Already in a few hours we'll be taking a fresh look at a technology more stale than a fossilised loaf of sliced bread (and much less useful if you ask me). Come join us in-person or online as we scratch our heads and maybe even look for lines of flight: portals.icareus.com/en/tiedekulm...

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"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

It is _literally_ stolen intellectual labor. Embedded AI observes what you write, erase, revise, edit and save as final to steal HOW you think through a sentence, a problem, a proposal or a decision. Your intellectual labor is taken to teach it to "predict" text or "soften" or "sharpen" tone.

The point of LLMs aren't even that it will accurately enforce the desired ideological conformity. The stochastic errors and subsequent penalization are the point.

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

Woman Trying To Find Nonpolitical Way To Say Her Cleaner Was Deported https://theonion.com/woman-trying-to-find-nonpolitical-way-to-say-her-cleaner-was-deported/

“Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." -- @marentierra.bsky.social et al, (2025).

The good news is that OpenAI and Meta now have more than enough text to make a realistic Jeffery Epstein AI chatbot

Bruh

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Not now, carnivorous death ball

The reason our environmental laws are bad is because they fail to protect the environment from the endless capitulation of cowards.

Germany, your leader is an extremist. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

the future is so goddamn stupid

New awareness campaign

This is another example of where generative AI is not user triggered - which means it's fundamentally unboycottable.

Once again:

Source: 9to5google.com/2025/10/29/y... *End users* can opt out, and will be able to check in the player whether they are watching a real or upscaled video. But I am very curious, if you could put an exact cost on this decision in terms of kWh/atmospheric CO2, what the total would come to.

Regarding "far more common than reported here": Left: the Nature News story above, Sept 18th 2025 Right: Wired directly quoting OpenAI, Oct 28, 2025 www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

This version of Total Recall sucks.

Which demonstrably matters little if at all to a society that transitioned from spectacular to hyperreal with so little resistance. We're now morphing into something new: a form of collective sense-making in which the primary type of output is a pastiche of simulacra. Society of model collapse.

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

Chatbots have an impact specifically on the brains of bosses and managers that ought to be subject to an entire new field of social science www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate. Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not. From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

“The delegation of tasks to “tools & assistants” constitutes a methodological decision (…) Researchers should therefore be required to explain why they are trusting a black box that is neither open nor fair.” — @altibel.bsky.social & @petertarras.bsky.social www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why...

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’” www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

bitch what

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

The end game CO₂ emissions from the biggest tech players rose by an average of 150% between 2020 and 2023. The cause? AI Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet had emissions increases of 182%, 155%, 145% and 138%, respectively, over the period surveyed. www.techcentral.ie/un-report-fi...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes: - Without the patients' consent to participate in research - Affecting minors - 1700 of them - Taking highly sensitive information from said journals This is a HUGE breach.

Really cool framing of 'AI' as the 'single use plastic of the mind'. Not 1:1, but reminds me of Hollywood Elegies: It’s Hell, it’s Heaven: the amount you earn Determines if you play the harp or burn. Gold in their mountains, Oil on their coast; Dreaming in celluloid Profits them most.

wizard frog is insane

Social psychologists can know better than anyone in psychology that we do not want to let QRPs ruin trust in our science, again. “Ultimately, contemporary AI is research misconduct.”

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

I cracked open Sartre's famous essay on anti-Semitism the other day, and the very opening pages discuss how clearly absurd it is to treat such things as merely discourse, as merely "opinions." A 77 year old work, & yet Sartre's writing still meet the present moment better than most newspaper op-eds

The only thing left for OpenAI to do before the singularity is achieved is swapping out plain invite codes with lootboxes that can get you: - an invite (common); - an NFT of Peter Thiel in the style of Pepe the Frog (rare); or - an acre of land in the Metaverse (ultra rare).

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer. www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...