Lana Sinapayen

A clearly AI generated image showing a tomato with a network of veins. One of the labels reads "vascular fibers"

Was looking for info about a ridiculous life hack and found something even more ridiculous in the images tab of the search

This is the thing that’s so stupid/horrifying about Big Tech’s shiny promises of our “AI future.”

*If* it works like they promise (and there’s no evidence it does or ever will), the result will be massive unemployment and conscious human-level intellects treated as slaves.

Who wants that?

I wouldn't know either way!

Someone asked "is this AI?" below a normal video of a normal tree.
Someone else told them off for being dumb.
1st commenter: "I'm from Alaska, we don't have trees"

...so much to unpack

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Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi - Nature A study presents an approach to establish and track a new endosymbiotic partnership by implanting bacteria in a non-host fungus and shows that stable inheritance of the implanted bacteria is possible ...

Vorholt Lab re-created endosymbiosis in the lab: injected bacteria into a fungus and evolved a heritable partnership.

Evolution, fast-forwarded.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The agent sounds just as whiny as any number of small men with persecution complex, so at least the training got that tone right...

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Letting "AI agents" roam should be illegal, and any harm they cause should cause fines high enough to bankrupt anyone.

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

While I had the flu, I dreamt I found a piece of paper with a poem that said something like “lie back in the long grass. Look up at the seed heads bobbing in the wind. The shade is cool. If we lie here long enough, we will become one.” It was written by A. Grass, a hungry grass who wanted fertilizer

Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸 @Tamer_Alnoaizy BlueSky is one of the worst platforms I have ever dealt with. Within seconds of creating a second account, after my first one was shut down just two days after it was created, my account was closed again. This happened despite the fact that I hadn’t posted anything or followed anyone. I was only in the process of adding a profile photo, yet I received an email claiming that my account was “spam” and that it was “causing harm.” What kind of logic is this? The painful truth is that the account was shut down the moment it became clear it was created from inside Gaza. It seems we are no longer allowed to write or speak about what is happening to us here. They are not afraid of content itself, but of our voices and the reality we carry with us. Millions are spent to silence these voices and to erase the truth. I am exhausted by this platform and by how our photos and videos, which document real suffering, are treated as “violations of community standards,” as if pain itself has become a crime. What is happening is not simple moderation or policy enforcement. It is an attempt to erase our existence and bury the truth. And honestly, this is shameful and unbearably painful. [the original poster has included two screenshots showing the email from bluesky admin informing him that his account has been taken down for being 'spammy, inauthentic or disruptive to users'. it's the standard boilerplate you get when they take moderation action.] 2:45 PM · Feb 10, 2026 https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021234178461704409

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

*face

I just know everyone I know will go for the in your fave, low friction option.
Is this how we devolve back to phone calls? I'm not reading your 5 paragraph, 15 bullet points slop email. Imma start calling everyone.

It also purports to be writing it “personalised to my writing style”

UM excuse me pls do not make a AI version of me, I can be grimacingly delightful and preemptively apologetic all by myself thank you

“Suggested reply” pre-regurgitated

“Help Me Write” it screamed

Holy shit gmail is not even asking if you want AI to write a reply

It HAS GONE AHEAD and read the email and already composed a ‘suggested reply’ waiting at the bottom of the email for you

Then, when you ignore it, it pops up with a Help Me Write prompt

It is we who are being prompted

I am asked to review a manuscript in journal from IMR press.
Is it a predatory publisher? Does reviewing for them is ok?

A Bitcoin Blunder for the Ages: $40 Billion Accidentally Given Away A botched prize giveaway has landed a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange in hot water.

A Korean bitcoin market intended to give away prizes worth ₩620,000 or about $425. Instead, they gave away 620,000 bitcoins worth roughly $40 BILLION at the time—despite not actually holding that many tokens. It’s a massive failure of crypto safety protocols. Now they’re asking for the coins back.

Hamish McKenzie Disiointed • Subscribe 1h Edited Hi everyone. Chris, Jairaj, and I wanted to let you know that we've heard and have been listening to all the views being expressed about how Substack should think about the presence of fringe voices on the platform (and particularly, in this case, Nazi views). liust want to make it clear that we don't like Nazis either-we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don't think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away- in fact, it makes it worse.

NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them.

Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...

The crazier our modern world gets, the less mad parts of the past seem.

Epstein and the moral rot of US public intellectuals The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstei...

There hasn't been much media coverage outside the science media of the Epstein scientists. So I wrote about them here for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As many in science know, John Brockman was central in linking Epstein to scientific "public intellectuals".
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Thank you for writing this.

I'm ready to do a lot of things to bring openAI down but feeling sorry for an ex minion who still wish they worked there isn't one of them

Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.

After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists.

2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).

Photo of a scorched landscape and blackened, leafless branches bearing cone-like clusters of capsules. Many capsules are open and gaping.

Australia’s Banksia has fruits that are serotinous, opening after fire. Wildfires clear competing vegetation + deposit nutrients in the soil = good conditions for seedling establishment. 📷: Banksia ornata by davidsando CCBYNC4. #Proteaceae #serotiny #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Imagine! I mean, imagine how hard it is for a quadratic equation to understand itself! Imagine how hard it is for that statement to have any meaning whatsoever!

I want to get off Instagram eventually, but I haven't found my next destination yet

But honestly it bugs every time I try to do something so don't expect as many videos as Instagram. No alternative I tried works even 1/10th of the time.

CookieTalks A PeerTube provider for general use, hosted in northern Europe.

I'm trying to use

@cookietalks@peertube.wtf

peertube.wtf/a/cookietalk...