We must stop using the term “hallucinate” for software that doesn’t think. It doesn’t deal with information; it deals in text. It’s a bullshit generator. Using “AI”, “hallucinate”, and other terms that anthropomorphize it is compounding the general population’s misunderstanding of what it is.

So. Again: There's no such thing as a "Generative AI" system that doesn't generate bullshit, because the processes whereby bullshit is generated are the exact same processes via which "Gen AI" do anything at all. And this was obvious from even a broadly theoretical understanding of their operations

It’s beyond hurtful bc even if you don’t present as what people think as a classic autistic, you’re still getting whacked. There is nothing wrong with us, we just are a variation of humanity. Never being accepted and but spotlighted as a blight on the human experience sucks

"Even the people who wrote the software don't know how it works!" Absolutely batshit insane claim they keep making, when what's actually being said is "there's so much data in the model we couldn't say exactly what data is being used when" which is also batshit but for different reasons.

What fucking INFURIATES ME is that so many of us have been saying that THIS IS HOW THE ALGORITHM FUCKING FUNCTIONS for SO FUCKING LONG.

And we don’t have to guess what they mean, because we can read Project 2025 ourselves and see that “pornography” is shorthand for LGBTQ people existing publicly. That’s what they’re working to ban, censor, and restrict online under the guise of “protecting” kids from porn

Sick of everyone pretending there’s “intelligence” here. We have no idea how intelligence works, we have no concept of how to recreate it, but we know damn well that it doesn’t just come into existence when a typewriter has pounded out enough words in a chain.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

No she isn't

It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries. It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.

People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

This is not useful technology and it doesn't do any of the things they lie that it does. And there is only so much that billions of dollars can do to try to manifest a fantasy before reality becomes apparent

I actually agree that there is going to be a skill gap between people who regularly use AI vs those who refuse to use it, and it's that after the bubble pops the refusers will be fine while the AI-dependent will be missing or have let atrophy basic skills

The blame also lies with the clout chaser apologists who tell fact checkers to stop ruining everyone’s fun or tell people it doesn’t matter if popular posts are actually lies or who cares. Facts actually matter!! Even when the lies reinforce your belief system!!!!! bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Alt text was on maybe 75% of Bsky images when I first joined. Accessibility is still the right thing to do. You can hit the gear on the left of yr screen, click accessibility, and get Bsky to remind u to use alt text. It's pretty easy ❤️

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Can't I just be a fkn PERSON, it's so maddening and exhausting. Can't my daughters just be PEOPLE who do work and move through the world, and not objects for men to talk about and look at and make decisions about based on their faces and bodies?

Just like the ‘ceasefire in Gaza.’ Credulous media lapping up something that quite clearly isn’t true.

ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed. If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.

If you're still following Neil Gaiman, you really shouldn't be posting about the Epstein Files as if you're a champion for survivors.

this guy is getting appropriately ratioed but I want to summarise the issue very succinctly, as somebody who owns a house and *has been a landlord*: everybody needs shelter. Housing is an essential service. Like water, like electricity, like the roads. Therefore, it should not be an investment.

Fucking duh. LLM AI systems like Grok do not comprehend the meaning of any of the words they do statistical analysis on. You cannot “warn” Grok of anything because it does not understand the meaning or context of any words, at all.

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."

The problem is that techbros, deliberately I assume, mash genuinely-useful machine learning together with almost-entirely-useless LLMs/chatbots and called the lump "AI". The former will be helpful. The latter will not, but IMO that's what techbros can flog to a broad and gullible audience.

You know, Europeans can feel whatever they want to feel about this situation, that’s fine, but actually, I have never blamed a country for its dictator, especially in places where wealth equality is staggering and where larger powers exert enormous influence on elections.

Dem consultant, hopium, Substack in bio. Give money to the people on the ground. The parents, the teachers, the organizers. Ask people like @normcharlatan.bsky.social or @ziibiing.com or anyone else on the front lines where the money is needed.

if newsom can't commit to protecting the victims of fascist violence, then he cannot count on those victims to vote for him. it's really that simple. bsky.app/profile/popt...

it is true that donald trump is very unpopular, and almost everyone outside his hardcore base hates what's going on right now but what that hardcore base is willing to support is extremely disturbing and I'm not a fan of sharing the country with a lot of these folks

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

One of fascism’s most effective weapons is the idea of inevitability. It tells you that events are already decided, that resistance is pointless, & that there aren't alternatives. Once people accept that story, they stop imagining change, & when imagination disappears, so does the power to oppose.

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

Google Gemini is going to be a life changing for technology for anyone who doesn't know how to point at their own car

Shutting off comments because I am not one of those people who thinks the only way to beat fascism is to overlook Democrats' complicity in getting to where we are. I voted for Kamala, I vote the less awful of two candidates every time even if I'm grinning and bearing it. That will continue. However.

They expect us to hold their hurt feelings as more pressing than our very lives. They’re not unclear about Ross killing Good. They’re trying to “but technically” their way into publicly saying she deserved to die like that.

Dismantling DHS is an entirely achievable goal for Democrats at this point. You can have Fox yell at you for being a radical leftist or whatever, but you're going to have endless images of paramilitary goons assaulting people on TV, and voters will associate you with wanting to end that.

I mean this so seriously. Please don’t read it as “doomerism”. The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric. This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones. Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.

Agree, and it needs to be clear that celebrating urban spaces is not denigrating rural ones, but it *is* refusing to agree with the long-held assumption that rural spaces are morally superior or inherently more authentically American.

Not saying Dems should ignore suburbs and rural areas, but I think they need to put forward a vision celebrating urban and diverse spaces. It is what scares a lot of people about Mamdani, because he gives people that sort of vision

“make big tech afraid” has to be just as much of a priority as “prosecute the criminals of the previous regime” for the next Dem admin the tech fascists are way too far out over their skis and what remains of global stability will not survive that state of affairs continuing

I wish people were as horrified about immigrants being kidnapped and killed in detention centers as they are about this shooting at the same time I am very glad there is finally some larger momentum building against this and I hope it sustains.

Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.

She was deeply loved by her wife who is presumably going to raise the six-year-old boy you just categorized as an orphan for some reason. And we didn't ✌🏾lose✌🏾 her. The government murdered her. Words mean things