Reposted by Kim ShumwayBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10hEveryone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail. 20885902781
Reposted by Kim ShumwayMicah @rincewind.run · 17hgetting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week 553907779
Reposted by Kim Shumwayillumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 16hlol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd. 14660191039
Reposted by Kim ShumwayArden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 19hIf you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole. 2454572004
Reposted by Kim ShumwayJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18hThe rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you. 251450385
Reposted by Kim ShumwayPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14hNot to worry, I know a guy who will sell you some copper on the cheapmastodon.socialDan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in s... 67113
Reposted by Kim ShumwayTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 18hThis is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 38111162862
Reposted by Kim ShumwayDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17hI've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 233163514348
Reposted by Kim ShumwayBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years. 252032741
Reposted by Kim ShumwayJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 02/10/2026“We can do as many crimes as we want so long as we say it was software and pay for a few PACs” is an absolutely insane way to run a society. 015450
Reposted by Kim ShumwayBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 2349611152
Reposted by Kim ShumwayTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 9404166
Reposted by Kim ShumwayEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 11941401
Reposted by Kim ShumwayJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1525345805
Reposted by Kim ShumwayTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record peopletechcrunch.comCalifornia governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record peopleThe California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones. 149744286
Reposted by Kim ShumwayPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo 442782386
Reposted by Kim ShumwayBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3242401129
Reposted by Kim ShumwayEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing 202924543
Reposted by Kim ShumwayJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119114682848
Reposted by Kim ShumwayThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them. 441711334
Reposted by Kim ShumwayCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11470912039
Reposted by Kim ShumwaySusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states 124711143
Reposted by Kim ShumwayRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 153163975531
Reposted by Kim ShumwayKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is” 303187679
Reposted by Kim ShumwayAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030631078
Reposted by Kim ShumwayMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows 543114570
Reposted by Kim ShumwaySaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.” 5733233
Reposted by Kim ShumwayThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko. 1763292412
Reposted by Kim ShumwayKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling himkarlbode.comMeta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious MessAuthoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable 512066819
Reposted by Kim ShumwayDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895441936
Reposted by Kim ShumwayJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US 23857234
Reposted by Kim ShumwayHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134133769
Reposted by Kim ShumwayAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 343124334616
Reposted by Kim ShumwayAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.abcnews.comDistrict attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity. 31397376
Reposted by Kim ShumwayTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions. 141210615
Reposted by Kim ShumwayCasey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026God I hate being right. 141534416
Reposted by Kim ShumwayEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin... 17341481398
Reposted by Kim Shumwayevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001928998
Reposted by Kim ShumwayVoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.” 6855131015
Reposted by Kim ShumwayJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT? 342033665
Reposted by Kim ShumwayKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen 252863660
Reposted by Kim Shumwaym @keptsimple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I noticed last year that sweetgreen pivoted to MAHA when it started advertising seed oil-free french fries. Going MAHA is what a failing restaurant chain does now to get free advertising. 211072143
Reposted by Kim Shumwaysianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world. 1374170
Reposted by Kim ShumwayEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes. 531821310
Reposted by Kim ShumwayMoira 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. 353578832