Reposted by atomlessDan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 23hThe PCR positivity map is out. Adjusted national positivity in England is up to 9.3%. We're still waiting for this week's Scottish data. I'll update the thread when it's out. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/6 26829
Reposted by atomlessEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33 321005543
Reposted by atomlessCatherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter 6357168
Reposted by atomlessGil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/09/2026Peter Thiel says the "Antichrist" will preach "peace." Now his cronies in the Trump regime are pushing "Pax Silica" ("Silicon Peace"). It's a grandiose name for AI colonialism and imperialism. 1st target: The Philippines. More from @kieraevebutler.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comTech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the PhilippinesPax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys. 13236116
Reposted by atomlessOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026The problem is that learning about a new topic often requires 1) letting (maybe temporarily only) go of existing frames and 2) understanding another (learned) community's or (expert) person's way of seeing things. 45213
Reposted by atomlessNeil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“In 2000, after years writing about Silicon Valley, she published a book, Cyberselfish, that discerned within the tech utopianism of the era a dead-eyed, woman-hating social malevolence—what the subtitle called the “Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech.” #PaulinaBorsookwired.comWho Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared. 186
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing to keep in mind is that positions of faith and the believers that occupy them are co-constitutive. To use the hammer metaphor, the hammer and the nail do not present a chicken and egg problem. Faith and believer emerge together as products of an enclosing system. 110
Reposted by atomlessDan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The PCR positivity map is out and there's been another significant jump in positivity both in England and in Scotland. Testing is increasing but more slowly than needed: ~15k in England, 4K in Scotland. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7 24833
Reposted by atomlessGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25/09/2026Juxtaposition is an act or instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect 27117
Reposted by atomlessGregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism... an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society. Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”wired.comWho Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared. 12215
Reposted by atomlessClimate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break. 25749252
Reposted by atomless👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fucking called it. Dropped the reckless endangerment/with intent aggravating factor (ignore thensubtitle under the thumbnail, that's out of date). That reduces the maximum sentence from life to 3 months and a £2,500 fine. Makes it look like it doing something, while getting him back to work ASAP.theguardian.comFar-right activist Daniel Thomas charged over alleged dinghy slashing in ChannelThirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life 1324187
Reposted by atomlesselia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026EU countries have said that they respect the ICC. What will they do to protect it from this fascist onslaught? 112557
Reposted by atomlessNeil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“If a white, straight woman working in media and technology deals with this much bullshit, imagine the experience of a woman who happens to be a person of color, or gay, or transgender.” 🙏🏼💙 @katie-drummond.bsky.social The world is richer for having you in it.wired.comWomen Still Face Too Much Bullshit—in Silicon Valley and BeyondWIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree. 0175
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In The Claude Delusion, @doctorow.pluralistic.net frames LLM outputs as being as empty as an atheist’s sunset. Which is just a brilliant way of putting it, and extends into one of the best explanations I’ve yet read for the eerie experience of using an LLM. pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s...pluralistic.netPluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 072
Reposted by atomlessNeil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“I don't worry that AI will destroy humanity so much as I fear it will destroy the humanity within us.” @eryk.bsky.socialmail.cyberneticforests.comA Fork in the RoadAI is an excuse that allows those with power to operate at a distance from those whom their power touches. 162
Reposted by atomlessNeil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“the illusion of learning” What could go wrong?nytimes.comAn M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind. (Gift Article)As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students. 275
Reposted by atomlessDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2026Ahead of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's executive director urges world leaders to take "decisive action" on multiple crises. "The world is torn apart by the inequality emergency, the climate crisis [and] the wars all around." 36830
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026BREAKING: Starmer Trooper joins Death Star construction corp. 000
Reposted by atomlessZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip? 932316828
