Siara Biuk
@siara-biuk.bsky.social
(she/her) I'm a science fiction author and a hobbyist of many things! GenAI is poison. Read my story here: https://www.unchartedmag.com/stories/how-to-curse-in-thirty-seven-languages/
Meet Ferdinand. He's just an orange cat doing what oranges do best 🍊
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Meet Ferdinand. He's just an orange cat doing what oranges do best 🍊
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
January 8, 2026 at 5:35 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
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baltimore, 1/8
January 8, 2026 at 4:03 AM
baltimore, 1/8
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It’s absolutely the right call and fucking surreal that our public schools have to close because of the threat posed by OUR OWN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I am beyond livid.
This the right call.
Please check in with neighbors who may need support with childcare.
Please check in with neighbors who may need support with childcare.
January 8, 2026 at 3:05 AM
It’s absolutely the right call and fucking surreal that our public schools have to close because of the threat posed by OUR OWN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I am beyond livid.
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
Excellent idea for horror, the most uncanny thing to me is how it has no "front" and "back", even though it should. Why is it so creepy to watch it walk in any direction equally smoothly, changing without warning? What is my brain trying to warn me against?
January 7, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Excellent idea for horror, the most uncanny thing to me is how it has no "front" and "back", even though it should. Why is it so creepy to watch it walk in any direction equally smoothly, changing without warning? What is my brain trying to warn me against?
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NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
Our latest:
DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
Our latest:
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
Our latest:
DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
Our latest:
(Screenshot from video, mildly graphic)
What do you do when you see someone murdered in front of you by the government? Do you call 911? They'll send an ambulance. Who else will they send, or not? Who do we even want to show up?
What do you do?
What do you do when you see someone murdered in front of you by the government? Do you call 911? They'll send an ambulance. Who else will they send, or not? Who do we even want to show up?
What do you do?
January 7, 2026 at 11:16 PM
(Screenshot from video, mildly graphic)
What do you do when you see someone murdered in front of you by the government? Do you call 911? They'll send an ambulance. Who else will they send, or not? Who do we even want to show up?
What do you do?
What do you do when you see someone murdered in front of you by the government? Do you call 911? They'll send an ambulance. Who else will they send, or not? Who do we even want to show up?
What do you do?
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This is my CES 2026 thread of AI slop.
First off: astrologers, prepare to be out of a job! This bold new company is bringing AI to the world of Horoscopes and for some reason merging that with a visibly unwell Furby.
Bonus: borderline illegal claims that it can "cure" certain behaviors.
First off: astrologers, prepare to be out of a job! This bold new company is bringing AI to the world of Horoscopes and for some reason merging that with a visibly unwell Furby.
Bonus: borderline illegal claims that it can "cure" certain behaviors.
January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
This is my CES 2026 thread of AI slop.
First off: astrologers, prepare to be out of a job! This bold new company is bringing AI to the world of Horoscopes and for some reason merging that with a visibly unwell Furby.
Bonus: borderline illegal claims that it can "cure" certain behaviors.
First off: astrologers, prepare to be out of a job! This bold new company is bringing AI to the world of Horoscopes and for some reason merging that with a visibly unwell Furby.
Bonus: borderline illegal claims that it can "cure" certain behaviors.
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OK this probably doesn't count as a "good" product, but it's the kind of ridiculous vision I love seeing at CES. One man said, "no longer will I go two separate places for water and a modest breeze" and by God he made his dream a reality
January 7, 2026 at 9:28 PM
OK this probably doesn't count as a "good" product, but it's the kind of ridiculous vision I love seeing at CES. One man said, "no longer will I go two separate places for water and a modest breeze" and by God he made his dream a reality
Like any niche tech or science topic, it's a struggle to communicate ideas about AI to people unfamiliar with the technology without resulting to anthropomorphizing metaphors, but we should try.
Whether we are participating in local discussions making decisions for our communities or writing for broad audiences we share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language that embeds tech companies’ marketing pitches, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
www.techpolicy.press
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Like any niche tech or science topic, it's a struggle to communicate ideas about AI to people unfamiliar with the technology without resulting to anthropomorphizing metaphors, but we should try.
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other reporters in the room thought this was a mean thing to ask
First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc?
He had no idea.
He had no idea.
January 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
other reporters in the room thought this was a mean thing to ask
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30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
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The last year was very hard as my father was dying. It became that much harder when I discovered that AI played a role in amplifying his physical pain, and perhaps hastening the end of his life. It wasn’t easy to write about what happened, but I’ve tried.
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
The role of AI in the death of my father
A sad strange story
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The last year was very hard as my father was dying. It became that much harder when I discovered that AI played a role in amplifying his physical pain, and perhaps hastening the end of his life. It wasn’t easy to write about what happened, but I’ve tried.
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
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I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information
In an age where AI slop websites have made entire categories of information difficult to find, what we need is Yahoo (or Dmoz): a human-curated list of reliable websites, organized by topic.
January 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information
Yeah that seems right
January 1, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Yeah that seems right
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This Brazilian woman hates AI
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This Brazilian woman hates AI
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the neon catholicism of vietnam is genuinely peak in terms of design
i wish more things were neon
i wish more things were neon
December 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
the neon catholicism of vietnam is genuinely peak in terms of design
i wish more things were neon
i wish more things were neon
For our holiday gift swap at work, I asked for something handmade. My coworker made me a little watercolor sign with my name, an octopus, an owl. I cherish it.
I also made another coworker a bookmark with the timeline of Tudor history. She was floored. It was a really nice moment.
Value humans.
I also made another coworker a bookmark with the timeline of Tudor history. She was floored. It was a really nice moment.
Value humans.
Each time we refuse, we make it easier for others (and ourselves) to refuse again. We can also make positive statements about what we value: authenticity, accountability, human connection, and credit where credit is due (e.g. to artists for their work).
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December 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
For our holiday gift swap at work, I asked for something handmade. My coworker made me a little watercolor sign with my name, an octopus, an owl. I cherish it.
I also made another coworker a bookmark with the timeline of Tudor history. She was floored. It was a really nice moment.
Value humans.
I also made another coworker a bookmark with the timeline of Tudor history. She was floored. It was a really nice moment.
Value humans.
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Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Please do this, it would shatter the illusion that there is any kind of actual thinking or reasoning going on in these models.
what a shocking turn of events
who could’ve seen this coming
who could’ve seen this coming
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Please do this, it would shatter the illusion that there is any kind of actual thinking or reasoning going on in these models.