OK! I collected much of what I @spookyachu.bsky.social @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (and other collaborators not on here) have said on the Turing test (from critical, gendered, etc. angles) as it keeps being relevant: olivia.science/turing — hope it's useful for others too. Happy Sunday! 🤖💭

> To those who [...] use fear and intimidation to help sell the agenda of the big tech CEOs who [...] use coal-fired GPUs to capture society’s output and sell it back to us[...]: I not only scold you, I shun you. That goes double if I once admired and respected you. ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Artificial Intelligence in the 2020s

The war against the tech industry, and capital as a whole, seems lost. Take heart; we've lost battles but material conditions are shifting. The war is far from decided. In this deck, I propose their collapse born of apparent success: docs.google.com/presentation...

About such people, Tacitus wrote: "Excess flattery can disgust a man with some honesty: Annals 3.65: "It is reported that whenever Tiberius left the senate- house,he exclaimed in Greek: 'Men fit to be slaves!' Even he, freedom's enemy, became impatient at such low servility."

Pardon the (crass?) self promotion but this seems appropos: www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4...

Inside the booming world of being a mouthpiece for capital

The reason that the evil fucks who run this world keep pulling evil shit is because… Who’s going to stop them? It isn’t any elected official I can tell you that much right now. If they were going to, they would have. A long time ago.

The 'AI discourse' (may the gods and goddesses of the literary form forgive me for using this terrible phrase) has uncovered a legion of terrible dudes. With each turn of the screw, they reveal themselves to be stupider, more dishonest and dreadful.

The thing is "take it seriously" often means "accept that we're creating Skynet," rather than grappling with real, concrete, well-established concerns around bias, deskilling, unemployment (not the same as "replacement"), and ecology.

I'm really glad more and more people are noticing correlationism, part of the conspiratorial logic of AI... Guest, O. & Martin, A. E. (2025). A Metatheory of Classical and Modern Connectionism. Psychological Review. doi.org/10.1037/rev0... PDF: repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/ha...

This is not a misquote, a slip up, or a misprint. This is exactly what Missouri conservatives think. Family, to them, is the center of society because it is the easiest way to breed people into slavery. That conditioning cannot allow a freedom as fundamental as a choice of identity or child autonomy

"Reasonable" here, should be interpreted to mean: 'surrender'. Never.

the discourse about AI on here the last few days—the waving-away of criticism as reactionary, “deranged”—is a representation of this displacement. men would rather post about how we (the critics) are all stupidly psychotic, for the rush of notification dopamine, than engage in an analysis of power

This is pernicious nonsense of a type repeatedly and comprehensively critiqued. And yet, US media persists. Abandon benefit of the doubt or lack of technical background. It's a campaign to deprive us of understanding; a counterinsurgency.

Now, I will be annoying and quote myself because, I received an odd question. By "serious" I mean that measures should match the danger. All evidence points to collapse but we dither around the margins. A state forced program of emissions reduction would include enforcement of remote when logical

'The West' was never serious about climate change. One indication is the back to office push. In a world not run by capitalist psychopaths, there would be a coordinated program to reduce emissions, including auto-based commuting; logical and planned. Capitalism is neither

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Propaganda about 'AI' and the new age word calculators have supposedly ushered in, has fed the delusions of the LinkedIn brained. This coalition of dunces pretends IT operations are easy. Actual sysadmins and engineers have lost countless hours cleaning up these fools' messes

Given this long history, it's sensible to conclude the US has been a tyranny from the start (with periods of waxing and waning intensity). This should be uncontroversial but for many, accepting the stark facts is hard, perhaps impossible.

Kadri's work is groundbreaking and key to more fully understanding the threat capitalism poses to life itself.

In this video, inspired by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social I read Evgeny Morozov's essay, 'Socialism after AI' or, as much as I could endure. Morozov writes about 'AI' using glittering generalities, lacking understanding or acknowledgment of the actually existing industry: youtu.be/NUby9eTbsuM

As a class, academics are useless on the topic of 'AI'; worse, they're usually complicit.

This is the smart person’s “if wishes were horses.” Morozov repeatedly asserts that technologies have politics but he chooses to overlook here that technologies do also have material properties that circumscribe their politics. www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...