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A book about the limitations and the violence of so-called "AI" and how it extends and intensifies those of Capital, please give it a read. www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...creativeapplications.netPredictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibeSo-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes o... 001
Reposted by atomlessOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/09/2026wow so this is absolutely fantastic and chill and correct about everything especially around the 30 minute mark where she talks about universitiesyoutu.beHelena Sheehan, "World Views"YouTube video by Critical Theory Workshop 2369
Reposted by atomlessjon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHow Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per MonthBrown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. 401323689
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026At one point, there was at least the pretence of not doing that 020
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Great piece. Backrooms also reminds me of the work of George Tooker, whose paintings also evoke the bureaucratic violence of an Institutional Gothic. 000
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026China: ban all anthropomorphisation of LLMs. America: How much can we make this whole thing resemble an episode of Black Mirror that was rejected for being too dark? 010
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When did tech bros start trying to recreate Black Mirror episodes rather than taking them as routes to avoid? 1120
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The LLM, agentic harness or otherwise, does not understand anything. Two structural sleights of hand have facilitated the illusion that it does: 1. The statistical regurgitation of human cognition. 2. The statistical reproduction of the actions of workers already reduce to performing bullshit jobs. 000
Reposted by atomlessDystopian Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I like “institutional gothic” much better than “liminal“ for this. 27017
Reposted by atomlessLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One of the dangers of AI is the models’ capacity to social engineer humans. One possible outcome is that those humans (who usually don’t understand the tech) will then social engineer other humans. Through this process, we could see the spread of AI psychosis. (I think we’re seeing this already.) 612027
Reposted by atomlessGil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/09/2026The Nerd Reich wants to control the universe, but they can't control book readers. My book is #6 on Amazon's bestseller list—a month after publication! Please buy at your LOCAL bookstore or via Bookshop! Use this link to support my work: bookshop.org/a/109206/978... 431031269
Reposted by atomlessLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026💥 FORTY THOUSAND 2,000 pound bombs That’s what the Trump administration is planning to sell Israel as part of $2.8 BILLION military aid package financed by US taxpayers.theguardian.comUS set to deliver 2,000lb bombs to Israel as part of vast arms dealPowerful bombs prompted such concern about mass deaths in Gaza that Biden officials paused delivery two years ago 43522
Reposted by atomlesselia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Graffiti in Ashdod of directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor with ‘Traitors’ written on them because they released a film, Naza, featuring Israeli soldiers admitting to knowingly killing civilians www.instagram.com/p/DdT1kJzgoNA/ 0216
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So good: “these companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics” I think you’ll appreciate this: 811123
Reposted by atomlessJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The video of Marwa Abdulhai and Isadora White's talk about this paper is now online here - they present a pretty complex computer science paper so clearly, I highly recommend watching it if you're interested in using LLMs to edit or draft writing might do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnDQ...youtube.comHow LLMs Distort Our Written Language #AIStoriesYouTube video by Center for Digital Narrative, UiB 14521
Reposted by atomlessNeil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A must-read 🧵, including: “arts & humanities are…the experimental wildcards from which creativity arises. They preserve plasticity in collective cognition, to literally think outside the box of solutions. AI solutionism only gives you the box.” Bravo @rawx.bsky.social! 242
Reposted by atomlessHappy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Their entire strategy is to make every state they do business with dependent on their software. They do this by selling images of technocratic national renewal to liberals (backed naturally by pressure from the White House) and social militarisation to fascists. 1288
Reposted by atomlessMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day. 3645831158
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, "Good and Evil," "Good and Bad", (1887) americanliterature.com/author/fried... 120
Reposted by atomlesselena razlogova @erazlogo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I am assigning this article to my students for the first day of class. 14714
atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026You seeing the insane promotions Trump’s posting for your Nerd Reich book? @gilduran.com 3416
Reposted by atomless404 Media @404media.co · 05/09/2026Using an advanced new instrument, scientists observed Einstein’s equivalence principle on a free-falling quantum object, demonstrating that this prediction of general relativity also holds up in quantum physics.404media.coBreakthrough Quantum Test Resolves a Major Cosmic MysteryUsing an advanced new instrument, scientists observed Einstein’s equivalence principle on a free-falling quantum object, demonstrating that this prediction of general relativity also holds up in quantum... 313028