GrumpyLokeanElder (he/him, they/them)
@grumpylokeanelder.bsky.social
Semi-retired Heathen lay-academic. I love horror movies and everything fiber arts. Not on the internet as much anymore. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 I know too much about Scandinavian Heathenry.
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MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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Sexualization of children? They don't see us as anything but something to have sex with, that's why they're so mad at transgender people and children especially
Just in case anyone doubts claims they are criminalizing transgender...
"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children [...] has no claim to First Amendment protection."
"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children [...] has no claim to First Amendment protection."
Republican Sen. Mike Lee's pornography ban is moving forward in the Senate
Utah Senator Mike Lee's bill that would ban all pornography federally is advancing within the Senate.
www.advocate.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Sexualization of children? They don't see us as anything but something to have sex with, that's why they're so mad at transgender people and children especially
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We are not amused.
It is not only the GOP erasing us,
Let @indivisible.org know we won't be erased by the Left or the Right!
It is not only the GOP erasing us,
Let @indivisible.org know we won't be erased by the Left or the Right!
Once again, @indivisible.org & @indivisibleulster.bsky.social fails to Say No To Trans and Queer Erasure by the current administration.
#TransexualMenace
#Indivisible
@transexualmenace.bsky.social
#TransexualMenace
#Indivisible
@transexualmenace.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We are not amused.
It is not only the GOP erasing us,
Let @indivisible.org know we won't be erased by the Left or the Right!
It is not only the GOP erasing us,
Let @indivisible.org know we won't be erased by the Left or the Right!
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For reference this is 25% of the entire Israeli population. Obviously it's easier to organize in a small state but this makes the No Kings protest in America proportionally tiny by comparison.
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
August 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
For reference this is 25% of the entire Israeli population. Obviously it's easier to organize in a small state but this makes the No Kings protest in America proportionally tiny by comparison.
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From breaking down how location tracking works to the various types of malware, here’s everything to know about your phone’s privacy vulnerabilities. ssd.eff.org/playlist/pr...
Privacy Breakdown of Mobile Phones
Mobile phones were not designed for privacy and security by default. Not only do they do a poor job of protecting your communications, they also expose you to new kinds of surveillance risks—especially location tracking.
Most mobile phones give the user much less control than a personal desktop or laptop...
ssd.eff.org
August 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
From breaking down how location tracking works to the various types of malware, here’s everything to know about your phone’s privacy vulnerabilities. ssd.eff.org/playlist/pr...
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“Anyone who believed that government censorship of internet speech would stop with adult content was profoundly naïve. Had the mainstream tech industry taken the threat against us seriously rather than argue that our speech was less worthy of protection, we might not be in this situation.”
Age verification laws are sweeping the US, changing the future of online speech
Age verification laws have been passed in at least 24 states. Some say it’s an effort to protect kids, while others say it restricts protected speech.
www.yahoo.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“Anyone who believed that government censorship of internet speech would stop with adult content was profoundly naïve. Had the mainstream tech industry taken the threat against us seriously rather than argue that our speech was less worthy of protection, we might not be in this situation.”
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The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus.
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
August 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus.
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
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BigLaw was never going to save us. The tiny bit of good work they did was always just marketing to paper over their primary role: getting paid a lot of money to make the world worse.
Reuters found that major US law firms, fearing political backlash, have pulled back or hidden pro-bono and civil-rights work that could conflict with the Trump administration reut.rs/4l8V7kE
August 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
BigLaw was never going to save us. The tiny bit of good work they did was always just marketing to paper over their primary role: getting paid a lot of money to make the world worse.
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A Stripe rep hung up on me when they realized they told me they're disallowing "LGBTQ content" in transactions, so either they're slipping up more or just being more honest about their real intentions.
Keep the pressure up, keep calling, maybe start recording what they're telling you.
Keep the pressure up, keep calling, maybe start recording what they're telling you.
July 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A Stripe rep hung up on me when they realized they told me they're disallowing "LGBTQ content" in transactions, so either they're slipping up more or just being more honest about their real intentions.
