SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 9hNot Jewish but as I know more than few victims who've been harmed a second (or greater) time by offenders who thought that they were entitled to seek forgiveness this is good universal advice. 020
Reposted by SvenTSIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise. 52608765
Reposted by SvenTSJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...cidrap.umn.eduMore than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds 8544232
Reposted by SvenTSTom the Anime Sicko 🔜 Hell @tomharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is what I mean about how we have to become snobs. When a bitch says shit like this to you, the move is to immediately become very mean, and laugh at them, and say out loud that you don’t respect them, things of that nature, things Ezra Klein would never do 9643172
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Sorry Lou but my money's on @aabria.bsky.social ( @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social ) 000
Reposted by SvenTSEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.ca‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC NewsThe website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t... 10552256
Reposted by SvenTSAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe... 224162
Reposted by SvenTSClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I keep seeing ChatGPT ads about Olds having chatty convos with the voice to text feature to help them do stuff on their phone and every single use case is just a thing you used to be able to just google before AI ruined Google 21160162
Reposted by SvenTSmichael @modality.bsky.social · 15/09/2026RASCAL NEWSLETTER: The "Genocide Is Bad" organization has determined that this owners of this golf course actively support genocide. They have asked people not to play golf here, so go forward fully informed about the political context surrounding it. Now watch this drive 11756254
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Even as an oft-pessimist (at least when it comes to governments) I'm still rather impressed with how swiftly so many US institutions have jumped on board with undermining their very reason for existing. You think they'd at least want to pretend to still be relevant after if only for job security 000
Reposted by SvenTSBen Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality? 2136791123
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 13/09/2026'Make a band edible'? All bands are edible if you're not a coward. 000
Reposted by SvenTSKatie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 302667907
Reposted by SvenTSBugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"fairness in women's sports" is literally just "ethics in games journalism" like this is the same thing this is part of the same playbook dawg 203142971
Reposted by SvenTSaustin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Comparing “blogging” to “AI Slop” is the type of take that emerges from being obsessed with how people talk about things instead of being interested in what things are. 262437438
Reposted by SvenTStunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 425174293863
Reposted by SvenTSAaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The most load-bearing rule/ruling of RPGs is actually not the Rule of Cool, but its quieter cousin: Rule of Cognitive Convenience. aka Let’s Not Interrogate the Presence of Potatoes in Middle-Earth, or How Does The Plumbing Work Here. 614123
Reposted by SvenTSLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that. 8184333063
Reposted by SvenTSWorlds Beyond Number @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Worlds Beyond Number presents ... our Kaiju mini-campaign, WORLD TURNER! Pack your bags and set your sights on Port Akabor. A center of culture! A titan of industry! A city on the rise! More details: www.patreon.com/worldsbeyond... 59614
Reposted by SvenTSTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Black, queer, radical, female, femme people & orgs literally diagnosed the problem so well that "them goons are coming" became accepted wisdom and so now everyone thinks THEY had the idea and don't need to acknowledge the work that so-called Woke Movement damn near killed themselves to teach you. 31106301
Reposted by SvenTSMike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 31/08/2026*writing in @funcityventures.bsky.social notebook* worlds … richest … ketamine addict … controls … if it’s … nice out 425224
Reposted by SvenTSEmily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Corollary: if someone is “brilliant” but an asshole to women and junior colleagues, they are not brilliant. They are bad at their job and should be treated as such 544797
Reposted by SvenTSTarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Neutral in the culture war" 111155785321
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I know it won't be but some part of me hopes against hope that Dolly's death is a wake up call to a bunch of the wealth hoarders out there. *This* is legacy. It doesn't matter how big your net worth gets it only matters *how* you used it. Dolly will be loved, remembered, and mourned for ages. 100
Reposted by SvenTSIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026When your timeline is filled with queer folks and brown/Black people singing the praises of and loudly mourning a 1940s-Tennessee-born white Boomer lady, welp. She was pretty goddamn extraordinary, you can assume. 261091309
Reposted by SvenTSDia Lacina @dialacina.com · 25/08/2026I love how Dolly Parton died a fantastically rich woman but the entire timeline is just celebrating the ways she chose to spend her money to help people. When Mark Cuban dies, it's going to be like "He was a little namesearching cunt and bought a lot of microplastic crap on Shark Tank *shrug*" 0995
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Ah, yes the 'Gulf of Mexico' treatment. Look how well that worked out for him. Just L after L even on the most absolutely pitiful of fronts. 000
Reposted by SvenTSEvan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Part of treating children as human beings means simply reminding yourself that the younger version of you would have hated to have been surveilled 24/7, and that your sense of self is formed in part through privacy from others. We parent well when we let our children find themselves. 7280110
Reposted by SvenTSKeegan Lannon @keeganlannon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026But there is a crucial difference: you have to program the drum machine. You have to tell it what beats to play and in what time signatures and tempos. You can't just type in: "fast hip-hop beat, heavy bass" and have a whole ass song come out the other side. 2159
