For more on how to talk about tech sold as "AI" in more precise terms: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Every single article about AI use in a critical context goes something like this "yeah, it's great, it does the job really well, no complaints. It does catastrophically fail about 35% of the time though, so good to check" So many people have just lost all sense www.nrk.no/vestfoldogte...

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Take the few minutes, read about the evolution of what google used to do and provide and what it chose to become. Being greedy and sucking up everything and leave the dried out corpse behind. Why and how, read @doctorow.pluralistic.net thread/essay.

Good stuff.

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

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40 mayors worldwide unite to fight back against the AI data centre surge www.euronews.com/next/2026/06...

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Whether a species will damage or boost native ecosystems, or something in between, has less to do with how long it has been in a place than the degree to which it *coevolved* over very long periods of time with the other species that make up those ecosystems. Coevolution is fundamental.

"Several who have tried it say the technology fails key variety and quality tests, and because it cannot create – it can only derive and imitate – it's unavoidably behind in a creative industry where it's already hard to stand out" www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

"because it is purely focused on output, gen AI use spirals: the more you use it, the more you have to use it, because by using it you avoid learning the skills to make things without it" look just read the whole thing it's so good

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The true risk is: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that *can't* do your job, and then your boss will fire you and replace you with that inept, defective chatbot." 17/

Confused about #AI economics? McSweeney's can help. AI Economics for Dummies www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

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Okay - a quick thread on Microsoft's latest greenwashing nonsense, because it's really bad The message is basically increased efficiency *per query* means the future demand of AI services will be muted -->> www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... archive.ph/wip/POQ6A

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

"When I first started out in the news, there was far too much reporting. Barely anyone was just making stuff up. It was as if nobody even wanted to put their thumb on the scale on behalf of the powerful."

Fantastic, thoroughly explained, well researched/cited post from lawyer Matthew Butterick on the risk that AI poses to liberal democracies. matthewbutterick.com/extinction-l...

There are plants flowering in my local area now, in June, that normally flower in November, and this article from the national broadcaster uses words like “enjoy” and “rejoice” to describe weather which is frankly terrifying, and doesn’t even mention climate change: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Warmer winters cause havoc for natural systems. Here's some examples from New Zealand. There'll be similar stuff happening in Australian ecosystems and agricultural systems. theconversation.com/warming-wint...

ICYMI: In a data breach notice filed by Meta overnight, the company said its Meta AI chatbot "worked properly and functioned as intended," despite hackers abusing the chatbot to hijack literally thousands of Instagram accounts over a months-long campaign. By me at this.weekinsecurity.com:

everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is: Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences. Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more. Please cite this as the Carroll report.

Wow! 200,000km² of ocean declared entirely off-limits to fishing in some of the most biodiverse waters on earth 🌏 That's a win 🙌 #oceanoptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

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"AI is - by far - the money-losingest venture in human history, and it's practically impossible to overstate just how *bad* the AI business is." Please read this thread. Government of Canada, you especially.

"After 35 years of defending Palestinian children's rights, we are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel's targeted criminalization of Palestinian human rights organizations." #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide #Torture

"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

As we come to grips with this it’s important to remember that quantum brontës don’t behave in a way that can be predicted by studying traditional Newtonian brontës

reminder that this symposium is on Thursday this week. join in person or online. full program and rego link: palestinespeech.my.canva.si

There's been a recent influx of Bluesky users joining Mastodon so I figured I'd share this fun rant from Arilin Thorferra 😛 giants-club.net/articles/jus...

"Indeed, people may do well to remember that speaking to a chatbot, especially one with persistent memory, is often less like chatting with friend or neutral arbiter — and more like talking to a hall of mirrors."

Nicely said. Please Use AI – shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

This is obscene. The people behind it need to be outed, ostracized, and forced to make restitution in addition to stopping this vile behavior.

Fundamentally, a lot of modern work has been filled with bullshit tasks—reports that aren’t meant to be read, presentations that aren’t meant to be given, and gen-AI is capable of churning out those tasks. The problem is that those tasks were always unnecessary. Real work needs real thought.

Nothing to see. Just a totally normal inspection was carried out here. Move along.

I've updated my list of favourite font pairings for writing (serif and sans serif; paid and free): www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen...

which bit don't we understand? its enormous water & power use? its widescale theft of intellectual property? its tendency to be wildly, dangerously, and above all confidently wrong? or the exploitation of people in tanked economies needed to keep it running?

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Having digital autonomy is more important than ever, and the European Union is showing how it can be done.

If you’re in Melbourne and want to come to a low sensory drag performance. We will have no harsh lighting and use silent disco headphones so you can enjoy the show at your own volume. www.performersofpride.com.au/event-detail...

Leftover Queen Victoria Market produce to be donated to hungry Melburnians www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

When nobody visits the web anymore, what incentive is there for people to populate it with information? That means AI search will be retrieving information from deteriorating, out-of-date sources and feeding it endlessly back to us. And that means even fewer people will populate the web. (2/3)