Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 10hprobably fine that all these new ai agent rollouts are so cutesy and childish. probably a sign of innocuous, normal shit 521552
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this 414466674
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️tante @tante.cc · 28/09/2026"There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything. The AI industry is designed to dehumanise and commoditise labour. Everyone who has dedicated their life to token servitude has become a dull fungible meat proxy." Leaving them behind 17214
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I have a new piece up at @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social — it’s about when I got hacked in Dark Souls 2, used hacker tools to unhack myself, and then talked to my hacker years laterrockpapershotgun.comThanks for injecting me with 500 cursed Black Knight Ultra GreatswordsGetting hacked on memory lane for Dark Souls 2's 12th anniversary. 9460116
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam" 183142672640
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026A good point made in Carissa Véliz’s Prophecy is how this kind of “consensual non-consent” is justified as a consequence of the warped utilitarian philosophy underlying Effective Altruism, and this carries over into the way that AI products are being forced on to the rest of society. 2329
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026illustration (1981) archive.org/details/and-... 0517147
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️crazy ass moments in nu metal history @numetalmoment.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't have a personal account on here so I made sure to build one nu metal moment into this article I wrote about the three millenials currently ruining pop music and what might be done about it: holidaykirk.substack.com/p/the-imperi...holidaykirk.substack.comThe Imperial RegimeHow a Generation of Millennial Pop Artists Ruined Pop Music 627168
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282158851
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️ceej @ceej.online · 30/08/2023one explanation is that chemicals in the air or water are making everyone stupider every year and we haven’t noticed because we’re all too stupid. this hypothesis would help explain why everything and everyone is really stupid now 441191119
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There's a very peculiar (and highly gendered) phenomenon around money, and infantilization that we can witness in unusual clarity with these people: They expect to be taken care of, and they think that having rich, mutual relations with people is an awfully taxing thing that everyone wants to avoid 22213
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️tante @tante.cc · 24/09/2026I had a few thoughts on why techbros always say these embarrassing, weird things tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-testtante.ccThe TestJensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening … […] 58649
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 23/09/2026after some in-depth discussions with my lab and also drawing on conversations on here, we've edited our new policy on AI usage in my lab feel free to adapt or re-use with attribution, or to reply to tell me how awful this policy is lol 1312838
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up. 26482531353
👁️👅👁️ @alisonbuki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026lol mouse.dev/blog/muse-ru...mouse.devI asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB | MouseI asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did. 1141
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final. And it needs all of your data to do it. In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:productpicnic.beehiiv.comThe AI age is the "age of no consent""Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed. 171148445
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Oh, nothing alleviates my worries about big tech gambling with our future more than hundreds of billions in debt that are kept off the balance sheets 0207
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026A lot of white-collar labor is entirely pointless, but even those roles that aren't can still be intensely alienating. People in those organizations often don't care about what they do. Dangerous cognitive offloading may look like "automating drudgery" if you view your whole job as meaningless. 2658
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026In a lot of these spreadsheet-job scenarios is AI providing a sort of (inefficient, unreliable, ethically unacceptable) swiss army knife that papers over poor tooling and generally shitty labor conditions. If a task is empty drudgery why isn't it amenable to normal automation? 613315
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...404media.coIs Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too. 7746435
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com 8433611201
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 16/09/2026The Oakland designer who gave us the spinning "lol nothing matters" gif died this summer.oaklandreviewofbooks.orgWhy Cat Frazier mattersThe late designer and Animated Text creator made the word go 'round. 112468
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Every chatbot prompt box says "check answers for accuracy." But increasingly, "humans in the loop" refuse to do that. Instead, they become complicit in the AI industry's project of destroying the provenance of information. But you are person, and it is an app. It can't take responsibility for you.productpicnic.beehiiv.comAssigning agency to AI means surrendering your ownClaude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product. 825385
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it 10869241
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️👁️👅👁️ @alisonbuki.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“the basilisk would kill me for my posts” skill issue 0153
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Wanna know what's up with the "Rogue AI might kill us all" stuff? "Why We Fear AI" has got you covered. We're not only explaining why that question keeps bubbling up - but also what that's got to do with the actual workings of AI, power, and capitalism today 0269
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Colin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026LLMs won’t wipe out humanity because they just don’t have that dog in them. 825027
👁️👅👁️ @alisonbuki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026financial capitalism is way ahead of AI on that, sorry lab nerds 030
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Max Read @maxread.info · 15/09/2026i don't like that i feel like we're all getting dragged against our will into an all-media all-the-time LessWrong thread, an insanely annoying and disorienting experience that most people do not have sufficient experience or mental preparations to deal with 18756108
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Max Read @maxread.info · 15/09/2026i would like to have a lot fewer high-breathlessness low-details confessional letters/essays/tweets/resignations from big ai and a lot more specificity & transparency 111112133
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.wsj.com/business/ene...wsj.comOil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is HereTrump officials say the oil-market disruption is temporary, but Chevron’s Mike Wirth and others warn global supplies are running low, with no respite in sight. 111
👁️👅👁️ @alisonbuki.bsky.social · 14/09/2026have to say I’ve felt pretty vindicated these days about my decision to never use ChatGPT due to my conviction that OAI is irredeemably evil 040
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️lxigh @dotorion.bsky.social · 13/09/202699% of ruminators quit right before they would have had a life-changing epiphany 02687569
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I forced my economist husband to listen to me read this out loud and I think I might have physically hurt him. 4676
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Colin @colin-fraser.net · 12/09/2026Alright here’s what I think about this. For me, this argument is a little bit slippery about what it means for a system to have “a final goal”, and takes for granted that any intelligent system must behave as though it has such a thing. I don’t think this is necessary, and I don’t think LLMs do. 920130
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2026Okay I blagged it. Imagine if this actually fucking happened‽jacob.goldAn open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weightsDear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altm... 1017043
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Xan López @xanlopez.net · 11/09/2026Aren’t you supposed to organize cartels in secret. 28025
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Once again, there's a reason they won't spell out how we'd go extinct. Are we getting Jurassic Park'd because the AI is reinventing dinosaurs? Are they getting access to the nuclear codes and hypnotizing the president into using them? They are referring to bank/infrastructure hacks and exaggerating. 1742681389
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This, from an Anthropic employee, either reflects a lack of imagination or is evidence that this is all just lies. If you were really that scared, you'd pull the plug on all the servers and wipe everything from ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC, and RIPE NCC. No more internet; problem solved. 1221552201
Reposted by 👁️👅👁️sid flesh @crab.cab · 05/06/2023the website with one feature and it requires you to understand dns records 011
