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The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

Et hendig tips for å overleve kvasifilosofiske diskusjoner om AI i julebordsesongen: ta med deg et støykansellerende hodesett. 1/3

AI enthusiast, looking at a Magritte painting: "LOL sure looks like a pipe to me." Human: "It's just a painting though." AI enthusiast: "Maybe all pipes are just paintings."

So the people buying the fewest devices are the hoarders? Got it.

What are ten things about yourself that big tech doesn't explicitly know that they can use to fill out their profile of you?

Makes me kind of proud we were doing hand written slides before AI github.com/bjartwolf/nd...

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

“The intelligence that takes accidents seriously is a constant threat to essences, for in the economy of categories, whenever the value of accident changes, so, too, does the value of essence.” — Lewis Hyde

“The shape-shifting mind pesters the distinction between accident and essence and remakes this world out of whatever happens.” — Lewis Hyde

“Every category must have its rubbish heap.” — Lewis Hyde

If you think reading books is boring maybe you should pick less boring books to read.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

I think maybe pop-ups should not pop up and take focus when you're fucking typing?

I mean whenever you chain together a couple of critical sentences it is labelled a rant, surely we should have label for when people chain together sentences of hyperbole?

What’s the obverse of a rant? A gush?

Last talk of the year done.

As a speaker, I suffer from AI avatar dread.

I have to say the whole imposter syndrome narrative changes character given how eagerly people will pass off AI slop as substitute for work.

Are there any .NET Aspire tutorials without the Microsoft glaze?

Hewlett-Packard Lovecraft

*Massive bong rip* *Holding it in* *Still holding* Electrons.

Pet peeve: can we abolish the word "basically" from tutorials? What does "this is basically that" mean? Is this that? Or not? Are there caveats? When is this not that? How will this "basically" break down/come back to bite me in the ass?

In a short piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social and I write #AIHype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course. Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs. www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...

Is it 'online training course'?

So many brains cooked by AI marketing narratives.

An AI slob is someone who exposes others to AI slop.

It seems like I’m very much a local speaker these days.

I had the pleasure of talking about the AI puppet dance at #ndcai today. Thanks to everyone who showed up! Slides are here: einarwh.no/slides/2025/...

What’s the killer application of a gun?

The expression “our daily lives” always puzzles me. Is it distinct from our weekly lives, our monthly lives, our yearly lives, our decadely lives? (I guess it ends there, centennial lives are beyond the reach of most of us.)

This is me on stage at @hellostavanger.no fearing nothing in the world, except that the heavens might fall on my head.

Suppose we had an AI whose only goal was to make as many tech bros as possible.

Data shows that high-performing development teams are showing modest improvements in software delivery using "AI" coding assistants. But is "AI" boosting their performance directly, or is something else going on? codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/c...

There's junior developer and there's senior developer, but what do you call the stage where you react like this when a new version of something you use is released?

I find it startling that so many people will so readily and uncritically adopt the AI vendors’ radical declarations (aimed at constructing reality by presenting them as fait accompli) as their creed.

When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products? >>

Oh hey the recording of my talk about the AI puppet dance at @hellostavanger.no is online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pun8...

When your headphones say “battery 90%” and your head goes “fucking braggart”.

Reminder that the fact that you can't tell the difference between human-written text and AI-generated text doesn't mean there is no difference. It just means that you can't tell the difference. Work on that. And the way to do that is by writing.

I consider AI slop a personal affront.

The most shocking revelation in the whole AI debacle has been the realisation that the smartest people in the world are fucking idiots.

It was never going to end well once these companies figured out they can conjure money from the air by eroding people’s cognitive defenses

I am instituting a new peace prize that will be awarded next time we play Yahtzee at my house.

Narrative and reality are not the same.

When was it decided that every non-fiction book should be 350 pages long?

Du hørte kanskje at NTB publiserte en KI-generert melding sist uke. Visste du at KI-sammendraget endret sikkerhetstrussel fra fiendtlige statlige aktører til ekstemvær og aldrende teknologi? Slik ideologisk vridning viser at KI-bias kan være en sikkerhetsrisiko. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

“They’re all like that, the eggheads. The most important thing for them is to come up with a name. Until he comes up with one, you feel really sorry for him, he looks so lost. But when he finds a label […] he thinks he’s figured it all out and perks right up.” — Roadside Picnic

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks