Data: I hate this! It is revolting! Guinan: More? Data: Please!

I had explained to me “AI isn’t a political tool.” Yeah, that’s baloney. It’s bankrolled by key political actors and it’s used by those holding political office as a disinformation machine. Now read this,

Not to put too fine a point on it but: f*ck this AI-fueled physiognomy bullshit.

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

Excellent article. FWIW, the 888 AV crashes reported to CA DMV were during Testing not Deployment (KitKat's death). <10% of Waymo's recent crashes were during Testing. Waymo robots illegally use bus stops for pudo, as did the Google buses, contributing to many bus crashes. bsky.app/profile/anic...

Technofascism is a threat to our work, our morals, and our lives.

This is really heartbreaking. These sick people are suffering, maybe even making their sickness worse, because of what seems like a fragile social support and health system ☹️

My first for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social -- A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough. bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

And pigs fly “It is not going to be an event because the capabilities are going to expand progressively in various domains,” in a plane, a helicopter, a rocket,... www.ft.com/content/5f2f...

Papers like these validate what we have. That's not good.

These are the interviews we've done so far. There are some people you may recognize, such as @hagenblix.bsky.social and @olivia.science stopgenai.com/category/ant... I shared your art, so I might as well actually interview you @phineas.bsky.social Also am interested in @danmcquillan.bsky.social

“It is sort of gibberish, frankly,” Hoenig said. “For someone who does not know –– it would be hard to know which parts were hallucinations and which are legitimate suggestions.” restofworld.org/2025/ai-chat...

Science washing

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another." 🗣️📢 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZ... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251106-oxf... - podcast time: 6 min 16 sec

This is real. I know 2 people who use chatgpt extensively and they fucking talk like YouTube shorts of podcasts or streamers. Like it has become jarring And feels like you are talking to a wall or a YouTube comment irl

Do we need a Nature paper for that? Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact www.nature.com/articles/s42...

generative AI works by returning the statistically most probable reply to your query. in other words, it’s mediocre by definition.

I struggle with editors on my work because I MEANT to write it that way. It's not a mistake.

This is the part I dislike about Grammerly and other writing support models: the suggestions file the edges off of my writing style. I have a "voice" and I want to keep it, even in a boring corporate memo. Put another way, I want my personality to shine through my writing.

OMG OMG I was just doing dishes and it occured to me (based on @olivia.science's comment about Iceland's AI nonsense: GEN AI IS THE THNEED FROM THE LORAX #AI #antiAI

Ironically we were in a seminar this week on increasing vocabulary that students can use and understand. And the facilitator suggested using copilot to look up etymology. So slop on top of slop instead of showing children the richness of language. But what do I know etc etc

I remember one of the early claims (still out there, just slightly passe at the moment) was that LLMs would foster creativity. I remember pointing out that the very way they work means everything will always eventually regress to a mean - we'll inevitably end up with LESS diversity of thought.

The very nature of LLMs ensures that they will SUPPRESS creativity. Everything will be a rehash, language & thought reduced to pink slime over ever-diminishing time cycles.

we will never cede the m-dash to the machine — not now, not ever — because it is legit good punctuation and I love interjecting with how I have ADHD — 6 thoughts a minute, nonsense and quality — thoughts

And of course the clowns pushing this garbage have no humility of any kind, intellectual or otherwise

"estamos todos falando como robôs por causa do chatgpt" eu não, eu não uso esse negócio aí, falem (roboticamente) por vocês

Galera, vcs REALMENTE podem só não usar esse bot de bosta fora do emprego de vcs se vcs quiserem. Ninguém obriga vcs a chafurdar na merda.

The opening statement here is jarring: "the U.S. Army quietly signed away a piece of its sovereignty" - we are supposed identify with some sense of concern, because what? The self-sovereign US Army is a force for good? 'The Authoritarian Stack' www.authoritarian-stack.info

University finances are precarious, but leading institutions are swallowing the pedagogic promises of Anthropic & OpenAI just at the moment when the AI bubble looks ready to burst. Beyond fees and the attrition of skilled staff, will AI trigger the collapse of the entire sector?

The goal of vdgasjournal.com an evolving mag started with @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social and @ddclaxton.bsky.social is to combat the corp assault on culture via LLM by nurturing the essay form: youtu.be/Js0o6Lvx6S8?...

LLMs just aren’t capable of producing anything anywhere near as good as “milquetoastify boringify language”.

„Robotic verbiage erases vulnerability, humor, and everything that makes us human“🫥

"examples of recursive patterns in psychology papers attempting use of computational analysis" and other bangers

"giant environment-destroying rape culture theft machine" !

> I think there’s a kind of intellectual humility in acknowledging the limits of your own expertise; it’s often an important trait. But I think it’s been exploited in this context, so each person can say “well, it’s not useful for me, but it’s probably useful for someone else.” @anthonymoser.com

I started out thinking this was only minorly meta but wow this is so sad

No, just no...

@cloudquistador.bsky.social: "gray beards like me who who know where all the bodies are buried, we're like we're a nuisance because you know, you can't fool us. But you but a 15-year-old, you can um if if you get them early enough, right?" — so true www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4... 4/n

@cloudquistador.bsky.social explains how to fight back, by reading — the actual thing companies who sell AI nonsense do NOT what us to do (olivia.science/ai#allies) & staying vigilant on what our enemies are plotting: 100% correct strategy, if you can stomach it! www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4... 3/n

He explains how in the past in healthy orgs there were many layers of experts (like him) to advise against believing pitches of tech products to CEOs that do not work, while now AI companies go directly to executives and convince them their nonsense is real. www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4... 2/n

And not just me and @emp1.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social and other women who are mocked or seen as problems. Other serious minoritised people too often get it as well like @cloudquistador.bsky.social who explains it excellently here bsky.app/profile/oliv...

What Esther said. Two things: loads of women in computational fields call out AI exactly because we know all about this stuff. And the second, those who mock and snicker are playing with words here. When it suits them AI means everything and other times it means AI products they sell for money.

Um, tell me the authors noticed that statements about theories of cognitive dissonance ignoring counter evidence, like "Their version of events became canonical—while contradictory accounts from cult members and later researchers were largely ignored." are instances of cognitive dissonance, right?

"Try using your brain instead". *chef's kiss *

2/ to toss the baby out with the bathwater. It starts to feel pretty "townsfolk with torches and pitchforks"-ish. A little too gleeful - and really weird when it's coming from supposedly pro-science folks, who *love* to hate on social psych.

And there was plenty of evidence before Festinger, too. This is unfortunate, because people who only know one "star" study (like Festinger's cult study, or the Kitty Genovese anecdote, for B.I., or Mischel's marshmallows) get all worked up when pieces like this come out, & are only too eager...

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"But what was particularly unusual about this incident was its sheer scale: 1,500 priceless artefacts taken from the land in which they had stood for almost 3,000 years, spirited far from the culture that gave them life." 😐