Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 199121353018
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Using AI to disassemble app and then recreate in different language to dismantle corporate hegemonic monopolies is a good use case to me github.com/storytold/ph...github.comGitHub - storytold/photocraft: An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure RustAn open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust - storytold/photocraft 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comGhostbusters: Slimer's Hallway ScareAlt: Ghostbusters: Slimer's Hallway Scare 010
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Maybe Zuck is just a really big fan of "America's Funniest Home Movies" and just wanted to ensure that all those silly/zany/goofy/funny/outrageous moments could be caught on camera?! To be really honest though, if any billionaire is trying to shill something, it is likely for dubious methods 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Egads, Mark Zuckerberg is basically if Screech tried to look like and be AC Slater, but was still Screech through and through 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There’s some weird border stuff happening in Netherlands and Belgium 100
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10141581264
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand. 517967
Reposted by ✌️ Matt Scheurichnico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026since i am working on my first new alt movie posters in *quite* a while, thought i'd share a selection of my favs from over the years ! title and description in alt text all of them are ink on claybord/scratchboard 421089328
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichJennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image. 101409312
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”. 14503167
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So Ed Sheeran is continuing his tour solo, with nary a shred of awareness that his position of apoliticism is one of cynical complicity for genocide. If he wants “one love” for all as he so claims, then he should stand up against injustice properly. I don’t see him recovering positively from this 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is def one of the most distasteful ads/brand imagery I’ve ever seen. I’m shocked that someone even decided that this was a good thing to put out. 110
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026To continue from last night, let's go over some safety precepts from my usual POV, radiation safety, that are somewhat generally applicable. As I start to think about writing this, I admit my brain is recoiling about applying this to AI tools on the grounds of "This is all terrible." 214215
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9655492164
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...peoples-things.ghost.io 4331114
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichNRDC @nrdc.org · 15/09/2026A new U.N. report found that toxic “forever chemicals” called PFAS pose a profound threat to human rights and the environment. Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo and environmental attorney Rob Bilott have joined the call to ban all non-essential uses of PFAS to protect our planet and our health. 8428125
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichAngry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026That's Billion with a B.. Last night actor Michael J. Fox accepted an Emmys for his contributions to Parkinson’s disease research. To date, his has helped raise 3 billion dollars for Parkinson’s research 13967081325
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I like his music and I think he’s generally a good person, but no-one does any good cowering behind apoliticism (which is itself a political stance—especially when it helps the bad guys) 100
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichBen Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality? 2136781121
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichRowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Something to cling to and promote the hell out of: leveraging POSITIVE TIPPING POINTS www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comClimate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientistsGlobal shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans 3823362
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichMarlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...variety.comLilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk. 100115254262
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's on. I'm running to be the next Green MP for Holborn & St Pancras. donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk 1061756430
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I'm getting uncanny valley vibes when I look at genAI UI outputs. It might be because that's one of my main work skills (graphic & UI/UX design) so maybe I'm just more sensitive to it. 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Dyson releasing a toothbrush that films your teeth and shoots jets of water just seems surreal to me 000
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I know everyone has seen the Miyazaki clip of him saying that AI art is an insult to life itself and we humans are losing faith in ourselves but sometimes it still strikes me that he said that in 2016 and every single year the quote becomes more true and undeniable 91093202
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job 3779181985
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026#til that Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is "Programmation Orientée Objet" (POO) in French, and I giggled 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This sounds like a first-hand account @doctorow.pluralistic.net 000
Reposted by ✌️ Matt Scheuriche.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 30/08/2026all of our problems are basically just dril tweets now 11428
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The Litany Against Dunking I will not dunk post the slop bot Dunk posting is the feed killer Dunking lets the slop spread and win I shall face the slop I shall report and block it And all that will remain in its wake is me 213234
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichFT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are. 99268096332
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/08/2026rooting for meta’s defeat and destructiob 426439
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026While I respect in The Line video at 3:38 that they point out the "NEOM's artificial moon" and "Jurassic Park theme park" are bonkers ideas, the voice FAILS TO MENTION "Final Fantasy theme park". I'd say that's even more bonkers (and cooler) idea than all the others 020
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I saw on @walthickey.bsky.social's Numlock News that "Overall, 46 percent of respondents in a survey indicated that they preferred social media content be delivered through a chronological feed, with just 26 percent of respondents preferring the algorithm-based feed": www.numlock.com/p/numlock-ne...numlock.comNumlock News: August 21, 2026 • Soju, Kenny Chesney, Algo FeedsBy Walt Hickey 110
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026AI boosters forget that for AI to succeed, everything has to exist in some captured form for them to extract and analyse. Having worked in professional capacity for last 20 years, I can assure them that a good amount of knowledge and knowhow is locked within humans and won’t/cannot be extracted. 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026If you need a James Dean or Blues Brothers life-sized statues, Daviot Antiques got you sorted 000
Reposted by ✌️ Matt Scheurichalexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026stop 273136639
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Now that’s what I call a sweet score at Highland Hospice in Beauly 130
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together). 1/ 325491
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026AI features on established services are replaying the U2 on iPod release without having learned any lessons. I was trying to demote my Google One service to no AI, but I cannot have less than 2TB storage with no AI. They’re forcing it on ppl who don’t want it to juice numbers to justify investment 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026leaflet.pubThe SalesmanA short story I wrote in August 2016 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Seems like a waste of time to piss into the digital aether and ask a question via a medium of which I feel I have zero to no interaction with others, but are there any creative writing platforms that perform social network-like á la YouTube? 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026AI has been around since mid-20th century, but it got sensationalised and corrupted first by OpenAI and ChatGPT and then compounded by other sad techbro chasers. The industrialisation and commodification of slop AI is the danger to society & environment. As bad as oil, weapons, alcohol, and tobacco 120
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Listening to: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/p... There was comment attributed to @jamellebouie.net that “everything is gender” US’s prob with gender (and race) is that (white) men won’t concede leadership to others so they avoid feeling insignificant due to ego, jealousy, FOMO, whatever.podcasts.apple.comOur autopsy of the DNC autopsyPodcast Episode · Panic World · 8 July · 1hr 8min 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Fucking hell. Was booking Air France tickets and they raised the price of my tickets by 144 EUR after I selected my dates with advertised fees, and just before I selected my seats. What a fucking con job. I've never seen that before. 100
