Yep. Anything to keep it going. Andreessen said that "any deceleration of AI will cost lives," and called slowing down AI "a form of murder." These billionaires are so entitled — and so terrified of their own inevitable deaths — that they frame any limits on their own power in apocalyptic terms.

there really is something inherently abusive about AI. Buying into the hype means you are perpetually gaslighting your workers while desperately explaining away its faults as if they're either your own or your employees. Very nasty stuff.

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

If you think the LLM told you something, ask yourself: What is your belief about who's talking? What is feeding that belief?

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

Wow a lot of people are hitting on the National Guard guys in DC

I also really appreciate this advice from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @karenhao.bsky.social, which tracks with my own experience teaching high school students and college students and talking with my own kids. Emphasize environmental costs and - once more - that GenAI is *not* inevitable.

Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week

Inspired by @alexhanna.bsky.social, @emilymbender.bsky.social, @edzitron.com, and my dear friend @msabbaghi.bsky.social, I'm including this very direct image on what I think about "AI" "accessibility solutions" on a professional presentation [icon: Stick figure throwing object into trash can]

This is a funny tweet because she's actually right, this the story of Berkeley. An Americanized Chinese food restaurant that appealed to WASPs happily sold out after the owners reached their elderly age and the new business serves the booming Asian population downtown. And the WASPs think its bad

Love this photo of Monarch Butterflies in Ontario Canada probably Point Peel National that i went to yearly in Sept in my twenties as they gathered to cross Lake erie migrating south waited for the wind to change

This book has helped me explain to business partners why stochastic parrots are a mess!

New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: A bit of historical context for the past week's news that, gee, "AI" isn't all it's cracked up to be buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/@alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

Has anyone seen an AI agent that actually works? If so, show me? Because I'm skeptical they exist.

The only thing this piece does is do marketing for generative ai companies by calling their models "powerful" again and again. No reason to do it!

It is fan fiction built to fool those who want to be fooled and scare those who are already scared

You are, in the next few months, going to see a few pro-AI people who start trying to morph into "thoughtful cynics" on the issue, and I can't wait, because I've been taking such detailed notes

500 billion dollars and the robot can't even count to twelve

I genuinely think GPT-5 may bring down generative AI. It broke the illusion with normies who thought ChatGPT was a friend or confidant or "brain storm machine," and I believe its new architecture is doing the very opposite of making it cheaper or more efficient.

Cargo cult shit. None of these companies know why they're hiring AI talent, they are just throwing money and compute at the problem in the hopes something happens, despite, well, nothing happening for a long time

Anyway, I've recently seen a couple of reviews complaining that we don't present "evidence" of our claims. We do. It's all described in the text and supported by sources given in those 59 pages of endnotes.

"At once a source of demystification of AI for the recently concerned and an intervention which encourages veteran sceptics to sharpen their criticism, [The AI Con] serves as a call to action to ridicule AI hype as a consumer, argue against it as a citizen, and resist it as a worker."

I love the Osaka Expo mascot so much. Serving biblically accurate. When it comes to memorable, eats and leaves no crumbs.

Dinosaurs with feathers are Woke Dinosaurs

I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content

My latest obsession vegetable is one that I have loved for a long time: green beans. Tell me about your favorite green bean recipes.

I literally only come on here for cooking content and animal pictures please make everything else go away

me: you’re not wrong long suffering friend: that’s the nicest thing you ever said to me

Did Athena tweet this

Some of you need hobbies

I'm actually really proud of this new piece. #KidLitArt #KidLit

Good morning everyone from me and Mochi 😊

yearning for the day when we can discuss the fact that many autistic people who complain about social rejection are rejected bc of their unpleasant personality, and not just due to autistic traits, without defaulting to "this must be ableism". rejecting NT social norms ≠ ignoring all social skills

I highly recommend the Chilean film In Her Place. It was great, thought provoking, and beautifully rendered.

And I believe that anyone who has any platform wrt to autism does need to sit with that discomfort and make some space to talk about the fact that many autistic people do try to use autism as an excuse for their terrible actions.

Yeah, I literally wrote the book on food aversions, and I can’t defend this guy.

The Party Gap www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

My favourite subset of edgelord antitheism is the sort where people decide wholesale that scriptural religious texts can't be used as a historical source even when they pertain to things that are decidedly plausible and unmagical.

i think many problems of Online arise from people in their 30s and 40s and 50s treating complaints from people in their 20s as if they are asking for advice instead of pissing and moaning

I understand that it can be hard to have your needs and even your very autism ignored when you're a low support needs autistic person. I get why a lot of us go through a phase where we prioritize our need for recognition. But if you get stuck there? You don't have the range to advocate or influence.

Some of you need a new hobby in 2025

I have started learning Portuguese and now think that every language should have a buffet of nasal vowels

One of the weird things of dipping into fiction writing is that I thought dialogue would be the hardest thing to write but it's actually way easier for me than descriptive prose, probably because I can outline it in the same way I can outline my non-fiction

it's amazing how much time you save by not caring

one of my sillier beefs with the geography of DC is how far the Smithsonian museums are from the non-Capitol Hill fun parts of town, like it would be kind of cool if the Hirshorn was located in Adams Morgan or Columbia Heights or whatever

When a group treats itself as the jester degrading itself and everyone, but then demands respect and frames itself as more moral than the rest, the whole deal falls apart. Groups that try to play that role, at once the jester and the hall monitor, combine the worst of each.

In my experience, sometimes "I don't like small talk" means "I don't like small talk." And sometimes it means "I would like to trauma dump on complete strangers with no preamble whenever I feel like it" or "I wish to extract more than someone else is willing to tell me so I can feel deep."

Malawi implies the existence of Mala'I, Malayou, Malahe, Malashe, Malait, Malay'all, and Malathey

A list of the five best phrases I've come across for strong winds: 5. Blowing half a pelican (Danish) 4. Blowing hats and hay (Norwegian) 3. Blowing a hoolie (Scots) 2. Wind so strong it could blow a pig on to its hind legs (Estonian) 1. It’s only wind when the sheep no longer have curls (German)