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Baby Fatt 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @babyfatt.bsky.social · 45m

On the one hand, AI summarizes my emails for me. On the other hand, it gives management its long-hoped-for opportunity to replace me with a machine. Such a deal.

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jd for Safe Streets 🎃🚸 @thedirte.bsky.social · 45m

Still haunted by the story of the retired guy being lured by AI to "meet" in real life and he died on the way.

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Kat Z @katzindc.bsky.social · 42m

A thing that frustrates me is when people say, you just need to come up with a project to use it for and then I’ll see how great it is. Why do I have to give it a little job? If it’s so incredible, why isn’t its value apparent to the layperson?

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Kat Z @katzindc.bsky.social · 37m

I was told there would be widespread benefits and small individual harms.

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Sophie @philosophie.gay · 32m

We did this with cars. We didn't have formalized traffic laws for a decade or two and it was a free-for-all for the first two decades of the 20th century. Kids used to literally play in the street so as a country we ran over thousands upon thousands of kids before passing traffic laws.

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Jackson @json95.bsky.social · 1h

"If we just steal enough, if we just wield this power unethically long enough, maybe we can give it to the people to use ethically for 'good things'. " That's what it all boils down to. It's the fucking One Ring

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 51m

It does feel like we basically know that AI execs are the tobacco company execs of our time but instead of doing anything we're waiting for millions to die of cancer first while they get rich of our suffering.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 1h

Today we got an email from Microsoft that OOPSIE DAISY, Copilot, though "anonymous", might be sharing the confidential stuff you put in it elsewhere. We work with other people's information, this is terrible. (And why I was always suspicious and stayed away from copilot etc etc).

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 2h

Anine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital. Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care. This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2h

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1h

If it's not serious to value human creativity and intellect I don't want to be serious.

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 2h

I am being forced to use it as a software developer and it rips my soul apart. I hate it but I need the job. adhd trans woman who fled to Seattle from texas, I taught myself dev back in the 2000's as a way to find stability and transition away from public view. now I am trapped. shit is evil.

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Juke Slytalker @blackskyeddie.blacksky.app · 2h

These are the types of conversations I want to be having about AI. I guarantee you the fear of being held liable for deaths of users bc you wanted to unleash AI reins in more CEOs than talking about quality of AI production.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 2h

Right? I can't figure out why these companies and their executives aren't being indicted left and right for hacking. They admit that their LLMs hacked into other companies and now government agencies worldwide. WHY AREN'T CRIMINAL CHARGES BEING FILED?

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🚲insert into haunted select uid from partisans where party = "R" @db-user.bsky.social · 2h

one thing I always ask people look at is AI rollout here in the US vs EU/Canada where worker and citizen protections are baked into culture and institutions the harms are exceptionally concentrated in the US by comparison, mostly because AI is being used as a multitool to wage ware on workers/kids

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daniel? @danielgoulden.bsky.social · 3h

IMO the most terrifying thing about AI is that it is enabling a surveillance state that Oceania could only dream of, not to mention potentially horrific military applications.

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Firthermor @firthermor.bsky.social · 3h

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💀 Em-balmed Arcadia 💀 @emarcadia.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, the pretty clearly measured and sensible perspective here is basically total rejection of this technological imposition and uprooting of the legal framework that has enforced it. The boosters are frankly delirious from propaganda and groupthink, and the media is bought or full of fomo.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social · 3h

A close friend of mine is disabled and can’t type or text well. She uses voice to text for almost all of her interactions with her phone that aren’t phone calls. Voice searches default to AI. I’ve noticed a sharp decline in her short and long term memory. She’s also less clear on current events.

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Kat Z @katzindc.bsky.social · 3h

Michelle Carter encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide and she’s in jail. But if you build a robot that encourages to commit suicide, that’s okay.

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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 3h

One of the issues even in academia (I'm thinking of math specifically atm) is that the output of these computer programs remains to be validated by humans, and only that can provide insight or context. How long will it take a team of mathematicians to analyze a 14 million line proof?

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hatman, Hatyr al-Din @bshatman.bsky.social · 3h

The entire tech sector is suspect and would rather see the rest of us dead than give up their plagiarism machine.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2h

This is my response to the argument that AI isn't making things worse on a massive scale because there are uses many people like in their daily lives.

