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“I think we should stop calling Elon Musk the richest man in the world and start calling him the greediest.”

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.

But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

I don’t think we collectively hate Google as much as we all should. This company is directly responsible for countless layoffs across the journalistic profession this year, and in exchange, it is a less reliable service than it was just one year ago. All in service of a technology widely loathed.

I'm so glad to work somewhere with people on my wavelength when it comes to law, media, pop culture and politics, bc the work chat is now all NYC mayoral election cheering

China Is Stamping Out Dissident Art Curators, painters, and performers are facing jail or exile.

Before President Xi Jinping assumed power, artists in China tested the boundaries of political expression. But the space for artistic independence is narrowing fast.

🤣 duly noted, and I am always interested in opinions esp from those in big corporates bringjng in AI but those opinions will have to DMed

the great thing about my job these days is that with any big AI news I see from Bsky, I can feed it into Places That Matter

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

A Japanese organization representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Toei Animation and more has demanded OpenAI to halt unauthorized use of their IP

Fandom isn’t your job. Take a month off. Take 3 years off. Post incomplete fics. Post incomplete art. Never post again. Switch fandoms. Stay loyal to one fandom only. Do whatever tf you want. You literally make all the rules of engagement in this arena.

summer Sydney Saturday sunsets are walking the dog holding a bouquet of flowers for a friend, picking up proper Italian pizza, and drinking a chilled red in a dog friendly bar while I wait to pick up said pizza 🍕 🍷🐕‍🦺💐

Victor Shi posts: “This was published one year ago. Everything is right.” The image shows a New York Times Sunday Opinion page with bold black text reading: “DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES, ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS, USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS, ABANDON ALLIES, PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS. BELIEVE HIM.”

It was never “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” It was also a clear warning of what was to come.

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models on creative works, after the proposition was met with widespread backlash from artists.

a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower more like no thoughts to declare

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too.

can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

this is true 🤣 also little sister energy

Ahh, after Silksong Ghost of Yotei is such a relaxing game, the combat isn't hard--

*insert Takezo the Urivalled*

........right, time to revive those Silksong muscles UGH THIS GUY

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the one good thing about a 35+ degree day in Sydney is the amount of laundry I can do, and going to the beach in the evening

atsu x oyuki slicing enemies and playing music together and maybe planting vegetables y/y?

anyway I survived the big wedding party for friends and 🦄's political connections, complete with lion dancing, with my best gracious political wife smile despite standing for over 4 hours in heels, coffee, little food, time to COLLAPSE

If an Ub3r/taxi driver asks what I do for work, I make something up bc the true answer gets annoying or uncomfortable follow up questions. Today my made-up job was marketing, and bc I work with marketing folks, I can absolutely bullshit for 30 mins to the airport sounding like a marketing expert

I picked to fight as V, and having seen M's ending, to me V's ending is my preferred

lol so no to Clea or Simon? 😂

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

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when your brain decides to be wide awake at 5am, the Sydney solution is to go to the nearest beach for an early morning ocean dip