Reposted by Ruth A+Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires 321706529
Reposted by Ruth A+Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 07/10/2026To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter. Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?dublininquirer.comTo counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barterLauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually? 111944
Reposted by Ruth A+The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Comrades Marathon has dropped its oily sponsors 👏🏻🥳🎉 One less race being used for sportswashing! Now it needs to turn action into policy. Time for other races to follow Comrades lead. @badvertising.bsky.social @cooldownnetwork.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/ygYYO...youtube.comComrades Marathon Dropped Its Fossil Fuel Sponsor | Is it Official?YouTube video by Politically Aweh 0132
Reposted by Ruth A+Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115972877
Reposted by Ruth A+Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... 341127524654
Reposted by Ruth A+Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026All four supporting acts have backed out of Ed Sheeran’s tour, including his own backing band. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comAll supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with MacklemoreFour openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments 42182811587
Reposted by Ruth A+Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 02/09/2026It really is this simple. Don't watch. 017057
Reposted by Ruth A+WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton 378154004303
Reposted by Ruth A+Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 21/08/2026Reminder that people routinely rate genAI as useful in *other* domains, but still poor in the ones they know well. Think about why that is. 16516
Reposted by Ruth A+jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way 3333541009
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 05/08/2026One thing that I think is interesting/weird is the naming of these programs as “agents”. I get that they operate differently from what most people thing of when you say “program” or “software” but “agents” feels like it is trying to humanize them. 210
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I really enjoyed @rutgerbregman.com’s book Moral Ambition which goes into this idea a fair bit 022
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This applies to “being a good person” more generally too. Its something you do not something you are. 130
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Okay but an LLM doesn’t index and organize the data. That is what databases and search engines do (or used to do). An LLM gives an output based on the average of the information it has access to. Not the same thing. 110
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026But you see the research assistant is a person who can be held accountable for their work. If they do a bad job they probably won’t stay in the job for long. 3361
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The extra frustrating thing about this is he has access to the resources that would allow him to pay people to do the research and write the scripts if he doesn’t have the time/energy to do that work himself! He is at the head of a media empire! He can afford a research assistant! 1952
Reposted by Ruth A+Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026"I am sorry I cannot offer more sympathy for your current rage. I am sorry your lives are not more eventful or fulfilling. I am sorry you still chase the ‘glory days’ of a school you haven’t attended in years. www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...dailymaverick.co.zaA love letter to the Bishops Old Diocesan Committee, from the queer who first put up that flagI am sorry I cannot offer more sympathy for your current rage. I am sorry your lives are not more eventful or fulfilling. I am sorry you still chase the ‘glory days’ of a school you haven’t attended i... 152
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Unfortunately vuvuzelas are banned and won’t be allowed in to the stadium 🥲 210
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Its just so bizarre. I keep picturing him in character (which one? All of them? Himself?) doing it? What was he wearing? 100
Reposted by Ruth A+Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago? 2655021044
Reposted by Ruth A+Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 04/07/2026Now that you’ve gone through the experience of not being able to see images for a while, try to remember how much less useful it was if you saw alt text saying “screenshot of article” instead of the actual text What would you want to have described to you if you couldn’t see the image? Do that 115037
Reposted by Ruth A+Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026“MARRIAGES ASSISTED BY THEM ARE INVALID” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 181871192
Reposted by Ruth A+Dan Why-Ner @danweiner.bsky.social · 22/06/2026BBC News went live to Cabo Verde and then Cabo Verde scored a goal. Absolute scenes. 111165327
Reposted by Ruth A+Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death. 1492230
Reposted by Ruth A+Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The day of 16 June 1976 began peacefully in Soweto, as students streamed out of their schools to peacefully protest the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. By the end of the day, dozens would be dead.theguardian.com‘Then the firing started’: the Soweto uprising remembered 50 years on16 June 1976 is not just another chapter in the history books, nor is its aftermath and legacy, say those who took part and their families 1712
Reposted by Ruth A+Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Abdullah Ibrahim, Eminent South African Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 His song “Mannenberg” became the unofficial anthem of the country’s fight against apartheid, with Nelson Mandela calling him “our Mozart.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/a...nytimes.comAbdullah Ibrahim, Eminent South African Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 37535
Reposted by Ruth A+Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...nytimes.comU.S. Denies Entry to World Cup Referee From Somalia 522427787
Reposted by Ruth A+elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I find this interesting bc it is one of the ways through which the arrival of gen-AI is *not* a way of "saving time". 1167
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Media: classic example of when you should report the facts. She literally does not have a right hand - no need to “say” it. Again if one person says its raining and the other says it isn’t the journalist should look outside and report the facts! 000
Reposted by Ruth A+🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The fastest route away from fascism is community. You have to first have a knitting circle to do consciousness raising in your knitting circle 05919
Reposted by Ruth A+Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning 95100843450
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Did not know this about Bluesky - so I guess before blocking be sure to unfollow 010
Reposted by Ruth A+Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources" (2) Using an LLM to generate, complete, or fix LaTeX code can result in fabricated citations 6419125
Reposted by Ruth A+Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible. 238207315372
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Did the car run by itself? Or was it driven by a person into a crowd? 150
Reposted by Ruth A+Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Coetzee declined because of Israel's Genocide in Gaza, apparently stating that it is impossible for any part of Israeli society — including the intellectual and artistic communities — to claim it does not share in the guilt for the atrocities in Gaza, www.ynetnews.com/culture/arti...ynetnews.comNobel Prize winner in literature invited to writers festival in Israel, but declinedInternational Writers' Festival in Mishkenot Sha'ananim has opened with authors from abroad alongside local writers; But ynet has learned that behind the scenes it faced rejections from prominent writ... 515554
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 26/04/2026All three of the top finishers came in under the previous world record and 1st and 2nd came in under 2:00:00 🙀🥳 000
Reposted by Ruth A+Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n... 103098666
Ruth A+ @ruthea.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Something that is open for me to join the discussion or is it a space where I should just be observing? 000