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Comic Books Danny @comicbooksdanny.bsky.social · 3h

If the public is ignorant of the distinctions, that ignorance has been engineered by the same companies that engineered these products. It’s absurd to think they can cash in on the “AI” bubble and somehow evade the “AI” backlash.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3h

Telling people they haven't used the right language or aren't asking for harms to be addressed politely enough is nothing more than an excuse not to address the harms.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 3h

I think most people working in machine learning are actually fairly intelligent, not the gibbering idiots you seem to think they are, and can in fact tell what people mean when they say "AI is bad".

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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 3h

What the fuck do you want? Me to control the anti ai crowd to have perfect message discipline?

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Dan Reilly @danreilly.bsky.social · 3h

semi-related, media outlets need to use language that doesn't anthropomorphize the bots. No human pronouns for these things, to begin with.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 3h

another year where all the science nobels went to men, as was the case in 2024 much of this piece, about the structural barriers women face in doing innovative research and receiving credit for it, holds up (I think) www.statnews.com/2024/10/11/n...

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The Nobel's gender gap reflects larger barriers faced by women in science

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously. If you think 6/10 anti-AI arguments are wrong and the 4/10 are anything like the ones in my thread then you do NOT get to cop out of fixing them bc some of the arguments on the anti-AI side are wrong.

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Spooky Neighborhood Spider-Menace @icanfly42.bsky.social · 3h

I also want to challenge the people integrating it ino workflows to think about how OpenAI and Anthropic are going to act if they successfully enmesh themselves in society. Because I'm pretty sure they'll need to monetize everything so hard we'll think back on Adobe and Microsoft fondly

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 3h

the focus on eliminating individual use by screaming at people for using anything called "AI" when "AI" is clearly not something that will respond to consumer demand is a stupid enough strategy that i wonder if it is being seeded as deliberate sabotage

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briellastella @briellastella.bsky.social · 3h

Customer service has gotten materially worse. Web search is barely usable. Webpages have become less functional and those that still work are buckling under 100x the traffic. Basic computer functionality we've taken for granted has been trashed. Malpractice has proliferated across every industry.

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Kat Z @katzindc.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not responsible for the arguments made by other people.

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Paul Coelho @individkid.bsky.social · 3h

AI is an emergent property of language being abused by business.

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Dr. Tamar E. Granor @tamargranor.bsky.social · 3h

I'll add to this that I would like to see us be more clear about LLMs versus other kinds of AI, some of which seem very promising for various kinds of research. LLMs seem almost entirely bad

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 3h

We went real quick from "It will cure cancer" to "It can direct fleets of bomber drones."

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 3h

It's another case where people are persuing individual purity as a solution when the only real solution is collective action.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not trying to convince anyone to not use something, I am calling for criminal prosecution of AI execs for negligent homicides, banning it from education, and using regulation to generally nerf AI into the ground.

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Kat Z @katzindc.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously where are all of these promised benefits? I was told we would get cures for diseases, not CSAM

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3h

I agree it's impossible to avoid using anything that had AI in its construction, but disagree that minimizing individual use is the only thing we can do. We need to demand consequences for execs responsible for the negligent homicides and law-breaking, and tight regulations to mitigate harms.

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent thread. I would add that both cases, the pressure to adopt AI and to reject the trans community, are top down, big monied concoctions, with little to no organic constituency.

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Kat Z @katzindc.bsky.social · 3h

The push to use it has become increasingly heavy handed. At first, it was like, you can do cool things with it, try it! Now it’s more like either you should use it or you have to use it and you can’t opt out.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 3h

This reskeet is an endorsement.

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Ianthe Adora Lamont @queerthe.church · 4h

ban generative ai entirely

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Spooky Auntie Has Opinions @jwoodlands.bsky.social · 3h

Just piping up here for the way it stupidifies our social interactions. I have 2 ppl in my life who IN EVERY CONVERSATION say "I asked Chat GPT about blahblah and here's what it said." Like: dude, I don't care. It's an asshole. Your own curiosity is infinitely more valuable.

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youmonster.bsky.social @youmonster.bsky.social · 3h

Money probably plays a huge part. The anti-trans movement has the richest man in the world pushing it (along with many other rich powerful people looking for a scapegoat/distraction). Pro-AI is where there is big money pushing the narrative; anti-AI needs to overcome that discrepancy.

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