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I write about technology politics. Please read Horrific/Terrific for anti-capitalist analyses of tech & society www.horrific-terrific.tech See also: a zine of dystopian fiction: mutualdislike.com

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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 04/10/2026
One day I also hope to run a company that makes a product so powerful/dangerous that it makes nearly everyone quit www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 27/09/2026
Just putting this above the light switch for my bathroom so I can think about how to make the fash look foolish every time I take a shit
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 09/09/2026
Oh look they’re making a sequel to Practical Magic, full title Practical Magic 2: Women from the 90s who don’t age and also all new ideas stopped after 2016 variety.com/2026/film/re...
variety.com
‘Practical Magic 2’ Review: Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman Don’t Quite Cast a Spell in an Overlong, Predictable Sequel
With Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, Susanne Bier's 'Practical Magic 2' rehashes what earned the first film a fandom, but fails to correct its flaws
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 07/09/2026
This isn’t even ‘do the work for me’ this is ‘take the work I already did, and do it again’
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 04/09/2026
OpenAI president says we're in the AGI era now. Thank you for telling us. What's AGI again? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’
According to OpenAI president Greg Brockman, we’ve likely entered the AGI era.
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 02/09/2026
Let their imminent deaths be a lesson to you all
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 28/08/2026
Maybe the end of Woke 1 was when Reply All couldn't finish their series on Bon Appetite...
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 25/08/2026
Why did mortality have to come for Dolly too this sucks
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 21/08/2026
Yikes this is awful??
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 21/08/2026
Also it's just so funny that the original thieves (the AI companies) are now putting a 'this is stolen' sticker on all their outputs lol
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 21/08/2026
Some of them also seem to think that they enjoy writing. They don't; otherwise they wouldn't be using AI. They approach writing like something that needs to be optimised -- but you cannot optimise what you already love!
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 21/08/2026
The basic crux is that with the existence of AI, these people feel entitled to deceive others with slop novels, and try to make a living from it -- but even actual writers trying to write good novels rarely make money from this lol
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 21/08/2026
I lurked in AI writing subreddits for a couple of weeks, before and after Anthropic announced their watermark, and let me tell you: they all lost their damn minds. I wrote about it here www.horrific-terrific.tech/p/you-cannot...
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You Cannot Optimise the Thing you Love
The pirates have made their own piracy label
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 17/08/2026
I'm making a thing that emulates how posts get made and shared across different online platforms. Each symbol is one post and each colour represents a different platform. The trailing ones are reposts; the ones that grow big have a lot of engagement. Can you guess which is which?
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 14/08/2026
Amazon will now use Twitch streams to train their AI and it's opt-out, because no one would ever opt-in. How much longer is this going to last lolol? We weren't put on this earth to train AI so it can make worse versions of what we already do very well aftermath.site/twitch-ai-am...
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Twitch Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Amazon AI Is Opt Out Because ‘Nobody Would Opt In’
"If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That’s honestly the answer"
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
…that is simply less common in the uk I think because I’ve never seen that! Does the popcorn not get soggy?
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
I make popcorn with butter but I don’t add it after? Do you mean adding it after?
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
Yes good butter is great but it’s uh not a thing you can flavour popcorn with? Like how does that work? I love butter I promise
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
As a uk person I think this: butter is not a flavour
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
"Where Apple sells status and wealth through indistinguishable gimmicks, the makers of premium dumb phones make a gimmick out of your own need to detach and touch grass." haha yeah...
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
"Why is ‘my phone’s the wrong shape!’ a male problem? Women never complain about this, women are never in the ads for these devices, women never make videos on how to jailbreak your Light Phone to finally make Spotify work on it."
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
Here's a fun quote: "A feature-sparse device cannot give you special permission to go to the beach, or to pay attention to the speeches at your own wedding."
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
I was looking for something in my blog and I found this thing I wrote like a year ago where I complained about dumb phones for some reason. This is why having a blog where I write about anything I want is good and healthy www.horrific-terrific.tech/p/why-is-my-...
horrific-terrific.tech
Why is my phone the wrong shape?
