The Future is Stupid
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A man filled with the gladness of living. Ecosocialist and Luddite. ✉
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VIRGIN AI LOVER: you've got to embrace new technology LUDDITE CHAD: the devastating capabilities of anthropogenic forces confront us with an urgent need to rethink the socially and ecologically destructive potentials of "progress"
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Dealing with annoying AI boosters at work? Show them this: 💩 Adoption is flatlining or declining 💩 AI integration is a "mediocrity trap" 💩 Revenue is pitiful, profitability is "out of reach" 💩 Stock indexes that track companies expected to benefit from AI trail the market as a whole
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
about 2 months ago
We end on an appeal to our fellow psychologists: "To sit idly by while deskilling and displacing of [our]selves is normalised [...] serves [solely] the technology sector, which avoids criticism and self-reflection and prefers pseudoscience and misinformation." 10/
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Mosasaurus
about 18 hours ago
am i a saint? no do i always give my best? also no but i live my life in such a way that a canadian publisher of children's cartoons does not have to strongly condemn my actions and for this, i am proud
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Thermidorian Reaction
about 18 hours ago
Reminds me that Dr Seuss was writing political cartoons against this administration 80 years before this administration existed.
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Harry Wallop
about 13 hours ago
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s
@thetimes.com
about Tom Stoppard
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the hype
about 17 hours ago
Hey, nice well-functioning system you've got there. What if we were to.... completely ruin it by injecting A.I. into it for no reason? Would that be something you might be interested in?
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
about 15 hours ago
New preprint!
@marentierra.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
& I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Kashana
1 day ago
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI” Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
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Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/gen-z-shoppers-arent-spending-like-retailers-need-them-to-5ef2457b?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqeC6AvMEvjn7wG-oXdnv12N7e2BcLOd9r6o0HodK_uiaymAcn9hCqb3&gaa_ts=692dd355&gaa_sig=DNjGLwUpfCbwor5hUT_O1zUByO1orMfQmlQgBPBp2nzNVbkWXEmaqi07FX0lCY4o3MnL98C4Sz0xNKQ9NZdExQ%3D%3D
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Katie Mack
about 17 hours ago
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Gen Wojcik
about 19 hours ago
Someone get me (genetic epidemiologist) & my husband (school psychologist) on a podcast bc our rants on these people are...fiery. We spent 5y in the bay around these folks and oh boy. I'm also so sick of these puff pieces that avoid saying plainly what this actually is. Shoddy science for eugenics.
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ceej
almost 2 years ago
you shouldn’t be able to just put this kind of thing on the timeline, man. I took a big edible earlier. I could have died
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Chuck Tingle
12 days ago
it can be overwhelming HOW beautiful existence is but dang does it feel nice to resonate in that space when youre lucky enough to catch hold of it. when you randomly touch the current behind everything. you KNOW its back there but all you get is glimpses when you notice the way light shines on water
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brb, replying "LLMAO" to every wildly off-base sales email in my inbox
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Jón Kristinsson
15 days ago
This is bullshit. "absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground. "how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
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Raptor
15 days ago
my slightly left of middle ground stance is all studios using genAi in games in any capacity forfeit all IP rights, past, present and future. meaning their entire catalog is up for torrenting and cracking, and even re-uploading to steam by anyone. using genAi means you are ok with IP theft, so.....
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Louise
1 day ago
This one's called "All Glory to Our Aquatic Comrades" and it's dedicated to those orcas who go around sinking big dirty boats and teaching their calves to do the same. Prints are here:
selkiesstudio.com/shop/orcastrate
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Greenpeace EU
1 day ago
"we asked grok" "we asked chatgpt" yeah well we asked an orca in the '70s and it told us to fight whaling and protect the oceans
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The whale that inspired Greenpeace
By Frank Zelko On 15 September 2013, Greenpeace celebrated its 42nd anniversary. The organization, which was born in Vancouver in 1971, began life as a one-off campaign against US nuclear testing in t...
https://blog.oup.com/2013/09/greenpeace-origin-killer-whale-skana/
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Eryk Salvaggio
2 days ago
This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
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From Interactive to Interpassive
Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...
https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/from-interactive-to-interpassive/?ref=cybernetic-forests-newsletter
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Micah
10 days ago
evergreen
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Emil Privér
2 months ago
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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Greg Pak
3 days ago
pointing, laughing
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Oliver
3 days ago
The real 'benefit scroungers' are companies paying crap wages ... meme via
@spottednewsoff.bsky.social
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Grudgie the Whale
3 days ago
Duterte is being tried for the exact crimes Trump & Hegseth are bragging about committing
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(Still) An(gr)i Bundel
4 days ago
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/david-tennant-shows-support-trans-community-f-off-let-people-be_uk_663b68e5e4b0a6d4a2472392
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Michael Anderson
3 days ago
This will kill people and is no less murder than the boat bombings.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
3 days ago
AI is running as the racist genocidal fantasies of mal adjusted people forcing their visions on Gen world Based on devaluing the emotions and creativity of others While people swear they can middle management it to importance
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SkynetAndChill.com
3 days ago
BBC found more than 60 people were duped by firms using AI-generated images and fake backstories to pose as UK family-run brands on Facebook and Instagram; Meta removed content from six flagged firms after customers received cheap imports.
