Amy McQuire

Darumbal/South Sea Islander. this account is a private account and only represents my views not those of my employer.

[Amy McQuire @amymcquire]

SO MANY COLUMN INCHES DEVOTED TO RAYGUN BUT TEN ARTICLES I COULD FIND ON THE PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY INTO "MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND GIRLS

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

everything today is ultimately created in order to better kill more and more people, love the human spirit of innovation

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

“If I’m getting you a six-figure book advance, I don’t want you to be putting it into ChatGPT,” said a top literary agent. “Go to the fucking library.”

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design.

Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale.

We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights.

Read the report: https://t.co/MGRonqai7o

[Ren Wyld @1KarenWyld]

Aboriginal activist Sam Woripa Watson shares with @amymcquire his thoughts on being assaulted in custody. And reminds people to keep the focus on Palestinian people and their liberation https://t.co/cXHqPbSX5N

[Ren Wyld @1KarenWyld]

Another must-read article from @amymcquire. Sam Woripa Watson, grandson of the late First Nations writer & activist Sam Watson, has been kidnapped by state of Israel in international waters. His whereabouts and safety are unknown
https://t.co/4DnR2qM9G4

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Stop using AI for everything. Just Google things. Read an article. Use your dictionary. Touch grass. Open a book. Ask God. I don’t know, but stop using AI for basic questions.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The lack of news on Gaza isn’t because the genocide is over.

It’s because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there’s a ceasefire.

[Corey Holland @CoreyHolland]

Describing things to a robot is not a skill. The idea that you'll get "left behind" because you know how to do your own thinking and problem solving is ludicrous.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

So it turns out that writing is thinking. It's the same process.

"Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner."

Outsourcing writing to LLMs is THE SAME THING as outsourcing thinking.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Humbled to share the cover of my forthcoming book.

A project born of heartbreak, urgency, and the unbearable reality of watching Israel’s genocide against Palestinians unfold in real time.

[Tricia Dearborn @TriciaDearborn]

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you.
I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide.

It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves.

Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening.

Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word.

It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

This is not ok. Invoke the 25th amendment. Impeach. Remove.

This unhinged lunatic must be removed from office.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

We should work toward nuclear disarmament in the entire world, but it should start with disarming the two nations that pose the most serious threat to global peace: Israel and the United States.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is one of the sickest, most demented, most morally reprehensible and most disgusting things any American President has ever said.

But it's vital to remember that among his most influential war advisers are the fanatical Israel First loyalists Laura Loomer and Mark Levin.

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

western journalism is special because it has an active voice, passive voice, and a special third voice for when israel does something

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is a brazen pre-admission of genocide against the Iranian people, which would obviously be a war crime. Madness.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Genuinely one of the most proudly evil men of all time. Military needs to revolt. In a sane country he would be immediately removed. This is madness.