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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The idea that AI is a new, conscious entity is a sick joke. It's a machine voice trained by sociopaths who hate people. It's as conscious as the the voice you get offering menu options while you scream "speak to a representative" into your phone.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i see arguments like this sometimes and ... what's the thing. what is this "everyday annoying task" that an AI could actually do and that you could trust it to not totally fuck up? i cannot imagine the things. and tech/robots have made a lot of tasks more efficient but there's always more shit
there are so many everyday demos that could make ai, personal agents, & agents in general feel insanely powerful to normal ppl & yet ai companies keep choosing things like booking flights, planning travel, or god forbid planning a god damn wedding.

these are not everyday problems. they're relatively rare events & worse for a lot of ppl they're actually part of the joys of life. the best demo should make someone feel pain they already are familiar with disappearing. almost every company gets this wrong. they optimize for spectacle instead of relief which is fine in some cases but it doesn't last.

one of my favorite historical examples is a product called head on.

the ad showed someone with a headache, then showed them applying the product directly to their forehead while repeating:

"head on. apply directly to the forehead."

beautifully simple. you instantly understood the product, the problem, & the value. ai companies should be doing the same thing.

show me the annoying thing i deal with every single day then make it disappear. it's not sexy, i guarantee it will work. when jobs demo'ed the iphone he picked universal simple problems that the iphone did better than anything else on the fucking planet.

anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
we are so back
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what they all sound like when they are blown away by Claude etc
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Homer Simpson's Water Contraption Fail
Alt: Homer Simpson's Water Contraption Fail
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing
screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026
The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 05/07/2023
I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Turn ordinary pictures into horrible AI slop that even your MAGA uncle will be embarrassed by
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mcc @dryad.technology · 25/09/2026
Why is billionaire-owned media suddenly coming all at once with pieces against drinking fluids. What is this manufacturing consent for. Is it building toward something. Should I be afraid
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You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit. @washingtonpost.com‬
Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette?

We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out:
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
I had a great conversation with @adamconover.net covering so many aspects of the data center debate. Don’t miss it, and make sure to preorder my new book HYPERSCALE!
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let’s gooooooo.
The mechanical Turk illustration, a man operates an automaton playing chess
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026
virulently anti-Catholic lapsed Catholic here: It's of actual geopolitical significance that the Catholic Church is talking like this this time around with these pigs. It wasn't like that 90 years ago.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
These newscasters should be so fucking embarrassed
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: 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...
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How 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 Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"if you’re not worried about police brutality, or floods, or warfare—things that can actually kill you—then you can obsess over the machine-god." <---- yup. Q&A w/ @timnitgebru.blacksky.app by @laurengoode.bsky.social @wired.com
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/09/2026
[reporter doing nothing other than quoting CEOs] this is the most important time doing this Job….wow. Covering the fast paced world of technology is difficult
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
These miserable dipshits can't even imagine why they would want to present their bullshit as something that makes your life better. "It'll become a god and hurt you" is something you'd only find convincing if you were completely fucking cooked in Roko's Basilisk sex cult shit.
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Roko’s Basilisk is the stupidest possible variant of Pascal’s Wager, believed by the stupidest possible people.
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The same cover, but with the "say 'i am alive'" AI meme pasted on top of it after 10000 hours in MSPaint
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
80 billion dollars man, how much clean energy could that install?
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/09/2026
Oh ok. It really will be quite straightforward.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Comparing “blogging” to “AI Slop” is the type of take that emerges from being obsessed with how people talk about things instead of being interested in what things are.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Blogging, podcasts, and wikipedia were never considered the equivalent of slop in the pre-AI. They were often low prestige forms of writing with less quality control than big publications, but nobody thought they were thoughtlessly mass produced. They were/are the labors of individual creators.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is obvious to me that AI has immense destructive power, but I don't really think the people dismissing these concerns as 'marketing' are doing so because they are uninformed or as 'cope.' I think the AI industry's historical capacity for puffery is informing these takes.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026
mom the devs are getting AI psychosis can you pick me up from the website
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 08/09/2026
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 03/09/2026
BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW

"Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"

the art is of an old desktop computer feathered with arrows
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 05/01/2026
i really think genai causes actual brain damage. probably faster than most ways you can on purpose give yourself brain damage. and if you hear this statement as literally as i mean it i think it sounds sorta conspiracy nut, but undeniably less conspiracy nut than the apparent sum of its parts
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That’s your excuse for everything you don’t like, isn’t it
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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Chat is it bad when they start manufacturing consent for "you dont REALLY need water"
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 24/08/2026
as more and more celebs are coming out in (paid) support of AI remember that it was only a few years ago that they were shilling for NFTs
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 24/08/2026
every person that says "creatives are gatekeepers" re AI needs to be taken out of the locker they've been shoved into and shoved into a tinier, even more uncomfortable locker
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There’s an aggressively paid for influence op going on right now to defend AI slop as art and protected speech across platforms. AI execs realize they have a problem and don’t wanna get Marie Antoinette’d. The free ChatGPT trip is the tip of the iceberg. First person to nail it down gets a Pulitzer.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026
The Economist will wonder about giving rights to AIs before giving them to trans people
the Economist asks, "should trans people be sterilised before they are recognised?"
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You want to live like spreadsheet people You want to see whatever spreadsheet people see You want to sleep with spreadsheet people You want to sleep with spreadsheet people like me? But she didn't understand She just smiled and held my hand
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
starting to see why the western civilization guys were so antsy. seems the entire "west" has managed to become essentially irrelevant geopolitically with stunning speed
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.
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