Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"

been saving this photo of the in-laws pet blob from christmas for strategic deployment and i think now's a good time

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This could actually be a golden age of radical public history. So many people are looking to better understand the antecedents to our current moment. We have good scholarship that can be shared with the public in myriad ways. Revive freedom schooling across the land.

I don't know anything about D. H. Lawrence's writing, but his delivery company is a joke.

If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this. It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.

hmmm. bnugny

Expert systems are inevitable Don’t get left behind, Flash is the future Cryptocurrency will obsolete fiat currency Better claim your stake in the Metaverse By 2015, we will all have self-driving cars Pen computing is going to end keyboards You’ll look so stupid if you miss out on NFTs

I appreciate that the book reviews for THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME are all like “Chanda is a strange fuckin nerd but actually it’s very entertaining, buy the book” 😹 Accurate accurate

✨ Updated preprint ✨ Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂

"What is the ROI of UX?" is shaped like a question, but it is actually two hostile premises: 1) that UX is sufficiently marginal for its value to be openly questioned 2) that the asker has the authority to judge this question, and practitioners are merely consulted on it, as a matter of courtesy

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

opened the door marked "entrance" not realizing it was a verb, and had to make a wisdom saving throw

I mean, at some point, we have to understand from all this that they have calculated that people will be harmed/die, and they just don't care?

@404media.co has done great reporting on this. Just understand that most these images could not have been generated without the efforts and investments of a few VC-backed companies like Stability AI and Runway ML. There's so much money behind this CSAM. www.404media.co/civitai-and-...

A dear friend is Sbux union leader through Workers United and she clued me into 3 things. Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years. Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US. Shareholders are demanding they settle. Keep boycotting.

I said this to a friend yesterday and will repeat it here. A lot of people are going to be hyper-focused on elections this year but if that's not your ministry, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HYPER-FOCUS there. There's so much other organizing work to do. You can focus your energies and attention there.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Had a dream last night that I was writing a novel called HOGS OF THE BLACK SEA about pirate ships manned by crews of intelligent pigs who were stealing oil and gas from Russian and Eastern European shipping lines and reselling it to African markets.

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

The "you may only speak of the single largest problem" minimisation tactic for data centres is flimsy for a large number of reasons but core among them is the fact that many of the groups leading DC critique ALREADY oppose and actively fight against the other things!! Eg: @foodandwater.bsky.social

I wonder if any company has ever ruined their core product and reputation as much as Google did with search.

"Millions of people are using AI! It's the world's most popular technology. People clearly want it." Tech companies have been using every dark pattern available, every deal and agreement, every subsidy they could find to jazz up numbers, meaning none of them can actually be trusted.

This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about

Yet more fun facts: the original cut of Metropolis was lost shortly after release until 2008 when an original print was found.Metropolis also entered the public domain in 2023 so we can watch it in it's intended form and higher quality with than people alive when it released youtu.be/_q25QpZXfoU?...

There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.

"My integrity as a scientist cannot allow me to do this" == "I can excuse manipulation, misinformation, and contributing to a genocide, but I draw the line at promoting the wrong flavor of magic beans"

This is your annual reminder

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

some reading groups starting January 12: - Thought Soup (buying books from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social to raise money for Palestinians) ➡️ "echolalia echolalia" by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social - AI Skeptics Reading Group ➡️ "Resisting AI" by @danmcquillan.bsky.social

This was such an enjoyable interview and highlight of last year ✨ @olivia.science @joymoop.bsky.social @disruptedscience.bsky.social

thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc... Relevant article backing up your point. Like literally just draw stick figures ffs and let the artists do their job!

H) As I said above, execution is all. Start with a prologue if you want, start with a dream if you want. Sprinkle your story with footnotes, yank that god out of the machine, put some tinsel on your squid and place it proudly on the mantelpiece, whatever. Just aim to do it as well as you can.

In recent years, mainstream media has been dominated by stories of increased crime, but rarely do outlets cover one of the most common and insidious offenses in our society: wage theft.

Remember this from the 90s? No??? That's because I woke up with a splitting migraine today, and my malfunctioning synapses invented this abomination. I hyperfixated on it for several terrifying minutes while immobilized in bed. It haunted me all day, so here's my rendition of it.

Marjorie hasn't asked for an invitation into your imaginary antifascist tent 😂

I enjoyed doing this interview for El Mundo, especially the last question (English translation of that in this short thread): www.elmundo.es/papel/histor... 🧵>>

ruin two bands by combining them: marilyn hanson

"you can't make genAI go away" is an accurate assessment of current realities and also a bleak end point to analysis. we're changing the landscape of options that we have at our disposal, through imagination, organizing, or whatever else. lecturing people on the futility of their efforts seems weird

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearljam, soundgarden or alice in chains

i stopped making "trans people are the canaries in the coalmine for fascism" analogies when i learned that miners would actually try to save the canaries after they passed out instead of going "wow, 1,000 more canaries and i might start to worry!"

someone didn't get any chinese food (because he didn't want it) so he got some shredded cheese instead, as penance for us not ordering anything he wanted

This is a great article that continually steelmans the opponent's arguments and finds that every argument isn't supported by the data.

Today at the theatre

i don’t have a pope (jew) but it’s my understanding that among catholics he is, in fact, holier than thou

flat fuck friday two days early

Before transitioning I was a respectability-politics lesbian. Even post-transition my career, my manner of dress, and my work is very palatable to the mainstream. Because of that I think it's particularly important to talk about why I reject respectability politics and you should too. Short 🧵