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Social Justice Cyborg 🐙 and lover of the Web 🕷 Serving the world from Massachusetts 🍵 🇵🇷 Pride is Protest 🏳️‍🌈 DEI means Veterans Newly committed to the Hopescroll. Hold me to it. DM me on Signal: CaptainCalliope.11
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Good piece on the new AI Now report from WIRED's @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/report...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

fresh on my substack: one major weakness in the Network State and how to exploit it. we gotta get serious about not just knowing about the Network State but knowing how to take it out and executing on that techfascism.substack.com/p/exploitabl...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It’s true! I’ll be doing a live talk with @hcrichardson.bsky.social at 5 pm EST tomorrow. Details to come. I’ll send out more info tomorrow on The Nerd Reich (and here!) Http:// www.thenerdreich.com

submitted 20 hours ago • 13 comments

1/ Beyond exposing wrongdoing and injustice, our mission — since 2008 — has been to spark real-world change. With your support, here’s just some of the impact we were able to make together this year 🧵

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

I’ve been following this project for a while and am excited it’s finally out - a stark contrast from the opacity of the AI industry and demonstrates why it’s important to publish research openly, with methodological rigor and real insight into how training datasets are built

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GPTo3 feels I asked it to do too much work and decides to lie to me...

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Read Karen Hao. Read her now.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025. It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Curtis Yarvin, now into public weeping and Ozempic flexing, jumps the shark in this New Yorker profile. Brutal. A pathetic figure. But Andreessen, Thiel & JD Vance are so thirsty for an openly anti-democracy voice, they have made a clown into a “philosopher.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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I'm so relieved that word is going mainstream. Now, what are we gonna do about it?

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Everyone thinks the people on the other side are more "extreme" in their views then they actually are. It's a consistent, symmetric, large effect. But why? www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/why-do-the...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a political and architectural question I've been pondering. What if the Open Web is bad? If you had a negative emotional reaction to this question, why? I'd like to know.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

A letter to the editor of the @economist.com We need good news to remind us of what’s possible!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Microsoft recently closed the International Criminal Court’s accounts on its services, including the email account of ICC’s chief prosecutor, due to U.S. sanctions. This move has completely paralyzed parts of ICC’s work such as investigations into the genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza."

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

ALPRs are EVERYWHERE & they're the tech that gives me the most creepy creeps of AI tech -- y'all might want to start speaking on this en masse as it is being used to target many humans today, for many different organizations including groups we know want to use (surveiltech) info against you

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I like having superglue because it makes me feel dangerous. 👀

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment