Reposted by Kat Suricata.meow @dotmeow.org · 4hOut of curiosity, which is prettier: Athena, Aphrodite or Hera? I've got some fruit to sweeten the deal if that helps. 2920345
Reposted by Kat SuricataSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 20169972254
Reposted by Kat SuricataJake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter. 61201304
Reposted by Kat SuricataProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026DraftKings has argued that its ‘responsible gaming’ system provides adequate safeguards to protect customers from spiraling out of control. So I decided to find out: If I bet like a compulsive gambler, would DraftKings stop me? by Jake Pearsonpropublica.orgI Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro... 11589211
Reposted by Kat Suricataeva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026pro tip: doing this makes you seem like a heterodox freethinking sigma and your bros will appoint you pack leader 543564
Reposted by Kat SuricataFlo 🔶 @faz.ms · 28/09/2026The correct amount of regulation is not zero. You can demand regulation that applies specifically to big labs, slowing them but not open models, if regulatory capture is the concern. 3254
Reposted by Kat SuricataWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make. 13836228
Reposted by Kat SuricataTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such. 9824205
Reposted by Kat SuricataTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I am talking about working with people to even conceive of their lives as a set of tasks — that isn’t exactly natural and isn’t something we train people to do and yet its a precondition for figuring out what an agent would even *do*. 1197250
Reposted by Kat SuricataTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I participated in some public library ai courses. I’m telling you that the state of literacies and the complexity of lives deeply enmeshed in the bowels of late stage capitalism cannot find a use case for an agent & if they could, people don’t have the scaffolding to imagine one that could be useful 799881
Reposted by Kat SuricataDanny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My favorite part of this story—which calls into question whether or not a paper can objectively cover a mega-corporation it is partnered with—is how a rep from Meta contact one the journalists of this piece several times to request that they include favorable coverage of Meta. 37136
Reposted by Kat SuricataMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files 875328848234
Reposted by Kat SuricataFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Yes, Slutcon is real. And while there’s nothing wrong with this kind of event in perfect isolation, in the context of “women in Silicon Valley tech are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend,” it becomes very gross. (BTW, Gretta is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s partner). slutcon.com 451443149
Reposted by Kat SuricataJane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 27/09/2026well of course, the weird lesbians feuding in a rural massachusetts town is of far greater national significance than a group of men at one of the ivy league schools drugging and raping a woman and the school reducing the punishments for most of the men 841087
Reposted by Kat SuricataAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.socialpublicnotice.coThe view from Canada: Make America Think AgainRebuilding trust will take generations. 857122633178
Reposted by Kat SuricataProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.propublica.orgI Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro... 11938841486
Reposted by Kat SuricataTabbeigh Cat 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @tabbeigh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh hey, speaking of coffee discourse. If you're at an interview and they don't offer you water or coffee at some point, you're going to constantly be asked to do things without the proper tools for an insulting pay rate. I've found this to be true no matter what kind of job it is. 327640
Reposted by Kat Suricatamallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026good thing we are a very strategically minded group who will exploit this to end a decade-long trans panic instead of actively self-sabotaging the best shot we've had since it started.... haha....heh..... aha.. heheheee........ A̵͐̐̅̒̈́̓̈́̕Á̵A̸̢̹͈̯̞̘̫̘̫̲̘͂̽͌͑̿̒Ȁ̴̧̝̮̝̼͎̟̗͙̲̳̈͌͝ͅA̴͛̒̚Ȃ̵̙͕͙͕̞̰̆̉̔͆̀̆͘̚͠͝A̵̢͚̲̥͍͈̞̺̯̤͎̔̎͐̄̈́͒͘Ä̶́̇̑̓̈́̂̓̕A̸̧̨̨͙̠̦̪̩̪͇̼͒̈́̉̽́̑̕͝ͅA̸̡̛̭͑Ą̷̥̯̳͓͔̳͉̩̯̦̂͜͜Ã̶̧̖̬̭̤̱̰͉́̒A̶̐̅̅͒̐Ả̴́À̶̀̑̆̒̔͒͒̕͘͝Ã̷̎̾̚͝A̴͋͂̊͑͗̃̓́̀̀̄̽͝ 215520
Reposted by Kat Suricatamady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 24/09/2026I could never claim to have a fraction of the trauma of the women actually forced to be in prisons, but even just researching and writing on a few of the cases really broke me because of how horrific this shit really is, and how cruel and inhumane these prisons really are 012111
Reposted by Kat Suricatamady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 24/09/2026don't fucking do prison rape apologia in my mentions this shit isn't up for debate and I consider you the enemy if you can't overlook partisan biases to see how wretched these politicians are. Maryland does the same thing and Kamala Harris spent years fighting trans women in court.transnews.network"Absolute Terror”: Lawsuit Alleges Maryland Trans Prisoners Face Rape, Medical Detransition, Defied Court Orders, Retaliation, and Torture, Despite AG Brown’s Condemnation of Trump Prison PolicyGov. Moore's prisons defied a judge’s order to follow standards to keep a woman safe from rape, as AG Brown has mounted "vigorous" defense against her lawsuit and lawmakers sideline meaningful reform 114924
Reposted by Kat Suricatamady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 24/09/2026pretty disgusted with how I've had multiple queer people (who aren't trans women) come into my mentions and use mental gymnastics for some justification for appealing the original "house trans women with women by default" ruling just because the AG is a Democrat and surely he meant well. he didn't. 420142
