Jessica Scott

Very cool how a lack of express consent is something that so many of these consumer-facing AI products have in common

Don't forget: ASK YOUR LIBRARY TO BUY THE BOOK!!

Libraries pay higher rates for books and requesting that your library purchase a book: A) costs you nothing and B) will make the author so, so happy

This is what wee were saying about DOGE, man.

DB exfil op, right out front.

Hahahaah oh hell no

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.

"But I don't think they make that much!"

Halve that. Halve it again.

Those look like bottles that apple juice used to come in back in the 80s

"It is not a coincidence that Epstein was also interested in crypto, in AI, in right-wing populism, in trad Cath extremists, and anti-trans ideology, ... Epstein gravitated toward fields and figures that rank humans, explain away cruelty, or biologize inequality."

A provocative proposal asks the FDA to let some AI devices on the market without review A provocative new proposal has offered the FDA a way to let a broad swath of potentially risky AI devices flood the market.

Provocative? This sounds dangerous. “With a provocative new proposal, an AI company has offered regulators a way to let a broad swath of potentially risky AI devices flood the market… “You run the risk of, proverbially, a Trojan horse,” said oncologist Ravi Parikh”

News item: "new SpongeBob movie streaming now." Photo of a live action blond lady in winter clothes with a sniper rifle in a snowy tundra looking bleak.

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

Ah please post a recipe for this bc it sounds perfect for a snow storm

How do you collect this data ethically and prevent insurance companies from using it against people?

Once upon a time, my brigade commander did one of those business experiments meant to show that in every group, someone would turn on everyone else to be self serving. Our group of company commanders from three battalions did not.

I bet the warrants can handle this.

Nick Fuentes enjoys making the misogyny of neofascism explicit

Fuentes' neofascist rant demanding women be rounded up into 'rape gulags' exposes an authoritarianism that would make 'Handmaid's Tale' seem like a benign fantasy. It also laid bare how white supremacy works.
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Okay, new reason you have to buy my books. A desi pizza place opened in my neighborhood and you need to subsidize the weekly achaari chicken pizza habit I’m about to develop.

A bright yellow graphic titled “EVERY UNION GOT THE…” featuring a 3x3 grid of Sesame Street characters with captions describing union member archetypes. Top row: Big Bird labeled “The eternal optimist.” Count von Count labeled “Counts management’s excuses. ‘Ah ah ah.’” Cookie Monster holding a cookie labeled “‘When raise? Is it time for raise?’” Middle row: Abby Cadabby labeled “Reminds everyone we deserve better.” Oscar the Grouch in a trash can labeled “Long-time steward who’s seen too much.” Elmo labeled “Just discovered unions & WILL NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.” Bottom row: Grover labeled “Takes on the work of three people.” Bert labeled “‘According to Article 7, Section B…’” Ernie labeled “Full of chaotic solidarity.”

There’s always a place for you on Solidarity Street.

Solidarity with our union siblings at @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social

#UnionsForAll #UnionMemes

Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial A Los Angeles judge ordered Meta officials to remove their AI glasses at a trial over the impact of social media on users.

"The judge upbraided the Meta team and said if you guys have recorded anything, you have to dispose of it or I will hold you in contempt," Jacob Ward, a technology journalist and the host of the Rip Current Podcast, told CBS News, calling the incident "an extraordinary misstep" by Meta.

The absolute arrogance.

"[R]eligious researchers find less evidence for the secularization thesis, whereas secular scholars find more."

This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

This is a movie for anyone who’s ever been put in charge of planning an event and developed crippling anxiety that they would fuck it up.

Is it all over for filmmakers? — SHOKUNIN STUDIO Another month and another model update accompanied by a massive amount of marketing, Linkedin spam, spin, and dubious claims. Two years ago I debunked claims that Sora would destroy filmmaking. I...

UPDATE: After all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.

In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

In case it wasn't clear, we are the dogs. And we're not lost.

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I’m not seeing nearly enough outrage over this here

VFW Raises Serious Concerns Over VA Disability Rating Policy Interim Rule Change VFW warns Secretary Doug Collins as VA reverses rule on medication-based disability ratings, potentially penalizing veterans for treatment.

VFW Raises Serious Concerns Over VA Disability Rating Policy Interim Rule Change

VFW National Commander Carol Whitmore calls for ‘serious public scrutiny’ to protect earned benefits.

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great news everyone, i had to find an old issue of penthouse this week. this series has required an unusual amount of time spent sourcing vintage porn mags.

Americans believe Epstein files show the powerful get a pass, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds While Americans generally have low expectations that elites will be held accountable, they're somewhat split along partisan lines on how much longer the nation should dwell on the Epstein affair.

“Americans believe that wealthy and powerful people are rarely held accountable, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found…”

It really is a mystery as to why anyone in the U.S. would believe that 🤔🤨

Evaluative Rating: Impact of Medication The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends 38 CFR 4.10 within the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities (VASRD). This amendment clarifies VA's longstanding interpretation of Sec. 4.10 and, in doing ...

This major change was only made public two days ago, and will go into effect immediately tomorrow, bypassing the notice and comment period, through an entirely spurious and fabricated line of reasoning.

The rule is a significant, and cowardly, attack on veterans benefits by the administration.