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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 18/09/2026

"The largest theft of labor in human history." We done knew it. (www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...)

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what 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.”

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Boop @boopcat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'd argue that, for the metrics, it's vastly MORE important that viewers turn this off. There's more viewers than streamers, so even if every streamer turned this off, if viewers don't, the executives can still claim that "most users don't care" and cram it down our throats even harder. Opt out.

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I never wanted to be a "in my day things were better" old lady... but I need to categorically state that technology actually WAS better. You are currently in the peak of designed obsolence, enshittification, personal intrusion and forced acceptance by lack of choice. Sure, the underlying tech...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 30/06/2026

It's been just staggering how much the games industry is at the whims of people who don't care, will not care, and simply do not have to care about games.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Two things about this argument. Firstly, AI proponents are desperately trying to wear down your resolve any way they can, and they wouldn't be so keen to tell you it's inevitable if they weren't terrified of the push back. Secondly, all AI slop can be expunged given the time, effort, and drive.

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Storyboard artists, often closest and most integral to realizing a director's vision, are a relatively cheap part of the process. Often their role is disparaged, or not even understood. And yet one of the main goals of AI in film production seems to be to replicate what they do.

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P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Why on earth would you waste 200 BILLION on an industry with no signs of profitability, no actual canadian businesses. You are just sucking off american autocrats and giving away our safety net, autonomy and future for some shit slop machine. But hey, your personal kickbacks must be great. Pathetic.

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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 03/06/2026

Even if you say there's no feces in my meal, if I KNOW you use feces in your restaurant's kitchen, I'm not going to eat there.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

this is just one more blatant example, and i’m glad some people are calling it out.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 04/04/2026

there was a time the old heads remember when the internet existed and capitalism didn't realize what it could do to the place yet the problem is capitalism the internet used to be beautiful and can be again

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

If you're watching the new Harry Potter show, you should unfollow me. Maybe even block. We know supporting Joanne's work means hurting trans peeps. End of discussion. No support. Not even piracy is an excuse here. You can live without it.

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dante @dante.cool · 13/08/2025

Breaking my usual bsky etiquette to say full-throatedly that if you are acting like itch is anything other than a victim in this ongoing struggle with payment processors, you are a rube, a mark, and signaling that you will eat your own at the slightest opportunity. You are an untrustworthy dumbass

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.

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The CryptKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Microsoft and Xbox aren’t just destroying the video game industry. They’re destroying the world. An entity that profits from the eradication of one group will eventually come for us. We need to stand in solidarity and unite against our common enemy. Boycott Xbox.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/07/2025

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

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Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Let's be 100% clear on this, Microsoft is investing $80 Billion in AI. This is not conjecture or speculation, it is plainly in their own words back in January this year, they gutted a profitable games division because AI is the new shiny bauble. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

None of this progress would be possible without new partnerships founded on large-scale infrastructure investments that serve as the essential foundation of AI innovation and use. In FY 2025, Microsoft is on track to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world. More than half of this total investment will be in the United States, reflecting our commitment to this country and our confidence in the American economy.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 24/06/2025

"Digital asbestos" is such an amazing description. I'll be using that going forward. 👀

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/06/2025

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

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Quake @quakeroc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

if you are transgender: do not give up. no matter what. growing up in the 90s and 00s was so fucking lonely. there were no queer people around, only mocked on TV. i've seen what having peers and elders can do for your health and your happiness. survive for yourself. survive for your community. live.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 29/01/2025

It's hard to know what to say or whether it's even worth adding to the doom - what I will say is buy your trans friends' weird zine, their album, their art game - buy them a beer or a soda or a meal - give them some ko-fi money for doing absolutely nothing. We gotta protect trans kids and adults.

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Nina Marotta ☢️💙 @mrschief7.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This video actually makes me sick. We cannot let this shit continue.

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

As someone taking part in the current Xbox / Microsoft boycot, I went back and forth a lot on how to handle covering, or not covering, today's Xbox Showcase event. My answer? I'm using it to fundraise for Medical Aid for Palestinians. www.justgiving.com/page/laurakb...

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LauraKBuzz's fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestinians

Help LauraKBuzz raise money to support Medical Aid for Palestinians

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FinalCut @finalcut.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happy Pride y’all! It’s such an important year for the love and solidarity to be overflowing.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you use AI you’re accelerating climate crisis, polluting deprived communities, burning through water, giving bosses excuses to reduce workers rights and wages. It’s a moral and ethical degradation.

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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

If I see people playing this on Twitch or Steam - I will not discuss it with you, I will block you & remove you from my life. It's a simple request to not support the official terf IP. If you value your shitty wizard game more than the lives of trans people, then fuck off.

