Rook @rookerin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025This has been on my mind for awhile I guess. I shed a lot of social media over the last few years. www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...noemamag.comThe Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMASocial media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion. 040
Reposted by RookRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen. 4224751037
Reposted by RookRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2025They paid out a billion dollars in settlements for knowingly lying to intentionally deceive their own audience. As their own internal emails/texts showed in discovery, they have nothing but contempt for their own viewers and laugh at them all the way to the bank. bsky.app/profile/acyn... 1402137539
Reposted by RookAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/): 1739611332
Reposted by RookAram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 25/08/2025I've a hard time believing agentic tech will ever deliver on the promises people are making about it, but even at part way there the potential consequences from an infosec perspective seem genuinely insurmountable. These systems have unpatchable vulnerabilities that simply require human oversight 0238
Reposted by RookSte Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex... 91715669
Rook @rookerin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I'm sure I'm going to come off in a lot of ways as Anti-AI. Not true, to be clear. I'm a technophile and I love new toys. I'm against technology being used irresponsibly, or being used to make the world a worse place. 110
Rook @rookerin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I don't think I've seen enough discussion on - and please enlighten me if you experience differently - who's responsible when something goes wrong with AI. It's pretty obvious who's responsible when I hand someone a malformed Terraform script which not only doesn't run, but also doesn't make SENSE. 100
Rook @rookerin.bsky.social · 10/08/2025It feels like we're doomed to repeat this, but of course the shape will be different. It's sad to think we made it so far to come to this. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe... These are the stakes. Scoffing and dismissing plays perfectly into it, so maybe consider thinking instead.theanarchistlibrary.orgUr-FascismUmberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995 020
Rook @rookerin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE APP > Even if you're not particularly "paranoid" about your data, it's worth asking: what can they possibly want to do in their app that they can't already do in the browser? Often, the answer is nothing that truly benefits you more. idiallo.com/blog/dont-do...idiallo.comDo not download the app, use the websiteThe 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. "Mobile-first" was the buzzword, much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest social media giants to your local pizza parlor, seemed 010
Reposted by RookLuis Villa @lu.is · 27/07/2025This, from @nicholasbs.bsky.social , is a really thoughtful survey of attitudes on AI in the field right now. As they say, read the whole thing, but a finding that resonates: “You should use AI-powered tools to complement or increase your agency, not replace it.“ www.recurse.com/blog/191-dev...recurse.comDeveloping our position on AI - Blog - Recurse CenterThis post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC. 13213
Reposted by Rookmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 08/07/2025also, they launched the fully open R1 reproduction link: huggingface.co/collections/... bsky.app/profile/timk...huggingface.coOpen R1-Zero Math - a open-r1 CollectionWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 182
Reposted by RookFélix López Luis 🇺🇦 @flopezluis.bsky.social · 29/11/20241st Rule of Every Manager "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" ― George Bernard Shaw 2nd Rule of Every Manager “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” ― André Gide 44716
Reposted by RookMignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Since we seem to be doing this again ... I recently investigated the origin of the ridiculous myth that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. (The people who blew up the idea didn't even know it's called a dash. They called it "the long hyphen.") 1121865
Reposted by RookRobin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD. Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us? 3304946996
Reposted by RookPaul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 06/07/2025That last line hits hard 92129454598
Reposted by RookLuke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 06/07/2025A superb piece of journalism in The Observer: it seems like the one of the sacred texts of Nature Writing (TM) is not quite as much of an unflinchingly honest read as claimed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...observer.co.ukThe real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve... 39591200
Reposted by RookJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/07/2025No it's not. Source: Me, the guy who wrote the fucking thing 342032145
Reposted by RookKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Say what you will about Trump threatening to strip citizenship from his critics and have immigrants put into concentration camps in a swamp, but he never did anything truly power-mad like forgive student loans. 463560818
Reposted by Rookalice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 27/06/2025ONCE MORE FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK, I'M BEGGING YOU 0297
