity of these areas was dangerous . the tech isn’t the thing the hierarchy is 1379
Reposted by Jonathan StephensJacky Alciné @jacky.wtf · 11/09/2026HUH?! WHAT?!404media.coCEO Attempted to Navigate Anti-LGBT Hate Incident By Telling Employees His Mentor Was a KKK MemberRecordings show that while he was the CEO of Digital Ocean, Yancey Spruill told staff that they should bend their values because "we love the company." 1523545
Reposted by Jonathan StephensAnna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 11/09/2026I gave a guest lecture at my Alma mater today about accessibility and inclusive design. Most of the time, the students were interested in how I’m navigating this work in this current anti-DEIA climate And I was just as honest as I could be, I explained how hard it’s been but also why I feel hope. 1233
Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us · 11/09/2026Today's emergent agenda: - trip to the dump - brunch of soup & soup dumplings - piles of clothes - folding sorted piles - packing ←→ weighing/vacuuming - zip suitcases - ? - new tattoo - French dip sandwich & artichoke dip - dog poop walk - sleep Currently: about to start packing 001
Reposted by Jonathan StephensIndi Young @indiyoung.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Skyline is for seeing where to think. Gaps, opportunities. Pull together all yout signals and layer them on one Skyline. 121
Reposted by Jonathan StephensShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I used Google Reader back in the day, then migrated everything to Feedly when Reader ☠️ in 2013, then *tried* to move all my newsletters and updates to RSS — but it’s been incredibly frustrating to discover just how non-RSS-compliant so much of the web is. We need more simple tech interoperability! 3567
Reposted by Jonathan StephensChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026Wake up fam! New bombs dropping, literally. Marc Andreesen and Peter Thiel at it again, with factories in the US, Germany, and Israel Their target? The company says China. 🤡cnbc.comAndreessen- and Thiel-backed defense startup opens U.S. missile factory as it exits stealthFounded in 2024, Covenant is speeding up lower-cost missile manufacturing for the U.S. military. 812765
Reposted by Jonathan Stephens🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Now we need a cross reference of every paper/ book that cited this and how it was used 22612
Reposted by Jonathan StephensPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars 141598359
Reposted by Jonathan Stephenss. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 09/09/2026There are so many amazing graphic novels and autobiographies coming out these days, and I love how so many authors and artists are bringing such intimacy to the work!reactormag.comCultural Context, Joy, and Community: Lunar Boy and the Realities of Queer Experience in the Global South - ReactorLessons in authentic, joyful, deeply necessary representation from an award-winning graphic novel. 0167
Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us · 08/09/2026Skyward Sword is next on my list of games—havent played that since I borrowed a TV and a Wii to play back in 2011. Spent a week of after work time, beat it, then returned all the assets. Curious to see it on the Switch and play at a more leisurely pace. 111
Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us · 08/09/2026I'm nearing "completionist" status on Tears of the Kingdom right now...surprisingly nice & relaxing wandering space. But Ocarina of Time: excited to play a remaster and experience it again. Played the GameCube's Extra Hard version, back in the day...never finished. Curious is remaster has it :) 210
Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us · 08/09/2026It was 9 hours more. And for the "get something that tells the stories decently and shows capabilities for role at minimum...and makes sense." Phew. Nearly 25–30hrs total. 000
Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us · 08/09/2026fonts.google.com/specimen/Dat...fonts.google.comDatatype - Google Fonts 100
Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us · 08/09/2026There are some fonts that can do it for you quick and dirty like. DataType—I think is the name—works well for very simple things. 111
Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us · 06/09/2026Had a surprise interview this past week, and they asked for a portfolio to proceed... Just passed the 15-hr mark of writing up the last 3–4 years of significant work... Hoping to finish with 3–5 hours more. 100