"We should acknowledge that AI does not care about Ethics, because it is dependent on political authority that can easily shift any ethical responsibility evading legal repercussions." This is why the field of AI ethics is a scam. (Fig from umaine.edu/learnwithai/ which I'm not familiar with)

TOMORROW:

We mustn't merely critique tech capitalism, but, as @olivia.science has done with CAIL (olivia.science/ai) propose solutions. I'm writing a 'What is to be Done' pamphlet, inspired by Lenin's 1902 statement: youtu.be/C-eCCtzsiXY?...

Agree I worked in a school for children with profound disabilities and had to counter argue weekly with non disabled people who said “chat gpt is a disability aid, it helps students to write”. No, it does not, and in fact it steals work from other disabled creators- it isn’t safe or an aid.

Continuing my informal series on science fiction that isn't a variation on American pop tropes: I present Gene Wolfe's beautiful, 'Book of the New Sun' tetralogy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boo...

On this Christmas eve, the resurrection of a vignette I wrote almost 20 years ago; a brief story of Rudolph, in the style of Chandler - padlet.com/verdigris21/...

Adding to this... the stopice.net approach is in line with the tech usage recommendations for activist groups I wrote about, earlier in 2025: monroelab.com/2025/01/22/s...

Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. www.equator.org/articles/how...

Excellent. I want to emphasize two aspects: 1.) the use of a purpose built server rather than 'cloud' and 2.) the use of a real information management system - Obsidian - to build the tracker. This is an example for all activist groups

Gonna need help with groceries, as I won’t meet the work requirements for SNAP. I will be recovering from surgery and won’t be able to work. I will try to get a medical exception but I’m not sure if I’ll meet the requirements.

Somewhere out there right now is a programmer vibe-coding an FDA-regulated medical device, and somewhere else is the unemployed person whose job was to inspect that code and hold it to standards and who was fired by a 19 year old.

Fun fact- a lot of edtech creates gambling habits in children - and Duolingo and times tables rockstars (as well as Roblox (not edtech) ) are good examples but not the only offenders Streaks, leagues, playing for points you can “spend”.. all of it should be as illegal as ads for sugary cereal are.

Tuesday's episode. See you all tomorrow!

At the end of the god damn day ? Bari Weiss decided we had heard too much about the torture of Brown people and a billion dollar industry allowed her the POWER to make that decision AND this has been happening for YEARS but we expected it to stop at some imaginary line we don’t enforce

It's important to understand what we're (dis)agreeing with when we (dis)agree. This is a real skill. I worry it's atrophying. I also shared a bit with @willgervais.com when he asked me about it for his students. I think it's especially important to teach junior people how to engage with ideas.

i am actually working on an article right now about how the vast majority of the world's information - and so many current events - are not at all legible to LLMs, a fact that a startling number of people never seem to think about

more here: "Orga is not Mecha: How Literal Readings of Fiction are Damaging the World" www.socialrobotfutures.com/themesissues...

Today at 10 AM EST

Critique is necessary, but insufficient. What science fiction do I suggest? Let's start with the work of Stanislaw Lem whose novel, 'The Invincible' is an exploration of the limits of human capacity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inv...

Building on this: by 'techno-optimism' I'm referring to a belief anything proposed is possible. This is hand in glove with techno-determinism, the belief that what's proposed is inevitable. This fuels 'AI' propaganda and helps explain why sweaty hucksters such as Sam Altman are taken seriously

Speaking of the Saturn V: youtu.be/EJKPuN8rqUA?...

It does not write of anything like that -- in fact I write about the relevance of such structure a lot, wrote a textbook even -- so no charge needs defending 😇 cognitionandintractability.com

One must realize that you can’t, without massive naivety, call the actions of businesses and colleges signing up for AI or making deals with fascists ‘buying into a lie’. They are paying an entrance fee to be part of a clown show and its perverse ideology.

TOMORROW:

One of the points being, if I do not reply to a post (such as the post from a person whose response to the Waymo debacle was a screenshot of their ride history) it's because doing so would not be a contribution. Or, I think you're a nitwit.

Years ago, on Twitter, I shared this diagram I created that shows the reply doctrine I use. It also applies here

AI is a slavery fetish. aeoncollective.substack.com/p/ai-is-a-sl...

Further emphasizing @davidgerard.co.uk's point, the unsustainable scramble for funding continues... for now: finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...

About this, I suggest we think in terms of inevitable systems failure as described in the paper, 'How Complex Systems Fail' - stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/c...

The struggle against 'AI' (here, defined as the imposition of algorithmic systems promoted as thinking) is, as with hydrocarbons, part of the struggle against capitalism. 'AI' cannot be regulated or destroyed so long as we persist in believing in Capital's reformability

America is a clown tent with nukes, with a Disneyland capital and a reality show president. Its spirit isn’t that of respectable folk, but of PT Barnum—a new con on every horizon, a sucker in every electorate demographic.

PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places. No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages. CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).

I cannot think of *one* "here to stay" argument that survives the VCs running out of money to set on fire for chatbots in 1.5-2 years at most. Then the API prices 10x. I have a list, and all the "here to stay" arguments fall to it: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/a...

Color me shocked.

Because much of the mayonaise US left is childish, the Chomsky revelations have inspired juvenile commentary. Here, starting at 34:51, actual, structural analysis by Gabe Rockhill: www.youtube.com/live/MX3MokH...

The key difference between the approach I take to understanding events and that of friends and colleagues is that I strive, as Kwame Ture advised, to always apply dialectical materialism. Here, the beginning of a study group: youtu.be/cJV6RQpdtRQ?...

"We and our students can choose not to use these technologies. Just like we have banned smoking from public spaces, we could foster that process of banning both by choosing to individually quit smoking & by demanding regulation of the tobacco industry” Guest et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1706...

Spread the word on this. This needs collective action, can't be letting this spread.

In this excellent video, @davidgerard.co.uk interviews @stopgenai.com about our enemies and what is to done: youtu.be/VMF3nciTJbs?...

Monday's episode of The Imperial 80s will be a must watch!

Your weekly reminder (the first of more to come) that one of this account's key purposes is boosting your good work - your essays, papers, videos etc. Send them my way for a repost. Making ex cathedra pronouncements is not enough; let's support each other's thought

Monthly reminder to read "Why does he do that?" because many people are bullied growing up & we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes to the cycle. dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...

People keep showing up and asking me what I think of artificial neural networks and then not seeming to like my reply. Sorry, I guess? 😈

I reject nostalgia but exceptions must be made such as... earlier today I chatted with an old friend about the 'AI' propaganda war, despairing of the surrenders around us. 'Remember what Rush sung as we played Galaga in the arcade' he said: "I will choose free will" - youtu.be/c6pn8O7nXKY?...

Like all such automations using lang models, this obscures and disempowers. To counter this, some friends and I have started a Signal Group, 'Dialectical House Party' in which, we study the Vietnamese approach - signal.group#CjQKILu9ytRs...

GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM

Today I'll be arguing that AI tools (specifically LLMs and AI agents) are NOT the future of health and social science but are more likely to be the death of health and social science. Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.

Crypto killed the GPU market, AI kills the RAM market, now we just need something to kill the CPU and Power Supply markets and we can all be free from the tyranny of the computer

It seems to me @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social that in the midst of confusion, in addition to dialectical thought (about which, more in coming days) what 'Americans' need is a Tacitus; a review of the players, the terrain and the factors. A pox on hot takes. Time to think