Misha
@michort.bsky.social
Birds, languages, being a human, etc
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"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
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narrator: no, it cannot
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
narrator: no, it cannot
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Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.
![An ad for the Friend AI pendant that is, according to a post on Redditt, at the Fullerton CTA stop. The ad reads, "friend. [frend] noun. someone who listens, responds, and supports you." A person has written, "AI is not your friend" over the image of the pendant.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uufz3dvrdnbm6ptii46y7j7u/bafkreidv2q5m54fchg5zocga7igukl6rlss4mdzxlkkcklw5wnrc7sccga@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.
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Who gets to decide who has visibility or access or evidence on us is a very real problem in an age of technology accelerated fascism, and it would be really great if more people doing technology for ostensibly “good” motivations stopped to question the dominant logic of “access as default”
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Who gets to decide who has visibility or access or evidence on us is a very real problem in an age of technology accelerated fascism, and it would be really great if more people doing technology for ostensibly “good” motivations stopped to question the dominant logic of “access as default”
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“I deserve that everybody must let me have access to them, for their betterment” is a deeply challenged view of other human beings’ autonomy
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“I deserve that everybody must let me have access to them, for their betterment” is a deeply challenged view of other human beings’ autonomy
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(watching a population vigorously oppose subsidizing the welfare state while also maintaining one of the world’s largest prison systems) these are people who love to be free
October 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
(watching a population vigorously oppose subsidizing the welfare state while also maintaining one of the world’s largest prison systems) these are people who love to be free
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We asked for universal healthcare and in response we had both parties say, "Best we can do is unchecked tech companies making a chatbot that only sometimes tells you to kill yourself."
We might be cooked.
We might be cooked.
I had a 45 year old rideshare driver tell me recently that he uses AI for therapy.
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
November 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We asked for universal healthcare and in response we had both parties say, "Best we can do is unchecked tech companies making a chatbot that only sometimes tells you to kill yourself."
We might be cooked.
We might be cooked.
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It seems like the only way tech companies are able to compel AI usage is by coercion in performance review processes?
(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)
(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It seems like the only way tech companies are able to compel AI usage is by coercion in performance review processes?
(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)
(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)
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the rich and powerful are getting richer and more powerful while communities at the margins are increasingly left with no say, ever cornered into `no exit’ from a technology that most didn’t ask for
6/
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January 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
the rich and powerful are getting richer and more powerful while communities at the margins are increasingly left with no say, ever cornered into `no exit’ from a technology that most didn’t ask for
6/
6/
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Gaza is being destroyed stone by stone. They seeking to destroy the past, present, and the future of an entire population. This is called genocide.
September 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Gaza is being destroyed stone by stone. They seeking to destroy the past, present, and the future of an entire population. This is called genocide.
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.
October 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.
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Mamdani was 9 years old on 9/11. This is just gutter racism from Debra Messing.
The funniest thing in the world is someone posting something egregiously fake followed by “let that sink in.”
October 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Mamdani was 9 years old on 9/11. This is just gutter racism from Debra Messing.
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If all these data centers being built everywhere where no one who lives there wants them are so great and wonderful how come they're all being built as fucking secrets
October 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If all these data centers being built everywhere where no one who lives there wants them are so great and wonderful how come they're all being built as fucking secrets
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Nothing to see here? Think again! These sphinx moth #caterpillars are two MONTHS late emerging, due to a tardy monsoon.
They generally are a food source for migratory birds in EARLY summer. The migrators are gone. What did they eat? Changing weather patterns impact so much.
They generally are a food source for migratory birds in EARLY summer. The migrators are gone. What did they eat? Changing weather patterns impact so much.
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Nothing to see here? Think again! These sphinx moth #caterpillars are two MONTHS late emerging, due to a tardy monsoon.
They generally are a food source for migratory birds in EARLY summer. The migrators are gone. What did they eat? Changing weather patterns impact so much.
They generally are a food source for migratory birds in EARLY summer. The migrators are gone. What did they eat? Changing weather patterns impact so much.
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i love ta-nehisi coates so much
September 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
i love ta-nehisi coates so much
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
This one is a loss.
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This one is a loss.
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This is the mugshot of a literal political prisoner, arrested, thrown in jail, then expelled from a public university, for yelling at Charlie Kirk supporters
Texas Tech student expelled after video showing Charlie Kirk rant on campus
An 18-year-old Texas Tech University student is no longer enrolled at the university after a video appearing to show her mocking the death of Charlie Kirk went viral.
www.fox4news.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is the mugshot of a literal political prisoner, arrested, thrown in jail, then expelled from a public university, for yelling at Charlie Kirk supporters
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"How do we get The World to quietly kill these people that it would be awkward for us to directly murder" is state policy for a lot of unwanted populations. It's why our southern border policy is designed to funnel migrants into brutal deserts where their deaths won't bother anyone.
September 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"How do we get The World to quietly kill these people that it would be awkward for us to directly murder" is state policy for a lot of unwanted populations. It's why our southern border policy is designed to funnel migrants into brutal deserts where their deaths won't bother anyone.
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you can’t do shit about a police investigation or how big money will spin the news. but you know what you *can* do? help the actual people this will be/is being weaponized against.
tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.
tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.
hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
September 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
you can’t do shit about a police investigation or how big money will spin the news. but you know what you *can* do? help the actual people this will be/is being weaponized against.
tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.
tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.
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Buried in the article is Matt Berry is in it too. So many new dead-to-mes here
Audible’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series Expands Cast With Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg and More
variety.com/2025/digital...
variety.com/2025/digital...
Audible’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series Expands Cast With Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg and More
Audible announced additional casting for its 'Harry Potter' audiobook series, including Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, James McAvoy and Simon Pegg.
variety.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Buried in the article is Matt Berry is in it too. So many new dead-to-mes here
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This reminds me… go get your Covid booster
You have diabetes or another disease that places you at “risk”
You have diabetes or another disease that places you at “risk”
a woman in a suit stands in a hallway
ALT: a woman in a suit stands in a hallway
media.tenor.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This reminds me… go get your Covid booster
You have diabetes or another disease that places you at “risk”
You have diabetes or another disease that places you at “risk”