Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 2hchecked my shit and it’s basically just paraphrasing my purchase history from the last 2 years to make it sound like my purchases are personality traits - e.g. “organizes living spaces systematically” (because… I bought some bins) - which is its own kind of weird and disturbing 100
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀zoë @zo-e.xyz · 3hwonder how many resources Amazon has burned to get the LLM equivalent of "I enjoy movies" 1143
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2hThis is a serious article. Unrelated, if I find out that a platform has tagged me as “has flat buttocks” let’s just you say you won’t have to worry about rebuilding the consumer financial protection bureau. Talk about insult to injury… 516930
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 6hParamount doing everything they can to make absolutely certain I drop my HBO subscription 100
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6hI’m glad more people are pointing this out. I talked about it it a few weeks ago w/ @janus.bsky.social Companies are attempting a sleight of hand where they capture data but argue because of how it’s processed it’s not “recording” and is thus private. They are still surveillance devices!theverge.comWe can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’Soon, asking “Does this device have a camera?” won’t be good enough. 6280119
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀MPR News @mprnews.org · 05/10/2026Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal building.mprnews.orgCatch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tacticMultiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin... 37661411
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026Since July 27, brave people have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree to block the construction of Trump's border wall, which is destroying the region's ecology. This morning, Border Patrol raided the camp, arresting a number of people and killing the tree. Background: crimethinc.com/lochielcrimethinc.comThe Border is an Open WoundA report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall. 3171144
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026I uhhhh… i don't like it that NPR is increasingly captured by effective altruists and "AI" hypemongers. It seems really bad and is also just damn disappointing. bsky.app/profile/benc... 414742
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026All the new production of memory chips in the world is earmarked for AI data centers, driving up the price of new phones. But just in case you thought you were allowed to stick with your old phone, here is 30GB of big steaming shit you can't get rid of. 2375
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/03/2026You *didn't* use AI to write a shitty clickbait headline? That's ok! We'll do it on your behalf, you're welcome. 15110
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026People often defend Grammarly when I lump them in with the rest of the LLM crowd, but this is why: their model of consent is no better than OpenAI's or Anthropic's.theverge.comGrammarly is using our identities without permissionGrammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity. 310315
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025literally every day the AI future is the surveillance future 212933
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Every day this week I keep thinking "should have waited to publish this article because it would be great to include these other examples" because this shit just never stops. 2683
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final. And it needs all of your data to do it. In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:productpicnic.beehiiv.comThe AI age is the "age of no consent""Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed. 171162451
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A cynical part of me thinks the only reason these ghouls are pushing the “AI could be conscious rhetoric” is because when it comes to deciding whether humans or data centers should get access to limited energy and water resources, they want ambiguity about why humans should clearly take precedent. 1341446
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026lmaom.youtube.comWe Just Created The AI Torture Nexus. Here's The Code.YouTube video by JREG 000
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It undercuts the entire project, both from narrative and marketing perspective—and injures the egos of men who imagine themselves to be playing a key role in the most important project in history in the process. 213016
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My theory: More than critiques of circular financing, or of dubious product functionality, "stochastic parrots" undermines the foundation that the entire AI boom is built on: The story that the AI industry is building an unfathomably powerful machine god. 120840
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discussbloodinthemachine.comThe two words the AI industry hates more than anythingI talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term. 13436122
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Watching streamers play dressmaker when you have experience making garments is wild lol watching an adult man have his mind blown by an adjustable dress form while a bunch of the men in his chat are screaming at the two people who are like “yes these exist” that they are lying and probably witches 110
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Kovarchi @kovarchi.com · 02/10/2026Who says Bluesky doesn’t provide important information! 318061
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/10/2026Yeah so we all just got tear gassed on the way out of Rocky Horror, be careful downtown 37563112
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...calmatters.orgNewsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort. 72712654
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 293112674094
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026omg they did the thing lolm.youtube.comso what if It's conscious?YouTube video by JREG 000
