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Professional videographer/photographer. Painting and cycling and board games and making crummy MIDI music. linktr.ee/bird.music

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 15/10/2026
Microsoft, Nvidia among top White House ballroom donors aftermath.site/nvidia-microso...
The White House
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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK IS THIS. This AI slop account just *made up* an incorrect picture of this game's box and contents. It took me 5 seconds to find a good publicity photo of the actual game. Humans work really hard to make games. Have some fucking respect. (Tideward by @connievdc.bsky.social)
AI slop that made up materials and box for TidewardThe actual game box and game
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
“‘Mark, we have two minutes left. I want to be respectful, but I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future and what’s coming,’ the publicist said.”
theverge.com
OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
“I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future,” the publicist said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
propublica.org
How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
also the discussion the author alludes to about people proclaiming they listened to “all music except…” very prominently included hip hop. The line that was common on OK Cupid of 20 years ago was “I listen to everything but country music and rap.” Wonder why she didn’t want to unpack that 🤪
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
404media.co
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/09/2026
So they're gonna kill your kids.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.
Screenshot of an X post by user Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) featuring text followed by an embedded photo of a man in glasses and a dark sweater against a forested outdoor background.
The post text reads:
"BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.
And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
AI is not discovering new mathematics.
AI is stealing human discovery."
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is obvious to me that AI has immense destructive power, but I don't really think the people dismissing these concerns as 'marketing' are doing so because they are uninformed or as 'cope.' I think the AI industry's historical capacity for puffery is informing these takes.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
would love to hear even a single actual argument about how AI "changes the nature of humanity" not based in fanciful speculation
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Important point here! All of the other privately-owned forms of state police surveillance are not going to be any better than Flock and their equipment is likewise equally full of easy-to-access valuable metals
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
ICE agents give contradictory orders on purpose. “You f*cking move I’ll f*cking tase you! Get out of the f*cking car!” It’s a no win situation. The person being violently accosted in this video is a disabled veteran. Imagine if the agents had been wearing shock gloves? Abolish & prosecute ICE
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/08/2026
Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Honestly if you only use this site to complain about it and mostly spend your time on x talking about how people are overdoing it with sunscreen with Thomas Chatterton Williams we really don’t have to extend courtesy to you lol.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 08/08/2026
Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24. @noupside.bsky.social and @rer.bsky.social explore how this halt offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...
lawfaremedia.org
Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.
A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New post by David Elbert: Blurred vision distorts Iowa economy Iowa’s long history of low wages is producing a crisis that state officials either can’t see or choose to ignore. www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/08/08/b...
bleedingheartland.com
Blurred vision distorts Iowa economy
David Elbert: Iowa’s long history of low wages is producing a crisis that state officials either can’t see or choose to ignore.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/08/2026
Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) stared off into space today when I asked if he thinks fellow Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller should end his reelection bid amid allegations by his ex-wife that he abused her and their 2-year-old daughter. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
huffpost.com
Ohio GOP Senator Mum On Colleague Facing Domestic Abuse Allegations
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
fortune.com
Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10/07/2026
With each of these killings by ICE, the administration is telling us: they decide who is worthy of citizenship, they decide whose lives have value.
newrepublic.com
ICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In Texas
The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/07/2026
On the Meta A.I. app, a user can tag a public Instagram account and direct the chatbot to create images based on photos from a person’s account. Users with public accounts were automatically enrolled in the feature and were not notified. Here's how to opt out.
nyti.ms
How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I.
The company’s new A.I. image generator has a surprising twist: It allows people to use images from public Instagram accounts.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
thebulwark.com
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I am so in love with the moving image that I like basically every movie. It is simply a miracle that we can capture light with mirrors and use it to tell stories. i am sentimental in this way, but I cherish this one part of my heart that refuses to succumb to cynicism.
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/06/2026
I wrote about a particularly embarrassing few weeks for AI hype, and how big tech is desperate to get ahead of an economic collapse they'll be directly responsible for (in more ways than one)
karlbode.com
Would You Just Look At This Shit
Even if you put AI ethics and tech's support of fascism aside (which you shouldn't), the quality control at major tech companies has become an embarrassing and dangerous mess as companies try to justi...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been suspended because she designed an art therapy assignment included a mention a hypothetical woman who is "deeply affected by the violence against Palestinian civilians." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘We call it the P-word’: Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians
School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor put under investigation after a student complained about a case study
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Discordia Comic Shop @discordiacomicshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We lost Jonathan Joss exactly One Year ago today. A neighbor burned his house, killed his dogs and shot him in the street for being Gay. Never forget Jonathan Joss. #KingOfTheHill #JohnRedcorn
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Zachary Oren Smith @zacharyos.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Zach Lahn, his Kansas home, and the 🍆 ring of it all.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
404media.co
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
one might ask why a free speech org is scrutinizing the small dollar political donations of private citizens
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ads everywhere. Usage limits. Frustrating guardrails. Less model choice. Users of the Character.AI chatbot app are revolting after a series of changes they say have made the app worse. This is what the future of AI actually looks like www.404media.co/lobotomized-...
404media.co
‘Lobotomized’: Character.AI Is Showing What AI Enshittification Looks Like
Ads everywhere. Usage limits. Frustrating guardrails. Less model choice. Users of the Character.AI chatbot app are revolting after a series of changes they say have made the app worse.
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Jacky Alciné @jacky.blacksky.app · 27/05/2026
[Now that's public] I've cancelled my donations to Wikipedia after some of us found out this happened. Again, "benevolent" executives are the fucking problem.
medium.com
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Lovely piece from @jhoffman.bsky.social
open.substack.com
Colossus Has Fallen
R.I.P. to one of the true, great American artists, Sonny Rollins
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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2
Photo of Sonny Rollins playing saxophone in 2009 by John Abbott
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 26/05/2026
Maybe I’m just a reactionary Luddite refusing to embrace the glorious clanker future but I think Walmart should be prosecuted for fraud.
an ad on walmart.com for a hosta plant with an AI generated photo of an entirely imaginary plant with multicolored neon leavesan ad on walmart.com for a hosta plant with an AI generated photo of an entirely imaginary plant with peacock feather leavesan ad on walmart.com for a hosta plant with an AI generated photo of an entirely imaginary plant with American flag leavesan ad on walmart.com for a hosta plant with an AI generated photo of an entirely imaginary plant with neon colored leaves
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
There actually are rules though. Generations of tradition & semiotics born of human innovation in the face of technical limitations, geopolitical constraints, & a slew of beautiful, tragic, & absurd experiences that some dope typing prompts Seed Dance will never understand or build off of
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
well... well... WELL www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
404media.co
ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.
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