Here are some devices that give you magic permission to go to the beach
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
It's not writers block, it's just 35 degrees outside ffs
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
did it look cool
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/08/2026
I have felt so weird for the past 2-3 weeks and I would like it to somehow be the fault of a major celestial event rather than anything I might be doing wrong
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 07/08/2026
Those are the things that take the longest to write for some reason…
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 06/08/2026
feel so sorry for the copywriters at M&S who came up with 'This is not just food...' because that just sounds like AI now
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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Wakanda tariffs going to get doubled now
bbc.com
US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner
Officials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 30/07/2026
When I saw this a few days ago I went into the subreddit and screenshotted every infuriating thing I saw and made a thread bsky.app/profile/geor...
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 29/07/2026
Maybe it will be cold by the time it reaches us
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 29/07/2026
Cut to drones dropping hot soup on people’s heads
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 27/07/2026
Wtf is this, it’s like we’re going backwards
A bus showing an ad ‘the weight is over’ with a hand holding a small pill and the product name ‘voy’
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 25/07/2026
and finally, the people who are paranoid that they are gonna get caught -- they know no one wants to read AI writing, and no one wants it in their magazines, on their bookshelves, in their inboxes, and yet they still do it, and share tips on how to avoid detection afterwards
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 25/07/2026
Then we have the people that discover 'writing from scratch' is a better method, as if they'd cracked some fiendish code and invented writing all over again. Using words like 'patch' as if they're building software??
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 25/07/2026
Here's someone listing out all the terrible outputs they got recently, which are very funny. Their suggestion at the end is to get actual writers and editors 'with a degree in writing' to build yet another AI model -- you know instead of just straightforwardly paying them to edit
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 25/07/2026
Then there's the people who realise that it is indeed bad, don't understand, and never reach the conclusion that they could do a better job themselves
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 25/07/2026
Here's a thread where they talk each other in circles trying to understand why writers are threatened by AI if it's outputs are so bad? I guess the outputs must be good, otherwise they wouldn't be threatened!
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 25/07/2026
I saw someone post this earlier, lost the post, then went mad going into the Writing With AI subreddit, and now I've screenshotted a bunch of ridiculous posts that illustrate the kind of things people talk about on there...
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 23/07/2026
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 20/07/2026
Sony are discontinuing physical game discs which is making gamers question the notion of ownership and making me laugh at the fact that PlayStation’s motto is ‘play has no limits’ open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
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Monopoly Round-Up: Video Gamers Rebel Against Sony, Microsoft, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Sony will no longer ship physical copies of games, prompting widespread anger from customers at how their ownership rights are being stripped by powerful monopolies. Plus, SpaceX craters...
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 19/07/2026
The bbc advert they just played at half time made me want to pay for six tv licences at once
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 17/07/2026
TLDR: the 'horse manure crisis' myth; it's a story 'innovators' tell to make the invention of the car seem like an overall public good. Horse manure was a problem and cars were the solution. We have our own version of horse manure now — it’s called Literally Everything and AI is always the solution
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 17/07/2026
While writing this piece I realised that in techno-solutionism, I'm much more afraid of the solution than I am of the problem -- because the problem is as much of a fantasy as the solution is www.horrific-terrific.tech/p/the-age-of...
horrific-terrific.tech
The Age of Manure
I’m not afraid of problems; I’m afraid of solutions
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 16/07/2026
Another example of how 'open source' in AI isn't really a thing. Thinking Machines say AI shouldn't be controlled by a handful of companies -- but also their model "needs to run on a cluster of specialized chips". Which effectively doesn't feel very open. www.wired.com/story/thinki...
wired.com
Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 15/07/2026
Tbh this makes sense, Robert Kennedy looks like the vitamin density of any vegetable would kill him
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/07/2026
okay but if you eat chard it's a great excuse to also have bacon, cream, and cheese, what's the problem here exactly come on
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New case for the Xteink just dropped. I love makers.
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copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com · 13/07/2026
Meanwhile they’re arguing about ‘metal finishing techniques’ lmao the whole thing is absurd
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