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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.

John Kenneth Galbraith:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hello im the CEO and i can’t do anything without the support of the simpering vizier that lives in the computer. in order to keep collecting an offensively meager paycheck you too must consult the vizier regularly. don’t worry he has lots of uses other than just hopefully putting you out of a job

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This thread explains a lot of what I'm seeing in my work environment currently. A lot of people in IT are just going mad antropomorphizing the text extruding machine.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Should probably decorate my workplace with those. Getting increasingly convinced that getting fired would be worth it by now.

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.de · 20/06/2026

Es gibt viele Gründe "KI" abzuschalten: Extraktivismus, Neokolonialismus, Lohndruck, Deskilling, Verdummung uvm. Für die @taz.de habe ich einen anderen Aspekt fokussiert: Die entmenschlichende Gewalt, die in jeder Musterreproduktion liegt. taz.de/Denken-wie-d...

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Denken wie das verbreitete Mittelmaß

KI ist fundamental unvereinbar mit emanzipierten, egalitären und freiheitlichen Gesellschaften. Dabei handelt sich nicht um einen Designfehler, sondern sie ist so gedacht

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Aubrey is agonizing over book two 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Just shouting out Libro because I do love buying an audiobook and having the money go to my local indie bookstore 💖

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 28/05/2026

“Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy” nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-p… > The slowness was not a tax on the real work; the slowness was the real work. It was how the work got good, and how the people producing the work got good

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Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 14/04/2026

The seven step “They nerfed my AI!” cycle: 1. An LLM tool is released. The company claims it’s a miracle that will change everything 2. Early adopters try it on straightforward tasks, find it seems to work, though they don’t really check it. “OMG! It’s a miracle that will change everything!” 1/5

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 05/04/2026

I've been seeing people say the harms of "AI" comes from shitty people, not the tech and that the shitty people will go away after the bubble pops. While the first part is true in the strictest sense (contrary to claims, these are not autonomous systems) it's not really true in a practical sense

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 03/04/2026

I’m completely sick and tired of hearing about HP but this article is excellent. “What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things.” defector.com/its-time-to-...

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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector

HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 01/04/2026

I know a number of authors, being one myself. Know how many of them are using AI? Literally fucking zero. But "AI evangelists" have a vested interest in pretending otherwise because "everyone is doing it and lying about it, so YOU should definitely do it" is the only angle they've got left.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement: catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 16/03/2026

"The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two... It comes down to whether you think "more of the same" is a good thing or a bad thing for software.

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The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 09/03/2026

LLMs exaggerate and exacerbate existing market and industry dysfunctions. They've hastened media's descent into fabrications and clickbait, accelerated the devaluation of writing and illustration. And in software it has fuelled an existing crisis and exposed a divide at the core of the industry 1/n

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 01/03/2026

Didn't know I needed this today, but turns out I did. Maybe you do too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyu...

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ROSALÍA - Berghain (Live at The BRIT Awards 2026) ft. Björk

YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO

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tante @tante.cc · 19/02/2026

So don't feel like you cannot be a luddite if you like technology, like working on it. Caring about your fellow human beings' wellbeing and not some corporations bottom line makes you one. Believing that tech needs to be evaluated on what effects it has and that we have a choice makes you one.

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Rainer Sigl @rainersigl.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Die Gefahr, dass AI euren Job macht, ist verschwindend klein im Vergleich zur Gefahr, dass euer Chef glaubt, dass AI euren Job machen kann.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🔵 This week's comic IN WHICH Mickey Mouse is reunited with his dog in the public domain, but it doesn't go quite like either expected... BROUGHT TO YOU BY the Inner Hive, including long-time member Steve Alcott & new member Billie on Thames ( patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership ) READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

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🎃🎃 Hel-LOU-ween 🎃🎃 @louiseankers.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Truth. The unexamined life is not worth living but measuring it out in coffee spoons ain't it either

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The man who sleeps nine hours and eats clean and never drinks and exercises daily is the deadest man i know btw. his bloodwork is immaculate and he has nothing to say. the body is a temple and no God showed up. meanwhile the ones who actually see things are running on four hours and cigarettes and something chewing at them from inside that wont let them become vegetables. consciousness is expensive it costs health. you pay with the body. the flame eats the candle thats the deal

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Tom Schaffer @tomschaffer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Die Version der Gestapo in Medien prominent als legitime Schilderung zu einem Vorfall zu wiederholen, wenn Videos sie als absolute Lüge entlarven, ist kein Journalismus.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 24/01/2026

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 18/01/2026

I stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs a while back. It's fruitless. Even if they could be budged on empirical grounds, they are explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical.