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 23/08/2026There's something kind of pathetic about bragging that your robot 'outran' Usain Bolt. Bolt's accomplishments are impressive *because* of the limitations of the human body. You created a machine that travels faster on a horizontal plane? Congratulations on being massively behind the curve. 001
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It's funny (in a sad, laugh to keep from screaming sense) that even a decade ago Canadian conservatives would have been fucking creaming their ill-fitted jeans over having someone like Carney in power. But now even the textbook picture of 'capital-coddling neo-liberal' is too 'leftist' for them. 000
Reposted by SvenTSTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs. 333156669
Reposted by SvenTSIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/08/2026This is framed as though it's a subversion of the tech but this is what the glasses are forfuturism.comTeen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle SchoolsTeen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools. 271116297
Reposted by SvenTSEmily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Everyone deserves to have their life changed by the power of middle aged actors in the goofiest possible alien makeup, chewing up every last bit of the cheap scenery and breaking hearts along the way. 06218
Reposted by SvenTSLillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“Why didn’t the Gaiman story break inside of comics journalism first?” All of this but DRAMATICALLY decrease that freelance rate to zeroish. And as you might expect, “zeroish” also means no one has money for legal council if a millionaire author, for example, wants you to shut up. 418366
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Damn, Lanterns started off even stronger than I could have hoped from the trailer. All that's left is hoping they can stick the landing. 011
Reposted by SvenTSCharlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I know it's really hard to avoid using things (esp tech) made by problematic people or that has a problematic agenda. That said, for #kidlit folks, there's alternatives to Substack that don't, y'know... actively promote Nazis. I'm just saying, it's not really brand compatible with kids books.cbc.caWhat does the future hold for Substack? | CBC NewsSubstack created a pioneering economic and cultural engine for a new generation of writers. Nearly 10 years in, its reputation isn't so simple. Between the injection of an algorithm into the mix and o... 817095
Reposted by SvenTSCristina Ramos @saffroncr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Anything without context is absurd. The movie industry used real animals and tortured or killed them. That's why nowadays movies show the "No Animals Were Harmed" disclaimer. Many food industries abused human rights, that's why nowadays we have disclaimers like "100% Fair Trade". See the pattern? 6604183
Reposted by SvenTSZoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 13/08/2026I don't know what's more damning, the possibility of some guy with one of the worst cases of CEO brain typing "who is Stella" into Claude because his grey matter is too rotted to remember who he hired or him thinking its a sick own on a former employee to lie about having done that in the press 352870486
Reposted by SvenTSDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did. 121978852
Reposted by SvenTSrowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 12/08/2026The thing that pisses me off about Warren Ellis is that these women specifically created a process for him to apologize and try to make amends *because they considered him so good and important for the industry* and he blew them off completely. 4334131
Reposted by SvenTSJonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is bang on. I'd like to continue to point out that "Dungeon Master" a live improvisational stage show was created by a Black man named Bruce A. Young in Chicago in 1983. He brought it to LA where it continued to be performed well into 2017. What's important is who was in the audience and cast. 528077
Reposted by SvenTSPunished Dia @punished-dia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Ok but do these people know you don't have to listen to your bosses? I've had like a dozen bosses and I've maybe listened to like 20% of shit they've told me to do or asked of me in like 30 years and never been fired once. Do we need gov't worker "how to slack and take a 2 hour lunch" pamphlets? 0121
Reposted by SvenTSlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I don't actually see any evidence of this? As far as I can tell most academics response to the Wilson piece (those who have seen it at all) was "huh, fair enough - I liked the film tho". I'm guessing this isn't registering because low key calm responses aren't flashy or memorable. 2234534
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I'll never understand salt-roping on Arena period but *especially* not salt-roping during Midweek Magic a play mode with exactly *zero* stakes behind it. No rank, you can play until you get the rewards, there's no reason not to just scoop and move on. 000
Reposted by SvenTSPunished Dia @punished-dia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Jesus Christ. "Why am I using something even I agree is unethical???" [Fake Job Title] [jazz hands] 1173
SvenTS @svents.bsky.social · 04/08/2026My Adventures With Superman really decided on a hard pivot on tone this season, huh? Not a complaint, mind you, just a surprise. 000
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[Blizzard Entertainment is owned by Microsoft, which has been named a "priority target" by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement over its complicity in Israel's ongoing occupation of Palestine and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. That boycott explicitly extends to Xbox and Microsoft's gaming products. I am about to spend a few paragraphs writing about a game I love (warts and all), so go forward fully informed about the political context surrounding it.]
World of Warcraft has once again activated the siren call, luring me back to shores I've explored for the majority of my life at this point. This latest temptation is the strongest and most devious, nostalgia mixed with big promises in the form of Wow: Forever. (The essay goes on.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mdv6ziftrioybhhoxqztquno/bafkreicritch25idnw2brdt4nlya6mfh2jyijsmvg6z5umyyge5ymiozqy)
