David S
@dascogreen.bsky.social
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Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it needs all of your data to do it.
In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
And it needs all of your data to do it.
In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
The AI age is the "age of no consent"
"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it needs all of your data to do it.
In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
And it needs all of your data to do it.
In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
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this business model should be flatly illegal
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
It’s official: EA is going private.
The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
www.businesswire.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
this business model should be flatly illegal
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
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ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
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Meta's AI chatbot with the voice and likeness of John Cena engaged in sexually explicit conversations with a 14 year old girl.
deadline.com/2025/04/inst...
deadline.com/2025/04/inst...
August 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Meta's AI chatbot with the voice and likeness of John Cena engaged in sexually explicit conversations with a 14 year old girl.
deadline.com/2025/04/inst...
deadline.com/2025/04/inst...
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"I see all children as precious and equal. My deep care for children doesn't stop at any border," Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, says of her advocacy for Gaza.
August 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"I see all children as precious and equal. My deep care for children doesn't stop at any border," Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, says of her advocacy for Gaza.
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Righto. Guess I have an official charity now.
So a promise: If you lot help Holly hit her target, I'll do you a weird history thread every week for a month.
Let's help some kitties!
So a promise: If you lot help Holly hit her target, I'll do you a weird history thread every week for a month.
Let's help some kitties!
Apparently you can't just record yourself screaming as a description, so I have relunctantly written some actual words about the problems we're facing as a rescue
Donate to Help! Everything is terrible and we are drowning, organized by Holly Brockwell
Hello! I'm Holly-the-Perpetually-Exhausted, owner of Holly's Merry Mo… Holly Brockwell needs your support for Help! Everything is terrible and we are drowning
www.gofundme.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Righto. Guess I have an official charity now.
So a promise: If you lot help Holly hit her target, I'll do you a weird history thread every week for a month.
Let's help some kitties!
So a promise: If you lot help Holly hit her target, I'll do you a weird history thread every week for a month.
Let's help some kitties!
July 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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You have seven more chances to see Sooz Kempner is Ugly before I head up to the fringe! My first show is....five weeks today WHOA.
All details and ticket links at www.soozkempner.co.uk/gigs x
All details and ticket links at www.soozkempner.co.uk/gigs x
June 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
You have seven more chances to see Sooz Kempner is Ugly before I head up to the fringe! My first show is....five weeks today WHOA.
All details and ticket links at www.soozkempner.co.uk/gigs x
All details and ticket links at www.soozkempner.co.uk/gigs x
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Stop, stop, I can only get so erect
June 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Stop, stop, I can only get so erect
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Consider a programmer looking at code they themselves wrote a year ago, now having to identify and fix a bug. They have to rebuild the mental model of what is going on, which is easier if they have already had a mental model of what is going on.
June 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Consider a programmer looking at code they themselves wrote a year ago, now having to identify and fix a bug. They have to rebuild the mental model of what is going on, which is easier if they have already had a mental model of what is going on.
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This is deskilling *the* most vital, essential parts of writing code. The part of writing code that actually makes software work, that supposedly justifies being paid programmer salaries.
June 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This is deskilling *the* most vital, essential parts of writing code. The part of writing code that actually makes software work, that supposedly justifies being paid programmer salaries.
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CARTER: How could you possibly justify the decision to terminate HIV vaccines studies?
RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it
CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars?
RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it
CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars?
June 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
CARTER: How could you possibly justify the decision to terminate HIV vaccines studies?
RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it
CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars?
RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it
CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars?
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Harvey Price time then.
In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.
In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.
March 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Harvey Price time then.
In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.
In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.
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The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs.
I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all
gifcities.org
I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all
gifcities.org
GifCities
gifcities.org
June 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs.
I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all
gifcities.org
I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all
gifcities.org
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Just your regular reminder that public ownership is hugely popular in the UK. ✅
Join the fight to take back control of our public services and run them for people not profit. 😀
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June 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Just your regular reminder that public ownership is hugely popular in the UK. ✅
Join the fight to take back control of our public services and run them for people not profit. 😀
Sign up to our newsletter. Link in comments 👇
Join the fight to take back control of our public services and run them for people not profit. 😀
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"Here’s a prophesy from 1982 "
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"Here’s a prophesy from 1982 "
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
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'Love is Strange' dance scene from 'Dirty Dancing' (1987)
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
'Love is Strange' dance scene from 'Dirty Dancing' (1987)
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40 years ago....
🗣️If my best isn’t good enough.. then how can it be good enough for two?
This whole song was a read 🔥
🗣️If my best isn’t good enough.. then how can it be good enough for two?
This whole song was a read 🔥
May 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
40 years ago....
🗣️If my best isn’t good enough.. then how can it be good enough for two?
This whole song was a read 🔥
🗣️If my best isn’t good enough.. then how can it be good enough for two?
This whole song was a read 🔥
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A true scandal. One of the biggest free speech violations of our lifetimes and yet the people who screamed about free speech on campus for the past decade were either responsible for the violation (Trump, GOP) or ran cover for it and enabled it (Bari Weiss, Fox, etc).
BREAKING: Federal judge in Vermont orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be released from detention "immediately" and on her own recognizance with no travel restrictions.
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May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A true scandal. One of the biggest free speech violations of our lifetimes and yet the people who screamed about free speech on campus for the past decade were either responsible for the violation (Trump, GOP) or ran cover for it and enabled it (Bari Weiss, Fox, etc).
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This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
May 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.