Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026just a heads up if I see you with one of these I will roast your ass mercilessly, go ahead and call HR 010
Reposted by LaurenJessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Menin asks the AI execs to "raise your hand if your company has insurance for catastrophic risks." No one does. "Okay, I'm going to take that as a no... So then the public, I assume, will be asked to absorb the costs." Each of the execs then scramble to clarify that they actually don't know. 9209103
Reposted by LaurenGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026None of the "A.i." companies sent anyone to testify in person. They're all on video. Disrespectful and unserious. 216218
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"All of those millions of posts flying through the air rely on the cloud, and ‘the cloud,’ while not a series of tubes, is in fact a set of physical things that the state can control."liberalcurrents.comSocial Media Has Not Brought LiberationSocial media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies. 000
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026presenting a new educational series @ your library: Gambling Literacy (sponsored by DraftKings™) 000
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI and prediction market companies are giving away free coffee in midtown and all your dumbest coworkers are falling for it 000
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I forget when, maybe last year, we rewatched all of On Cinema from the beginning in 2011 and it's truly uncanny how much @timheidecker.bsky.social predicted the future end stage of sociopolitical masculine derangement 110
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026being a librarian who was re-radicalized by post covid public service makes me really fun to have at parties -- but only luddite parties (which also happen to be the most fun kind) 111
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026spending my day off trying to organize 20 years worth of photos and get them outta the clouds for good. if you want to train your bots on my ass you will have to come find me!! 110
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I biked past this tonight and I saw two dudes who I thought were about to get in but they were just tagging it more 061
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026when the llm savages the library cafe. fuck off robot i do not care what u think. also it's closed now dumbass 100
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026one thing I would love these bozos to answer (don't answer) is why we need all people learning how to make websites of "all the trees in nyc, visualized" or "a fun little toolset just for me". Just the sheer amount of duplication and wasted energy and time and life breaks my brain on a daily basis 130
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026lifting the household ban on streaming services for the taskmaster streaming service only 010
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026folksy used car salesman voice: Friends? What's it gonna take for me to get ya off all meta properties taday? 000
Reposted by LaurenSteph Davidson @stephd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I made a game to demonstrate predatory core loop design practices! SOUND ON voiced by the subway guy! gift link www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comDesigned for AddictionMobile-game developers are supercharging old tools with new tech to keep players hooked. Increasingly, the biggest money makers are deemed appropriate for children. 251
Reposted by Laurenmandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 19/08/2026People are like, you can’t refuse LLMs forever, someday you’ll have to use them. But listen, motherfuckers, I have been refusing to drive a car for the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy mode. 3589
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026been waiting for someone to write this so thank you <3 000
Reposted by LaurenMark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Uber, Doordash, and Grubhub have made billions by exploiting delivery workers: offering no benefits, stealing tips, and firing workers by algorithm. I visited Los Deliveristas Unidos to interview NYC delivery workers to about their experience. Full episode: techtonic.fm/episodes/202... 265
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026“Part of the concept is: You had to be there,” Rushkoff told me. “It’s like oh, Earth? You had to be there. Life? You had to be there.”404media.coBeing a Luddite Is Fun AgainAs tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time. 010
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"Libraries are part of a network of social support that should all be robustly funded and working together to serve the community, so that we can all focus on what we're best at. But when other institutions start to fall away, libraries are left trying to hold the community kind of more on our own."youtube.comLibrarians Are Helping the Public Ditch AI w/ Hannah Cyrus & Alison MacrinaYouTube video by Paris Marx 043
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026alidoro discontinued my favorite breakfast. prosciutto, blackberry preserves, goat butter, ciabatta. Farewell my sweet and savory prince 010
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026one of them must've heard my plea because now there is a subway ad with an illustration of the actual slide you can get out of it. I probably don't need to tell you YES it looks like the most boring shit ever put to pixel 000
Reposted by Laurenn+1 @nplusonemag.com · 20/07/2026"I left feeling a pooling, connective happiness. I went home and realized that I hadn’t looked at my phone for six hours." Sarah Thankam Mathews hangs out with the Luddites, NYC's tech-critical cultural youth front: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...nplusonemag.comGetting Off With the LudditesThey see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr... 13213
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026natural language is the library search technology of the future huh? feel like they said the same thing about dip n dots 010
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Have u ever behaved so obnoxiously towards a cybersuck that it has beeped at you? It's the dumbest sound lmao 110
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 10/07/2026need to find an angel investor to mass produce a keychain soundboard that just is a single button that says "PERVERT GLASSES DETECTED" 150
Reposted by LaurenAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026"We don't want to be known, but we spend our days feeding ourselves into a great engine of knowing every single thing about us: our tastes our opinions our beliefs, what we’ll buy who we’ll love where we’ll go. The unseen actors who harvest this knowledge modify us to their own ends." Zadie Smith 0325
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 07/07/2026LRT this week I've been thinking a lot about the Opinion Industrial Complex 210
Reposted by LaurenPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Human beings were never supposed to be exposed to the opinions of this many strangers on an hourly basis. Especially strangers who have opinions about who YOU should be/act/think etc... 639151
Reposted by LaurenLauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 05/07/2026I love that my anti-AI zines made it to the ALA conference in Chicago last month and Summer of Ludd festival in NYC more recently! I'm not an artist or graphic designer so they aren't pretty or clever looking, but they give what I hope is useful info and relevant sources to keep learning. 2236
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 26/06/2026little did I know when I posted this prediction... that six months later I turned my living room into a mass zine printing and folding production facility 020
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 19/06/2026tonight at book club a participant said the person who brought zines a few months ago and talked about walking to the library without a phone plus the book we read in May literally changed her outlook on tech and life. BOOM. The power of libraries 020
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 18/06/2026would really like for library types to watch this esp the part where Gowanus the trash puppet talks about the need for FREE PUBLIC SPACES for people to interact with each other in. HELLOOOO 110
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026say a prayer for nyc librarians. we have knicks fever, world cup passports, usa 250 and em effing SUMMER READING BINGO 010
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Just unearthed an old mixtape a friend made that opens with amelia fletcher and calvin johnson covering wannabe. AI would never do this for you 000
Reposted by Laurenyorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I need to really start asking folks where they think everyone is going when they say they're afraid of being left behind, and whether that's actually a place they want to go to. 619546
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social · 09/06/2026went to a makerspace to make buttons and a concern troll told me that people knowing about AI is important, actually because otherwise she's worried they'll "get left behind." I reminded her we all have the right as individuals to determine what tech we engage with without having to leave society 💅 120
