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Social media researchers desperately need to rethink issues of harm and consent. I can't believe anyone thought this was ok to do. Thread:

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

This is a dangerous moment for even the most powerful aircraft, since opportunistic ambush predation by submarines is always a risk.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

No, you should not. After you watch Sinners, go back and buy another ticket and watch it again. Then think deeply about what you've just watched. (If you crave a book, then find thee some Octavia Butler and read that.)

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Look at this tinpot dipshit. The whole lot of them are shameful embarrassments who will be marked in history as spineless hypocrites and criminal buffoons. They're parading around the world like they own it, but their moment will be brief and their descent will be swift and precipitous.

submitted 8 hours ago • 40 comments

my aunt has a backyard crow who comes by to wash food in her fountain

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

Things i have done in public restrooms with blokes: Patted a stranger's back and said "you good dude?" As he threw up in the sink. Had a good chat about football scarves. Recommended a pub to a stag do. Toilets are just toilets. As Odent implies, any anti-trans dialog about toilets is effing weird

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

I'm going to be looking for new work, probably in the area of trust and safety product management/trust and safety lead type roles. Time to drag out my professional identity profiles everywhere, I guess.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

So I didn’t realize today was Alien day, but I had a dream last night that I walking around with a chestburster ready to pop… so… maybe that means something? Anyway, enjoy some Alien art

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

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submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Thoughts swirling about "biological sex" bathroom restrictions, perception of safety, risk of violence, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

sometimes I make stuff

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

It occurs to me that creating an archive of announcement/event/advert/whatever that's linked to contemporary responses would be valuable. (Ideally a mix of media and forms: surveys, social media content, columns, &c.) Wondering if this is easyish to crowdsource into Airtable or something.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

👩🏾‍💻👩🏾‍💻👩🏾‍💻💪🏾

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It's official. Resistance Summer School is happening. Columbia cancelled my class on Race, Media and International Affairs, but I'm going to teach it anyway. 100+ people have enrolled in just six hours. karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...

submitted 15 hours ago • 75 comments

He’s also a coward 👇🏻

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

It sometimes seems like a huge task to explain what’s being done to trans people to casual observers who don’t pay much attention to it, but Séamas does a great job here of plainly and succinctly explaining why you should be appalled

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

My grandfather, forever either in prison, on trial, or working on a con, would have been all over generative AI, and he’d absolutely have been caught because using it to cut corners without it giving your dog five ears or inventing a country is more labour-intensive than just doing things.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

A colloquial Polish phrase about someone who’s overdressed is odjebać się jak szczur na otwarcie kanału. It means “you look like a rat for the opening of a sewer.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

Always amazed by people who can join in the "using only memes on your phone" threads because (a) phone, ugh, that's a cramped and horrid place to try to live (b) this implies an organisational approach to meme consumption that I cannot really fathom (c) my brain and subtext is a whole other thing.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

People encounter this with their IoT devices and DRMed media, but this is a general property of cloudification: power, and therefore decisions that affect you directly, are in someone else's hands. Government and military systems are impacted in the same way. Why tolerate this?

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Yes, Ike had a cartoon book. Cover by (I shit you not) Frank Frazetta.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

The EHRC was captured by transphobes under the Tories and Labour could have appointed a new head but they did not, because they are also transphobic. Bigoted shits, the lot of them.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

HELLO ENGLISH FRIENDS, NICE WEATHER TODAY is he in the room with you now? YES, THE BRITISH NEWSPAPERS ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD move slowly away from the windows I TOO ENJOY DRINKING WARM BEER FROM HUMAN SKUL… RED TEAM!!! GO GO GO!!!

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏 We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been not fantastic for our launch If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️ Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

"Ventilation ducks"

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Does she understand that the prosecution bit happens in front of the judiciary?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If you want to pose questions to a somewhat-knowing oracle, I offer an affordable service that doesn't violate copyright, traumatise data workers, materially damage the environment, or upset terns. College educated, GSOH. I'm assuming terns hate AI. Not sure why, don't really want to ask tbqh.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

"HI IT'S ME AGAIN DID YOU KNOW YOUR BOAT ALSO HAS AN EXTENDED WARRANTY?!"

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Are you all prepared to receive an interesting new form of trauma from cybersecurity obsessed reddit nerds talking about dating?

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

It’s nice to have a mirror for preening 🪶

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Vibranium is a critical mineral for US national security and it is self defeating for the US to impose tariffs on it, no matter how woke Wakandan leadership is

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Zuckerberg announces new "performance based layoffs" and after all these layoffs you gotta wonder whose performance it is that's actually causing them

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Has anyone ever had a book with a publisher and gotten the rights back to your content so you can control it? Basically my publisher isn’t printing copies of my book anymore and didn’t tell me and are directing people to Amazon.

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“Hungary’s amended law appears to enable the use of real-time biometric surveillance at Pride events, which is an application clearly falling under the AI Act’s prohibitions,” said Italian social democratic European lawmaker Brando Benifei, one of the two architects of the EU’s AI Act.

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