Abbey Mei Otis

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

Happy May Day, y’all

whoa I am so flattered

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

JD Vance destroyed the college football national championship trophy and killed the pope in the same week.

There is more evidence behind the claim "JD Vance killed the pope" than there is behind the claim that any of the people renditioned to the slave camp in El Salvador are gang members.

Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.

Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards. Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'. @fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

The 50501 organizers in LA had a “post protest party”… They used a picture of ice goons abducting Romaysa in the background of their party flyer - when the raised funds or the protest itself had nothing to with ICE abducting pro-Palestine students. this is disgusting.

Video shows activists unveiling a massive banner with the names of Palestinians killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023, during a protest in Washington DC.

Notice how militarized police are nowhere to be found when Black people stay home?

Reps. Jayapal, Raskin and Scanlon are circulating the following letter about Mahmoud Khalil (leaked to me) among congressional colleagues, source says. Draft unambiguously condemns the arrest, saying it's based on an "obsolete Cold War-era" law

Bluesky Deletes AI Protest Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes, Calls It 'Non-Consensual Explicit Material' Bluesky has deleted the most viral post reporting on an internal government protest agains the President of the United States and the world's richest man.

Bluesky moderators deleted the AI protest video @marisakabas.bsky.social obtained of Trump sucking Musk's toes broadcast inside HUD office, called it 'non-consensual explicit material'

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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

I would like an actual professional spinner of yarn or I feel ripped off.

Lmao

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

🗣️WATCH: “Pull your head up. We got this. We are in this together.”

@tequilamjohnson.bsky.social gets a standing ovation in rural Tennessee as she points to the resilience of Black folks throughout history to say Trump is not a hurdle that 🇺🇸 can’t overcome.

Severance is relatable to my household bc our brains are severed between the first and second floors of the house thus once I walk upstairs it is medically impossible for me to remember why

The antipathy I feel toward the clean-up robot bumbling around Giant suggests I will not be one of the activists fighting for android liberation in the coming machine wars

Maybe I’m feeling all this bc it’s snowing

And the story isn’t even about any of this, it’s about the technical labor that goes into commodifying dreams for mass consumption.

“Winter Market” knows that the terrifying question is NOT ‘what if AI were sentient’ but actually ‘what if it’s impossible to know whether an AI is sentient bc in fact it is impossible to fathom the inner experience of any one else, even the people you love most and have shared dreams with”

Having one of those perfect revisitation moments where I read Gibson’s “The Winter Market” in high school and was so nonplussed, but just read it again and am now like ok best story of all time?

Parenting question, my impressionable young algorithm is giving me like 50% pokemon fanart and corgi photos. How do I guide her away from this and toward a milieu of commie shitposting and gay filth?

Ursula LeGuin accomplished a lot of things but I don't think she was like racking up a bodycount

wow the number of Estraven/Genly Ai (EstraGen, obvs) fics on AO3 is disgracefully low, come on people