Reposted by kitty standard timeHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026Every big tech company is attempting to normalize some form of always listening, recording, and/or watching. It’s the only way to sell a product that people largely don’t want but companies are heavily invested in. 821394
Reposted by kitty standard timejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026yeah, this stuff is far from my area of expertise, but i have yet to see anyone convincingly explain how the causal chain is supposed to operate here. it feels like the "AI will kill us all people" spent too much time watching Terminator 2 and the Animatrix. 3702550297
Reposted by kitty standard timeJohn Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Just saw someone saying that Breath of the Wild is old enough now that there are adults for whom that would have been their childhood Zelda. Time is stupid. 5744
Reposted by kitty standard timePlant Good Seed @plantgoodseed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026garlic seed for planting aka really high quality bulb stock is now available at plantgoodseed.com! five offerings this year: sicilian softneck, silver rose softneck, pyongyang hardneck, donostia red hardneck and the venerable applegate artichoke. all certified organic #🧄 #🌱 0133
Reposted by kitty standard timeHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026The potential downside of the focus on Flock is that people don’t recognize it as a singular entity within an entire landscape of companies creating the surveillance state.npr.orgAs Flock battles public scrutiny, other police surveillance companies see an openingDozens of cities have canceled their contracts with Flock. Some are switching to other companies, but privacy experts say they're no better than Flock. 511952
Reposted by kitty standard timeBas @escapismstudio.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Read a piece by @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social on how AI chatbots are changing relationships and felt compelled to make this. 162
Reposted by kitty standard timeBenn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It's 105°f out in Dallas. Why isn't anyone swimming? 2128443
Reposted by kitty standard timeЗИТА. @zinoky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026On August 19, Orthodox Christians celebrate the Transfiguration of the Lord. In folk tradition, this day is known as Apple Savior. Apples grow in southern Siberia. 210915
Reposted by kitty standard timee (they/them) @certificates.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"if you're not explicitly asking me to weigh in with my opinion, why are you posting online?" 182
kitty standard time @kittystandardtime.bsky.social · 15/08/2026killing the earth to consolidate wealth for like four to 10 people can elicit moral panic im okay with that 000
Reposted by kitty standard timeyung quaibo @videoteca-nod.org · 15/08/2026pro-AI boosterism is firmly rooted in denial of fossil fuel-powered climate disaster, hope this helps 0351
Reposted by kitty standard timeGreg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Once again: AI is, non-metaphorically, a religion. These people believe in a fundamentalist way that they're a chosen people—so they can do whatever the fuck they want to do. The present-day impact of your actions on others doesn't matter when you're infallibly chosen as Savior in the World to Come 0291107
Reposted by kitty standard timeAndrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 03/08/2026NEW: ICE has drastically increased the number of people from whom it’s collecting DNA to enter into an FBI criminal database, including children as young as 4 and 5. @dmehro.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...wired.comICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young ChildrenInternal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever. 06042
Reposted by kitty standard timeKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/07/2026there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue" 1. product marketing misrepresentation 2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money 3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation 4. distracts from technofascism 5. distances execs from accountability 6291128
Reposted by kitty standard timeTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026Bernie hasn't tried this on here yet but here he is doing free marketing for OpenAI. He has been captured by the worst people in AI for a few years now and has been parroting company hype talking points instead of guarding against them. It’s like the public is being assaulted from all sides. 12497137
kitty standard time @kittystandardtime.bsky.social · 13/07/2026give thx to the anonymous indians who make it all possible. 000
kitty standard time @kittystandardtime.bsky.social · 12/07/2026ai is gr8 if u wanna be spreadsheet 000
Reposted by kitty standard timeOjai's Organic Mayor @ojaimayor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I wish world bank happened every four years and teams of financial wizards played against each other to impoverish each other's countries with increasingly complex contracts and loans 022
Reposted by kitty standard timePrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/07/2026www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/p...themarshallproject.orgMade in America: The Products of U.S. Prison Labor Are All Around UsA project by photographer Daniella Zalcman shows the casual prevalence of goods made by prison labor in public and private spaces. 411362
Reposted by kitty standard timeDreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Nature's colorful good night.... 113223
Reposted by kitty standard timeHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026Every one of these guys: Totalitarianism is good bro, trust me. 22451101
