@kalachama.bsky.social
Whatever I say here (bio) will be incomplete, out of date, thus wrong and uncomfortably limiting. Hi! The truth is in-between.
π₯An exceedingly clear voice: Shoshana Zuboff.π₯
Please listen and share.
This is heavy.
And essential.
Please share.
Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility
An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon
ICE vs the clergy
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Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @deadder.bsky.social )
π΅ why would Lockheed Martin build a ballroom..... πΆ This is TikTok Premium βΊοΈ
03.11.2025 09:35 β π 796 π 365 π¬ 21 π 35
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
03.11.2025 21:44 β π 23527 π 9264 π¬ 1142 π 515Double standards. State media.
04.11.2025 03:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#TeslaTakedown Arlington setting up for Halloween/Day of the Dead! Such creative, dedicated, passionate people in this group! So proud & grateful! #StrongerTogether #Resist #NoKings #RIP @teslatakedown.com @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @everyonehateselon.bsky.social @tesla-takedown.bsky.social
02.11.2025 14:38 β π 167 π 42 π¬ 2 π 2I've shared the gist of it in other posts. All the chapter summaries are free. (Plus he gave me a pdf to read.)
31.10.2025 10:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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Just my luck to come of age under Mutually Assured Destruction, survive that (so far), and then get snuffed out by superintelligent AI before climate change has a chance to grind us down!
18.10.2025 09:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: why superhuman AI would kill us all, by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares. WE WISH WE WERE EXAGGERATING
When the most optimistic AI researchers believe there's a significant chance AGI leads to very bad things for humanity, it's time to step back.
Note: these guys are not the optimists.
We're rushing toward a threshold and we don't know where it is, which step will be too far.
ifanyonebuildsit.com
Show up.
It matters.
Send her some articles about AI psychosis, and maybe note that if she wants to process her trauma, she'll need to be the one doing the writing and processing. Or at least find a good psilocybin/MDMA therapist.
10.10.2025 04:19 β π 34 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Caution: This system will make you feel insightful and valued regardless of input quality. Do not mistake persistent affirmation for authentic interaction."
Warning labels for AI / LLM chatbots.
So many people thinking they're amazing because their LLM / AI chatbot is optimized to make them feel that way to maximise engagement.
(Nope, I'm not exempt, just aware.)
Yep, we're sure.
'The article's point about "AI psychosis" becomes more understandable when you realize *the interaction is optimized to be persistently affirming.*' -Claude, emphasis mine
Excerpted from this "conversation" / use of an LLM:
claude.ai/share/bdf5d6...
Better than the Sistine Chapel
01.10.2025 18:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pretty wild that "I" can now code with a speed and sophistication I never had while lying in bed talking to my phone.
It really does unleash creativity.
βI go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldnβt be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that heβs Americaβs Hitler.ββJD Vance
25.09.2025 03:49 β π 603 π 170 π¬ 34 π 5
Some of us do.
23.09.2025 15:18 β π 39035 π 10109 π¬ 2258 π 891...aside from trying to ban devices in my kids' bedrooms 2-7 years too late. Next year is the year of four teens. I'm not sure I'm ready for that fight. Maybe I'll just tell them about the article...
22.09.2025 01:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
What to do when reading about the decline of civilisation due to the rise of smartphones and screen-based rather than reading-based culture?
Post it on social media so you can read it on your smartphone, too. Feels like about the only thing I can do, before I go back to my book...
20.09.2025 02:03 β π 832 π 189 π¬ 28 π 7
America has a CHILD in the White House.
Feel free to criticize @realDonaldTrump at any time, as he sure loves attention..........
This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
