Which social media platform will be hit hardest by the rapture? Cuz it’s definitely not this one

This is good

A little bored with getting attacked as an AI shill from losers on the internet, like, do folks really not understand that “studying cancer” does not mean you want to give everybody cancer? Are folks so enraged that they can’t even look at the post history of the guy they’re screaming “fuck you” to?

Definitely agree with the sentiment, but wild that this “journalist” that can’t read beyond the word “AI” before they start regurgitating the talking point

The “Tylenol-Autism-link” push makes sense as part of a broader campaign against expertise, which benefits those whom any expert would recognize as frauds. This translates broadly across domains. The reliance on Generative AI and attacks on academia are also part of that trend.

Autistic advocates and researchers: please be in my email inbox [email protected] to share what type of autism research could actually be helpful instead of trying to "eliminate autism"

My favorite thing about 2025 is you can create a video explaining the technical specifics of how AI images work, from a critical perspective, and some anti-AI person will still add you to a “garbage AI posters” moderation list.

Many of the presenters at the Public AI Summit are sharing keynotes or special materials. This is mine: a just-over-ten-minute layperson’s introduction to the technical process behind AI models producing images: “Making Pictures With Noise.” Hope you dig it! publicaisummit.com/workshop/a-c...

this is my day-to-day as a public library worker—we call it “tech therapy,” triaging immediate issues & teaching when we can. many adults do not have a support system that guide them thru how devices work, what their impacts will be & how their data is being collected, so they come to us.

We always focus on critical tech literacy for teens but rarely for the 50+ crowd, who arguably need it more (and are harder to convince they need it).

Coming to grips with the idea that Charlie Kirk may become a kind of Christian Right “Max Headroom.” AI-generated versions of him saying all kinds of things he didn’t say are everywhere on social media. This seems ghoulish to me.

One of the things AI art trips up is humility. I watch humans grapple with the uncertain misery of making art, exposing the vulnerability of showing it. It’s a constant struggle. When the AI does it, your whole self just ain’t out there. You gotta put something on the line.

One of the things AI art trips up is humility. I watch humans grapple with the uncertain misery of making art, exposing the vulnerability of showing it. It’s a constant struggle. When the AI does it, your whole self just ain’t out there. You gotta put something on the line.

This Pew Research finding on AI age gaps aligns w/ my experience talking to students on campuses. Students see it as an unwelcome competitor for jobs and inflator of grades, vs older professors & administrators who see “early problems” but also “the future.” Poll: pewrsr.ch/46uvg1u

AI hype (the vast overvaluation of its capacities) was initially useful in “boiling the frog,” ie, hand-waving a justification for mass layoffs. Now in place, it means less friction on illegal orders. The AI Coup is more or less complete. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

Lots of good material in here, thanks for sharing @eryk.bsky.social! 👇

Heart Transplant - Cambridge and Portia [1968 South African single dedicated to the world's first succesfull heart transplant ] https://redd.it/dzo2g9 https://youtu.be/eYvySd8d5s8

AI hype (the vast overvaluation of its capacities) was initially useful in “boiling the frog,” ie, hand-waving a justification for mass layoffs. Now in place, it means less friction on illegal orders. The AI Coup is more or less complete. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

Hey, checkbook activists: I cancelled Hulu/Disney over the Kimmel thing. They still give you time to finish ‘Andor.’

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

amazing

“20-year-old suburban kids are being radicalized by Ford Foundation Programming!” would be a hilarious claim if this wasn’t the planet I was forced to live on

nod nod nod

Being at an AI conference as a skeptic is a lot like going to a church for someone else’s faith. A lot of friendly people talking about something that has changed their world, and you keep looking around for signs you just can’t see.

Reposting because the information divide created by social media filters explains a lot about our current politics, and this illustrates the point.

Very excited to be screening work at the Museum of the Moving Image 9/20 2pm with my video art and new media collective Blockbusters! And afterwards, we'll be in conversation with the amazing Rebecca Cleman of @eai-org.bsky.social 💙

I don’t doubt people are using LLMs, but I do doubt that what they are getting back is having any greater impact than if they Googled around for financial advice. Any increase in basic skills comes from reading basic text, not from LLMs specifically. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/b...

People love Boston, but a city that tolerates Storrow Drive and these tunnels is clearly incapable of loving us in return. Boston’s roadways are a gleeful defacement of any faith in a loving God

Months ago, to observe, I joined a 100k+ member women's group for generative AI fans who want to monetize their work. So far I have yet to see evidence. The ones making money are those teaching others how to do so, gen AI for Etsy, master prompts etc, even how to monetize teaching AI monetization

“Pyramid scheme of human labor”

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

"In a recent paper, Emami-Naeini found that many users wrongly believe ChatGPT is HIPAA compliant, creating an unwarranted sense of trust in the tool. “I expect some therapists may share this misconception,” she says." AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH arxiv.org/abs/2507.10695

I would sue if I found out my therapist was using AI during therapy. A total privacy nightmare. "Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”

Whooo, buddy.

Anyone attending the hype studies conference virtually today? Up early but never got a link to the stream, if you have one that’d be awesome!

There’s no market for AI podcasts, bc the point of AI-generated media is users generating it themselves. This stuff is not about making / sharing media (Web 2.0) but post-Web. We consume the experience of social media through a self-curated feed that never disrupts the scroll, no connection required

Genuinely excited to be a NEW INC Mentor at the New Museum this year, so curious to see what comes out of this cohort! Here’s the list: www.newmuseum.org/new-inc/memb...

"The perception that the machine is 👂 is an illusion... This means that we lose much of the value of conversations w/ other people who might point [us] to new + richer spaces beyond our previous experiences, or propose new understandings we can draw out from empathy for those experiences."

Absolutely this. I am not exactly on top of the Epstein stuff but… The text, the drawing, it’s so obvious what jt’s pointing to and alluding to, but we will watch countless people who know better pretend there’s even a shred of ambiguity.

sure, at first glance trump's drawing of a female nude might appear to be depicting someone very, perhaps problematically, young. but if you purposefully ignore every scrap of context surrounding the circumstances of the drawing it's essentially meaningless

Continuing to think about “Human Literacy,” in this post I ask what conversations between people do that conversations with machines do not, and the vanishing art of imagining worlds with other people.

Conversation is the negotiation of meaning between people. Excellent reflections on the difference between human conversation and "conversations" with LLM chatbots.

"When we suggest AI is doing exactly what a person does, [...] It's like saying that good conversations are never possible, and that mechanistic reinterpretation and remixing of words is all there could ever be"

Instead of going all the way to the store, I bought a cash register for my room, so now I can skip the entire shopping process and just print out a receipt for whatever I was supposed to buy. Lean Shopping saves me time and money, and produces pretty much the same result as regular shopping. 2/

"AI is a conversation-shaped tool, used to create some of the benefits of a conversation in the absence of another person."

The most successful class in my Critical AI course last year was one dedicated to human-authored stories. We talked about voice, POV, literary devices; we read together. I think that reflections on what humans can do offer even more powerful forms of resistance than critiquing what machines can't.

'Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy.' Cartoon, 1936, by Clarence D. Batchelor, which won the Pulitzer Prize the following year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._B...

That's a great piece. "As we exchange ideas, we build a world we temporarily co-exist in." - and those worlds aren't possible with the chatbots.

Continuing to think about “Human Literacy,” in this post I ask what conversations between people do that conversations with machines do not, and the vanishing art of imagining worlds with other people.

“people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI," "people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI's execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes." futurism.com/more-people-...