Reposted by PlaskinGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12hLike there is no way this nonprofit could have paid for the number of hours I put into this just because I got stubborn and contrary! They are wrecking the most basic fundemental part of the internet I love: anyone can just make a little goofy website! 130227
Reposted by PlaskinGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12hWhile I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim 9749282
Reposted by PlaskinSloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 10hIf you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to the last 1.5 years well, yknow, just organizing with my coworkers to unionize the most celebrated & beloved TTRPG and TCGs of all time 🥰✊ this took buckets of blood, sweat & tears but we DID IT!!! If you want to support us, sign that petition and BOOST! 19670209
Reposted by PlaskinOwen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 10hStock photos are funnier than AI generated images and no one can convince me otherwise. 434086
Reposted by Plaskinmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 10hthese are my only feelings about generative "AI." i do not care how much it "works," ever. i'll be over here scraping charcoal and ochre on the cave wall until they kill me 4983172
Reposted by Plaskin🎃Bekka, Mistress of the Dark 🎃🍁🏳️⚧️ @brattybekka.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026Still hoping to keep montentum going so I can get back out of my overdraft. I've tapped out the food from the grocery trip I was able to scrape together so I do need some more donations, soon. Thank you. 11530
Reposted by PlaskinFaye Dunaway With A Gun |🏳️⚧️|🏳️🌈| @electradescending.bsky.social · 23hPlease help Ellie if can, her insurance did her dirty. 065
Reposted by PlaskinSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 23hGood(?) news: A Nevada county will pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who spent two years in prison for a stillbirth before her conviction was overturned. Her son’s ashes were returned to her as part of the settlement thenevadaindependent.com/article/she-... 1249118
Reposted by PlaskinJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10489512799
Reposted by PlaskinKdin Jenzen 🏳️⚧️🐺 @kdinjenzenvo.com · 06/10/2026I have a bunch I wanna say about this, especially from my perspective of VO spaces right now, but before I do: TLDR: Ben is right, and it's not even just "now." It's just way easier to spot it now because of how connected online spaces have made us, as artists and creatives, in general. 🧵 Time: 125374
Reposted by PlaskinNathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Most histories take the double helix as the obvious goal of xrc on DNA fibers. If we want to honor Franklin, we need to stop trying to explain her work as almost getting the double helix. We need to understand her on her own terms. The Sponsel and Sutton paper takes us a good step in that direction 15416
Reposted by PlaskinNathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly 314259
Reposted by Plaskinshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026it was smart of jacob geller to only post about what he did to his 50k followers on here instead of to his 1.5 million youtube subs or on his patreon. that way fewer people know about it and he limits the financial hit 685450972
Reposted by Plaskinshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026that's probably why he held all youtube comments for review also, the newest comments on all his videos are from three days ago. stops people finding out. pretty clever guy 173359237
Reposted by PlaskinFalling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 21hUsing survivors of sexual violence as props to help build up a shield against your own history of committing sexual violence being revealed or levied against you is not being reformed. It is continuing to use people and violating trust! It isn't change, its got the same foundation! 0182
Reposted by PlaskinMicheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Today is my son Elias’s birthday. Imagine this is your child, losing his sight while you can’t save him. He has already lost one eye, and the last light is fading. Please give Elias the birthday gift he needs most: a chance to see again. Verified by : molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611 1885151
Reposted by PlaskinJim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 21hThis gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins. 482541630
Reposted by PlaskinMelissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 06/10/2026Thousands of students protested the Cornell 7 on campus today. ✊🏼 Here they are participating in "The Rapist Is You" or "El Violador Eres Tú:" a 2019 Chilean feminist performance piece created to draw attention to violence against women. ❤️🩹 11887235
Plaskin @plaskin.bsky.social · 14hI honestly just don't think they thought it through. People don't, on the whole 110
Reposted by PlaskinPoet Etc @poetetc.bsky.social · 20hMyanmar workers in Malaysia striking to protest junta leader Min Aung Hlain's state visit - in the midst of a targeted deportation campaign against Myanmar people in Malaysia - is a pretty astounding display of courage. english.dvb.no/myanmar-work...english.dvb.noMyanmar workers in Malaysia call for strike ahead of Min Aung Hlaing visit to Kuala Lumpur - DVB 03912
Reposted by PlaskinAnnie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 17hAs I listened back to the interview I found myself once again thinking "this is why this motion exists." The fact that three years into a genocide, it is still possible for someone to go on the BBC and talk about the country committing that genocide as a moral and admirable project ... 38523
Reposted by PlaskinAnnie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 17hI am not saying that there is nothing to be criticised about this motion, I myself have been very torn over it as I know many other members of the Party have been, including I'm sure its leadership. But I'm noticing that there is some vital information missing in much of the discussion around it 1608
Reposted by PlaskinAnnie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 17hMuch ado has been made about an amendment to safeguard Jewish members that was voted down at the conference, what is missing from this conversation is that amendment conflated Jews and Zionism in a way that the motion itself is careful not to do... 17613