Keep the pressure up, keep calling, maybe start recording what they're telling you.
Keep the pressure up, keep calling, maybe start recording what they're telling you.
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Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States.
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
www.eff.org
July 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States.
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DOJ put out a memo stating that all recipients of federal funding must ban trans people from bathrooms.
www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...
www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...
July 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
DOJ put out a memo stating that all recipients of federal funding must ban trans people from bathrooms.
www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...
www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...
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Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out
Welcome to the weekend! You made it sailor. Which censorious payment processor would you like to call first? Thanks to my moot @dieselbrain.bsky.social for the Stripe number, can confirm it works
stop-paypros.neocities.org
stop-paypros.neocities.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out
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That’s an awful lot of avocado toast
To have the same purchasing power in 2025 as you did on in 1970, minimum wage would have to be $66.00.
July 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
That’s an awful lot of avocado toast
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I thought that most of the institutions would go along with authoritarianism because they support some fascism. But I didn't think it would be so fast.
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
July 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I thought that most of the institutions would go along with authoritarianism because they support some fascism. But I didn't think it would be so fast.
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Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.
July 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.
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Rather than show Amy Sherald's painting Trans Forming Liberty (modeled after artist Arewà Basit), the Smithsonian offered instead to include a video of people talking about the work—with some expressing anti-trans views—to "contextualize" the painting. Sherald instead cancelled the exhibit
July 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Rather than show Amy Sherald's painting Trans Forming Liberty (modeled after artist Arewà Basit), the Smithsonian offered instead to include a video of people talking about the work—with some expressing anti-trans views—to "contextualize" the painting. Sherald instead cancelled the exhibit
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July 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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People out here like "I'm here for the revolution!" And five seconds later "I don't see the problem with a complete surveillance state because I never do anything wrong!" 😳🧐
July 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
People out here like "I'm here for the revolution!" And five seconds later "I don't see the problem with a complete surveillance state because I never do anything wrong!" 😳🧐
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Trans people are terrified that their medical records will end up in the hands of the government and used to restrict their access. It's a terror campaign stripping an entire community of its basic right to privacy.
July 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Trans people are terrified that their medical records will end up in the hands of the government and used to restrict their access. It's a terror campaign stripping an entire community of its basic right to privacy.
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Literally in the middle of writing an academic article right now talking about the death of medical privacy for trans patients. The government dropped charges on someone who leaked medical records to Chris Rufo. Tennessee got access to therapy notes and pre and post op nude photos. It's really bad.
The Justice Department has sent subpoenas to the providers of gender affirming care to trans youth. My understanding is that these are under the False Claims Act and they are attempting to gain access to full medical records of trans patients similar to how Tennessee did so.
July 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Literally in the middle of writing an academic article right now talking about the death of medical privacy for trans patients. The government dropped charges on someone who leaked medical records to Chris Rufo. Tennessee got access to therapy notes and pre and post op nude photos. It's really bad.
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Paper on misconceptions about Celtic religious practices and values called
NOT THE DRUIDS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR
NOT THE DRUIDS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR
July 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Paper on misconceptions about Celtic religious practices and values called
NOT THE DRUIDS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR
NOT THE DRUIDS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR
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The modern AI Bubble is 100% a "modem speeds were good enough and the dot-com companies only failed because they didn't have enough funding to get them over the hump created by the government's regulatory fight with Microsoft" delusion.
May 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The modern AI Bubble is 100% a "modem speeds were good enough and the dot-com companies only failed because they didn't have enough funding to get them over the hump created by the government's regulatory fight with Microsoft" delusion.
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This ISN'T happening with LLMs. They are throwing all their money into building ON the broken tech and next to nothing in developing a replacement that has an actual chance at fulfilling the promise LLMs hint at, because there genuinely aren't any plausible pathways to get there from here
May 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This ISN'T happening with LLMs. They are throwing all their money into building ON the broken tech and next to nothing in developing a replacement that has an actual chance at fulfilling the promise LLMs hint at, because there genuinely aren't any plausible pathways to get there from here