One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

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*Foucault bursts out of his grave*

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

1) This is some pretty remarkable shade thrown at the big AI companies by a startup that's hiring away their researchers 2) That those researchers are giving up millions to do this indicates a rising level of discomfort with OpenAI/Meta/Google/etc's moral standing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

I'm putting this out there now. I'm not accepting any austerity measures when the AI bubble bursts. The stupid fucks who thought a plagiarism-fueled magic 8 ball was the future of the economy can cover the cost of the fuckup this time. I will start fires before I endure service cuts.

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

usually when the gvmt makes the military angry we get military juntas but i think we might be the first ever people to witness what happens when a gvmt just makes the military really fucking sad

people were worried about a behind the scenes loyalty test and once again they get around outrage by just doing the thing right out in the open

"We. Will. Commit. War. Crimes." ¯\_🇺🇲_/¯

Me: "You didn't write this, Kant did." Student: "Yeah but Kant didn't opt out after I announced I'd be using his work..."

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

“Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: entertainment movies. They are the most political films because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything's fine… a continual advertisement for things as they are.” - Wim Wenders

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Even setting aside ethics (but, yknow, THAT) - I just don’t want AI bullshit. I don’t want an AI pop star, movie, book, video game. Art is a conversation. Why would I stare at a dictionary run through the washing machine when I could read a poem lovingly constructed by someone’s hands?

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😍

Shocked that Altman didn't call this Paperclip...

How cool is this! Wow. [artist here: www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

"no one should go hungry" However you turn, however you push, Eating must be first, only then your morals. First the Poor must be have the means To cut their own slice from the Loaf Brecht On the the Question What Does Mankind Live On Libcentrists love to quote the 1st part but forget the second

Jameson on Adorno on Utopia...

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$100 billion "to ensure the artificial intelligence boom endures" means AI is *not* "inevitable"... #NihilismAndTechnology

Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊

"This is one valuable function of shame: it reminds us of who we want to be when we fall short, a goalpost that is necessarily anchored to the lofty height that our conduct fell beneath. We also encourage and defend these general social standards when we hold others to them, and not just ourselves."

I recommend replacing "Artificial Intelligence" with "Invisible armies of exploited laborers"... #NihilismAndTechnology

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

UT philosophy professor Nolen Gertz interviewed by Canadian radio about nihilism and terrorism: www.utwente.nl/en/bms/phil/...

Accidentally logged into Twitter and found the funniest conversation going on in my notifications...

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this slide was a banger

About to give my third talk in three days. This time on "Why AI Ethics is Unethical"...

Now live: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Many thanks to the Leiden International Film Festival for throwing me a RoboCop birthday party 🥳 🤖 🥳

In case you want to come to my birthday party tonight in Leiden... www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-li...

Waking up in Leiden...

This is an excellent read. 👇

About to give a talk in a tent. And because this is the Netherlands it's strangely not my first time doing so...

Found the tent where I'll be giving my talk tonight. It's right in front of the Pieterskerk church in Leiden used by the Pilgrims...

Just did an interview with CBC radio to discuss this article. They said it'll be online Friday night and on the radio Saturday morning...

On my way to Leiden to talk about AI ideology (tonight), cyborg dystopia (tomorrow night), and AI propaganda (Saturday night). Should be a fun birthday weekend...

Always fun to find out about new ways that ChatGPT is trying to destroy education. Apparently over the summer (wonder why they did it then?) OpenAI teamed up with Instructure to put ChatGPT right into Canvas... #NihilismAndTechnology www.instructure.com/press-releas...

"Uh, I think it's the wifi..."