An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

I miss season 2 of the internet when Google actually worked and I didn't have to run baby animal pics through an Al checker and my washing machine wasn't texting me 2-factor auth codes

Helpful thread.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

I keep telling ya...

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

Opinion | The devil himself would be impressed by the terms the federal government managed to extort from Columbia. chroni.cl/46Wo3ca

Robert Worm Poop Kennedy is pushing these hard. I know that means I will never *ever* wear one. Ever.

The decrease of critical (or at least some) assessment of search results and scanning multiple potential sources are some of the outcomes of AI summaries I really worry about.

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

"In mid-2024, a study of 2,500 workers found that 77 percent reported decreased productivity and even higher workloads when using AI. Just under 40 percent of workers reported increased workloads caused explicitly by AI's sloppy mistakes."

#StudentSuccess | Student-Led Teaching Doesn’t Help Underprepared Students Peer support can increase students’ engagement in a course, but one study found that peer instruction didn’t result in better grades or content knowledge for learners. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/465y8Dq

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

User-generated videos of aggressive ICE raids remind Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social of how the Black Lives Matter mvmt used eyewitness video to reveal the reality of a problem. “These videos show this isn’t business as usual,” she tells @nbcnews.com‬. www.nbcnews.com/specials/tru...

The more times you watch it, the better its design gets. Wish we had more like Kyle Clark. @kylec.bsky.social

This article is genuinely hopeful. It looks like green energy will displace fossil fuels by 2035 everywhere EXCEPT the USA. SMH.

while the mainstream new media shirks their responsibility, outlets like teen vogue, rolling stone, and wired have all been taking up the slack where independent media cannot.

The real lesson of the Grok meltdown yesterday is think of the unimaginable power of controlling one of these platform scale LLMs if you don't go as over-the-top as "I'm Hitler 2.0 let's hurry up and gas the remaining Jews". If it's even slightly more subtle immense possibilities for info dominance.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

Wow, the film/media/comm list of AUP was sold to Taylor & Francis (huge conglom that makes $$$$ on research that we do on our own dime, submit for free, revise for free, review for free, and pay for OA)- a bunch of editors promptly quit & I suspect more are forthcoming. Good for them

Keen insights from @alicetiara.bsky.social and others on genAI supercharging scams - a great listen. I've always assumed I'm good at detecting scams, but the level of sophistication they can reach these days means I really need to be less sure and more vigilant.

Why is Elon Musk’s chatbot spewing anti-Semitic bile? @cwarzel.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social report:

It’s almost like the opposite of woke always was…

Despite writing comics and science fiction, I am not concerned about "A.i." becoming sentient and destroying humanity. This technology remains a variation of fancy autocomplete; it's not becoming sentient. But I AM concerned about the morality and ethics of the people who control it.

I'm flabbergasted. And disgusted. And not surprised. Not really. I mean, I read a lot of science fiction and this sort of thing generally doesn’t end well.

Grok is obviously heavy handed. But we have no reason to believe that other models, like ChatGPT, Claude, etc., haven’t been or won’t be tuned to align with specific ideologies the companies who own them favor.

Grok is doing something very odd right now. It posted blaming DOGE cuts for deaths in the Texas floods, writing, "Facts over feelings." Called out by Musk fans, it doubled down: "Facts aren't woke; they're just facts." Then it backtracked and claimed screenshots of the posts were fake (they're not).

Appreciating Philosophy Tube today & this (30min) video in particular: philosophies of liberty, colonization/settlement, getting theories wrong, genAI, & video essay formats. @theabigailthorn.bsky.social is simply wonderful. If you're feeling think-y, I highly recommend. youtu.be/IsiKUsrqFkc?...

Almost a decade ago, Microsoft released a chatbot which it immediately shut down because it started mimicking, racist, sexist and anti-semitic behavior. Now: Musk releases an AI, which he keeps revising until it adopts sexist, racist and anti-semitic behavior.

No notes. Perfect.

I cannot speak for all Black people but: the deep level at which I literally do not care what Mamdami said as a teenager on an application with no option that described him is matched only by how screwed we *all* are that the NYT continues do the dirty mainstreaming work of literal supremacists

This story should not have been published. They hint at an accusation (Mamdani said he is black to get into a fancy college) they can't back up. That this was published tells me that Mamdani's most important opponent may not be Cuomo or Adams but a paper whose NEWS section will run stuff like this.

Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —

"The truth is simpler, and not at all alarming: your phone only seems to be listening to you because it’s collecting data about every word you type, every website you visit, and, through GPS tracking, everywhere you go in the physical world."

Not to mention the elephant in the room— that all of those lovely, streamlined facts being spoon fed to you by the “PhD competence level” machine may in fact be fake, and without studying those books you’d never know kt

On just one Friday the Supreme Court brought my citizenship into question and the Trump administration gutted my employer and possibly threaten my career. I could only write about one of those things. newrepublic.com/article/1973...

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green | Increase influenced by datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan’s | www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

"The Blame Game: Republican operatives should not have broken into DNC offices at the Watergate Hotel. But was the eminently bug-able Democratic Party asking for it?"

Until recently, most anti-DEI bills avoided interfering with classroom instruction. That’s changed, and free-speech advocates are lining up behind a growing number of lawsuits. chroni.cl/4k3GO0o

Busted out the old Olympia typewriter for some vintage clackity-clack. Wrote a brief letter but every bit of it felt good for some reason. NO ONE CAN HACK THIS, I thought, AND I DON’T EVEN NEED A PASSWORD. MWAH HA HA HA META CAN’T SERVE ME ADS I’M SERVING ANALOG DEVOUR FECULENCE, ZUCK

Imagine if you could see your smartphone screen outdoors.

Ok, remember a few days ago when I said that my friends/colleagues are badass and to look forward to good stuff coming later this week... First up is @dannagal.bsky.social with this devastating, beautiful & deeply personal takedown of the MAHA movement. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine