Anna Koop

I’m finding myself raging ever more at recaptchas. Not so much that it’s meaningless, because the data is absolutely being used to train models, but because I did not consent to this labour and they are lying about why it’s there.

Oh this is true in work too. It’s amazing how debilitating it is once you start to suspect your workplace of demanding meaningless work.

Billionaires could solve world hunger but instead they are making a Ring to enslave Middle-earth.

Even here we have people getting urgent care while meeting basic needs can’t be done. I can’t imagine how it feels in Palestine, having only limited glucose solution to treat ongoing starvation.

Everyone needs food. Everyone should have food.

I’m so, so sorry you have to do this to survive. I so very much want you to survive and be well and have your humanity and right to life protected and celebrated.

Dr Menna’s campaign page now has a note reassuring donors that if the entire family is lost the money will go to help others. 💔

What a thing to have to consider, how *I* will feel about my money after *you and your entire family* is murdered!!

Help me to save my family and my sister I am Malak Jamil, a Smart Systems and Computer Engineering student. I completed my high school education with an excellent grade, and it has always been my dream to study engineering and contribute to...

Help if you can.
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Tsunami advisory issued for several parts of the B.C. coast after major earthquake near Russia | CBC News A tsunami watch has been issued for multiple parts of the B.C. coast after a large earthquake in the Pacific basin near Kamchatka, Russia, on Tuesday afternoon.

Please share as wide as possible, don’t just ‘like’ this message. Lives depend on making sure as many get this as possible. #Tsunami #Pacific #Earthquake #DemVoice1 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Problem with writing, or any art, in an information-commodity economy is that you're trying to pursue contradictory goals that in a better world would be aligned: art should be free; artists should have the means to live securely and with a modicum of comfort. Above all with free time to make art.

At a time when the world can seem so grim, @danmcquillan.bsky.social’s work on decomputing can provide a ray of hope.

We don’t just need to reclaim control over technology, but of our collective vision of the future.

The other 50% is iteration. GenAI is TERRIBLE at iteration in general, much less precise iteration. We're astonishingly far from prompting, "use what you've generated as a new basis and just change [element]" and getting anything useful back.

It's just not how LLM dot-connection works natively.

A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.

If someone asks a question about "AGI", the only reality-based response is to demand a definition of "AGI" before replying. #acl2025

1/8 of a tiny squid is not a lot of protein, and starvation is unjust.

Shouldn’t have to *pay* for a Covid test!!! Worrying about it is bad enough and checking if you have it is a freakin’ public service.

This timeline sucks. I want society to do better by people.

Children Are Bleeding in Gaza. My Son Bleeds Too–Help Save Ruhan Hello, my name is Ridwan Ahmed. I’m a father fighting every single day to keep my 9-year-old son, Ruhan, alive.

Help where you can #mutualaid
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We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that:

cabinet/board/panel  = things made of wood

cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations

Done.

Never let it be tired of helping! So sorry that my action or inaction can be life and death, and that my country isn’t mobilizing at scale, and that you have to work so hard for a chance to survive.

Too many people are dying on our watch.

I’m so sorry you and she have been put in danger. Sent a bit, with love.

I get overwhelmed with how many people need help and furious that our governments are actively hurting people.

But I also think of that scene at the end of Schindler’s List where Schindler looks at his fancy clothes and watch and is anguished that he didn’t do more. Because I can do more.

Reasonable people can disagree about the best ways to achieve Jewish safety, self-determination, or liberation.

Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.

Thank you, always.

Unless you’re a billionaire. Then please also use it for legal and lifestyle advice. It’ll be fine, your buddies promise.

That is heart-breaking. Words matter. Adoptees matter.

A wealth tax would probably help with this. Ah, well, anyway.

This never occurred to me and it should have. Thank you and I’m going to watch for it.

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.