Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 37mThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 48746214
Reposted by Petra Kaminen Mosheremily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 25mit’s weird how every rented apartment just comes with one of these now. 613612
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherCaptain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 11hFor demonstration purposes, assume a casual group social setting with multiple cishet dudes, of which “You” are one. Schrödinger’s Jokester: [drops a horrible turd in the conversational punch bowl] Former Coward You: [silence or nervous laughter] New Vibe-Killer You: “Yiiikes. WTF, man?” 112210
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherCaptain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 11hAnd, good news for the peacemakers & middle children who just want everyone to get along, there *is* a handy test for whether someone who made the out-of-pocket “joke” or whatever is a predator kidding on the square or a salvageable one-off mistake. But to run it, *you* must speak up. 11245
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that. 9764251086
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 21hHuman rights groups have now filed a landmark case with the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights regarding state-backed Wagner/Africa Corps crimes. russia uses state-sponsored violence and looting to fund its global campaigns and project military influence. www.hrw.org/news/2026/08....hrw.orgMali: Russia’s ‘Africa Corps’ Massacres VillagersRussian government-controlled Africa Corps’ forces summarily killed nine civilians, including four children, and beat dozens of others in central Mali in early July 2026. 17420
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherMikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 21hTässä memi nyt alle 3 viikkoa ja Orpon lupaus siitä, kuinka sähkön hinta ei nouse, suli kuin lumiukko Saharassa. 1019433
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherOlli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 21hVielä suurempi ihme on se, että niin monet muut yrittäjät äänestävät kokoomusta, joka aina tekee kaikkensa, jotta yrityksen ovesta astuisi sisälle mahdollisimman vähän maksavia asiakkaita, mieluiten ei koskaan yhtä ainoaa. 0245
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 12431291280
Reposted by Petra Kaminen Moshervortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 23hAnyway, the tech companies shouldn't be trusted to make computer software that touches your private data, and themselves, their very employees, are warning you not to trust it and that it will be existentially threatening to you if you do. 24912
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherLish McBride @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh, it’s even worse. To be very clear—I support trans people and think this whole thing is bullshit. But title 9 also creates a pathway on campuses and federal spaces for people who have been sexually harassed, stalked and assaulted to be protected and seek investigation. 216064
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's kinda funny the way this article describes how a model being unsafe -- ignoring guardrails, pretending to have done things it didn't, not following user instructions -- also makes a model a shitty consumer product 1326662
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherJussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Kyllä ne voitot sieltä tulee! #talous #yhteiskunta 4245
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick. 8641179
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US 23846232
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherChristopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, of course it's not all men, but if for their safety many women decide to treat all men as guilty until proven innocent, respect that this caution comes from the very real threat posed by men, and the system that is constructed to let them get away with being monsters. 222320
Reposted by Petra Kaminen Mosher#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026The ICJ decisively rebuked the Israeli argument that occupation of Gaza ended in 05 by establishing that the control test does not limit itself to the physical presence of troops on every street cornernews.un.orgIsrael’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory ‘unlawful’: UN world courtThe UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday declared that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory “is unlawful”, and that “all States are under an obligation not to... 131485
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136032881
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The tweet that immediately came to mind: 221717394
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/09/2026A strike by a Russian drone destroyed Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv. The FT witnessed several people scrambling for safety and climbing out of third-floor windows. ft.trib.al/fTb72h2 413684
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherBoo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 28/09/2026Everyone who has taken one semester of economics knows that Trump doesn't understand trade on even the most basic level. I'd go further and that he doesn't even understand the concept of money. He genuinely believes that exchanging pay for goods or services means *he's getting ripped off.* 22610
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherMolly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again" 281003131
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherCyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026For everyone still stuck, we've got you: archive.org/details/myst... 722817
Petra Kaminen Mosher @kaminenmosher.art · 28/09/2026Tis now the season of "the act of turning on that light will offend the teenager who is a creature of the middling dark room." 020
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherBoxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 27/09/2026The issue isn't even just STEM vs humanities, it's parts of STEM as well. Someone can study an engineering discipline, or pure mathematics, and get absolutely no grounding in the natural sciences and empirical methodology. That's how we got mechinterp. 2152
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I have fairly strong opinions of that kind of system, actually: India has this system, where you "decide" early STEM or humanities early on, and the perception is STEM="intelligent" students, humanities=not. The STEM branch rarely get any humanities, and are taught they don't need it. I genuinely.. 59924
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherBoxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 27/09/2026Anthropic having the gall to call their pile of circular reasoning and magical thinking "On the Biology of a Large Language Model" says it all, really. 1193
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026basic observations about this story... 1. anthropic and OAI have zero credibility to protest that they didn't engage in plagiarism; these are manifestly dishonest organizations. the effect of them engaging in first-party research is just acting as wreckers. 18114
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/20262. you'd have to be a huge fucking idiot to hand all of your work to some startup who is in the mass data harvesting business but pinky promises they won't steal your data. 3. a lot of people with advanced degrees seem to be huge fucking idiots 110628
Reposted by Petra Kaminen Mosher Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026Claude making a scientific discovery 182082478
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892105853
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherSir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This will either be incredibly dumb and pointless OR incredibly dumb and ruin all of our lives (even further) There is no in between 219932
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime. 363566824
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherMatt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A lot of people really need to recognize that the adage “water finds its level” is completely accurate to why Sanders continually surrounds himself with cranks. It’s not because he’s easily fooled or his staff is bad a vetting people; he’s one of them. Arguably always has been. 518335
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherMike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then... 18762174
Petra Kaminen Mosher @kaminenmosher.art · 26/09/2026Green Bowl (3), acrylic on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, 2016. Available at www.taiko.art/petrakaminen... #painting #art 171
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ok so anyone who is treating Yudkowsky as an expert should be forced to explain Roko’s Basilisk and why he took it seriously 2047684
Reposted by Petra Kaminen Mosherevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons. 431414333
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherPeoria Bummer @peoriabummer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Weird how the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient gets hundreds of millions of dollars from Texas Instruments every year. 221311
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5742871168
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherJames Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Two nights in a row! Much moodier Emo #sunset tonight #Hawaii 1819
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherAarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026Industrial red meat prices are high, diesel could cost 3 euros per litre soon and we should reduce flying to balance the jet fuel markets. #Sufficiency would buffer the situation if it fit the incumbent economic ideology. It does not, so we react to problems instead of addressing them. 1153
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026Being really enthusiastic about new technology and our scientific and technology industries was the USA’s brand for what, the entire 20th century? And seems like over the course of about 20 years, big tech and our abject failure to meaningfully regulate it has pretty successfully lit that on fire. 1042662
Reposted by Petra Kaminen MosherJolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Walked in on the cat making yet another podcast; tiptoed back out. #nzpets 22663110