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Failing upwards

Someone's gotta stop the polo on polo crime. @dieworkwear.bsky.social probably has a whole history on polo shirts 🤣

“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...

Ready to free yourself from Big Tech tools? Opt Out October is the time to do it. Once you manage to make some changes, give yourself one of these merit badges and share your accomplishments! www.eff.org/pages/welco...

Yo Washington! Events are popping up for the 10/4 data center moratorium day of action, but... We need more people to step up and host! If you need support or have questions about hosting, we're holding office hours to help. Learn more or create an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Local Millionaire Investing in AI Can’t Wait to Blame Future Bankruptcy on Millionaires Tax: tinyurl.com/4kps6veu

Tech bros: "But we have to beat China in AI" Also tech bros: *only beats themselves up*

“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.

DAMNING. We already knew all this, but this is one of the most important stories right now.

"Syltebo said they used two types of paint on the street — Sherwin-Williams Forte and Sherwin-Williams Pro-Park. Both are acrylic. Neither advertises itself as temporary." lololol Whoopsies it's a pedestrian street now 💃

This guy has no media training and is not ready for TV. It'll be so easy to troll him for clips and screenshots lol

Required watching

politicians: "we can't afford to let China get ahead with AI!" sweetie i don't think we can afford to let America get ahead

UNLIMITED PESTO.

Make your local AI data center dipshits uncomfortable 👏👏

Free portraits?! ♡ Huge thank you to SOBA @seattleoba.org for everything around #PAXWest this year. Last night at GameWorks was amazing, and today’s creator meetup gave us another chance to hang out. Thank you to @mrdang.photos for these ♡ #SmallStreamer #SeattleStreamer #Twitch #PAX

YOU 👏 LOVE 👏 TO 👏 SEE 👏 IT!! But also, if they end up striking a deal afterwards like NY Times then I lose all respect for them.

There are many reasons I love @404media.co. One of them is that they are not chicken-shit to say someone is "lying."

Concerned about data centers in Washington State, but not sure what to do about it? Join our MASS CALL on Sept. 8 at 7pm, and get connected to local site fights, as well as the push for a statewide moratorium. The momentum is with us! actionnetwork.org/events/mass-...

Chen and Okonkwo... something's not quite white about the data set this is trained on. 🤔

When life gives you lemons, at least it doesn't ask how thirsty you are. 🍋 Tell the Seattle City Council to ban unfair surveillance pricing on groceries. Email council@seattle.gov or send a letter using this link: tinyurl.com/2zwsx9mx

Ursula worked so hard to steal Ariel’s voice. Now with AI she can just take it herself and kill Triton. Thank you, AI, for helping Ursula.

Meta "announced a $1 billion 'Future Is For Everyone' fund to pour money into the communities where Meta has data centers. The company is planning up to $145 billion in capital spending this year, largely to build out AI infrastructure." I see. $1 for communities, $145 to destroy them.

Sooo good. “This is where the decisions are made,” said Christina. “We are living in a place where we have influence, & it’s our responsibility to show up here & to fight in solidarity with all those places where people are fighting data centers on the ground every single day.” With rogue agents!

Great energetic protest at the Bellevue OpenAI HQ that they want to expand into the second biggest in the country.

Energetic protest at the Bellevue building expected to be the second biggest OpenAI office if the expansion goes through. “No chat, no Palantir, your super PAC’s not welcome here.” You can say that again!

I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️

NEW: “They have given us two presentations in the last three years at the request of our police department who wanted to implement them,” Stephen Tyler Holman, the mayor of Norman, said. “They haven’t been back since I’ve been mayor.” @mjgault.bsky.social spoke to him about why he rejected Flock.

Legislators in Oregon couldn't get data center tax breaks rescinded in March—but now, 4 have proposed a 3 YEAR MORATORIUM on data centers, saying "the ground's shifted". And how! Are we gonna let them show us up, Washingtonians? Sign here! actionnetwork.org/letters/gove...

every time someone buys a commission, an artist gets their wings. their draw-wings.

Wait. This didn't already exist? 🤦‍♂️

You know Seattle's affordability crisis is serious when Police Chief Shon Barnes (who makes $373,000 per year) is complaining about his rent at a press conference just now.

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

Barnes makes around $370,000 a year. He has repeatedly been out of town, at events in other cities or at his family home in Chicago, during emergencies like today’s mass shootimg.

Live: Police and ambulances are responding to a shooting Sunday with “multiple” victims at Seattle Center.

Cry louder.

Oh my God - the company making the "lifelike" humanoid classroom robots also owns the company that makes the RealDoll sex dolls

I've been saying there needs to be a Cassandra movie for years and no-one listened to me.

Performance photos from @geekfest.com ‘s Idol Quest last weekend! Thank you to all my subjects for coming out to see me, new or not 🎀 A huge thank you to Scary for making this event happen and for having me ❤️✨ I’m still so honored! 📸: @mrdang.photos #kaigaiidol #kemonomimi #overseasidol

I've honestly lost track of the number but this is something like a baker's dozen of these cases, in Georgia alone, in the past 30 or so days www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

we can't release them from the interrogation room until you submit your questions. please submit a question and help free them

Shareholders are suing big tech execs for taking on the massive legal risk of training AI on copyrighted work without permission, and I’m so here for it news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/big-t...

THIS How does YOUR favorite con rank in doing the *bare minimum?* You'd probably be surprised at how many have nothing at ALL, or just a "cosplay is not consent" line shoved in the dress code. cosplayer-ssn.org/rp/home.php

Today, Stand.earth and local groups dropped by #PNWClimateWeek in Seattle, Washington to see @microsoft.com’s Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa, who – despite the company’s massive investments in fossil fuels – ironically served as the keynote speaker for a talk on climate targets. 🧵

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

INB4 a tech bro insists that Lindsay Graham actually still holds his Senate seat because they trained an 'AI' Senator on his voting record which will continue serving in his place. 🤢