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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

All the arguing of hope vs. doomerism is making me tap the sign

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ceej @ceej.online · 11/01/2026

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 08/01/2026

It really sucks sitting down to work a job I have to have because the technofeudalism incarnation of capitalism and a police state will throw me out on the street and kill me if I don't make money, while elsewhere in my country that same police state is executing my fellow citizens with impunity.

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Nicola Werdenigg 🖇️ @nicolawerdenigg.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Widerspruch @elnagashi.at: Wer Menschenrechte gegeneinander ausspielt, verlässt ihren Kern: Den Schutz vor Diskriminierung. Ich habe 0 Verständnis für die Inszenierung von Feminismus als Kulturkampf! Mit Kampfrhetorik lässt sich ausserdem auch keine eine fachliche Auseinandersetzung führen

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Ex-Grüne El-Nagashi will mit Thinktank gegen EU-"Gender-Lobby" kämpfen

Die einstige Abgeordnete beklagt, dass eine angebliche Translobby "an der Demokratie vorbei" die Politik beeinflusse. Sie will Homosexuellenrechte und Transrechte voneinander abkoppeln

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @parisien.cc · 16/12/2025

Algorithmic feeds will probably be seen the same way the cigarette is now in 50 years tbh. Nothing goods come out of them, all they do is polarize society and reinforce inequalities

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation. The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token* Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes. Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Think about how you are in the shrinking bubble of people who know how to read and process the meanings of written words, and how a handful of billionaires are doing their damnedest to shrink it further. You're in a literacy bubble, and a handful of the wealthiest freaks in history are killing it.

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This exchange on r/boardgames, in reference to the review I wrote yesterday, raises a whooooooole lot of emotions for me. Bear with me as I work through them.

a discussion from r/boardgames

Giant Dork: "This review was definitely written by AI guided by a human."

OP: "Space Biff, the reviewer, is very vocally anti AI. He's been writing reviews for over a decade, and is incredibly well respected. This is a very stupid accusation."

Big Dork: "Maybe he’s so prolific ChatGPT writes like him now. I know who he is and read his reviews all the time, but this one feels very AI polished. It’s one way to help stay prolific and still get his own thoughts in there. It’s not wrong to use AI to polish your writing at all."

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Theia 🌕🏳️‍⚧️ @theia.gay · 03/12/2025

Can you just like, express some joy for the fucking craft? Can you stop focusing on 4% productivity gains achieved through burning energy and mass plagiarism and just write some fucking code?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I used to draw stupid shit and one day I will get back to drawing stupid shit. Unless I die suddenly, which would be funny but I wouldn't be around to laugh. Being suddenly dead and all.

Old Milk and Cheese index card art, "Revenge is the Best Revenge"

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I’ve spent a lot of time in the past 18 months really working to, if you will, kill the neoliberal in my head. as someone with my politics, I’ve been surprised by how much there’s still been to excise. anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025

So people demand "AI" sycophancy, refuse to interact w/ *less* sycophantic "AI", & then get increasingly ill-disposed toward interacting w/ other human beings, preferring, again, an "AI" system that is actively locking them into a loop of skills dependency, bias confirmation, & hostility. SEEMS BAD

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday.
The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal.
"My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 24/11/2025

“The slop layer - by Brian Merchant - Blood in the Machine” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-slo… > One of the more perplexing things about the AI bubble is how relatively little we have to show for it

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Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at · 21/11/2025

Recommended reading. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Das Studien-Design ist ziemlich OK und die Ergebnisse recht eindeutig. Und unsere politischen Hebelzieherinnen lächzen danach, das großflächig in Schulen einzusetzen. Wir tun den jüngeren Generationen nichts Gutes damit.

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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 06/11/2025

best ending of all time, let's be real

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Cole Wehrle 🔜 Essen @colewehrle.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

Image from the Simpsons of Pynchon with a bag over his head on a cell phone. He's standing in front of a house with a neon sign advertising it as his home.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

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