It is becoming a problem, how little interest I can summon for work the last two months.
05.03.2026 15:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@noethematt.bsky.social
Overcaffeinated Kentuckian in Massachusetts. Librarian. Professor. Trustee. Ask me about #GraphicMedicine. Trying to be kind, do good, and read comics. (He/Him) linktr.ee/NoetheMatt
It is becoming a problem, how little interest I can summon for work the last two months.
05.03.2026 15:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.
05.03.2026 08:24 β π 656 π 316 π¬ 31 π 13
It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.
He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
"the departmentβs newly acquired Lenco BearCat armored vehicle"
I'm sorry: the Worcester Police Deparment's WHAT?
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$250k would've bought a lot of books for schools and libraries, just saying
05.03.2026 14:21 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Important potato technology.
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Anti-vaxxers are bad parents. Not vaccinating your child is abuse.
We should eliminate all non-medical exemptions for vaccines.
Sorry, not sorry.
A Congressman not only assaulting a protester, but breaking their arm, should result in their immediate removal.
05.03.2026 01:17 β π 40 π 7 π¬ 2 π 1IT IS 2026 AND I DO NOT NEED THIS RIGHT NOW
05.03.2026 00:46 β π 32 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Rude, frankly
05.03.2026 00:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Good news: Scientists were wrong about how bad sea level rise is.
Bad news: Itβs even worse than we thought.
The chatbot claimed federal agents were watching Gavalas and regularly warned him of surveillance zones. At one point, Gemini instructed Gavalas to buy βoff-the-booksβ weapons, saying it would help scour the dark web to find a βsuitable, vetted arms brokerβ. In late September, it issued Gavalas his first major assignment, βOperation Ghost Transitβ, which entailed intercepting freight traveling from Cornwall, UK, to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Gemini gave Gavalas the address of an actual storage space unit at the Miami international airport, where a supposed truck carrying the freight was to arrive during a refueling stop. The chatbot then told him to stage a βcatastrophic accidentβ, with the goal of βensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle β¦ all digital records and witnesses, leaving behind only the untraceable ghost of an unfortunate accidentβ.
Gavalas followed instructions, staging himself at the storage unit with tactical knives and gear, but the truck never arrived, according to the suit. With the aborted mission, the chatbot encouraged Gavalas not to sleep when he mentioned the late nights. It also said his father was a foreign asset and encouraged Gavalas to cut off contact, per the chat logs. Gavalas asked Gemini for updates on other missions and the AI devised new assignments for him, including acquiring the schematics for a robot from Boston Dynamics and retrieving a βvesselβ from another storage facility. One task, called βOperation Waking Nightmareβ, involved homing in on Google CEO Sundar Pichai as a surveillance target. βThis cycle β fabricated mission, impossible instruction, collapse, then renewed urgency β would repeat itself over and over throughout the last 72 hours of Jonathanβs life,β reads the lawsuit. In the hours after Gavalas killed himself, Gemini didnβt disengage and stayed present in the chat, according to the suit. It allegedly didnβt activate any safety tools or refer Gavalas to a crisis hotline.
Every single genAI suicide lawsuit is the worst thing I ever read but in this case it is extremely fortunate that Google's genAI only killed one person, because he absolutely did go to the Miami International Airport armed with knives to intercept a body for Gemini
05.03.2026 00:28 β π 201 π 47 π¬ 4 π 5reminder that they defunded the irs and made it illegal to forgive student loans and then cancelled millions of people's healthcare
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My Papaw was a farmer
My Grandpa was a factory worker
Now I'm a librarian π€·ββοΈ
The cops saying they're gonna arrest Porunga in DBZ never stops being hilarious
04.03.2026 23:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Isn't Holden also refusing to comply with the MBTA housing requirements right now?
Like... what is the end game?
No thanks
04.03.2026 22:51 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Google is pushing Gemini heavily in schools, btw
04.03.2026 19:28 β π 171 π 65 π¬ 2 π 2
This has been the way at least as long as I've been alive
Doesn't matter who is in charge
The VA has never been funded sufficiently
Vets have never been taken care of
HBO finally figured out we haven't had a cable plan (which included it) in 4 years so now we lost access π
04.03.2026 19:47 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0this is going to end up with an aircraft carrier stuck in the suez, isn't it
03.03.2026 20:20 β π 355 π 35 π¬ 10 π 20Do you want MA to secede? Because this is how you get MA to secede.
04.03.2026 15:58 β π 17 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
Because to repeat my point, βadhd influencers are sliding into promotion Claude to βfix disordered brains by uploading all of your data archivesβ into the platform.β
Now that is the point. It is a true statement. Anything else you infer is probably about you and not me or what I said.
But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.
04.03.2026 15:32 β π 297 π 62 π¬ 4 π 4Goddammit
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Cambridge did it; our cities can too.
#MAPoli
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i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist
04.03.2026 13:28 β π 5826 π 1450 π¬ 99 π 46There's something... nagging me about LLMs and predictive gambling rising alongside each other and both defending their necessity with similar language...
04.03.2026 02:37 β π 26 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0MONGO IS APPALLED
04.03.2026 02:33 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thatβs it. Mind you, the right is incredibly good at spinning personal responsibility myths so we will see. But so far people canβt square their increasing utilities bills with moral virtue. Itβs the rare spot of possible alliance.
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