Madison Smiley

Just a random 25 y.o. thought generator ✨ What’s the deal about Star Wars?

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

They are lowering US flags to half-mast for a week, but if the government really wants to pay tribute to Dolly, they should fund education, the arts, and medical research instead of trying to eradicate them.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You CANNOT rage against the machine if you’re asking it to summarise your emails for you.

[🚫🥛nugget⁷ 🍉 @nugget_dippin]

im also confused by the "everything u use is run by ai!! how are u anti ai when ur phone is powered by it!!" becausE. our phones and shit werent powered by ai just a couple years ago?? why are we acting like ai is inevitable when we've lived so long without it 🧍‍♀️

[aisha says ✨fuck ai & free palestine✨ @ManicPixieCurse]

saying it's ableist to be anti ai like Beethoven wasn't deaf, Stevie Wonder isn't blind, & Frida Kahlo didn't start painting bcuz of being bed bound for 3 months + used a brace for her spine after that. disabled artists have always been here & your chatgpt ass can't compete

[🐈 mega KOT @mega_KOT3D]

fish behavior.

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

Water was never meant to be owned or sold. It is a shared gift of nature that sustains every form of life, not a resource to be monopolized for profit. Every person, every ecosystem, and every generation has a rightful claim to it, and no private entity should have the power to decide who gets access.

[Madelaine Hanson @MadelaineLucyH]

“But if we come after EVERYONE in government who is a sex offender, there won’t be anyone there at all!”

DO YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELF, YES, YES WE SHOULD ALL LIVE IN COUNTRIES THAT AREN’T RUN BY PREDATORS

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Let me be VERY clear for those of you in the back. If bringing down the largest child sex trafficking ring in our known history will "collapse the government as we know it," then the government as we know it needs to collapse.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I’m constantly astonished that billionaires would rather ignore the climate crisis and prepare to live in a bunker with dvds and baked beans than devote a modicum of their bottomless wealth to saving the planet where we have fresh fruit and soft grass and blue skies.

[jezz @JezziiB]

I will never understand how so many of y'all were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money YOU PAY IN TAXES to create a social safety net that benefits YOU.

[Chris DeRose (ScratchyDerose.bsky.social) @ScratchyDerose]

In a heartbeat

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I’m sick and tired of people mocking those who care about the planet. Clean air matters. Living forests matter. Healthy oceans matter. Animals matter. Biodiversity matters. Wanting a livable world for future generations should not be controversial.

[Kougeru 🐉⛩️ @Kougeru]

When the only option to decline is "don't use our service" and/or "delete everything you've uploaded before AI even existed", then there's no consent and it shouldn't be legal. Especially when thousands of artists who uploaded have died before AI existed.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

When the bubble bursts, there will be so many saying they didn't mean to hurt anyone. They didn't mean to put people out of work, to destroy their purpose, to steal their hope.

They'll say they had no idea the silly videos or the cartoon faces they made with AI were built on theft. They just wanted to do their work faster (and didn't want to admit AI actually slowed them down because others would think they weren't tech savvy and they might get left behind).

Taking jobs? Destroying skills? Devastating neighborhoods? Contributing to drought, soaring utilities, joblessness? They didn't mean to. That wasn't their goal.

What they'll mean is they chose to ignore the problems because they didn't think they'd be held responsible for contributing to them. They weren't really their problems, anyway. They were going to get ahead without having to work hard for it, without having to devote the years that others put in to the work AI stole.

What they'll mean is: the plan was for someone else to pay and they were fine with that.

When the bubble bursts, it will be too late to apologize. The bill will be due. The debt won't be forgiven.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

the UK government just told Apple and Google: scan every phone in the country for nudity. not just kids' phones. every phone. you have 3 months. or we arrest your executives.

Apple already said yes earlier this year. 35 million people woke up one day and had to prove they were adults to use a phone they already paid for.

Signal put out a statement today. one line:

"nudity today. political speech tomorrow."

Here's every time a government built one of these systems and what actually happened:

2001 — PATRIOT Act. passed 6 weeks after 9/11. 3 days after it was introduced it was law. sold as: we need to spy on terrorists. what it actually was: a wish list of surveillance powers the FBI had been asking for for years and Congress had already said no to. multiple times.

2005 — the Bush administration was caught running a secret program wiretapping american citizens with no warrant. no judge. no oversight. the "terrorism only" promise lasted exactly 4 years.

2013 — Snowden. the NSA was secretly collecting the phone records of every single american. not suspects. not terrorists. every person who made a phone call. the law said "collect data related to terrorism." they decided that meant everyone.

2015 — same law, Section 215, used to collect financial records, internet browsing history, and location data on ordinary americans. still called a terrorism tool.

2021 — the entire surveillance infrastructure built after 9/11 was used to monitor Black Lives Matter protesters. domestic activists. people marching in the street. not terrorists.

2026 — "Protect the children."

All they need a software update.

It has happened this way every single time.

they name it after the thing nobody wants to defend.

then they point it at everything else.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

I want my children and their children to inherit national parks and polar bears, not data centres and dry riverbeds.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Data centers get a full pass but we can't have wind or solar power because of how it RUINS THE LANDSCAPE