Reposted by PlaskinAnnie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 17hThe motion's drafters have also made clear that this motion will not be used to target Jews who attend Zionist institutions, like synagogues, many of which call themselves as Zionist. This has now been reiterated by the leadership of the Green Party 2586
Reposted by PlaskinAnnie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 18hReading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵 11292124
Reposted by PlaskinAnnie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 18hThe motions' drafters have stated elsewhere that they do not accept that there are non-racist forms of Zionism, however, other definitions of Zionism - for example, if you call yourself a Zionist because of a belief in Jewish autonomy—are not covered by this motion and not declared racist 46511
Reposted by PlaskinScience Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8scim.agHow did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’tNew analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51 412128753
Reposted by PlaskinOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19hThe behaviour of these systems, such as their outputs, may well be CONSISTENT with these systems having the capacity of e.g. addition. But the logical form we deploy cannot be that because something correlated with our assumptions that our assumptions are (formally) correct. 1185
Reposted by PlaskinOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19hOne of the most upsetting things for people trained in formal computational theory, who are not AI boosters, to witness is how claims about the outputs of systems with no formal specification are taken as if they are indicative of formally linked capacities, such as the ability to add; see thread: 3509
Reposted by PlaskinMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.timeshighereducation.comNottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affectedLanguages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans 8242189
Reposted by PlaskinSamantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 17hA rather more honest Jeffrey Archer obituary by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I kept coming back to Coghlan: "You're a liar. He's a liar and he knows it. He's even putting his wife through it. I've got nothing he's got money. I can't even go back to work" brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...brokenbottleboy.substack.comHere lies Jeffrey ArcherThe death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. 28548
Reposted by PlaskinMax Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 16hThe share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5% 8390135
Reposted by PlaskinAntifa International @antifaintl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Bristol antifa charged after preventing racist mob from reaching a refugee shelter they planned to attack. The Int'l. Anti-Fascist Defence Fund has stepped in to help our friend. Full story + how you can help: intlantifadefence.wordpress.com/2026/10/04/d... #antifa, #solidarity, #bristol 25323
Reposted by Plaskin#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Had to go to urgent cat with the cat tonight. She's okay but $$$. Turns out it's not *that* expensive to ship my buttons across the country. So, please buy my buttons for the low cost of "Pay what you want!" @ me and I'll DM you to get info. Please and thank you! 12820
Reposted by Plaskinjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 06/10/2026hi my friend had a last minute insurance coverage rug pull and needs all the help she can get to afford her gender affirming surgery in a few weeks. would mean a lot if you have helped and sharedgofund.meDonate to Ellie's Gender Affirming Surgery, organized by Sophie FisherEllie McDyre needs our help. Her insurance has denied coverage for her upcoming gende… Sophie Fisher needs your support for Ellie's Gender Affirming Surgery 37065
Reposted by PlaskinAI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fun fact: New York City is rolling out pilots to product test AI on high school students, and NO STUDENT WE TALK TO knows anything about it - it's almost like the model also depends on students not finding out. If this is so great, why the cloak of secrecy?? 120172
Reposted by PlaskinJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851351366
Reposted by PlaskinToo Tired of bullsh*t to be clever 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🫶🏿 @znerd49.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I had questions and then they were immediately answered 😂 14266106
Reposted by PlaskinSameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students. 2016111558
Reposted by Plaskinedeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you’d like to support more hot girl incursions in the world, a beautiful woman in poverty wants to do a good job of turning 40 this week: 0142
Reposted by PlaskinAl Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a French cop literally saying he gets hard beating protesters and leftists (Note: context is a big wave of protests by highschoolers, so not even adults!) 110636
Reposted by PlaskinDanielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 05/10/2026In which the author disagrees with Mr Wolfers and discusses what it *really* looks like when you sit down and have a conversation with your ideological opponents. When you do not have the protections of the ivory tower it turns out to be a much darker experience than he imagines it to be.blog.djnavarro.netDining with wolves – Notes from a data witchPolite discussion over lunch is not a reasonable option when you are on the menu 37535
Reposted by PlaskinSeditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026(Saint-Ouen l’Aumône, France) During ongoing mass resistance, a high school student refuses to back down as the cops continually press him - serving no tactical need other than their anger at not inspiring terror- So they shot him point blank in the head with a baton round. 21916
Plaskin @plaskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Gotta have breakfast for dinner sometimes. I love ful medames 010
Reposted by Plaskinashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept 10456213
