David GerardPledge week: Pivot to AI needs your support!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/25/pledge-week-pivot-to-ai-needs-your-support/
please forward!
Karen L.
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Mom. Crafty. Hearing impaired. Genealogy buff. Left handed. History for undergrad and library science for grad.
Kit Rhett AultmanWatching a video today on AI brain rot really helped cement for me what it is...a steady drop in practiced skills we take for granted. If you don't occasionally write emails, you get worse at it. if you don't do deep reading for yourself, you get worse at it. If you don't keep drawing or coding or composing, you get worse at them. Then the day comes when you need the skill, or something related to the skill, but you're too rusty to be effective. And critical thinking? Oh, that's a skill.
Andrea Junker 
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
ADHDeanASLFun fact: Sometimes, Deaf ASL users will exclaim “shutting up now” by signing that they’re taking scissors to their wrists and cutting off their hands. It’s the Deaf version of the lip zip.
Firewalls Don't Stop DragonsFYI... good tips honestly for anyone who wants to avoid mass surveillance and understand how your mobile device can subject you to the same. You don't have to be a protestor for this to be important.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
PepijnLol at fellow passenger "no fucks Martha".
We're in a six person cabin with three reserved chairs (little hobbit and myself, and Martha).
On boarding the train quickly filled. Our cabin was full. Then an older lady arrived. She mentioned a reservation and pointed to the chair with the guy with the laptop with AFD & MAGA stickers.
He asked to see her ticket. She said she doesn't talk with fascists. He left.
Martha later informed us her reservation is for another seat.
Micro SF/F by O. WestinHistory students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.
Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.
Chris 👾PSA: The excellent #murderbot series by Martha Wells is available as a Humble Bundle right now, all 7 books in the series + 7 short stories and other novels. DRM-free epub files. Highly recommended.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books
"Despite being a powerful and lethal security unit, Murderbot is an extreme introvert. Its primary goal is to be left alone so it can spend its time watching hours of its favorite soap operas and other media. It's highly cynical, sarcastic, and finds human interaction to be awkward and tedious. However, it also finds itself unexpectedly forming bonds with the humans it's supposed to protect, which leads to a lot of internal conflict and reluctant heroism."
Joachim Jablon@MicroSFF (I dont know if you know but Mistral’s AI LLM (they’re a French company) is called « Le Chat »)
(Also, in french, « GPT » sounds like « J’ai pêté » (I farted), which collectively had our 5-year-old inner brain laugh internally for at least 6 months after the thing appeared. Some of us still do)
(Also, in french, « GPT » sounds like « J’ai pêté » (I farted), which collectively had our 5-year-old inner brain laugh internally for at least 6 months after the thing appeared. Some of us still do)