OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

more emotionally depleted than i expected. grateful to see @thrasherxy.bsky.social, albeit on zoom, and to get to learn how wide a community of friends and admirers Alice Wong brought together. i'm stunned by how many talented people gravitated to her. and how much tupperware she must have given out

i wasn't really emotionally prepared to hear alice's last words to us. i'm also surprised by how reliably often tupperware came up

i'm grateful that i can tune in to Alice Wong's celebration of life right now

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half of LA right now

worst guy you know made an excellent point dot mp4 anything to help get startup dorks out of the gene pool

Breaking: Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

My essay on Decolonisation and AI has been published by @biltonline.bsky.social In it I explore some of the incongruence between AI and decolonisation. Specifically, the logics of dehumanisation that decolonisation should combat underpin a lot of the push to use AI. bilt.online/decolonising...

at garry tan's birthday party (where garry wasn't in attendance)

i just saw this from The Daily Pennsylvanian, it looks really cool (relatedly: come on, why didn't i know about this??)

saw someone say “straight from 4chan to carrying a gun” and like sorry but you need to updates your references, 4chan is unc. these are sharty teens

"ai is inevitable" except for all the ways people and organizations can reject it

This is among the many reasons I ❤️ writing for @crikey.com.au (and why you should subscribe) Readers want original human analysis, rather than the averaged, meaning-stripped reproduction of previously written human analysis. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/19/c... @sophieblackwords.bsky.social 👍🏽

so... out of curiosity, how did claude model desktop interactions on desktop computers? the obvious answer seems to be that claude used to be collecting tons of screen data or something, and they trained on that, right? there was a startup that did that

"michigan is a border state" never has there been a stronger case that borders are fucking fake lol

if i have a domestic flight coming up what should i be thinking here, like am i camping at the airport the night before my flight, or following the tsa estimates still, or what?

new ai skeptics reading group post also: there may be an opportunity to get some stickers printed

announcing Remote Access Trojan as a Service

my condolences for all the tech staff supporting users with claude on their macs

URGENT: An American?/Israeli? airstrike on an Iraqi Hashd post in Anbar Province in Western Iraq. Several Hashd leaders were having a meeting when the airstrike happened.

did stancil really call israel a "mad dog" on here? that's wild. to object strongly to calling israel's track record over the last few years consistent with genocide, but to be willing to call them something that evokes ideas of "putting [a dog] down" seems a little hypocritical to be honest

i'm so tempted to take advantage of the @sticker-guy.bsky.social star-shape stickers on sale, with a message like "you tried without AI" or something (clearly need to work on the language), but i wonder if that would come across as unintentionally patronizing...

my mother is a math genius turned 2nd/3rd gen IT professional and tolerated coding because it felt like solving a complex equation while getting paid better than abstract mathematicians had she not retired well before the AI push, i doubt she would have stuck around longer than she did in the end

sean duffy: if you all dressed better when you traveled, this wouldn't have happened, probably

i'm going down a rabbit hole about the jjk opening and its artistic references.

when It happens we're not gonna celebrate as much as we're gonna breathe a sigh of relief

i regret to announce that i got a cast iron skillet and it's great

i'm enamored with this account since someone told me about the sticker guy yesterday

"data center cooling will be solved if we just desalinate ocean water with solar powered desalination plants" oh, that's all?

It was and is a science. Science can be done for terror. That doesn't make it not science. It doesn't help to try and paint it as "not science" because then we can fool ourselves into regarding certain things as safe and cozy real science when they're still doing harm.

“What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

with democrats like these

marie sharp doesn't hit any of the same notes as cholula or tapatio but i constantly lament the dearth of options around me, and it seems they keep getting narrower and worse

As one of the authors of this thought I’d share a bit about how we got here and how you can do what we’ve done at you institution. Over the two years I’ve been at the University of Edinburgh I’ve grown increasingly concerned by fellow academics uncritically using LLMs, especially OpenAIs’s ChatGPT.

i'm glad to see people doing the optimistic work of exercising autonomy over what role and to what extent certain technologies exist in their lives & their work don't let anyone tell you that the garbage they work on or promote is inevitable, or that taking control over your future is a lost cause

dude that was cool ten years ago prompts sprawling colonial apparatus to perform just-in-time word delivery via Anthropic-branded interface

surreal and harrowing to find out the guy who made Yu Gi Oh Abridged is struggling financially. obviously i wasn't under any illusions about the early days for youtubers, but still

bernie sanders talking to a chatbot on an iPhone elaborately mounted on a c-stand in a stupid moodily lit room is so fucking hack. what an embarrassing time to be alive.

TIL Ring camera "encryption" is a pretty neat lofi filter.

in a way, i envy his mind, because sometimes i go home and spend half the night thinking about how i didn't carry on a conversation as well as i could have, but he's out there saying stuff like this and probably sleeping like an 80-year-old baby.

You can make fun of a certain BuzzFeed as much as you want. But there was a multi year period where BuzzFeed News was one of the best journalism outlets out there, with a huge team of incredibly talented journalists. It’s a shame they killed that.

does he almost quit right before each direct deposit in his bank account?

Hey y'all? If there is one place you absolutely Do Not Want profit-motivated surveillant "AI" bullshit to start creeping in, it's your interpersonal sex life. If you're a tinder user, don't just Not Accept this plan to have "AI" scan your photos to make a profile of you, actively & Loudly reject it

(forgot to include the actual site: workersfirstai.org)

some readings lately: this by @soleilho.com

I wrote about this. The TLDR is: the Left has a decades-long abuse problem and without pushing for and achieving a true intersectional movement, this type of shit is going to continue. Let's figure this shit out, for Pete's sake

still reading but this is excellent