"Is there any chance for these people, who are shielded by their well-paying jobs, their exclusively occupational media diet, and stimuli all happen to reinforce the default world view?" blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

It's weird to read these posts when the history of The Art of War is that the Sun family basically had this big project to catalog all the stuff there was to know about war and worked on it over like 200 years

Completely agree with this. And I don’t even think it has to be intentional. A tool is for what it does, after all.

I quite like the look of corrugated iron, even when it's rusty. #Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too. This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.

I see “AI spurred the creation of massive amounts of power generation and so does tremendous good even if it fails” is the new party line from the “it’s not a bubble or a broken tech if I personally benefit” crowd

The anti-trans and anti-LGBT forces out there are much much much weaker than they appear to be in media, including social media. And as trans people, we don't do ourselves any favors when we hand them that visibility by reacting disproportionately to every little thing they do.

i've been saying this for a few years. most people do not care about the "trans issue" at all! Most people may not understand trans people but generally do not care to make our lives hell. Having a platform that stands up for dignity is an easy win

Been trying out Typst for a project and it seems to work quite nicely. Faster and better PDF results than the open source CSS PDF typesetters, but also easier to use than LaTeX. Converting the HTML output to epub using pandoc is still an ongoing exploration, though. https://typst.app

I listened to a podcast about a year ago with two male writers talking about their writing routine. A very famous one said he slept in and then wrote during the night. The other asked if he got up with his children in the morning and he said: "No. Why would I do that?" and then they both laughed.

what the “misuse” framing does is shift the onus on individual users when shit goes wrong leaving AI developers and vendors off the hook 2/

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

I'm continually surprised how many people with politics careers take DOGE as fulfilling its stated purpose, and therefore should be emulated, when it was very obviously a fascist operation to unlawfully smash various organs of the state for largely conspiratorial reasons

If your organisation still feels the need to start any questioning of AI with "We recognise that AI has huge potential to help with XYZ, but.." then they're still not free of the hype. It's past the time for fake even-handedness, and the AI emperor has no clothes.

New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope. According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

remember when promising and popular telecom and media reformer Gigi Sohn (a big fan of media ownership diversity requirements) had her nomination to the FCC scuttled because of a handful of Democrats like Mark Kelly and Joe Manchin?

As I read more about capitalism, technological development, and AI, I am growing less worried about AI fully replacing my job. What I’m more worried about is AI fulfilling capitalists’ desire to deskill us and push us into lower-paying and more precarious work.

It's like an abstract painting. #Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay

All chatbots are right wing chatbots. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not. They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly). news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

The S in "s-curve" stands for "sucks"

Trying out Zen Browser and I don't immediately hate it. It has a few things I disagree with (for example, downplaying the URL actually makes a browser less usable, it's a complexity inherent to the web and obfuscating it makes people less safe) but overall seems to work nicely zen-browser.app

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

I note many Americans here are reacting to news of Dick Cheney's death about the way Brits reacted when Thatcher died.

This is why if you learn nothing else for evidence literacy, learn to look up survey items and read them for yourself and think about how someone might interpret them.

There is really a serious problem within AI criticism around domains and content types. Eg - this viral LinkedIn post correctly reacting with outrage to fabricated references in a university course that uses a slop image created from a massive database of stolen artworks and photographs

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/03/m... - text

This shed has seen better days. #Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay #trees

This week's theme is rusty sheds. With some bonus decaying wood! #Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay

People really haven't realized that we're in the "post-USSR collapse" stage yet. Go look up what the '90s did to the average Russian lifespan.

arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven’t been vetted by an academic journal or a conference. Why? A tide of AI slop.

First signs of winter: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/signs-of-winter-2025/

The wet fart noise you hear is the AI bubble deflating. CEOs are pivoting from "AI will make us more productive, somehow" to "culture will make us more productive, somehow" The bottleneck has ALWAYS been bad strategy at the top. But instead, Amazon is trying to solve it by hollowing out the middle.

One of the (many) frustrating parts of trying to use free/open source tools for writing is that too many of them don’t realise that Oxford English spelling and British English spelling aren’t the same thing.

Via Gary Marcus. Wow.

“This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough” https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/31/Physicist-COVID-Seriously-Enough/ > Because COVID destabilizes the immune system, researchers are now beginning to see a link between repeat COVID infections and rising cancer rates in young people

Alright, first new article in a while, and it's my fiftieth! This one's about the important but subtle difference between social skills and social traits: deadsimpletech.com/blog/notes_o...

Good bit of analysis here. 'Putting lay-offs down to AI sounds better than saying “we need to keep margins high so we’re sacking some low performers” and politically safer than saying “unpredictable Trump tariff policy means we are hiring less young people.”'

a huge thing with them is they basically try to build a group of people around themselves. they often describe themselves as not experiencing emotions (and hiding this by 'pretending' to be emotional) but they will offhandedly (and measurably) express anger, fear, and enjoyment

yup, when I was researching sociopaths, I noticed a lot of the stuff I found focused largely on the sociopath as the point of view character, so it would be the 1-1 relationship between the sociopath and a single victim then I started finding a lot more on how sociopaths manipulate groups

One can have an informed citizenry or a bunch of gullible marks with no knowledge or thinking skills with which to make sense of the world. The garbage and propaganda that AI crawlers swallow for their data sets are a gigantic thumb on the sales of the latter. Tell the offline people in your life.

Once you know how to clock one, life changes. Not knowing leaves you completely defenceless. And the whole point of their act is to pass not as a “normal person” but an exceptional or remarkable person. So they do awfully well in a society not primed to filter them out.

The ecological impacts of "AI" are bad but if people only used it intentionally, they'd stay there. But with every provider, every search engine, every website firing up some chatbot or summarizer even when not asked it quickly turns from bad to monstrous.

This genuinely works for short interactions with narcissists, but is exhausting in the long run. Cutting them off is usually healthier but that’s not always possible

One thing I've struggled with as a Welsh learner is finding ebook-audiobook pairs so that I can listen whilst reading. That's why I want to record not just a std audiobook, but also a 'shadow' audiobook with pauses so you can repeat what you hear. Pre-reg here: www.kickstarter.com/...

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

For more on the harms, definitely read @karenhao.bsky.social 's Empire of AI and for more on the bonkers ideology of Silicon Valley, @adambecker.bsky.social 's More Everything Forever.

If you would like to learn more about why these products are not the sort of entity that can have "opinions", and also why the production and marketing of them is so harmful, please see my book (w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social ): thecon.ai >>