apocalypse なお
@apocalypsenao.bsky.social
Retired PhD drop out. Here to evade the bots while we still can.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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if kimmel is edgy we are so fucked
September 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
if kimmel is edgy we are so fucked
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A better question that answers itself is why the Atlantic is giving space to a Peter Thiel bro who is obsessed with colonizing the moon
Man, these Atlantic dudes have entirely detached from reality & are now just writing fanfic about some mythical left in their imaginations.
The Abundance Delusion
I mean, what even is a Democrat at this point?
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A better question that answers itself is why the Atlantic is giving space to a Peter Thiel bro who is obsessed with colonizing the moon
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"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."
As we predicted, the end of de minimis has made every hobby that requires the purchase of items more expensive.
🔗 www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
As we predicted, the end of de minimis has made every hobby that requires the purchase of items more expensive.
🔗 www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."
www.404media.co
September 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."
As we predicted, the end of de minimis has made every hobby that requires the purchase of items more expensive.
🔗 www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
As we predicted, the end of de minimis has made every hobby that requires the purchase of items more expensive.
🔗 www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
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The demobilizing, deflating, and depressing effect of watching day after day as the dumbest, most vapid lickspittles alive are elevated and handed success beyond your wildest dreams is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarian / nationalist movements like this one.
September 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The demobilizing, deflating, and depressing effect of watching day after day as the dumbest, most vapid lickspittles alive are elevated and handed success beyond your wildest dreams is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarian / nationalist movements like this one.
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I sure wish we still had a press corps that would look into "what is being done to protect all those Columbia applicants who had their data stolen by a white supremacist freak, which the NY Times then merrily published."
July 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I sure wish we still had a press corps that would look into "what is being done to protect all those Columbia applicants who had their data stolen by a white supremacist freak, which the NY Times then merrily published."
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The thing about Grok isn't just that it's a Nazi, it's that it tells on all the other LLMs. Outsourcing critical parts of your brain/workflows/team to systems tuned in more subtle ways by companies that may not share your values is just as risky as obvious bias or hallucination
July 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The thing about Grok isn't just that it's a Nazi, it's that it tells on all the other LLMs. Outsourcing critical parts of your brain/workflows/team to systems tuned in more subtle ways by companies that may not share your values is just as risky as obvious bias or hallucination
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I know y’all don’t care about this but there’s a pretty fast spreading Covid variant going around and there’s gonna be a summer surge whether you like it or not. You can, of course, avoid this by getting vaccinated and wearing a mask but you won’t do that.
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
Authorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year.
www.cbsnews.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I know y’all don’t care about this but there’s a pretty fast spreading Covid variant going around and there’s gonna be a summer surge whether you like it or not. You can, of course, avoid this by getting vaccinated and wearing a mask but you won’t do that.
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Historian here. The history of “little fingers” stereotype as a rationale for underpaying women and children is long and dishonorable.
honestly speechless
“Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.”
like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?
“Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.”
like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?
May 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Historian here. The history of “little fingers” stereotype as a rationale for underpaying women and children is long and dishonorable.
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imho, trying to use ai to subvert structural sexism and racism, to upend legacies of colonialism and for advocating social justice is akin to trying to dismantle the masters house using the masters tools
May 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
imho, trying to use ai to subvert structural sexism and racism, to upend legacies of colonialism and for advocating social justice is akin to trying to dismantle the masters house using the masters tools
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the phones: they are not for you. they are not for me. neither is the entirety of modern society lol
May 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
the phones: they are not for you. they are not for me. neither is the entirety of modern society lol
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Just the feature I was looking for!
Said nobody ever.
Said nobody ever.
GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop
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GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop
We asked a week ago: if AI is such a superior programming method that it’ll produce live quality code for Microsoft and live code for Facebook that actual money relies on — then where are the AI co…
pivot-to-ai.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Just the feature I was looking for!
Said nobody ever.
Said nobody ever.
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nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.
An Amazon-backed AI model tried to blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down, a safety report revealed
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence
Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.
www.huffpost.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.
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If you are “gleeful” because fascists are destroying the country so fundamentally it may never recover because it may help you win elections, even though you do nothing to help those in the most need you are not a party that anyone should have anything to do with.
Corporate democrats🤝fascists
Corporate democrats🤝fascists
GOP 'has no idea' what's about to hit: Dems gleeful as they await budget backlash
WASHINGTON — Democrats don’t know whether to scream, cry or celebrate — so they’re doing a little bit of each. After they sneak in a nap or two. After months of negotiations, House lawmakers were forc...
www.rawstory.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If you are “gleeful” because fascists are destroying the country so fundamentally it may never recover because it may help you win elections, even though you do nothing to help those in the most need you are not a party that anyone should have anything to do with.
Corporate democrats🤝fascists
Corporate democrats🤝fascists
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Nathan Vass is a Seattle treasure
The book is a collection of dozens of narratives of daily interactions across the city, touching on loss, joy, and connection on a King County Metro bus.
Cheers to the bus driver! Seattle’s Nathan Vass turns his daily bus exchanges into a book
When you board a Metro bus that Nathan Vass is driving, he’ll make a point of saying hello to you and every other passenger who climbs aboard. He’ll then be on the intercom announcing every single sto...
www.kuow.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Nathan Vass is a Seattle treasure
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Counterpoint: it is an extremely good thing when a country has enough freedom of speech to make art that analyzes real world problems in a fictional setting.
I am still really freaked out because a few days ago I made a post alluding to mass prison labor in the U.S. (a real phenomenon that is ongoing and is pretty much slavery) and multiple people chimed in to tell me that it reminded them of the tv show Andor (a fictional tv show)
May 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Counterpoint: it is an extremely good thing when a country has enough freedom of speech to make art that analyzes real world problems in a fictional setting.
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I've said in multiple venues: if Kendrick taught us anything, it's that we haven't been hating AI hard enough
May 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I've said in multiple venues: if Kendrick taught us anything, it's that we haven't been hating AI hard enough
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AI Con is such a great starting point for people looking to understand what’s wrong with generative AI. It was a pleasure to chat with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social about their new book!
We’re two and a half years into the AI hype cycle. How is it still going?
This week @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to dig into the harms of generative AI and industry strategies to keep the public’s attention.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/277_...
This week @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to dig into the harms of generative AI and industry strategies to keep the public’s attention.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/277_...
May 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
AI Con is such a great starting point for people looking to understand what’s wrong with generative AI. It was a pleasure to chat with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social about their new book!
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I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents:
www.404media.co/american-sch...
www.404media.co/american-sch...
American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show
Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps.
www.404media.co
May 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents:
www.404media.co/american-sch...
www.404media.co/american-sch...