news: today capitalist AI did something fucking terrible, just like yesterday some lefties: what the fuck, this capitalist bullshit sucks AI pushers: can't believe the left hates technology

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Rather than ascribing agency to machines that are built by other humans getting rich off of doing that, we should ascribe the agency to those humans and talk about what they're doing via their companies: stealing data, killing the environment, exploiting labor, and deceiving the public.

Son: "Who's Epstein?" Me: "Why are you asking?" Son: "Because all the kids at school are talking about him!"

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions thread 1/

Just looked out the window and saw a cat dancing with a dog...

www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i... i wouldn't call this "directionally correct" as much as i'd call it uninterested in confronting the left critiques of the AI industry that the right has no objection to: the amorality of its leaders, its model of theft, and its environmental damage

Oh, man. Tom Noonan died? His performance as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter is one of the most terrifying, mesmerizing I've ever seen in a film.

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

Disappointing but sadly not at all surprising that filmmakers are taking money from the tech industry to make AI movies that will help destroy the film industry... www.avclub.com/roger-avary-...

RIP Robert Duvall, one of my favorite actors of all time. For The New York Times I wrote about 11 of his finest performances (10 movies, 1 TV miniseries), all of which are available to stream. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

“If you follow the Constitution we can’t break the law”

every day, every time

Hollywood. Are. Creators. Dipshit. AI is no more going to make you a filmmaker than that blue check makes you a person of note. Do I think someone can ever make a good AI movie? Eventually. After months alone in a room creating assets, writing a script, promting a thousand shots dozens of times.

RIP Robert Duvall. I hope you and Jimmy Caan are mooning Marlon Brando, wherever you are now. www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/m...

"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

This article does a good job of pointing to what I tried to show in my Nihilism book, which is that nihilism is political. But what is not here discussed is how nihilism isn't merely a reaction to politics but also something politics can be designed to actively generate...

"Aware that Mlle. de Beauvoir is regarded in Paris as the female intellectual counterpart of Jean-Paul Sartre, we were all set for a grim half hour. Well, surprise! Mlle. de B. is the prettiest Existentialist you ever saw" - The New Yorker, 15 February 1947 www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...

It’s very telling that “whether you want it or not” is a key phrase for every ai booster in the public sphere.

Shocking that the New School for Social Research didn't make the list but at least two others I went to did (GW and LSE), both of which were actually quite conservative...

Ferguson, Smith, Hume and Hutch Said “This strife over God is too much— Let’s build upon sentiment To increase contentement, And avoid logique, raison, and such.”

appalling theft of public funds as corporate welfare for the kleptoplagiarism cognitive decapacitating machine

The "AI revolution" in science is going so smoothly that my instititutional library is having to deploy multiple technical protection measures against "poorly behaved Gen AI crawling" just to maintain its timely service library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

"I'm too old for this imperial shit" - Black Skin, White Masks

When you realize that Rubio is here aligning Christianity with Columbus then this speech almost reads like a satiricial indictment of "Western civilization". Almost...

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I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.

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Your honor, I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future.

a contender for the stupidest fucking headline I've ever read. a journey into hideousness, every word worse than the last

Come study with us!

A new long-term study shows also how employees’ unreflected enthusiasm towards AI can lead them to dig their own graves and create chaos... The AI hype makes even the evil boss obsolete. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

The program will provide 2,000 Irish artists almost $400 a week to live on while they make art for the next three years. www.avclub.com/ireland-laun...

A bit long but here’s Marx from the 1844 manuscripts providing an exposition of Goethe and Shakespeare on the power of money that all happens to sum up exactly where we are right now. (Reminded of this passage by Epstein’s capture of prominent academics.)

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Nope it's just hype. But that won't stop people in power from using AI hype to fire workers and replace them with "good enough" AI just the same... #NihilismAndTechnology

If your study is framed as asking whether "AI" does X as well as humans do, it's fundamentally misguided and I'd argue not scientifically sound. A short 🧵>>

Shockingly my students hadn't seen Chopping Mall but now at least they're excited to watch it for homework...

Today's lecture...

The failure here is that step one isn’t “grab your hammer.”

Black Mirror: Robot dogs will hunt you down Reality: Robots will use your love of dogs to hunt you down

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

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