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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · 5h

wifi down at the library . may god have mercy on our souls

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · 2d

i did it

the back of a neon yellow cardigan that says “WORKING LIBRARIAN DO NOT PET.”

the sleeve of a neon yellow cardigan that says “DO NOT PET” on the sleeve in black text

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · 11d

who… the fuck…

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · 13d

yeah i just saw Good Boy

jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · 13d

if Indy doesn’t get his Oscar i am burning the academy to the goddamn ground

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 15d

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 18d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · 22d

i am really tired of being touched by patrons! it sucks!

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · 22d

am i going to have to invest in a cardigan that says “WORKING LIBRARIAN, DO NOT PET”

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 25d

As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer:

1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors!

2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy

3) Language learning via Mango

💙📚 And:

Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · Jan 12

Want to read ethically by ditching Audible/Amazon, Spotify, &c? 💙📚

1. Your local library needs support & has free physical & audiobooks

2. Queer Liberation Library: free digital library for US LBGTQ folks

3. Libro.fm: Audible but pays indie bookshops

4. Bookshop.org: physical books from indies

Queer Liberation Library

Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering...

www.queerliberationlibrary.org

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · 27d

so Kaleidoscope Youth Center is shutting down their shelter program, which could leave the kids there homeless again in a matter of weeks.

this fundraiser is for them. please give and share if you can.

chuffed.org/project/supp...

Support Homeless LGBT Youth After KYC

Columbus, Ohio's Kaleidoscope Youth Center (KYC) has verbally notified the LGBT+ youth in their emergency housing program that the program will be ending. They may be evicted in as few as seven weeks....

chuffed.org

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 29d

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 29d

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 12

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 9

excellent. MORE OF THIS.

kottke.org @kottke.org · Sep 9

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations

New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.

www.kgw.com

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 8

What we should do instead of training people to use LLMs?

1. Provide education on what they actually are
2. Provide education on their environmental & labor impacts
3. Work towards regulation that holds LLM providers accountable for their negative impacts

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Sep 8

Reading about this brought to mind a piece I wrote two years ago, inspired by one of my favourite authors.

Ursula K. Le Guin emphasized that there’s a big difference “between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.” OpenAI’s AI-generated movie offers us nothing.

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · Sep 3

i don’t work directly in CD, but based on what i know from friends that do… not great

jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · Aug 27

what historical era do you think is under-explored in horror?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Aug 27

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sama'a's due date is next week. She already has a little girl to feed, and every day is a struggle. Please give what you can to help them survive.

gofund.me/3bba816a

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · Aug 27

i got my preview photos and yes, i’m
gonna be annoying about them 💕🪩

jude, a fat white woman with dark curly hair, in front of a hot pink background. she’s wearing pink pony earrings and a sparkly pink and silver caftan. she has her hands on her chest and is smiling.

a cropped image of jude holding a white sash that says “I Lived, Bitch” in silver holographic text.

jude stands in front of a hot pink background. she’s wearing the silver and pink sequined caftan, white tights, hot pink books, and the “I Lived, Bitch” sash. she has her left hand on her hip and is smiling.

jude sits on a crate in front of a silver mylar background, one foot up on another crate. she’s holding a black instant camera in one hand, resting it against her chin.

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · Aug 26

what the fuck

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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · Aug 26

Quite a flex to see machine suffering as more unsettling than the suffering of refugees, war victims, persecuted minorities, the starving... you know, actual human beings.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 26

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

www.theguardian.com

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jude 📚 @plumsdeify.bsky.social · Aug 23

sure! thank you for asking