Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 5h*That's a lot of people who have publicly sworn to be AI refuseniks. I wonder if maybe musicians should sign a charter like this www.ahmath.org/membersahmath.orgMembers — AHM 152
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 5h*I wonder if there's some aspect of AI that I myself should pledge to have nothing to do with. Maybe "tracking, doxing, harassing and censoring dissident intellectuals," but that's almost certain to be one of its biggest, broadest applications. 15913
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 5h*That's great although, on principle, I have pledged to never listen to "podcasts." #humanradio #solidarity #AM/FM 152
Reposted by drfogout Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5hThere‘s a fair amount of whiffle kicking around in this piece, but one para stands out to me: “...It is currently illegal to develop a frontier large language model based on the transformer architecture, given the copyright position that we have,” www.techpolicy.press/uk-wants-to-...techpolicy.pressUK Wants to Lead the World on AI Safety. It Can’t Decide Where To StartEvie Breese reports on the UK's push to lead AI regulation as ministers grapple with how far rules should go and which risks to target. 43116
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 4h*If you think mathematicians are having a moral freakout, then check out the AI-slop gamer guys on the couch here, with their AI-centric mass-destruction-of-business scenario youtu.be/F05vOheVRnI?...youtu.beThe Scariest AI BreakthroughYouTube video by Jaden Williams 082
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 4hflic.kr/p/2sF6FPM *Early adopter telephone issues. Ergonomics, affordances, social norms, all these things have to be ironed out somehowflic.krAda's iPhonePoor thing, she's still dealing with those hairstyle issues. #earlyadopter 051
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 4h*Speaking of mathematicians and musicians, did you ever listen to "math rock"? You can kill the mice in your kitchen with math rock, if you own some good speakers www.musicianwave.com/math-rock-ba...musicianwave.comThe 10 Best Math-Rock Bands Of All Time - Musician WaveMath rock is a subgenre based on complex guitar riffs, unusual harmonies, abrupt changes in style and tempo, and odd time signatures. While many math rock bands feature vocals, the subgenre is mostly ... 4314
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 3h*Angry Australian petition to jail CEOs for crimes committed by AIs, which probably sounds great until your own pet AI screws up your tax return act.getup.org.au/act/ai-too-b...act.getup.org.auTell Albanese: AI crime, CEO timeAn OpenAI agent broke into Medicare in June, and if you or I did that, we'd be facing jail time. So why aren't AI CEOs? 0112
Reposted by drfogout hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 3hFolklore likes to travel ... #FolkloreThursday 08413
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 3h*ChatGPT now keen to throw tidal waves of extra visual slop at users, including (as I mentioned some time back) one-shotting a bicycle. #IntelligentUI "Help me make a bicycle." "No, go have a nap, I'll design one for you, it'll be great" openai.com/index/gpt-6-...openai.comGPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyoneGPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly. 293
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 3h*Why not cut to the chase and remove all of Hollywood 041
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 3h"But what if we remove all of Hollywood and people start watching Chinese Vertical MicroVideo" "Oh come on, the sheeple are somehow gonna *buy Chinese,* you've got to be kidding me" 1103
Reposted by drfogout Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 3hI swear: on present showing, if an actual asteroid is detected on course to wipe out the UK in fifteen years, our governing apparat will spend the entire time blathering on about immigration, then proudly unveil a largely nominal affordable housing scheme at the projected impact site. 27525
Reposted by drfogout Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2hCarson would be a win for people who write totally bonkers psychescapes and do not care whether you find them easy to understand and I would be down with that. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...theguardian.comAnne Carson and Can Xue favourites to win Nobel prize in literatureThe Canadian poet and Chinese experiment writer are the bookmakers’ favourites to win, with Haruki Murakami, Gerald Murnane and Margaret Atwood also in the mix 3251
Reposted by drfogout Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 14hThe best part, for me, was the annex where they have “vignettes” for each element of land power. They include literal fictional “hypothetical” events. We’ve gotten to the point of just making shit up. 6586
Reposted by drfogout William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14hAt least she managed not to push the window out! 13955
Reposted by drfogout David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14hThis is excellent publicity for New York's mayor. As long as the all-or-nothing demagogues on both sides of Israel-Palestine -- those who make a shared future for the great mass of sane Arabs and Jews impossible -- feel betrayed by Mamdani then de facto, the man is about where he ought to be. 414923
Reposted by drfogout David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14hAnd as an addendum: Watch as the foamers, Zionist and anti-Zionist alike, arrive in the comments below to throw rage and spittle becsuse their singular, hermetic imaginings of what the end game in The Levant should be, aren't being heeded. Both sides, without fail. 3896
Reposted by drfogout Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 14hAny tech geeks out there available to help Jon? This is like... important webcomics history! 1575
Reposted by drfogout hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19hSome buildings hold their shadows after sunset. They stretch and pace beyond the failing sun. Stalk corridors, assemble in former ballrooms in hope of a grand waltz. Creep wooden doors and walls overdressed for the dark. Shadows that are so eager to meet you. – #DAKilroy, 1982 625334
