Somehow Ben Shapiro arrives at the correct conclusion about Twitter before nearly all elected Democrats (even if he doesn't act on that conclusion)

You do not suddenly get entire cohorts of beltway wonks, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, podcast hosts, and the people in charge of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac repeating the exact same talking points in the same time window without there being a canonical GC event

The future we got was like if Philip K. Dick directed the first episode of Futurama

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

I saw someone post on here earlier today about why is it that only AI luminaries consistently turn out to be horrible people but it doesn’t happen in fields like biology, and that just isn’t true.

The technology of propaganda that turns everyone into a little propaganda slop gooner crouched angry over their phone is very new but I have a hard time believing it's as strong as they say

One problem I’ve noticed in myself seeing all these open web projects people are releasing on atproto is that I’m so burned and jaded on cloud software I literally don’t trust anyone else to run an online service I would put my information into anymore (part from surveillance, part enshittification)

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

Powerful people routinely use AI to make life harder for people who don’t have as much power, particularly low-income folks, immigrants, and communities of color. Here, we see right-wing Wisconsin legislators using AI to justify racist “English-only” policies. 1/

Librarians continue to be on the front lines of the war against knowledge and humanity, with little help from those in power. From @404media.co www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Is this real? Are people using LLMs as stand-ins for humans in social science studies? How on earth do they get these papers published? Could someone possibly be that ignorant?

The use of LLMs for any purpose as a stand-in for a real human or a simulation of a human is indicative of the cultural turn from an information society (understanding reality to be evidence of itself) to one of imagination and make-belive (understanding our desires to be evidence of the world)

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

I want my Machines to have more Loving Grace and do less All Watched Over

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder. Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined

🧪🧪 Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why -- The repository is taking steps to tackle a surge in low quality, AI-generated content. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Google paid $2.7b to license Character.AI models and to poach 20% of their staff. This is after Character led a teen to his suicide and has been defending themselves on First Amendment grounds. These are deeply unethical people.

Important work revealing limitations of using LLMs as human surrogates. Note, however, that even if LLMs' textual outputs were perfectly human-like, they would still be poor models of human cognition, as @lmesseri.bsky.social argue here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Not gonna tag, but this is an example of where the Will Stancil theory that propaganda drove everything breaks down. Propaganda is powerful and it can do a lot, but there's something like the rules of thermodynamics in communication. You can't make something from nothing or nothing from something.

I just don’t understand how the wealthy elite starving american citizens, tossing them in concentration camps, looting the US treasury, dismantling US institutions and science capability, and refusing to operate the federal government is “populism” and not “isolationism at home”

I can’t be the only one who just straight up isn’t interested in incorporating anything we learn from synthetic “social” science experiments conducted on LLM facsimiles of human text because I simply don’t think the epistemology of it has any bearing on the world, regardless of any similarity

Pushing AI into schools and libraries is some RFK Jr shit.

i see other people also think we need a labor press (in re Teen Vogue) One reason we are where we are is that the FCC declared labor-perspective radio stations to be special-interest "propaganda" uses of the airwaves, nearly a century ago; while nat'l commercial b'casting was proclaimed "neutral"

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

I wonder what Peter Thiel's opinions about Elon Musk vs. Mr. Beast are, vis a vis being prime contenders for the Antichrist

Excellent job inviting these technologies into our campuses to work closely with vulnerable young people, university administrators and edtech people. BRAVO. apnews.com/article/open...

If a professional did this they would be arrested and I don't really understand why the answer box gets a break

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

There are no words for how evil this is

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This is also the same function political prediction markets are meant to play

Right wing pollsters have been flooding the national media with deliberately biased surveys that serve the exact same pollutionary purposes as Newsmax or Fox.

A thought spurred on by this thread is that American businesses, and specifically in Silicon Valley, have built the material conditions via the way they do weird things with money, to live solely in the realm of imagination play and to never have to wake up from that

His entire earnings call was him playing Imagination about building a robot army to take over the world

Fucking close down Schools of Management

Feels like the opening to a very bad sci-fi film.

Fun fact, this is the reason we have flexible sentencing. So that judges can take into account whether the person looks like a born criminal or not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrop...

I regret to inform you all that I know enough about this sordid history to say it’s PHYSIOGNOMY not PHRENOLOGY. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiog...

The Libra urge to say su’m slick at every possible moment >>>><<<<<>><><><

Tesla dares to ask the question, “What if they had flying cars and robot servants in the futurist universe depicted by sci-fi visionary William Luther Pierce”

Tesla is a Future Shock cult for the most gullible people in human history

No thing is just a tool; all tools construct us as their subjects.

i’ve been saying AIs main utility to capitalists is to allow them to bring back all the racism sexism ableism transphobia and every other bigotry under the sun we’ve managed to mitigate in the last century and go “computer did it 🤷‍♀️” when called out for it

Operating in an entirely different historical context, but exactly the same social context, this is the role that AI and other forms of automation often plays in governance. Giving an excuse to hide racism behind procedure as a form of feigned powerlessness.