Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We probably shouldn't have the DNI double dipping as the AI Tsar. Also if you graduated from law school in 1993, we are going to need your well handle before you're cleared to do anything related to frontier models. There are hand full of people with a law degree from that era who could do it. 000
Reposted by ZackAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Trump AI czar Jay Clayton: "People talk about 'you have to slow it down to have safety.' It's actually the other way around ... I think's a false dichotomy in that there's a tradeoff of speed and safety" 11240599
Reposted by ZackMeredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 07/10/2026It can have five years of protection, and require an active registration... as a treat 3121
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's never the nobility and the elite who tighten their belts in austerity. 000
Reposted by ZackDan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Probably the best ai provisions in journalism. Really interesting that the bargaining unit includes both (unlike, say, the much bigger NYT). So the ai protections are both about the front-end (intellectual property) and the back-end (procurement, training) 1203
Reposted by ZackDan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Capital always controls the investment function. American labor has historically ceded the ground on the production process. AI is interesting bc the vampire tendency of dead labor is readily visible to creative workers and they feel licensed to argue over it bc work product is both input & output 051
Reposted by ZackCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026Since July 27, brave people have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree to block the construction of Trump's border wall, which is destroying the region's ecology. This morning, Border Patrol raided the camp, arresting a number of people and killing the tree. Background: crimethinc.com/lochielcrimethinc.comThe Border is an Open WoundA report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall. 3175144
Reposted by ZackDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If Aaron Swartz was still alive, I'm pretty sure he would have made it his life mission to personally demolish Sam Altman and all that he represents. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comSam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AIThe OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic. 612021
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I feel like I am going to be thinking about this all week. Student experience is also typically framed in light of elite institutions. Working at a community centered state university, my students have a different set of concerns that make the "real world" framing even more hollow. 050
Reposted by ZackTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A consistently pernicious framing of student experience is that they are not in the “real world” yet, as if the debt they’re accruing and incessant punitive surveillance of their labor and speech isn’t entirely of a piece with the broader cultural moment. 412120
Reposted by Zackdaily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026jubilee, debt relief, shaking off of burdens, call it what you will: the key to supercharging an economy is to cancel and relieve accumulated economic rent 15219
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 05/10/2026which was he also, apparently, wore in the summer... in DC... so mad respect. 000
Reposted by ZackAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🎵 Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Annie Hall... 🎶 24672118
Reposted by ZackCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026he did, but if you need it fully unpacked: ai permeates the tech we use to such a degree that it is very difficult to fully avoid it, because even a simple search now includes invoking an ai response or unseen backend feature. so even critics of AI are likely to use ai 3132
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This isn't flash, a janky system that needs to be retired because it is riddled with critical security bugs, its javascript, an essential language for the web. 120
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That works great for blog posts, but if you want to talk to a data system that needs heavy governance, or was bleeding edge 20 years ago, and for various reasons couldn't migrate to a more modern data model and system, than XSTL would be how you handle the XML that these systems generate. 120
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For those wondering what the heck XSTL is, its the language that tells the browser how to turn XML into other things, like HTML. It lets a web based site or app to talk to a relational database. Lots of web stuff uses JSON, or talks to a MYSQL database. 120
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 02/10/2026!?! This is going to break so much stuff. Also there are a lot of more modern sites that interact with XML on the back end, through patches. I would be shocked if a lot of essential government websites, wind up broke. 240
Reposted by ZackAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us 351344492
Reposted by ZackKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool. 23719163
Reposted by ZackPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.productpicnic.beehiiv.comLLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about. 1034197
Reposted by ZackTate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026William Richard Lethaby, Blois, 1882 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont… 0436
Reposted by ZackGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203190575441
Reposted by ZackPablo Torre @pablo.show · 24/09/2026Good morning: youtu.be/uh7s2jr0b48?...youtu.beWe Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFOYouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 1371674478
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Children with cancer, aren't warriors. They're kids with a terrible illness. Thank your for supporting cancer research Hundyai, but don't trivialize their experience. 000
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There is another building downtown Seattle, that is a rhomboid and if you stand underneath it it feels like it is actively falling on you. 051
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think today might be the day I install a local model. 000
Reposted by ZackKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead: 15504224
Reposted by ZackJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What if the Matrix was real but Keanu just went around making sure kids landed sick kick flips? 05211
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 21/09/2026More evidence in the google search is boiled because they've let their trash AI do everything. 000
Reposted by ZackMicah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable 94115862866
Reposted by ZackTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Continuously in awe of the fact that all knowledge builds on learned knowledge. If you ever have the chance, watch the patience of an early-childhood educator guiding a kid through a difficult new idea and then consider the entire communal effort of generational education throughout history. 846975
Reposted by ZackKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026They started replacing the art they didn't appreciate, then: "Conservative groups and friends of the president staged events for free or at steep discounts, including a conference on 'ending Christian persecution.' The center threw parties and dedicated rooms to Trump donors and political allies." 28372207
Reposted by ZackEvlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You need to play with your toys collection a bit or else you risk becoming too serious. 😐 3224
Reposted by ZackThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026Obama Family Dog Passes Away theonion.com/obama-family-dog-passe… 371824
Reposted by ZackThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026Childhood Best Friend Would Never Make The Cut Now theonion.com/childhood-best-friend-… 11122772
Reposted by ZackAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Has anyone considered orienting college education around the practice of sitting together and discussing real books, read on paper? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...nytimes.comUniversities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace ItAs A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students. 317028
Reposted by ZackAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT 6409101
Reposted by ZackJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out. 351442413
Reposted by ZackJonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Oh look we found the voter fraud. 412637
Zack @wildbookchase.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The university just rolled out a tool that among other models includes, Grok. Which kinda says everything you need to know about the tool and its roll out. 000
Reposted by ZackMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/09/2026"Students should not use AI to write their papers, nor should they use AI to author a series of correspondences designed to convince a vulnerable professor, recovering from being catfished by Todd Livingston, that he has a long-lost daughter who desperately needs $4000." buff.ly/snoNPLJmcsweeneys.netUpdated Syllabus, Revised After What Happened Last Semester“Discussions should remain focused on literary works. They should never become a platform for students to pitch the professor on a business that, in theory, ... 04312
Reposted by ZackMike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026Have to admit that I thought this was pretty widely known already so I'm a bit confused about the way people are reading this conspiratorially. Also, for people who get mad that the tools don't magically prevent bad/problematic interactions, would you rather there be no ability for human review? 57319
Reposted by ZackSam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"wow, everyone knew this already" is such a cynical, annoying and unfortunately extremely common response to tech news. assuming your privacy is being violated and proving that it is are two very different things, and the latter is the result of hard work and rigorous reporting 221783328