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don’t even have kids but I do have this instinctive positive emotional response to clips of her because she immediately brings to mind so many people who showed me kindness and gentleness and care when I was a child and desperately needed it 010
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 01/10/2026she doesn't mention anything about any of this on her show. tons of not-super-political people have no idea about her stances but have preexisting knowledge of her as "beloved angelic woman who potty trained my son for me" and then they see this and go damn, she's probably right i guess 41758
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this is already being roundly booed on all the mom groups i'm in. people do not like this shit 1134844
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There was a bus crash- feucht started posting for donations for repairs etc. HOWEVER- TPUSA had already funded the tour and paid for insurance. By the time I got to DC in October 24 for his annual mall event the TPUSA branding had been taken of the tour bus and all advertising material 1174
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I was one of these people lol, I was really embarrassed about it for a while but now I’m kind of grateful I went through my dipshit era when I was young and flexible and before all of… this… because I think it kind of psychologically inoculated me against these newer strains of the same bullshit 120
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀[HALLOWEEN NAME] @poopfoot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm beginning to think this California governor fellow might possibly maybe probably definitely be a goddamn shitfuck. 04015
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 01/10/2026it is deeply funny (read: extremely not funny) how the spreadsheet that aaron posted about how hard it is to be the head of trust & safety includes multiple (!) examples of him being told to "enjoy the camps" and related expressions. Almost Like That Sentiment Is Always Bad, Aaron. 18771153
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026[equally applies to text/video/music] Artists themselves are very intimately with intent and meaning and experience as fundamental parts of what art is, and with the concept of process vs product, but I think we sometimes forget that probably most people look at art and just see ‘product’ 100
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Beyond an introductory level, this is also the point of scholarship, or of any other activity that deals in meaning 0215
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So the recall on the sausage is a pretty ‘normal’ recall but uh I find this other recall mentioned below the fold MUCH WORSE 000
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Since posting this I have noticed several youtubers/streamers (all men) mention they’ve had reactions to ‘normal’ deodorant so they’re using some kind of alternative and I am so fucking curious what % of men are having this experience and if this is why. And what other men’s products are like this? 100
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026so uhh wtf is this plane doing lol www.flightradar24.com/BOE332/41e53... 100
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A government “influencer” is literally the DEFINITION of a propagandist and I think it is extremely fucking important for people to clearly, plainly say so. We are never going to break through the ‘it can’t happen here’ mentality if we don’t call shit what it is and stop pretending it’s ambiguous. 100
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026is he just doing the boy kavalier thing from alien earth. because this sounds like the boy kavalier ‘they’re geniuses BECAUSE they’re children’ thing. 010
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this kind of hierarchical leveling is cult shit. subject ‘lower’ levels to abuse so they are less able to think and function + are motivated to comply with the system of control for relief. then reward higher levels to induce complicity, esp via getting them to inflict suffering on ‘lower’ levels. 100
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Even as someone who experienced harm in homeschooling and other "disruptive" alternative education projects, the Alpha School is profoundly disturbing in just how extreme and totalizing it is. This is not a school. It is an abuse factory. 051
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There will have to be a reckoning with the role the press has played in amplifying Alpha School’s narrative. Many exceptions to this. But nonetheless, a reckoning is due. 35711
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They’re going to use ‘AI’ hype to try to sell the public on replacing public education with widespread implementation of programs based on the ‘troubled teen’ industry model if this shit isn’t torn down before getting off the ground. 000
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The event took place at the mysterious River Rock Ranch. There is no public address or phone number listed for this ranch. It repeatedly advertises that there are "no restrictions" on its use. 1103
Lizzie May Agitate 🐀 @lizziemayagitate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026[warning TTI type shit] ‘AI’ hustle culture bullshit ‘school’ that was already doing cultic + troubled teen industry type bullshit moving right along to the specific TTI bullshit most likely to kill children, the ‘wilderness’ bullshit 100
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026“What Flock says about their capabilities is to some degree irrelevant because they have built the infrastructure for mass surveillance. Their entire existence provides the foundation for other perhaps even more invasive technologies to be built on top of it." www.404media.co/surveillance...404media.coSurveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock CamerasA surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras. 0185
Reposted by Lizzie May Agitate 🐀Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026an abhorrent thing to offer. notoriously inaccurate / problematic / biased tech. what could go wrong? thanks to @hypervisible.blacksky.app for helping to contextualize this www.404media.co/surveillance... 04511