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Facebook owner Meta accused of letting AI sellers 'run rampant'
Dozens say they fell victim to companies using images of people who do not exist and false back stories.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gpz90d4q0o
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Lora Kolodny
3 days ago
what about those guardrails?
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI's Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings
OpenAI's Sora 2 easily allows teenagers to generate videos of school shootings and other harmful content, despite repeated claims of safety.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-sora-teens-videos-school-shootings
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Nicholas Grossman
3 days ago
Witkoff and Co. priorities in “peace” negotiations: 1) Make money 2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1 3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine And that’s apparently it. Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
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Rory Blank
4 days ago
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
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Matt Browner Hamlin
4 days ago
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War Crimes
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Yeah I'm gonna be standing my ground
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VIRGIN AI LOVER: you've got to embrace new technology LUDDITE CHAD: the devastating capabilities of anthropogenic forces confront us with an urgent need to rethink the socially and ecologically destructive potentials of "progress"
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Pavel
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POLICY: Outcomes were worse for users of automotive transport compared with active travel COMMS: "Active travel"? POLICY: Basically bikes COMMS: _Two wheels good, four wheels bad_ POLICY: (hyperventilating) __Interventions could better accommodate two-wheeled, single chassis transport modes__
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Dr. Aaron Thierry
5 days ago
This is corporate manslaughter! Every new well that Shell sinks kills more people. Recent cutting-edge work by
#climate
scientists demonstrates how we can now attribute the deaths that will be caused from individual oil & gas projects...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Shell ready to invest more in Italy if drilling permits unlocked
Shell is ready to invest more in Italy to boost hydrocarbon production, the head of the energy group's Italian unit said on Wednesday, urging the government to allow new drilling.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-ready-invest-more-italy-if-drilling-permits-unlocked-2025-11-26/
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Hi, this is what you sound like "this is a climate scientist bubble opinion. 7bn people use oil every week. I hate Exxon and Aramco and I wish they didn't exist, but billions of people buy oil from them every month. It's very hard to picture a mass or even a niche left backlash against them"
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I post a lot about tech because fuck those guys But also, cars Cars take up a mindboggling amount of space Cutting down on the space dedicated to cars seems like one of the first things to look at in cities and countries with a housing shortage, yet it's barely ever mentioned Why?
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AI knows nothing. It bullshits its way through everything. It's as reliable as any dumb poser with a big vocabulary. This is a feature not a bug
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Ketan Joshi
5 days ago
REALLY chuffed to be invited to
@parismarx.com
's incredible
@techwontsave.us
pod to talk about not just the climate harms we face from an uncontrolled data centre expansion but the way companies enacting it seem to think they're cape-wearing climate superheroes -->>>
techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
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🤖🔨💚 LUDDITES Put "Luddite" in your bio Follow back anyone with "Luddite" in their bio Find each other, help each other Break the frames
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Your honour I submit yet more evidence that the future is contemptibly, meaninglessly and irredeemably stupid
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629
5 days ago
Hey
@nature.com
, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
6 days ago
...“The company has been shutting down ways for people to talk openly and critically about AI, which is dangerous, and that’s why this letter is important. Amazon used to be a genuinely innovative place, but leadership’s AI push has meant arbitrary quotas and benchmarks that make worse products.”
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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
6 days ago
The letter has 3 demands: 1. No AI with dirty energy; 2. No AI without employee input; 3. No AI for violence, surveillance, or mass deportation. “The letter asks for the kind of future I want to work on, and that Amazon claims to value,” says an anonymous senior software engineer. They continue..
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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
6 days ago
"We can’t rely on our management chain for sound or data-driven decisions anymore. They’re making us use AI even when it doesn’t make sense...When the AI bubble pops, Amazon will have taken over a huge amount of land, water, and wealth...the public needs to know."
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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
6 days ago
“These layoffs are basically theatre. They want potential customers to think AWS’s AI services are so amazing that they'll be able to cut costs by laying off workers too. And they want workers to think we’re replaceable, so that we’ll work crazy hours."
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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
6 days ago
“We’ve watched the company light a match to the Climate Pledge. We thought this was a company we could feel proud of, but I use AI every day & its functionality in no way justifies adding this massive, unregulated layer of fossil fuel powered infrastructure. We had to try to do something.”
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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
6 days ago
We're firing a shot across the bow! 1000 Amazon workers have signed our Open Letter: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs. And here's the letter if you haven't signed yet (Not just for Amazonians; we also love solidarity signatures):
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
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PR: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs, say 1000+ Amazon employees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Press contact:
[email protected]
AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs, say 1000+ Amazon employees Over 1,000 Amazon emplo...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17N7J0l7bTkztvco1-qirhk5EPxekR-YL_0nOA7BWyR0/edit?tab=t.0
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Zack Furness
5 days ago
When all is said and done, AI will likely be both the biggest con and the biggest waste of money in the history of this world.
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