Reposted by kitty standard timeAditya M @almostinfamous.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Welcome to the age of Nepomaxxing 58223
Reposted by kitty standard timeHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026“We can’t live a full dignified life — with the ability to question authority, have different relationships with people, test ideas [and] blow off steam — if we don’t have private communication.”bloomberg.comSignal's Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass SurveillanceThe president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance. 1459195
Reposted by kitty standard timeHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Remember that we can do lots of amazing things. Don't fall for the nihilism of the ruling class just because *they* cannot imagine a world in which we solve our problems and build a future. 0125
kitty standard time @kittystandardtime.bsky.social · 17/06/2026if ur not a number do u even exist? 010
Reposted by kitty standard timeHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/06/2026Meta is being rather obvious about their allegiance to authoritarian structures while also trying to claim their products are a cool and fun way for people to enjoy their freedoms. These two things are not compatible. 18722
Reposted by kitty standard timederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026you guys go ahead. I'm going to go into the john and will meet you guys at the performing arts 733783271
Reposted by kitty standard timederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026IMO, hosting this MMA event at the WH is part of a larger project to rebrand the GOP as a populist party, shedding the Alex P Keaton stereotype it once carried. And in doing so, make them seem like the right party for working class people, even as they cut taxes for the rich & slash social services 3126595901
Reposted by kitty standard timeJosh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviewsbloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 5352168
kitty standard time @kittystandardtime.bsky.social · 31/05/2026“However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI. But you still keep letting it do your writing for you, as if I won’t be able to tell. Listen: I can tell. I can always tell. You think I won’t notice, but I will. There’s no hiding from me.” 💛 open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...open.substack.comIf you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill youDid you think I wouldn’t be able to tell? I can tell. 000
Reposted by kitty standard timeAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026everything in american politics boils down to this 17571228
Reposted by kitty standard timeAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Trump in Beijing on Fox interview : Taiwan, iran, soybeans, oil, semiconductors, boeing www.foxnews.com/video/639577... bsky.app/profile/70sb...foxnews.comSpecial Report with Bret Baier - Friday, May 15 | Fox News VideoSpecial Report, President Trump, Interview, China Relations, Iran Conflict, Trade Deals, Nuclear Threat, 011
Reposted by kitty standard timeMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul LevinClaims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions 0124
Reposted by kitty standard timeCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't. 992272966878
Reposted by kitty standard timeThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Odd Showers (1870) — An odd little book about frogs and fishes raining down from the sky and the reasons why they do so: buff.ly/3o3tHCg 18118
Reposted by kitty standard timeSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026“Forcing” 782441397
Reposted by kitty standard timeSam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/05/2026inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools" 6436180
Reposted by kitty standard timealec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 30/04/2026We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: civilrightscorps.org/wp-content/u...civilrightscorps.org 5429136
Reposted by kitty standard timeQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 26/04/2026the alex karp hack: write a book, wait fourteen months, drag the PDF into claude and ask for it as a multi-part manifesto, repost. 45811
Reposted by kitty standard timeali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 23/04/2026one of the guys at the sticker place took some of the test prints and put them on his car 🥰 59717
kitty standard time @kittystandardtime.bsky.social · 23/04/2026its almost like the fascism was in built and impled from the start i dunno maybe cld be too strong of a take www.reuters.com/sustainabili...reuters.comExclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training dataMeta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad i... 100
kitty standard time @kittystandardtime.bsky.social · 22/04/2026“The thesis of the book is, effectively, Palantir loves getting big contracts from the Department of Defense. And when you think about it, doesn’t that make Palantir kind of heroic?” 🫡🫡🫡🇺🇸💵 000
Reposted by kitty standard timeQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/04/2026We wrote a Japanese noise band LP 812412
Reposted by kitty standard timeQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 16/04/2026The backlash has arrived 201422356
Reposted by kitty standard timeDreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The beginnings of purple... 17710
Reposted by kitty standard timeElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/04/2026After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgEFF is Leaving XAfter almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 509148622755
