Reposted by PD 🍉In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 331189763986
Reposted by PD 🍉sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026switched kiosks. input the info. you truly cannot make this shit up 20195435
Reposted by PD 🍉Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026I’m only into #FlyFishing but the rivers will not work if the primary and old-growth forest are cut for pulp and paper. It is niche in Finland to oppose this. But since we want to restore rivers, better meanwhile support the Sámi folks. #Nature and people. 3396
PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s another kind of grief, building and living in times of decline 020
Reposted by PD 🍉Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says" 2266661272
Reposted by PD 🍉Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath 6444196
Reposted by PD 🍉Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...nyc.govMayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools 261168310
Reposted by PD 🍉Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 28/08/2026Spirit Airlines went under and left behind 500 million Teams messages. Google bid $10m. A startup building AI agents to work inside simulated companies bid $12.5m. Ten years of telling people to work out loud, and here we are. By me for @reworked.bsky.social www.reworked.co/collaboratio...reworked.coEverything You've Ever Typed at Work Just Became an AssetWe spent 10 years pushing people to work out loud. Spirit's data sale is teaching everyone a good reason to stop. 33020
Reposted by PD 🍉isaac @sevier.io · 28/08/2026Weather forecasting in my lifetime has become nearly perfect thanks to the government investing in constant and high quality data collection up until now. Some dark ages shit is happening because there's enormous money to be made by breaking everything. 18227
Reposted by PD 🍉Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026In a short span of time we went from people speculating that companies were listening to their conversations to companies offering listening to your conversations as a feature.theverge.comPlaud is launching AI earbudsAn AI wearable, but for your ears. 516361
Reposted by PD 🍉Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I've added a link to the English translation. How race-scientists weild systematic doubt and participatory scrutiny in order to recast themselves as arbiters of truth. The 3 year hunt for Jason Arday wasn't only about his destruction. The ultimate trophy is epistemic dominance.blogs.mediapart.frComment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason ArdayLe racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses … 3322122
Reposted by PD 🍉Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Site built by Professor Jason Arday's former students: "He was sunshine personified" leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...leilacancode.github.ioEverything Good About Jason ArdayFirst-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students. 01613
Reposted by PD 🍉Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it. 3865336
Reposted by PD 🍉G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 16/08/2026These AI detection programs are starting to look an awful lot like fire extinguishers sold by arsonists 362745640
Reposted by PD 🍉Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025As Langdon Winner put so well 40 years ago, don't fall into the trap of accepting "RISK" as a good framework for these conversations. Business interests love framing their violence in terms of "risks & rewards" bc as a society, we love to heroize & reward risk-takers. Talk instead about "HAZARD." 39640
Reposted by PD 🍉Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Sanyo personal stereo equipment, 1984 ad. 2404
Reposted by PD 🍉Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism) 2434601034
PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Layoffs in show business, layoffs in animation business, layoffs in design, in tech, in public sector jobs, large scale layoffs in academia, layoffs in 140
Reposted by PD 🍉Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Also: @chadwellmon.bsky.social's piece on the logics and poetry and politics of web search is just brilliant. (I'm especially taken bc it's such a thoughtful coda to the search & discovery class we just wrapped up; I wish we had been able to read this together!)bostonreview.netWhat Was the Internet?As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next. 1206
Reposted by PD 🍉Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Full context on the Atlanta town hall not even 8 weeks ago where worker after worker warned about how past mergers had decimated their lives: newrepublic.com/article/2136...newrepublic.comThere’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill ItHollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious. 010335
Reposted by PD 🍉Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/08/2026*taps sign* Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women doi.org/10.31235/osf... 26026
Reposted by PD 🍉Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la... 351562633
Reposted by PD 🍉Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I just found out there's a creature called a puffleg hummingbird, that wears a tiny pair of fluffy white trousers. 521611401
PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The Trial is a great piece of theatre because it explores in painful detail a fact we all already know - the wreck families go through when “entrepreneurs” cut corners to prioritise profits, and transfer the risk and consequences to everyone else. #EIF #Edinburgh 100
PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Came here for the international festival but the best thing so far might just be the free ticket event I got handed to by a cheerful woman at the redstop. Honestly, did not expect this. - #fringe #edinburgh #eif 110
Reposted by PD 🍉Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/08/2026did I miss the classic greek discourse window or does everyone still want to know that you can 3D print a trojan horse kit as a gift for all your most greek classicy friends??? makerworld.com/en/models/24...makerworld.comMiniature Trojan Horse Kit Card - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorldDownload this free 3D print file designed by berri3D. This kit card is inspired by one of the most famous legends of Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse. Although miniature sized, the wheels move and th... 517043
Reposted by PD 🍉EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 06/08/2026Wildfire smoke can trigger storms. 🌩️ On 17 August 2025, thunderstorms formed across Spain far from active fires. Data from Meteosat-12 showed drifting smoke meeting humid air, helping clouds grow, and lightning develop. Find out how this unfolded in our latest article: bit.ly/4hRrrKX 23221
Reposted by PD 🍉Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me. 3106129
Reposted by PD 🍉Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I do think that petromasculinity would (and in many sectors will) go bankrupt first to protect itself. 133
Reposted by PD 🍉Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core" 519161
Reposted by PD 🍉Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Germany to ban Meta’s Pervert Glasses? Hamburg’s Data Protection Office warns that recording people in public with smart glasses violates privacy laws. The tiny LED indicator light isn't prominent enough to prevent secret filming in public spaces. 1/2 www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...tagesschau.deHamburger Datenschutzbeauftragter: Verbot von Meta Glasses möglichDer Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragte Fuchs warnt vor Meta Smart Glasses: Die Brillen, die kaum von normalen Brillen zu unterscheiden sind, ermöglichen heimliches Filmen. Ein Verbot sei nicht ausgeschl... 12254104
Reposted by PD 🍉Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want. 11103104
Reposted by PD 🍉Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Through extraordinary efforts, @windbornewx.bsky.social successfully navigated a controllable balloon above powerful Typhoon Dolphin, descended into its eye, then collected multiple vertical profiles as we circled inside its eye. A first of its kind type of hurricane data collection. 928987
Reposted by PD 🍉Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...404media.coGoogle Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam." 492359558
PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Egregious, destroying books that have been preserved through wars and disasters @shannonmattern.bsky.social 020
PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026“Sometimes I read a print book because a print book can’t read me back.” 27613
Reposted by PD 🍉Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead. 19554160
PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026What a scrumptious feast. It’s reads like this that make me feel lucky we still have folks who like to geek out, write and share it with us all www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my... 001