Reposted by Kat SuricataEl Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The goal of a technofascist regime is to replace reporting with sycophancy and silence. The only guaranteed way to do that is to eliminate people." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social as always has me nodding my head & shaking my head in equal measure, not only great journalism but also beautiful writing. 13317
Reposted by Kat SuricataDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026Nothing will ever be enough for these people. 42305928
Reposted by Kat SuricataStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them. 471830300
Kat Suricata @katsuricata.com · 22/09/2026Google is requiring all Android developers to register centrally, pay a fee, and submit government ID. Apps from unregistered developers will be silently blocked. over 65 organizations oppose this. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.orgkeepandroidopen.orgKeep Android OpenYour phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them. 010
Reposted by Kat Suricataconfettie! @spacebeer.net · 21/09/2026listen i know ur gonna exhale loudly when i say this but it bears repeating: "SHE WOULD NOT BE HELD TO THIS MUCH SCRUTINY IF SHE WASN'T A TRANS WOMAN!" 332386617
Reposted by Kat Suricatamady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 21/09/2026Read about TESCREAL-ism, it will help you understand so much about the ideologies about the tech fascists taking over society dair-institute.org/projects/tes...dair-institute.orgThe TESCREAL BundleThe array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist. 0155
Reposted by Kat SuricataAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845842937
Reposted by Kat SuricataNash @radiodeadair.com · 19/09/2026Well that's weird. What about being known as an immigration agent would be publicly embarrassing? And why would being known by the public to be working for ICE deter them from enforcing immigration? Is the FBI saying the public doesn't support immigration policy? Nah, can't be. 1531889
Reposted by Kat Suricatamady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 19/09/2026a noteworthy modern corollary of this is that most liberals today see America as a great country that's been led astray by a single man (Trump) and that once he and MAGA are gone, the country will be fine. The issues are far deeper than just Trump. The entire capitalist class is waging war on us. 1599
Reposted by Kat SuricataSable, Final Girl 🏳️⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 19/09/2026only the democratic party could come into a midterm against a historically unpopular president and his wounded party, currently waging an unpopular war that threatens the entire global economy amidst multiple internal crises, and go "we should compromise our integrity to look more similar to them" 7552134
Reposted by Kat SuricataMatt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s... 19475116
Reposted by Kat SuricataGare Davis @bishonentype.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Be kind with people and ruthless with systems 018936
Reposted by Kat SuricataSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The federal government is actively monitoring *erections* now, but yeah, Democrats are the pro-Big Government party FFS 85625177
Reposted by Kat SuricataAlly Roth @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 19/09/2026There are officially too many trans girls named Katie. At least one of you is going to have to be cool with being called K Tizzle. 0283
Reposted by Kat Suricatasamhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 18/09/2026Suleyman: it is the capacity to feel pain that makes humans moral subjects, we must fund mechanistic interpretability studies to show LLMs can't feel pain and stop talk of AI consciousness once and for all mechanistic interpretability studies 48h later: arxiv.org/abs/2609.16247arxiv.orgThe Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve ItLarge language models sometimes behave in ways resembling human emotional responses, and recent work has identified internal representations that may explain this. We ask whether LLMs represent pain d... 812724
Kat Suricata @katsuricata.com · 18/09/2026“private youth jail” is such a pure encapsulation of capitalism’s evil. 010
Reposted by Kat Suricata404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op... 181375745
Reposted by Kat SuricataDave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing. 222572322
Reposted by Kat SuricataTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Gonna go out on a limb and suggest the loudest voices in the tech industry have very little grasp of the variety and complexity of the world outside their own industry, with a side dish of not understanding that to most people step one in furniture shopping is not "buy a CNC router and lathe" 33108485
Reposted by Kat Suricata404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.404media.coHackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and PeopleWhile people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. 13870743267
Kat Suricata @katsuricata.com · 16/09/2026uh, no. nurses and allied health professions need to be safe, but the solution is not—as it never is!—criminalizing mental illness, drug use, and delirium even harder. this is entirely on health systems. i have never worked for one that did even a half-decent job pretending to care about violence. 010
Reposted by Kat SuricataDarryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives. 2225831130
Kat Suricata @katsuricata.com · 16/09/2026“Private firms can’t compete against new city-run stores” good. perish. 🛠️ 040
Reposted by Kat SuricataKaleidic Riot @badmenbad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Look, it's one thing to believe in "sovereign nations" and "borders" as a child, but eventually you're supposed to grow up and become an anarchist. 016355
Reposted by Kat SuricataXenolandscapes @xenolandscapes.com · 16/09/2026The levels of blind moralism from the anti crowd are getting petty insane. Pro-AI people can be somewhat condescending, annoying, or pushy, but I've only ever seem antis pull put the really vile shit. 011