Reposted by KelyetarTuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places: 1521465010121
Reposted by KelyetarBénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Really interesting Table from @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social about how well the two COVID-19 originhypotheses explain the evidence we already? There are a lot more pieces of evidence the lab leak hypothesis CANNOT explain that the zoonotic one can. www.protagonist-science.com/p/biased-med... 12710
Reposted by KelyetarDan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 24/08/2026My grandfather was part of the peer review process for “racial realism”…. He made specialist parts for B-24 bombers so that other members of the peer review team could bomb the hell out of Nazi Germany 1730346
Kelyetar @kelyetar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Yeah, this maxim kinda breaks in the Trump era, which is characterized by a mix of malicious stupidity and stupid malice. 010
Reposted by Kelyetarrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The thing I worry about is that the "knowing what to delegate to it safely" thing is a function of deep familiarity with the process that takes seniority and experience to develop, and I can see the potential of junior folks not developing that underlying knowledge-- 3584
Reposted by KelyetarThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 22/06/2026We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack. Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it. So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn't complicated. He’s weak. Finish him. 31651151713
Reposted by KelyetarReo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 03/06/2026There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding. 267142172846
Reposted by KelyetarDr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 31/05/2026Love this bit on Ai from the Royal Society. A classic case of the probability engine getting itself in a mess and revealing its complete lack of understanding 13537211
Reposted by KelyetarAlex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK 6085401416198
Reposted by KelyetarLana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026If you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...kucharski.substack.comReal signals or artificial stereotypes?Adventures with a cultural Copilot 416253
Reposted by Kelyetarjesse, head of endorsement deals at BOOingo Wireless @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED 8140313101
Reposted by KelyetarWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 16/05/2026My first story for @theatlantic.com is about how ed tech slop is taking over American classrooms. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...theatlantic.comMy Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just PokémonEducation games are taking over American classrooms. 12398131
Reposted by KelyetarDimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Ukraine’s President decree: “Allow a parade to be held on May 9, 2026 in the city of Moscow” 2639886
Reposted by KelyetarKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026"Normally a human being can't get barnacles, but apparently I'm special. They had to bring in a team of scientists from the Coast Guard to scrub them off me." 640331
Reposted by KelyetarTW @twesq.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ. 1664501587
Reposted by KelyetarNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Ball room is a bipartisan preoccupation, as we know from recordings of LBJ's calls to his tailor 221280209
Reposted by Kelyetars. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/04/2026Obligatory note that "AI" has become toxic because people consider it synonymous with generative AI, when it's really about a broader category of machine learning. But this is a case where you absolutely cannot put this one back in the bottle: "AI" is forever tainted and that's just how it is. 841656
Reposted by Kelyetars. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/04/2026Hopefully this will encourage the companies who have been doing interesting, cool, innovative, and really useful machine learning work for decades to stop trying to cash in on the AI hype by recasting all their products as "AI innovations" before the bubble pops. 328024
Reposted by Kelyetarescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026"You're laughing. All of the insane Gulf petrostate dictators are getting their dicks smashed in the car door repeatedly by the idiot THEY SPECIFICALLY bribed at every turn to act in their interests but he's a fucking moron and so it's Car Door Time, Forever, and you're laughing" remains in effect! 435755
Reposted by Kelyetarshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous. 101167023378
Reposted by KelyetarHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 21/04/2026"The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true. They may be hoping this because it makes them feel important, or because they want to be billionaires, or because they simply do not understand other people."theverge.comSilicon Valley has forgotten what normal people wantDid the tech industry get high on its own supply? 619457
Reposted by KelyetarWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/04/2026More than the other stuff it’s his shocking stupidity that is breaking the whole world. It turns out the guy who can’t finish a sentence or understand basic concepts wasn’t good at wars or diplomacy. Imagine that. 425216
Reposted by KelyetarWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Trump is a criminal, and a terrible human, and a narcissist, but the quality that is going to end up defining him is that he is extraordinarily stupid and doesn’t have even a thin grasp of the issues he’s meddling in. He’s like one of those inbred medieval kings who is incapacitated. 2372694
Reposted by KelyetarWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/04/2026And what makes me angry beyond words is that his complete stupidity was obvious all the way back to day one, but it’s the one thing about him even his enemies won’t say out loud. There has been a universal conspiracy of silence around this in US politics - Republicans, Democrats, media. 527017
Reposted by KelyetarMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Reflections on the Claude Code source code leak from @techtrenches.dev “The leak isn’t the story. The code is the story.”techtrenches.devClaude Code's Source: 3,167-Line Function, Regex SentimentAnthropic claimed 100% of Claude Code is AI-written. A source leak exposed a 3,167-line function, regex sentiment analysis, and 250K wasted API calls daily 8302109
Reposted by KelyetarMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I met a guy a few months ago who owns a small consultancy specializing in IT emergencies. When things go horribly wrong & nobody on staff can fix it, he’s who you call. In the past year, he essentially has a bidding war for his services every week. This👇is effectively what he does now. 526354
Reposted by KelyetarJason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI. 7629291044
Reposted by Kelyetarjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/03/2026this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies 10394881777
Kelyetar @kelyetar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Speaking as a former miserable loser: Yeah. Because at some point, being miserable is the only thing you know you're good at. And I (thankfully) had some help pulling out of the downward spiral. It'll be harder without. 001
Reposted by Kelyetar🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 06/03/2026Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing 621884270
Reposted by KelyetarJames Felix Black @tft.io · 06/03/2026You need terraform and Claude to initiate a career limiting database drop? That’s amateur hour shit, man. 31789
Reposted by KelyetarIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM 126178735897
Reposted by KelyetarChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/02/2026“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up! 330121872820
Reposted by KelyetarLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’ 7881582203
Reposted by Kelyetarvanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026"why are these rich freaks so bad at writing emails?" because they've never had to be good enough at it to keep paying rent 14812141
Reposted by KelyetarLow Frequency Ovipositor @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026 25155575654
Reposted by KelyetarPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/11/2025/2 That kind of knowledge is what I have in the place where others have a capacity to interact comfortably with fellow human beings. 3073414
Reposted by KelyetarSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 12/11/2025the fact that being really into eugenics appears to sort people for being shitty human is kind of amazing. like there is, in theory, room to be super interested in the area in principle and not be a shitty human being, but the correlation is robust 1831631
Reposted by KelyetarDan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms. 121619236
Reposted by KelyetarMicah @rincewind.run · 20/10/2025just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns 141442186
Reposted by Kelyetarjohnrennhack.bsky.social @johnrennhack.bsky.social · 23/08/2025You mean an all-expenses paid book tour where he talked about himself? 101
Reposted by KelyetarMicah @rincewind.run · 05/08/2025new rule: if your opinion column’s premise can be answered immediately with the word “no” you aren’t allowed to write it 432442323
Reposted by KelyetarGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Pretty much throughout history we have people in powerful positions who are bad at their job or good at their job. Trump 2.0 is the only Administration ever filled with people who are literally trying to accomplish the opposite of what the job was created to do. It’s not like anything else. 1588
Reposted by KelyetarGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/06/2025The whole fucking point of rights is that you don’t have to sue the government to obtain them 312026
Reposted by KelyetarJen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen. 56109383684
Reposted by KelyetarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025best way to prove you're not miss piggy is to lash out violently after having your vanity bruised 319612
Reposted by KelyetarShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/05/2025this whole "did my own research" thing is so silly because everything else apart, if you gave a shit about this subject you would have already been doing research instead of waiting to start when it trended on your social media. You are not researching. You're fadding. You must accept this. 527424