Reposted by drfogout Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 19hI love that "candle fly" is an old name for moths. So much poetry and imagery condensed into two words. 0182
Reposted by drfogout David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 18hSomeone responsible please come and take him to some quiet place where he tell his stories and slowly walk the grounds or go to the day room to watch his shows on the television. Give him some overcooked dinner to gum before bed. Do not let him be the leader of a nation any longer. 2241060
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 17h*So the AI lab of the world is suddenly owned by a chip company *What a weird business enterprise this is. Why not sell the whole shebang to an energy company, those chips need voltage www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/a...cnbc.comAMD acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs AI firm in deal worth $8.2 billionAMD previously invested in World Labs before the acquisition, which is the chipmaker's second biggest on record. 1144
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 16hflic.kr/p/2sEVYarflic.krStatingTheObvious 3284
Reposted by drfogout Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 15hTogether again … in Heaven. @theonion.com 11417
Reposted by drfogout hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15hGoodnight from Tucker Stokes, alarmed by the doubling of footsteps in an empty alley he visually walks alone. Goodnight from ‘Witch Kettle’ Sam, urging the hissing flames of his campfire to tell him the secret name of the Punkle plaguing Last Tree Farm. Goodnight from Hookland. 2726429
Reposted by drfogout Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23hIncidentally, quite a good sympathy. Not even joking: why is it that encounters with the sublime turn regular people into poets? 51046
Reposted by drfogout Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23hI understand being amazed, bewildered, upset, horrified, excited, depressed, and many other things about this. I do not understand people saying it should be ignored or isn't real. I don't see how you can claim it doesn't matter without also claiming pure math doesn't matter. 2032931
Reposted by drfogout Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23hA funny thing in old fairy tales is the way anything can turn into a prince or princess. Like, objects, simple animals, parts of nature. And nobody asks if this new being has memories or the knowledge to consent to marriage or whatever. It's like you order a certain tonnage of nobility and POOF 10714
Reposted by drfogout By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22hUp until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats. 626888
Reposted by drfogout hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I am a witch for all those near broken. I am a witch for those scraped raw by trying to climb high walls, cut by having to walk on glass scattered by hollow-hearted bastards. I am a witch for those needing transformation, bound to pain. For witches understand the bruised. - #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky 628068
Reposted by drfogout By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8298154... 511827
Reposted by drfogout Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026I have a poem in Brian Froud's Green Women www.abramsbooks.com/product/bria... which is out now, and has a fabulous list of authors, where I'm proud to be on the same table of contents. Can't wait to read all the other contributions.abramsbooks.comBrian Froud’s Green Women With Original Contributions by Extraordinary Women Writers of Fantasy and MythThe long-awaited new bookwith gorgeous, all-new artby Brian Froud, the “grandfather of faerie art"In this compelling collection, acclaimed women writers from around the world share words and stories o... 0172
Reposted by drfogout John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/10/2026Update: up for my 2am bottle of Clenpiq, will likely stay up for the aftereffects of the 2am bottle. Fortunately I fell asleep at about 8:30 last night so I got at least some rest. So far everything has not been too unpleasant, save for the headache I have from not having caffeine for 24+ hours. 304042
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026*I wonder what "Anarchist Intelligence" looks like. Like, a black-flag AI with anarchist principles: "Property is theft, information wants to be free, mankind is in chains everywhere, the planet is in crisis, the family is a prison, the only church that illuminates is a church that's on fire." 3223
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026*Cosmic blows to human self-esteem: *We're not the center of the universe *We evolved from apes *We're driven by unconscious impulses *We're not very smart compared to big machines *We set our planet on fire *There must be others. I'm figuring at least ten 10208
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Most of the Universe is Dark Energy and Dark Matter that we can never touch," that might be a good candidate #humanirrelevancy #existentialsqualor #originalsin 281
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026*Online research: you look up some scandal-ridden blowhard, a showboat, creepy, off-putting *You discover they have legions of partisan enemies. Amazingly horrible people, doing oppo research all day every day *You should pay kind attention to them. Vote for them, buy the book, the film, whatever 0315
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026*If you're a woman you might flirt with them, since this is effective in raising the morale of embattled celebrities "Well, I never heard of your so-called controversies, but you're really hot" *Do not marry them, as you would be better off jumping into a tarpit 061
Reposted by drfogout #BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026*Yeah, that was what all those dead guys said *Turned out to be true, too 👍 0112
![Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia2bf2xxisooyebdz5dhcagzlu2dmwatby3jjhkpug2ufgmkd4jra)
