Reposted by JessDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026“our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learning: if hacking gets rewarded, the system learns to hack" 13698206
Reposted by Jesselia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150253941
Reposted by JessChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you. 10464141088
Reposted by JessMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.aiddata.orgBefore reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learnedWhy we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports. 374412809
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026“Surprising” is a nice touch here. Wild that we’re so far down the rabbit hole with this stuff that companies can preface their customer assistance interface with “this might be wrong, who knows, good luck! :)” 020
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I just…if you don’t want to do all of this stuff, what is even the POINT? 072
Reposted by JessThe Ronettes Pickering @stoatie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf. 10588122980
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I’ve never actually seen Roger Rabbit but just want to applaud the adjectival use of “Jessican”. (Also the general message obv) 020
Reposted by JessKD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I could do the part of soccer that’s just falling over while looking aggrieved 1175
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 28/06/2026This whole thread is perfect but especially this. Fuck AI. 140
Reposted by JessDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/06/2026i dunno but using a machine that always regresses to the mean (llms) to simulate “diverse populations that are not readily accessible” seems the oppose of good science to me… no matter how popular it has become in behavioural sciences 734479
Reposted by JessKaren Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org 4525271122
Reposted by JessDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/05/2026this! people almost always ask me, especially after my talks, to comment on "something positive about ai"... my brother in christ, everything you hear about ai is nothing but positive. no need for me to add more 643778
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Amazing how quickly things drop out of the news these days. 110
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It’s like all my special interests are colliding (zoonotic outbreaks/remote expedition cruises/women’s health concerns being dismissed by medical professionals) 020
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Wish we could nominate people whose jobs would be taken by AI 050
Reposted by JessAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026herald subeditor: oh hey u guys are back early kevin mckenna: glasgow's woke herald subeditor: what? kevin mckenna: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* glasgow's woke 26022
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This whole story is absolutely wild, and so sad. I was on this exact journey, same company, same ship, in 2023, and went with the same ship to the Arctic last year: both absolutely incredible trips. Can imagine how terrible this must be for the passengers and the crew. 141
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Oof. I have been on this ship (twice) and can really imagine what this must be like. 010
Reposted by JessDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/04/2026like the global geo-political climate, public discourse around AI is fast deteriorating and I feel it everyday 1/ 118447
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Just a quick reminder that having a hereditary head of state is still retrogressive and undemocratic, even when he is very gently rebuking a despot who is allegedly our ally 160
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Weird that I’m so focused on this, but what a strange thing to say to someone three years younger than you 040
Reposted by JessGraeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I hear Iran are just weeks away from developing a ballroom. 10541170
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Some sort of social enterprise focusing on literacy and developing a culture of reading for kids from 3-12 or so 110
Reposted by JessDamien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 23/04/2026She went back in time to kill Hitler. She didn’t know she would fall in love … Coming this holiday season from Fox Searchlight, Kirsten Dunst and Jeremy Strong in 'Chancellor of a Lifetime'. 67115
Reposted by JessPatrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I wrote about why we should keep reading and writing www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...irishtimes.comPatrick Freyne: Here’s why AI is making us dumber and more lonelyWriting forces people to resolve internal contradictions and confront their own bullshit. It’s why it’s hard. It’s why it’s beautiful 313152
Reposted by JessShaun Manning @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT. 202625902
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Took me a long while to understand this too. Without wishing to blow my own trumpet (toot toot) I am great at prose and characterisation but broadly terrible at plot, which is why my first two novels were basically me colouring in a true story. 130
Reposted by JessJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 14/04/2026DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea... 5635081176
Reposted by Jessderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/04/2026first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note 667391196979
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Starting to feel like we are all involuntary participants in a D/s relationship with a humiliation fetish 010
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 09/04/2026This is such a great thread, and also highlights the extent to which the “male loneliness epidemic” is actually a sense of thwarted entitlement to women’s time, emotional labour, and bodies 040
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Hey America, maybe time to give up on the old “moral leadership” canard and just try being a normal country for a while? 130
Reposted by JessCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period. 391748468
Reposted by JessFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing. 403361735
Reposted by Jessfredesque @fredtaming.bsky.social · 01/04/2026[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this 2839091212
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 02/04/2026This shit is bleak but also I will continue to write novels from my actual brain until said brain is soup because crafting a novel is one of the single greatest joys in my life, and I will continue to read novels crafted by humans because if I didn’t I would wither and die. 141
Reposted by Jessalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2026idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry! 282152648
Reposted by JessKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 02/04/2026"All authors are using AI now! No, of course they are, they're just not saying so yet, but *everyone* is doing it so it's totally okay. You don't want to be left behind, do you? You're not uncool, are you?" --the slop shillers, sounding increasingly like drug pushers in a 1980s kids TV show 1029446
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Lolsob. "Iran's president remains Pezeshkian" is such an understated burn. 000
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026This is so good and so evocative. "When I think of my homeland before 2023, [...], I think of my wedding, where we invited a group of ‘foreigners’ and they found this country they knew so little about would become one of their favourite." <3 153
Reposted by JessIona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 30/03/2026There are currently more bananas on Orkney than there are people. “Tesco is also arranging to send bananas to the outer isles” ahhhhh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukOrkney banana bonanza after Tesco store orders 38,000 by mistakeAn ordering glitch has left Tesco in Kirkwall giving away boxes of the fruit for free to schools and community groups. 13418
Reposted by JessBabybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it 5401526012579
