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@aspartaimee.bsky.social
Big mad.
Pro-tip: do NOT put your phone number in the tip jar instead of actual money cuz your digits gonna end up in the group chat and those of us who have worked in food service are vindictive AF.
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The emperor has never had clothes.
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Feed kids, fix roads, fund hospitals.

The campaign slogans are getting better and better.
I don’t know anything about this special other than (1) it’s a very bad sign for the Republicans that they have to break out their biggest firepower in a special election in a deep red district and (2) you can find out more about the Democratic candidate, Aftyn Behn, here:
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Add Northwestern to the list of cowards who caved.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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We are thankful to students and faculty at the Reynolds School of Journalism who have helped us build Atlasofsurveillance.org, the biggest database of police surveillance in the United States.
Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
www.atlasofsurveillance.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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In 2019, TikTok admitted to suppressing the content of fat, disabled, and queer users. In 2020 they claim a “glitch” caused the suppression of George Floyd content.

Sora exists to manufacture and disseminate racism, misogyny, and misogynoir at scale.

These systems are operating as intended.
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Please watch this.

The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.

You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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I just feel we need to keep saying, over and over, that the problem with DOGE was not its failure to cut spending. the problem with DOGE is that it CUT GLOBAL AID LEADING TO THE DEATHS OF 600K PEOPLE AND COUNTING. 1
DOGE is one of the greatest failures of the Trump administration. The next Democratic administration should pick up that issue and actually work to cut government waste, fraud, and abuse. I’d suggest starting by taking a look at Elon Musk’s government contracts.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"AI doesn't care if you die" about sums it up.
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.

Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I no longer tell my students to visit the CDC website.
Here in Boston, we believe in scientific evidence. We are a trustworthy source of public health information, and we will continue to disseminate accurate information to our local communities because that is what they deserve.

Learn more on boston.gov, mass.gov, or aap.org.
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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If you’re seeing these, know that they are showing proof that much MUCH of the rightwing propaganda we are seeing is from abroad. Know also that this has been the case since 2016. The public square has been turned into a superfund site.
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Welp I'm out.
If there was going to be a chance that I wouldn't cancel my subscription to @bostonglobe.com after they published a Richard Hanania op-ed in today's paper, it was dashed by them having a TERFy piece on the next page.
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It me. Well I'm not an AI worker per se but it still me.
It's kinda a joke amongst my friends and family that I can ruin everything by talking about the scary privacy implications of most of the tech folks are adopting these days.

I've managed to steer them all clear of Alexas at least. Working on the Rings.
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I don’t know what her next act will be but please keep in mind you do not ever have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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I really want to note, this is the least of it but, there's are no truth seeking AIs. That's not how this works, that's not how any of it works.
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Smash and grab crooks smashing and grabbing.
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Google Gemini is also in the game spreading its tentacles into all Google Ed products. This popped up in a student's programming project yesterday.

Mere weeks before the end of the semester when everyone is tired and easily seduced by "time savers". I'm going to flip my lid.
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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1. They are eugenicists.
2. Viruses don't care about your daily step count.
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Tis the season for literal crap generated by crap decorating your crap.
“Closeups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed.”
Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.
futurism.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM