Reposted by PerplexVoxelDylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.gizmodo.comSam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He's Just the Man to Collect the Bills"Intelligence too cheap to meter" doesn't quite come across the way Altman might intend. 39586224 586
Reposted by PerplexVoxelTLDR Swinton @thedoodlebear.bsky.social · 02/07/2026It's interesting how everything people used to proudly call "public" when I was growing up (public parks, public libraries, public schools, public transportation, public television, etc) is suddenly "socialist" now that rich people are spinning it. 299100262837 10K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelntm @ntm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If you want a picture of the future, imagine your human face and identity being stolen repeatedly - forever. - George Orwell probably www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...theguardian.comHack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photosNames, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken 3498418 498
Reposted by PerplexVoxelCyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Sigh. Here we go again. #uspoli 012473 124
Reposted by PerplexVoxelLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Yeah, that’s the America I grew up in. When I say the anti-trans playbook now is the same playbook as they ran in the 90s against gay people, I mean the SAME 4651041513 5.1K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelVis ~~👻 COMMS OPEN @invisoguy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Not to be like, everybody's mom, but remember when you were first getting on the internet and you were told not to give away private information to anybody you don't know? Corporation is people you don't know 1431221362 3.1K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026If Constitutional rights are something that a despot can "weigh suspending" for his convenience, then there is no Constitution and we should draft a new and better one as soon as we excise the despot and his party from every level of government. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...nytimes.comFrustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right 311544396 1.5K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelEcho Gillette @echoisweird.shop · 07/06/2026For my fellow crocheters 🧶 131506378 1.5K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy. 2935911036 3.6K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelTerre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 06/03/2026“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue." A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far. 171961887 7.2K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelDrawing Homos 🎨 @hexhomos.bsky.social · 07/03/2026USA folk, you need to annoy these assholes as much as you can. this bill is not to protect children. they want to erase transgender people from public life and classify them as degenerate content in the internet. we will not be seen or heard. they want our *existence* to be a sex offense. 419821948 2K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelriki 🌙 @nya.riki.zone · 07/03/2026comm for @emilyaster.bsky.social 🌟 Thank you so much!! 82216427 2.2K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelReid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I want to be an artist, but I don't want to learn how. I want to be a filmmaker, but I don't want to learn how. I want to be a musician, but I don't want to learn how. I want to be a writer, but I don't want to learn how. AI, for those who can't, don't, and won't. 8549161 549
Reposted by PerplexVoxelCommander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 01/03/2026For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.” Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us. Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now? 2436811822 3.7K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelNameless @2ndthoughtclever.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The first act of violence that patriarchy demands .. of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. bell hooks 2418140 418
Reposted by PerplexVoxelDeborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Yes, the sons and daughters of the working class will be shipped off to fight this senseless war, just as they have been shipped off to fight all the other senseless wars to keep enriching the rich and the powerful. 26324 63
Reposted by PerplexVoxelPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 20/02/2026What they're terrified of is that we could root and branch the whole ruling class, throw everyone in prison, and not even notice the difference. Because these people are aristocrats, and owning things is not a skill. 7508155 508
Reposted by PerplexVoxelGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up. 113130904410 13.1K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelnyc5265.bsky.social @nyc5265.bsky.social · 19/01/2026There's no way the rest of the world is going to trust us if we're going to pivot between being Leader of the Free World and the Russia of the West every 4 years based on how 150,000 people in Bucks County, PA feel about the price of eggs. This is what Americans need to understand most. 829786 297
Reposted by PerplexVoxelJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17/01/2026The US is a great place to live for the super rich and super famous. For everyone else, plenty of other places would offer a better life. And yet, a big chunk of the latter group doesn't demand better from the US, because the former group convinced them that they too could be rich or famous someday. 12351115 351
Reposted by PerplexVoxel🖤ZAGA🖤 @luisz4g4.bsky.social · 09/01/2026First Mina-chan doodle of the year to encourage creativity!💚 Happy weekend Nakamas!🍀 #luisz4g4 #oc 1115543 155
Reposted by PerplexVoxelElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/01/2026“The DROP mechanism makes exercising our privacy rights more user-friendly, and every California resident should be aware of the tool so they can make their own choices,” EFF’s @htsuka.bsky.social told San Francisco Patch.patch.comSpammers Be Gone: New CA Platform Helps Users Disappear From Pesky Text, Call ListsA new platform promises Californians relief from data brokers tracking their digital footprints. 05524 55
Reposted by PerplexVoxelsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 08/01/2026i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all 159173763210 17.4K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelGrapie Deltaco @grapiedeltaco.bsky.social · 19/11/2024“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say 2293332811524 33.3K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death? 356171454021 17.1K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 06/01/2026my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better. 245248840 5.2K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelXythar @xythar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026i miss when this guy was the only LLMmedia.tenor.coma man in a suit is holding a pink objectALT: a man in a suit is holding a pink object 4057312221 5.7K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelKit @hoosierkit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Insane how much these people hate their own country 1583066456 3.1K
Reposted by PerplexVoxelMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for. 3760361749 6K
PerplexVoxel @perplexvoxel.bsky.social · 01/01/2026I don’t know where I’ll end up over the next year, I just hope it’s somewhere I can look at myself and be proud of my efforts. I don’t know who I’ll be in a year’s time, but I hope it’s a me that I can love being. 000 0
Reposted by PerplexVoxelAri Cohn @aricohn.com · 28/07/2025t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today. 61132315030 13.2K
PerplexVoxel @perplexvoxel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025My brain screams and pounds the deal, but my heart hits the snooze button for the umpteenth time. 010 1
Reposted by PerplexVoxelFaith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase 64306876409 30.7K
Reposted by PerplexVoxel chan 🌧🌱🎨 @arcadechan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024thinkin about art tonight... !! 🎨 || #arttips 132288667 2.3K