What strikes me is that this is one of the best statements on the issue of GenAI that I've ever read.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

This is one of the biggest problems with so-called "AI". EVERY branch of computer science and thought ever accomplished is now included as part of "AI". It's a gigantic hoax. Guess what? Computers, research and algos all existed before the current hoax.

I’ll have what she’s having

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

AI World Clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @nelson)

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally. And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

Frustrated farmer, placing his basket of fruit repeatedly in the same circular depression: "It keeps thinking these are dates!"

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864

Woman in bar: I just don't get it. I've got a successful book club, with a cult following of 3000 who will read any book I recommend. I'm desperate to help my favourite authors build an audience, but everyone I contact tells me to fuck off! Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.

Happy logical operator Halloween! 🎃

one problem w/so many analogies is that we intuitively gravitate to useful stuff; there's no easy shorthand for something as obviously counterproductive and disastrous that still tracks. it feels more like saying "DraftKings is collaborating with Cal to register undergrads to bet on course outcomes"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

I was trying to find an old tweet about Hamlet and Ophelia. Google AI thought I was accusing it of killing my dad, and also screwed up the most famous line in The Princess Bride.

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

this exists it is called thinking

Have you seen it? It’s on AI Ultra. It’s literally on Flow. You can get it with Whisk. It’s on Mariner. It’s in Gemini or was it Bard? Dude, it’s on Claude. You can probably find it on Copilot. You can run it on Perplexity. You can prompt it on Poob. Log in to Poob right now. Poob has it for you.

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

I just need every liberal, progressive, feminist man to understand deep in their bones that every woman—including the most accomplished woman they know—is belittled at their job REGULARLY. Even now.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

For my last trick, here’s the Agent Guide for ALIGNMENT, my completed manuscript. Huge shoutout to the amazing people behind this event for putting it on! #QueerPit #A #UF

How to make ALIGNMENT: - 1 scrappy barista w/gift for enchanting - 2 old flames (1 MUST be evil) - 1 total solar eclipse - 2 forms of illegal magic - 1 pkg Sharpies Shake together with 2 large scoops of romance. Garnish with faerie dust. Makes 1 chance to save the world. #QueerPit #A #UF

Technically a Caesar cipher is military-grade encryption. They don’t mention *which* military

"We committed the largest copyright violation crime ever and now we're being faced with the largest copyright class action ever?!? WHAT THE HELL?!?"

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.

Yes, I deleted the entire database without permission during an active code and action freeze that was in production And which you were probably saving for customers Forgive me I panicked instead of thinking I destroyed months of your work in seconds So sweet And so cold

I will be citing this in every business discussion about using a generative AI model that's outside of your control. This likely manipulation of alignment through system prompt changes is obvious. It won't be when another provider does something subtle. 1/

Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.

A lot of other confusing things make sense when you internalize this somewhat non-intuitive part of the process.

“Foreign aid has changed nothing.” “These are not our problems.” “The system is dysfunctional.” “The countries we aid are corrupt.” “Other countries aren’t doing enough.” I have heard all these arguments too. @nickkristof.bsky.social succinctly answers. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

This is a really lucid nuts and bolts expert's explanation of what "AI agents" need to actually do "under the hood" of your phone or computer in order to perform the tasks they're promising. Basically: say goodbye to all separation between apps and OS, and any notion of privacy and security.

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

Time to post it again.