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Hell yes. Reminder that 17776 is an interactive masterpiece that I highly recommend gamedevs read. It’s like a wild, playful, absurdist love letter to games as a meaningful part of life. It’s deeply funny and touching.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

It’s kinda funny / harrowing that LLMs didn’t get smarter or less brute-force-y, we just got better graphics cards, and more comfortable with wasting obscene energy on what still remains the most overrated madlibs ever. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

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We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All

The vast ‘brains’ of artificial intelligence models can memorize endless lists of rules. That’s useful, but not how humans solve problems.

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Ian / Sìne @vonaether.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

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marty, @numet.al · 26/03/2025

burning down forests so that we can be wrong most of the time www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

post from Gisele Navarro

"collectively the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries"

attached is the chart from the first image, highlighting different generative search tools with corresponding colors for varying right/wrong hits

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/01/2025

I am going insane. This company will lose $10bn this year! Generative AI has peaked! There isn't a sustainable business model, and the products are mediocre and error prone and don't even do anything cool despite costing billions and accelerating climate change and stealing everybody's artwork!

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This is a hilarious way to say “we haven’t figured out how to make AI do anything useful”

"It's hard, and it's early and there's not a clear value proposition yet for mainstream consumers," said Ben Bajarin, chief executive of Creative Strategies, a tech research firm. "It is going to take time, and it's going to be a real slow roll. No one knows yet what someone is going to look at and say,’That's really valuable.'"

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Alex Navarro @alexnavarro.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Not sure there's ever been an artist I had a bigger turn around on in my life. Couldn't understand or enjoy any of his stuff when I was younger, but grew into a full on evangelist as I got older and learned how to absorb what he was putting into the world. Truly no one else quite like him. RIP.

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

i avoid commenting on celebrity passings due to the parasociality of the thing but David Lynch was an artist’s artist and a reminder to never explain yourself (when you don’t want to). one of the greatest filmmakers to ever do it.

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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 13/01/2025

The parade of useless tech-in-search-of-a-problem and rampant VC yes-man-ing has basically driven the Western tech industry into the ground. It's so embarrassing. I can't allow myself to think about where that funding could have gone or else I'd lose my mind

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

midjourney, chatgpt and all that other "AI" slop is realtime climate crisis accelerant. even if you don't give a fuck about creative people, take a look at the fires right now and consider your priorities

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Paige Harvey @paigehharvey.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This feels like a very good time to remind people that trans rights are human rights, and that we need to stand for our trans friends (and especially our intersectionally marginalised trans friends) as much as we can manage. There is hope if we stand for it.

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a black background with the words trans people have always existed

Alt: a black background with the words trans people have always existed

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024

I have watched Rot Economy stooges like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg destroy an internet that made me human, and I will never forgive them for what they’ve done to the computer. They peddle digital asbestos. They must be stopped. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to the computer, and the more I learn about both their intentions and actions the more certain I am that they are unrepentant and that their greed will never be sated. I have watched them take the things that made me human — social networking, digital communities, apps, and the other connecting fabric of our digital lives — and turned them into devices of torture, profitable mechanisms of abuse, and find it disgusting how many reporters seem to believe it's their responsibility to thank them and explain why it's good this is happening to their readers.

Sam Altman is a con artist, a liar, and a sleazy carnival barker who would burn our planet to the ground, steal from millions of people and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power, and I believe the same can be said of people like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft.
Tim Cook is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, slowly allowing the rot to seep into Apple’s products, slowly adding bothersome subscription products and useless AI features to chip away at the user experience. Apple’s app store and its repeated support of exploitative microtransaction-laden mobile games built to create gambling-like addiction in adults and children alike, making it billions of dollars a year. Because Apple’s products are less shitty, it gets a much easier time.
Sundar Pichai is the Henry Kissinger of technology — a glossy executive that escapes blame despite having caused harm on a global scale. The destruction of Google Search at the hands of Sundar Pichai and Prabhakar Raghavan should be written about like a war crime, and those responsible treated as such.

Satya Nadella has aggressively expanded Microsoft’s various monopolies, the most egregious of which is the Microsoft 365 suite — a monopoly over business software that everybody kind of hates that Microsoft prices to undercut the competition, effectively setting the conditions of most business software as either “cheaper than Microsoft” or “slightly better than Microsoft.” Nadella has overseen layoffs of tens of thousands of people in the last three years alone, and despite his bullshit “growth mindset” culture treats his employees and customers as equally disposable.
Mark Zuckerberg is a putrid ghoul that has overseen the growth and proliferation of some of the single-most abusive and manipulative software in the world. Meta has grown to a market cap of $1.5 trillion dollars by intentionally making the experience on Instagram and Facebook worse, intentionally frustrating and harming billions of people.
These are the people in charge. These are the people running the tech industry. These are the people who make decisions that affect billions of people every minute of every day, and their decisionmaking is so flagrantly selfish and abusive that I am regularly astonished by how little criticism they receive.

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Ron Chan @rondanchan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

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