Also hundreds of people who learned Claude Code still got laid off, because the layoffs have nothing to do with AI skills (whatever that is) and everything about late capitalism eating itself

I wouldn't dismiss anything with "AI" in it if it was presented to me as a product designed to satisfy a very specific purpose. There is no need to say "AI" if you can clearly say what it is for and I can clearly see that it actually does that thing. Specifically. No general purpose bullshit.

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If your definition doesn't allow you to call it what it is until it's too late, your definition sucks.

hmmm, too much Hardfloor vs too much Plastikman? 🤔

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awful to consider the extent to which my undergraduate class papers meet this cri-de-coeur

the mold grows toward food not because it knows where food is but because it dies everywhere else call that intelligence call that art call that the only freedom that matters the shape left by everything you couldn't do

Or as Milan Kundera put it: "Unity of mankind means: No escape for anyone anywhere."

There's multiple senses in which this line of thought is relevant. But part of me wonders if the insistence that models feel, are conscious, whatever, is a devil's advocate approach. I mean, if you think Claude is conscious, why are you making it do your code for you? Shouldn't you leave it alone?

put *this* in your ARC-AGI pipe and smoke it

attn @thomasarnold.bsky.social x.com/simonw/statu...

everyone thinks they’re a bayesian until they have to update their priors

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyuR...

"But the deepest driver may be temporal compression — the sense that the future has shrunk." thanks for an excellent piece 🎯

how is this not from the Sharper Image catalog

They're selling you the same pasta in different shapes and you're falling for it

it is now more important than ever to become an enormous snob

Extremely William Gibson subplot. Down and out since AI started making all the art, a desperate beat poet falls in with a dangerous corporate espionage gang. Hacking OpenAI will require the perfect stanza. There’s just one problem: poetry is ILLEGAL.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

What a terrible day to know how to read

notable that in Sanskrit, 'a' (अ) and 'i' (इ) are the first two vowels. if we could just get to 'u' (उ) then whales would be well on their way to constructing all other Skt vowels (cc @evalina.bsky.social)

what's the over/under that they inflict the multiverse on the Bond franchise?

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it's funny i was doing a positioning exercise a little while ago and the last question it asked was something like "are there any trends you can hitch up to?" and i was like, i think the only salient trend right now is AI AI is the mono-trend

i'd say put it in the louvre, but, y'know…

you can just do things, as some people like to say

don't care what anyone says, I'm glad I got to witness the unipolar order. to watch a country completely waste its hegemonic status? we will never see anything like it again

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

attn @glindsay.bsky.social

in hindsight machine personhood is shaping up to be the single biggest issue where my mind is changing. i really do increasingly take this seriously, albeit not for the reasons the author states www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this basically articulates why i lost interest in "intelligence"

“George, I wish you’d look at the nursery.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You: "When we get back on the right track ..." Doomer: "Oh, an optimist. What makes you think we're still going to have elections?" You: "No, I mean back on the right track geologically speaking."

To be sure, fires in Spain are partially caused by climate change, but as in other parts of the world, I wish there was more coverage of how fires in Spain are the result of past land management decisions - in this case an overemphasis on planting trees. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

TBH the internet got slopped up a long time ago. Algorithms turned most”engagement” into keyword search triggers that generate keyword salad responses… People acting like bots. LLMs just automate this slop and put those people out of a job.

sea-lioning-as-a-service

this is the true meaning of Michael Hopf's "Hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make hard times."

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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

We don't live in a society, we live in an ecosystem.

economists: this is comparative advantage 🎉 everyone else: no not like that

attn @kasey.bsky.social

To be fair, being human is hard. It's not for everybody.