“Slop Evader [is] a new browser tool that filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.”

but is it sentient

Every detail of your life. Altman says he intends to build totalizing surveillance, and you should believe him.

New from me: 2025 offered lots of reasons to get off Big Tech... dangerous robots, dumb ideas of data centers in space, and more - buttondown.com/creativegood...

New from me: 2025 offered lots of reasons to get off Big Tech... dangerous robots, dumb ideas of data centers in space, and more - buttondown.com/creativegood...

God is the original Job creator. One for the Bible fans.

What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?

Remember when I warned about Musk's falling space junk? buttondown.com/creativegood... Now: "SpaceX expects the tumbling satellite to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up." Right.

Microwave: Your food is hot. Beep-beep-beeeeeep Car: Put on your seat belt. Ding-ding-ding Dryer: Your clothes are dry. Here’s a 40-second sea shanty performed on a penny whistle

Back in 2022 I interviewed @alecmac.bsky.social about his book "Fulfillment," about Amazon's unjust practices - incl. the exorbitant prices charged to school districts: wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Three years later, it's only gotten worse.

Any image you see online, no matter how photorealistic, you should assume was made by AI. Starting now.

Had some fun on the new Techtonic, giving out the first annual Creepy Award, "to the most creeptastic tech oligarch." You'll never guess who won. Episode page with lots of links: techtonic.fm/episodes/202...

Today on WFMU: On Techtonic with Mark Hurst, The first annual Creepy Awards. Spying, sloppifying, and saying totally inappropriate things: Mark inaugurates "the Creepy," an award for the most creeptastic tech oligarch (6 p.m. ET).

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

I talked about Zuckerberg's fraud, as reported by @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, a few weeks ago on Techtonic: techtonic.fm/episodes/202... Horwitz's followup piece (see below) is on China, which Meta execs called the top "Scam Exporting Nation":

Within days of Columbine, my high school banned trench coats, graphic tees, and all black clothing. Now, AI is wreaking havoc in younger Gen Z and Alpha and educators are actively encouraging them to use it even more.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

On the new Techtonic I speak w/Noah McCormack from @thebaffler.com about his essay "We used to read things in this country." In the clip below Noah reveals one possible outcome of the AI bubble. Full episode: techtonic.fm/episodes/202...

Reminds me of the "Yo" app in 2014, which (true story) got $1 million in investment and valued at over $5 million. The app allowed users to send the word "yo" to each other. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

Stealworkers

You really only get the full effect of how bad this is if you watch the video. Teddy Ruxpin would never.

forget the term "AI." how about "extractive, inhuman ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis systems" let's make "EIEPP systems" a thing

It's been like two days. lol

Exactly. Altman denies the knowledge that traditionally has been passed along by family, friends, local communities, and (if all else fails) the printed word. Altman needs to devalue all of these in order to replace them with his sludge.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

On the new Techtonic I speak w/Noah McCormack from @thebaffler.com about his essay "We used to read things in this country." In the clip below Noah reveals one possible outcome of the AI bubble. Full episode: techtonic.fm/episodes/202...

Looking forward to speaking with Noah McCormack, publisher of @thebaffler.com, live in-studio on Techtonic in a couple of hours. Starting at 6pm Eastern (3pm Pacific) at wfmu.org - click the Play button to start the stream.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

$20 billion could end homelessness in the US $40 billion could end hunger globally Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Comparing ham radio (aka amateur radio) with the Big Tech AI sludge factories. New from me - Ham radio could save your life: buttondown.com/creativegood...

Reviewing the best writing about AI this year. So much good material in this thread.

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

"We're sorry for your loss. Are there any services you'd like to add?" This is an increasingly normal experience for people canceling the accounts of loved ones who've died. It shouldn't be. My story www.nextavenue.org/were-sorry-f... for @nextavenue.bsky.social w/ @markhurst.bsky.social

Amateur radio, aka ham radio, is like a superpower - especially during a disaster. From the newest Techtonic, my interview with Thomas Witherspoon (K4SWL) and how he survived Hurricane Helene. Fascinating. Full episode: techtonic.fm/episodes/202...

Colleges: We're going to use AI to evaluate your materials and to evaluate whether you used AI to evaluate your materials and to evaluate you, using AI, in ways so you can't use AI.

Disney's plan is to get visitors to wear Zuck's surveillance glasses. If this happens? Thousands of reasons never to go near a Disney park.

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

"Canceling a late loved one’s cable account led to an outrageous and shocking interaction with an AI assistant." I’m quoted in this piece about customer service in the age of AI, by @amilnetyte.bsky.social. www.nextavenue.org/were-sorry-f...

New Techtonic: Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers. Full episode: techtonic.fm/episodes/202...

A story in 3 acts:

tune into wfmu.org for my live broadcast of Techtonic, starting now. click the Play button:

This seems fine. By 2028, a projected 6.7% to 12.0% of ALL electricity in the U.S. will go to data centers. Source: the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. escholarship.org/uc/item/32d6...

So if your goal is to get through 10 books a year - just try to read 10 measly pages a day - easy. If you really dig in and build a habit of reading, say, 25 pages a day - that's 25 books a year! (Or more, if you're reading 7 days a week.)

Another suggestion to put down the screen and pick up a book. The number of pages you read per day, most days a week, is roughly equivalent to how many books you'll read in a year.