Amanda M Hatfield
@robotsvsghosts.bsky.social
photographer (of live music + more), visual artist, crazy cat lady, awkward. photo editor, social media manager, news, etc at @brooklynvegan. she/her, gay
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Love this new evidence of the cognitive sophistication of cows and hope that it might make a few people rethink whether they want meat on their plates
www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
Why a tool-using cow could change how we see farm animals
A pet cow has learned to scratch herself with a broom, showing creative problem-solving skills that make it harder to ignore the fact that these animals have minds, says Marta Halina
www.newscientist.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Love this new evidence of the cognitive sophistication of cows and hope that it might make a few people rethink whether they want meat on their plates
www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
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Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
Said goodbye to my best friend of 16+ years on Tuesday. 💔
January 18, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Said goodbye to my best friend of 16+ years on Tuesday. 💔
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The best videos of ICE agents eating shit in the brutal Minneapolis winter
The Best Videos of ICE Busting Their Asses in the Brutal Minneapolis Winter
Watch out for that ice, you fascist clowns.
gizmodo.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
The best videos of ICE agents eating shit in the brutal Minneapolis winter
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This is a very, very stupid idea. This would shift the cost of hurting people from the drivers who do the harm to the people who suffer it.
Uber, who is a bad corporate citizen, is pushing this, since their business causes a great deal of harm and they don't want to pay for it.
Uber, who is a bad corporate citizen, is pushing this, since their business causes a great deal of harm and they don't want to pay for it.
The new policies would shift the cost of traffic injuries and deaths from drivers and insurance companies onto crash victims, according to attorneys who have represented them. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/14/g...
Gov. Hochul's Uber-Backed Car Insurance 'Reforms' Threaten Payouts To Crash Victims - Streetsblog New York City
Hochul wants to limit payouts to crash victims under the banner of "affordability" and claims that "staged crashes" drive up insurance rates.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
This is a very, very stupid idea. This would shift the cost of hurting people from the drivers who do the harm to the people who suffer it.
Uber, who is a bad corporate citizen, is pushing this, since their business causes a great deal of harm and they don't want to pay for it.
Uber, who is a bad corporate citizen, is pushing this, since their business causes a great deal of harm and they don't want to pay for it.
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"100% of new rental demand in California in New York comes from illegal immigrants" is one of those lies that is so obviously false that you can't even take it seriously as an attempt at deception. It's more like an insult to people who take these things remotely seriously.
January 12, 2026 at 10:03 PM
"100% of new rental demand in California in New York comes from illegal immigrants" is one of those lies that is so obviously false that you can't even take it seriously as an attempt at deception. It's more like an insult to people who take these things remotely seriously.
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It does feel like we’re coming to a breaking point with Gen AI. Consumer backlash is strong, the companies aren’t profitable, and the slop classification has caught on in a way that CEOs can no longer ignore. Two of Colbert’s guests this week alone were talking about AI backlash and human made art.
Larian writing director says gen AI won't be used for the new Divinity game's writing
Says they tinkered at it for research, and it created work that was "at best" 3/10 in terms of quality, inferior to even his own worst human-written drafts
www.reddit.com/r/Games/comm...
Says they tinkered at it for research, and it created work that was "at best" 3/10 in terms of quality, inferior to even his own worst human-written drafts
www.reddit.com/r/Games/comm...
January 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
It does feel like we’re coming to a breaking point with Gen AI. Consumer backlash is strong, the companies aren’t profitable, and the slop classification has caught on in a way that CEOs can no longer ignore. Two of Colbert’s guests this week alone were talking about AI backlash and human made art.
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interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
January 8, 2026 at 7:41 PM
interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
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Republicans have told us for decades we need unlimited guns under the 2nd Amendment for days exactly like today.
But when today came, they called the unarmed woman murdered by an authoritarian government a terrorist instead of taking up arms against her killers.
Remember it.
But when today came, they called the unarmed woman murdered by an authoritarian government a terrorist instead of taking up arms against her killers.
Remember it.
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Republicans have told us for decades we need unlimited guns under the 2nd Amendment for days exactly like today.
But when today came, they called the unarmed woman murdered by an authoritarian government a terrorist instead of taking up arms against her killers.
Remember it.
But when today came, they called the unarmed woman murdered by an authoritarian government a terrorist instead of taking up arms against her killers.
Remember it.
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not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s
January 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM
not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s
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If this is a good idea to you, all I ask is that you do not participate in any elections moving forward.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s “not intended for diagnosis or treatment.”
buff.ly
January 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
If this is a good idea to you, all I ask is that you do not participate in any elections moving forward.
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30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
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Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
January 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
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If LLMs are so easy to redirect toward harmful ends then maybe we shouldn't be making them. Maybe companies that know this and still put out LLMs should be sued because, you know, they're causing immense harm
January 5, 2026 at 6:48 PM
If LLMs are so easy to redirect toward harmful ends then maybe we shouldn't be making them. Maybe companies that know this and still put out LLMs should be sued because, you know, they're causing immense harm
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
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The mayor of New York City is doing more than the senate and house minority leaders
Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, called President Trump on Saturday to personally object to strikes the U.S. had conducted in Venezuela and to the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Mamdani accused Trump of violating international law.
Zohran Mamdani Called President Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York accused President Trump of violating international law. It was the first time he had criticized the president since their White House meeting.
nyti.ms
January 4, 2026 at 4:09 AM
The mayor of New York City is doing more than the senate and house minority leaders
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Very obvious that Republican insiders viewed this as an insider trading opportunity
January 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Very obvious that Republican insiders viewed this as an insider trading opportunity
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If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
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every reporter who covers AI should paste their latest piece into it and ask it to tell them if it’s good, and then when it offers obsequious praise, change the prompt to “tear it to shreds,” in order to understand on a personal level that it has no viewpoint and just responds to the prompt
It’s also time to start wondering if some of these reporters are a little cooked by the bots themselves. Reporters aren’t inured to chatbot psychosis. In fact, some of them may have drank too much of the kool aid from sources selling them stuff. We’re in a new world of stupid. Adjust your credulity.
January 3, 2026 at 3:22 AM
every reporter who covers AI should paste their latest piece into it and ask it to tell them if it’s good, and then when it offers obsequious praise, change the prompt to “tear it to shreds,” in order to understand on a personal level that it has no viewpoint and just responds to the prompt
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Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
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The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
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Really disappointing to see this from the recipient of the prestigious FIFA Peace Prize
Trump just kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Really disappointing to see this from the recipient of the prestigious FIFA Peace Prize