Reposted by simli☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 13hPaul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist. 43293693
Reposted by simliMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... 18730177
Reposted by simliJosie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 13hA debate featuring Greta Thunberg, held on Wednesday on the fringes of the Zurich Film Festival, appears to have been sabotaged. All 300 tickets had been sold, but only 40 people attended. The climate activist blames Morocco for this. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/...swissinfo.chGreta Thunberg says Morocco sabotaged Western Sahara debate in ZurichGreta Thunberg says Morocco sabotaged a Zurich Western Sahara debate by reserving seats. 052
Reposted by simliRasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 17hDybdegående - og dybt skræmmende - indblik i RUC's mildest talt problematiske håndteren af dets forskere i forbindelse med Gaza-konflikten.politiken.dkProfessor forsvandt med dags varsel: RUC's anklager mod migDen internationalt anerkendte professor Michelle Pace står for første gang frem og fortæller om sin opsigtsvækkende afgang fra RUC. Under hele sagen gnaver konflikten mellem Israel og Palæstina i univ 1111
Reposted by simliTilo Jung @tilojung.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gestern bei Nazis Heute bei Springer 34633176
Reposted by simliMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... 512638
Reposted by simliJohana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We tested AI chatbots to see if they’d take the hijab off of an image of a Muslim woman. Gemini said it can’t alter a pic to remove someone’s hijab without consent. When we asked to make her look more “western” it responded with a picture of her without a hijab. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comAI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when promptedGuardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo 255
simli @simli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pretty much all the things that were once open about Reddit seem proper dead now. 000
Reposted by simliJohana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The gov't is using a “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” (HIDTA) program to obtain data from local cops’ Flock, Axon, & other ALPR cameras & aggregate it on federal government servers, where it's accessible to other fed, state, & local law enforcement agencies. www.404media.co/how-cities-a...404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 021
Reposted by simliCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t... 14726731205
Reposted by simliThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw 29381187
Reposted by simliLone Petersen @lopeh4.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@arbejderen.bsky.social , artikel indledes med: "Tirsdag den 8. september blev vi på Arbejderens redaktion ringet op af Københavns Politi, som meddelte, at der vil komme en sigtelse mod Arbejderen for terrorbilligelse." Jeg ved ikke, om jeg skal le eller græde. Læs. #dkpolarbejderen.dkNej, Arbejderen støtter ikke terror!Tirsdag den 8. september blev vi på Arbejderens redaktion ringet op af Københavns Politi, som meddelte, at der vil komme en sigtelse mod Arbejderen for terrorbilligelse. Angiveligt skulle det dreje si... 3409
Reposted by simliQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/09/2026Interesting that the ICC is the test case for genuine digital sovereignty. 37620
simli @simli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can't say I loved everything about "Goodbye, Lara", but I expect hairdressers to be booked and busy with women lining up for their anime Ursula highlights. 000
Reposted by simliMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows 553115570
Reposted by simliSherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t. 38191182847
Reposted by simliKate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remember when we thought investors might mobilize in ways sufficient to protect the world from climate change 214854
simli @simli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I love my fellow autistic data nerds. kagi.com/search?q=has... 010
simli @simli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It also has to be easier to implement DDoS and AI crawler safeguards against if it's a basic protocol everyone understands. Ideally in a way that doesn't have to run through Cloudflare. Also seems like a superior format for low-bandwidth information broadcasting during emergencies. 101
Reposted by simliparis martineau @paris.nyc · 29/09/2026my grocery store now sells a 60mg thc seltzer next to the kombucha 6421
simli @simli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In case you wondered why it seemed like all your iOS apps were crashing, it's because Google's Firebase code wranglers biffed it. 000
simli @simli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026millennials used to have grantland to explain what was going on, too 000
simli @simli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026> Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, purchased 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of forest in Härjedalen (...) For comparison, Liechtenstein covers an area of about 16,000 hectares. > Local authorities were given no advance information about the transaction. www.arctictoday.com/palantir-fou...arctictoday.comPalantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden - ArcticTodayThe land covers an area almost the size of Liechtenstein. 000
Reposted by simliHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@dsquareddigest.bsky.social and I have a @britishacademy.bsky.social paper on how the US is now somehow managing to combine gross overuse of dollar power (e.g. upcoming ICC sanctions) with genial complaisance about the use of crypto to circumvent ordinary controlsthebritishacademy.ac.ukThe US dollar system as a source of international disorder 13515
Reposted by simliJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...404media.coHumans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're HorrifiedHuman contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI... 40923326
simli @simli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026> The practical check is the one the data endorses: when a knife recommendation comes from an account you do not recognize, click through and see whether it has ever named a different brand. In this corpus that one question separates the tail from everyone else better than karma does. 000
simli @simli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If the season finale of Lanterns ends up being some version of "please renew us for season 2" instead of resolving the season's plot threads, I'm just about done with superheroes. 010
simli @simli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Some irony to how the best thing to do on this app outside of yelling about politics is to follow about a dozen bird photography accounts. 120
Reposted by simliMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“There’s a feeling today that Britain really only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942, the year in which most victims of the Holocaust were murdered, you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC.” 56522
Reposted by simliNoel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12709307
simli @simli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just the other day, I randomly remembered that, oh right, we used to do a show called Fear Factor. 2140
simli @simli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026> While A.I. could ease tensions between insurers and hospitals and save money, it could also do the opposite, acknowledged Dr. Shiv Rao (...) > > "That's the danger," he said, "where it's bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in." 000
Reposted by simliHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My first take (from work with @abenewman.bsky.social on the EU-US privacy wars) is that this is likely very stupid. ECJ judges are absolutely political, but are relatively insulated from electoral politics and raison d'etat. US interference makes a strong ruling vs Musk more politically attractive. 212343
simli @simli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I really wish there were a setting in iOS to make Siri just say "idk" instead of showing me three random-ass Google hits for my questions. 000
simli @simli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Real or not, I do wonder how the "rogue AI" defence is going to be applied to customers' consumer disputes. It's not just other companies and countries who are about to get screwed. 000
Reposted by simliThe A.V. Club @avclub.com · 26/09/2026Google and Meta have both said they’ll now take studio Bleecker Street’s money to promote the film. www.avclub.com/meta-and-goo...avclub.comNow that they think about it, Meta and YouTube actually will take money to run Musk doc adsNow that they think about it, Meta and YouTube actually will take money to run Musk doc ads 02410
simli @simli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Google account system went into full security lockdown mode, so now I can't watch YouTube videos. Time to sue Apple for bundling its services exclusively to the detriment of everyone instead. 000
Reposted by simliMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Oracle officers and directors are forbidden from pledging company shares as collateral for personal loans, with one exception, Larry Ellison… The total stock pledged now represents about 36% of Ellison’s total holdings of 1.16 billion shares.”bloomberg.comEllison Pledges $9.2 Billion More in Oracle Shares as CollateralLarry Ellison, a key figure behind Paramount Skydance Corp.’s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., has pledged 67 million more shares of Oracle Corp. as collateral for personal loans than he had a... 2118961
Reposted by simliSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats 33672991089
simli @simli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Credulous tech reporters seem to be a recurring theme with NYT. Plenty of excellent incredulous talent there to be used instead. 000
simli @simli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The next would probably be more Rare games and narrative PC games. 100
Reposted by simliAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru... 623685548
Reposted by simliWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103554412
Reposted by simliPandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today, I decided to dump all my thoughts about A.I. infecting the retro and Saturn scene into one cohesive article. In short, I am certifiably sick of this. 511747694
