Robert Reich
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Malcolm Nance
BrianKrebsWe say "fucking" to keep Google's AI from fscking up search results with AI. And now we can say "gravy" to throw off the AI scrapers?
Fucking gravy.
Thank you @aj for cluing me in.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n2okvbdq33c32ekbv6hfzdg2/post/3lsvh7cupqk2z
AJ Sadauskas (@ajsadauskas.bsky.social)
For anyone wondering why #gravy has been trending: AI hucksters are trawling through your social media posts for training data and trends. And you know what can gum up the gears of an automated sentence generator? Posts that use the word gravy out of context. #auspol #ChatGPT #AI #LLM
abadideaWikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
Cory DoctorowIf there's one area where tech has shown a consistent aptitude for innovation, it's in accounting tricks that make money-losing companies appear wildly profitable. And AI is the greatest innovator of all (when it comes to accounting gimmicks).
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/accounting-gaffs/#artificial-income
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Heidi Li FeldmanPublished by Slate earlier today. Have received hate mail from transphobes and homophobes. Clearly, I’m doing something right. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/supreme-court-rules-constitutional-right-theocracy.html
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽If you think ICE is bad now, just wait till they hire 10,000 more agents and open more concentration camps.
John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAY@VeroniqueB99 AK AR CA CT DE GA IN KY LA MA MS NV NH NJ NC ND OH OR PA PR RI SD TN UT VT VA WV have "filial responsibility" laws, statutes holding adult children legally responsible to provide financial support/care for indigent parents.
If Medicaid funding is withdrawn, a whole lot of Trumpers are about to discover that they’ll be caring for Mom, Dad, Grandma, & Grandpa -themselves-, or seeing the state garnish their wages & attach their property to cover the bills.
If Medicaid funding is withdrawn, a whole lot of Trumpers are about to discover that they’ll be caring for Mom, Dad, Grandma, & Grandpa -themselves-, or seeing the state garnish their wages & attach their property to cover the bills.
Republicans are making sure the Medicaid cuts don’t happen until after the midterm elections. It’s cynical politics, and it will hurt their own voters the most.
Dave SpectorIn 1934 the Nazis ended birthright citizen ship in Germany.
Jews, Roma, Black Germans, communists, trade unionists, and others were stripped of citizenship entirely. Their assets stolen and they were rounded up, they were thrown into vans by government agents and disappeared.
Seems familiar somehow. Remind me — what happened next?
Meanwhile, right now, in America….
DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement