Accidental Decaf
@accidentaldecaf.bsky.social
Non-profit Comms, writing about corporate impacts on climate, worker rights & access to health care. Long-time #Union activist. Has been known to shout "Capitalism is obscene!" at parties once or twice.
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I'm not going to read the NYT story but I do want to hear what other people would put in their "Lost New York" takes, mine would include Dr Zizmor ads and the free transfer between the Broadway G/Lorimer JMZ stops
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'm not going to read the NYT story but I do want to hear what other people would put in their "Lost New York" takes, mine would include Dr Zizmor ads and the free transfer between the Broadway G/Lorimer JMZ stops
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🧵 This morning, Local 2110 of @uawregion9a.bsky.social
petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election for nearly a thousand full-time and part-time professional and non-professional staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election for nearly a thousand full-time and part-time professional and non-professional staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🧵 This morning, Local 2110 of @uawregion9a.bsky.social
petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election for nearly a thousand full-time and part-time professional and non-professional staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election for nearly a thousand full-time and part-time professional and non-professional staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme
Stop embracing surveillance tech
Stop embracing surveillance tech
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme
Stop embracing surveillance tech
Stop embracing surveillance tech
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the ~5 tons of CO2 emitted on this hourlong flight is roughly equivalent to what the average EU citizen emits in a year
Landed in Van Nuys, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 54 min.
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
the ~5 tons of CO2 emitted on this hourlong flight is roughly equivalent to what the average EU citizen emits in a year
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation
October 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation
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I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
September 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
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COMRADE BESTIE
September 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
COMRADE BESTIE
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And don't forget mass shootings themselves, which could be read as a successful years-long project to destroy public spaces. The footsoldiers for the cause
September 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
And don't forget mass shootings themselves, which could be read as a successful years-long project to destroy public spaces. The footsoldiers for the cause
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Just to reiterate, the destruction and lockout of third spaces for young people are why we are seeing some young people ending up in online communities that encourage mass shootings
September 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Just to reiterate, the destruction and lockout of third spaces for young people are why we are seeing some young people ending up in online communities that encourage mass shootings
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Reports: USTA asks U.S. Open broadcasters to censor crowd reactions to Trump reut.rs/3V4rCpO
Reports: USTA asks U.S. Open broadcasters to censor crowd reactions to Trump
The United States Tennis Association asked U.S. Open broadcasters to censor any reaction or protest to President Donald Trump during his appearance at the men's singles final Sunday, according to reports.
reut.rs
September 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Reports: USTA asks U.S. Open broadcasters to censor crowd reactions to Trump reut.rs/3V4rCpO
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So what are they doing with this knowledge?
As little as possible.
They’re putting it out in the public—in white papers, and buried deep in webpages. Just enough to be able to say “but we did tell you! We told you to assess your own risk!” 9/
As little as possible.
They’re putting it out in the public—in white papers, and buried deep in webpages. Just enough to be able to say “but we did tell you! We told you to assess your own risk!” 9/
September 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
So what are they doing with this knowledge?
As little as possible.
They’re putting it out in the public—in white papers, and buried deep in webpages. Just enough to be able to say “but we did tell you! We told you to assess your own risk!” 9/
As little as possible.
They’re putting it out in the public—in white papers, and buried deep in webpages. Just enough to be able to say “but we did tell you! We told you to assess your own risk!” 9/
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I'm slowly reading @uncannymagazine.bsky.social issue 24 Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and it is amazing.
I'm currently on this piece www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
I very much want a t-shirt that says "the future is disabled" but it needs the right kind of graphics to work...
I'm currently on this piece www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
I very much want a t-shirt that says "the future is disabled" but it needs the right kind of graphics to work...
The Future Is (Not) Disabled - Uncanny Magazine
“The future doesn’t belong to you,” a friend tells me, when we walk home together one night. Not in those words, of course. Rather, he talks about scientific advancement, genetic manipulation, and how...
www.uncannymagazine.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I'm slowly reading @uncannymagazine.bsky.social issue 24 Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and it is amazing.
I'm currently on this piece www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
I very much want a t-shirt that says "the future is disabled" but it needs the right kind of graphics to work...
I'm currently on this piece www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
I very much want a t-shirt that says "the future is disabled" but it needs the right kind of graphics to work...
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PSA: Always handle your own data transfer between new and old phones, and if you meet someone who talks like the guy in the texts below, immediately violate TOS.
Soooo.... basically don't go into a Verizon store if you're a woman to get a new phone.
What.
And I cannot stress this enough.
THE.
FUCK.
www.reddit.com/r/screenshot...
What.
And I cannot stress this enough.
THE.
FUCK.
www.reddit.com/r/screenshot...
September 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
PSA: Always handle your own data transfer between new and old phones, and if you meet someone who talks like the guy in the texts below, immediately violate TOS.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Friday that will allow pharmacists to prescribe and administer COVID-19 vaccines. https://gothamist.com/news/hochul-to-let-pharmacists-prescribe-covid-vaccines-amid-federal-policy-shift
Hochul to let NY pharmacists prescribe COVID vaccines amid federal policy shift
The executive order comes as access tightens and lawmakers eye state-level solutions.
gothamist.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Friday that will allow pharmacists to prescribe and administer COVID-19 vaccines. https://gothamist.com/news/hochul-to-let-pharmacists-prescribe-covid-vaccines-amid-federal-policy-shift
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For any Greenaway heads out there, I was reminded that Tulse Luper is on youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWS...
The Tulse Luper Suitcases
YouTube video by bea franssen
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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I'm supremely mad and I'm going to rant about it.
I have a podcast. It's hosted by ACast. They do dynamic insertion ads prior to the show, which I've enabled. These are basically the commercials you might hear before the show starts.
I have a podcast. It's hosted by ACast. They do dynamic insertion ads prior to the show, which I've enabled. These are basically the commercials you might hear before the show starts.
September 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I'm supremely mad and I'm going to rant about it.
I have a podcast. It's hosted by ACast. They do dynamic insertion ads prior to the show, which I've enabled. These are basically the commercials you might hear before the show starts.
I have a podcast. It's hosted by ACast. They do dynamic insertion ads prior to the show, which I've enabled. These are basically the commercials you might hear before the show starts.
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Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!
feels significant that mass-market LLMs like ChatGPT are now capable of generating extensive natural-language dossiers about a given user's interests, location, preferences, identifying information, and more
simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/...
simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/...
I really don’t like ChatGPT’s new memory dossier
Last month ChatGPT got a major upgrade. As far as I can tell the closest to an official announcement was this tweet from @OpenAI: Starting today [April 10th 2025], memory …
simonwillison.net
September 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!
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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...
newatlas.com/energy/large...
The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland
Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...
newatlas.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...
newatlas.com/energy/large...
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With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
August 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store: