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Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

Springfield (eating the dogs / cats) Ohio desperately needs your help with ICE.

Ohio Gov Mike DeWine said it will be “the next Minneapolis” as 15,000 Haitians (1/4th of the entire city) will have their TPS status prematurely revoked Weds Feb 4th.

Here are links to donate and volunteer directly: 1/

oh interesting almost like they KNEW what would happen yet did nothing.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread

#KirbyFraming

Printing this out and sending it to every library worker all in on genAI

me? oh yeah, fine. I'm doing great. just sort of left my body for a second to observe the current moment and my place in it from a high angle, sort of like what I imagine you'd see from a spy satellite? but one that can look through time? but yeah, I'll have that report done by the end of the day

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence

hope that helps

Those literal children have more spine than the entirety of elected politicians, from village to federal level.

There was a time before ICE—2003—and there will be a time after—in our lifetime. Abolish ICE. Abolish olice. Renee Nicole Good & all victims of state/imperial violence, Presente.

Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and all victims of state/imperial violence, Presente.

A nurse. A 37-year-old man who devoted his time to healing the sick and the injured, who came outside in the cold to protect his neighbors, gunned down in the street by bloodthirsty blackshirts

Question: what do AI companies claim that image models are for?
(As opposed to the slop, porn and fascist aesthetics they are actually used for...)

Columbia Heights school leaders speak out after ICE detains kids ICE agents have detained students on their way to and from school and also tried to get onto school property, the Columbia Heights superintendent said in an emotional news conference Wednesday.

"it’s unclear when or whether Liam will be able to return for his stuffed turtle, his hat, and his W worksheet" sahanjournal.com/education/ic...

my employer kept trying to cancel my health insurance while i was out on medical leave for cancer treatment (which was delayed for several months because my counts wouldn’t recover fast enough between cycles)

probably unrelated to that stress tho

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong:

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

“is this… a yassified jason?”

— @tjneer.bsky.social, on seeing Jason X

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.

With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg arstechnica.com/information-...) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

A note from your friendly neighborhood librarian: you are not doing research when you use ChatGPT.

Examining the rise in unionization among local organizations The Columbus Dispatch is one of several local organizations whose employees are making an effort to unionize. We're talking about the factors pushing Columbus employees toward unionizing on this hour ...

The second hour (11 am - noon) of today's All Sides with Amy Juravich on WOSU will look at union organizing in Central Ohio. Guests will include organizing committee members from Columbus Metropolitan Library United and @dispatchnewsguild.bsky.social
Listen live on the radio or on WOSU's website!

This is what happens when libraries partner with/rely on for-profit tech companies. When I posted fantasizing about libraries having police-sized budgets, it means libraries could afford to develop their own open source software and not rely on AI slop machines.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

With the transformative power of generative AI, anyone can commit atrocities at scale. It’s not just autocomplete—it’s being an absolutely vile piece of subhuman filth as a service.

it’s amazing how being a woman shaped object magically transforms factual information into “your views”

Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

This is the most damning part.

ICE shot a young mother. They refused to allow immediate medical assistance for 15 MINUTES. Their cars blocked EMS from the scene.

When they shoot you, they want you to bleed out. Sick freaks.

“I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life.”

thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"