Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Christopher Wslken saying "Grogu" with a heavy emphasis on the last syllable.

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If LLMs are a "social technology" akin to a market, it might be interesting to bring Marx into the mix to think about how markets aren't just information processors but the means by which relations of social domination are organized (and mystified) knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

saw the pic and immediately assumed it was the Onion

New article published in AI and Ethics journal by UT Philosophy PhD candidate Siri Beerends, and UT Philosophy professors Nolen Gertz and Ciano Aydin on the question of how AI, rather than becoming more human-like, is leading to humanity becoming more machine-like:

What so many have experienced personally has been confirmed by a new study: AI has been a disaster for working artists.

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As a followup to this hilarious, insightful article, here’s a NYT commenter responding to a Ross Douthat article about the same topic, where he speculates that AI may be divine:

The Claude delusion: defector.com/the-claude-d...

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

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Meta’s disregard for its users and its reckless spending are driving it into the grave. But unfortunately dying Internet companies can do a lot of damage on their way down. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

drives me nuts when people say prosecuting the leaders of this regime is a pipe dream. all the other democracies in the world don’t seem to have a problem doing it. we can do it too.

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counterpoint: it is not

can’t think of a reason anyone would be existentially horrified by this world or the role of tech in it

I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.

”An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.”

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reminder: never engage with any big conversation on here. just make your silly little posts and chat with moots

The right are so obsessed with the idea that leftist agitiators on are secretly being paid is simply because their movement is being secretly financed. They also can't imagine why you would take a position that you weren't being paid to take, since they have no actual principles beyond self-interest

I think you’re particularly vulnerable to AI Madness if you’re already a big fan of your own writing.

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This map is highly misleading. In the American electoral system, votes don't influence policy.

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"Hello everybody!" is one of the funniest ways to start a manifesto about why you tried to kill the president

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

If I were trying to sell AI to the public I would be saying “it’s a useful way to write code faster and automate some tedious tasks that couldn’t be automated well before” and instead they’re running with “get on board or get left behind” and “we WILL eliminate your job.”

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Grim but useful read. Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster economist.com/finance-and-...

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

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For @thedriftmag.com I wrote about social control, digital infrastructure, and what passes for a public sphere in our society www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...

i'm happy to see the onion take over infowars. i've been a big fan of the onion for quite a long time and it's given me plenty of laughs over the years. and as for infowars, i really disliked alex jones and disagreed with him on a whole lot of things. so to me, this whole situation is a win-win

I keep thinking about how the promises of efficiency introduced by technology are just ways to compress and control time, and how a lot of making money is just about finding various temporal shortcuts.

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