This is Smartwashing AI. Many know that the econ & political conditions that enable the tech industry to infiltrate every sector of public & private life are unsustainable & dangerous. But bc resistance is cast as emotional or archaic a cottage industry of wishful thinking from the left has emerged.

yes, and this is also an especially Global North/Western perspective to people's hearts: their pets — which they care about much MUCH more than they care about other humans who happen to e.g. not be USAmerican or white

Cybersecurity education has failed because no one understands that the ai caricature/ cute filters/ throwback photos or specific dances are all to get your biometrics But I’m sure saying phish smish vish has been useful for some folk

Currently reading this outstanding book which, among other virtues, foregrounds the real world application of dialectical materialism and the fact we are in a world war. mronline.org/2026/01/02/w...

Rockhill mentions 'Decoding Chomsky' during this conversation with Adnan Husain: www.youtube.com/live/6-okZ9M...

Thanks to Gabriel Rockhill for mentioning Chris Knight's book (published in 2018), 'Decoding Chomsky'. Knight describes Chomsky's ties to the US military through his participation in applied machine learning research: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decodin...

Which reminds me of an argument I had with a Frankfurt based 'autonomous driving' researcher. He insisted all scenarios could be handled. I mentioned a winter drive: I avoided hitting a child by mindfully anticipating the kid's actions and adjusting. He argued software could do that. No and, never.

And formally provably so because to drive you need theory of mind. You can indeed show with maths the limits of maths since it's a formal engineered system with knowable limits, see Gödel etc. We created trains which ban humans from tracks so the system can be safely automated, not so for roads. 1/n

In 2025, we introduced Verdigris, dedicated to promoting writers who want to engage with the world. We did okay in 2025 but urgent times demand redoubled efforts. For 2026, a renewed and reinvigorated focus on writing about urgent matters and helping you do the same. youtu.be/dtPJSAMICFU

kamala harris's 6-7 themed zoomer digital marketing group has already changed its name after getting made fun of. for some reason they changed it to "68." we're witnessing a level of political instinct never before imaginable

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Another update from the Red Nation podcast on the state of siege in Minnesota: youtu.be/Vmqt-2RI4iI?...

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

While all of you (including @cloudquistador.bsky.social ) wait for my next review, I want to re-share some I have enjoyed: This review was a nice beat down of a national socialist who likes to reference, for some reason, Lenin. Enjoy. vdgasjournal.com/2025/03/31/g...

Knoxville is following a national pattern by switching to Axon from Flock for ALPRs. Axon is selling their product as a solution to the problems of Flock. The problem is that ALPRs and the business of mass data collection & sharing is dangerous, no matter the vendor. www.wbir.com/article/news...

Nuremberg 2 needs a special section for Palantir employees. Every one.

Every single industry head & CEO in this country has an "I Want To Believe" poster in their office only instead of a UFO it's those stock pictures of face made out of [an arrangement of nonsense binary code + something that looks like circuit diagrams] & also Fox Mulder would give them all a wedgie

SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology" The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

guardrails are a scam... as I said before: AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a ouija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out

It's time to imagine the post capitalist world. What do we want? How do we build it? Who must lose for the peoples of this beleaguered Earth to win and what will it take to defeat our enemies?

For those wondering what I'm on about, this Wikipedia article provides a good overview: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_... Also, Deepseek has published a paper on arXiv describing their Mixture of Experts (MoE) approach: arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437

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Yes, the Deepseek team has wisely revived the expert systems approach of the 1970s which held promise but was mostly abandoned and later, forgotten by the orgs now destroying algorithmic progress in the US such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

"You tell me that Hitler is a mighty bad man. I guess he took lessons from the Ku Klux Klan. You tell me Mussolini's got an evil heart. Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont that he had his start-- Cause everything that Hitler and Mussolini do, Negroes get the same Treatment from you." --Langston Hughes

Belatedly sharing this longer 'Resisting AI' interview with McMaster Uni which ranges across the politics of AI, the failure of the usual remedies, forms of self-organised resistance, moves towards decomputing, and a focus on the role of universities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nva...