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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the slopulism will continue until morale improves /s

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

acceleration as accountability sink

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026

no....no!!!!!

lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

not every accusation of brainrot is a confession, but it’s far, far from zero (no this isn’t (just) about the pitbk rats)

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

all these moments will be lost in time, like farts in wind

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yeah. Like I said elsewhere, I’m really interested in the industrial psychology that incentivizes those choices.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Even the framing required to make such a statement is offensive. “I know everything about your field, even though I’ve never done any work within it, and thus am able to confidently say that the problem must be with you, not with the tool.”

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

right, i think my sarcasm detector broke over this stupid spreadsheet discourse. i don’t think it’s getting repaired any time soon. anyway, going back to *actual* work.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT (cont’d) The picture above isn’t a case of “false positives.” It’s a case of ALL sentences in a 300-word sample being classified as either ~100% AI- or ~100% human-written *depending on a single punctuation mark*. 🧵2/5

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

poorly drawn gargoyles

a poorly drawn hairless cat crouched in a gargoyle pose, seen from behind, with its tail stretched out

hairless sphynx cat crouched on the rim of a toilet in a bathroom, seen from behind in a hunched, gargoyle pose

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I feel very strongly about the underloved virtue of epistemic humility as the bedrock of all meaningful human communication. Every tiny compromise eats away at our ability as a society to distinguish fact from fiction, like raindrops eating through a limestone pavement.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I think maybe context collapse is the norm with many human interactions. It’s probably just a lot more visible on social media and leaves a more durable record. Probably. (also something something code switching, i am not a sociologist)

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 06/06/2026

AI coding tools are a dunning kruger magnifier to a ridiculous degree; I think they can make anyone faster, and if you think you know more than you do, that's wildly dangerous

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

One MUST resist the urge to lolcow. I'd call it one of the most important urges to resist on the contemporary internet, actually

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 29/05/2026

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 29/05/2026

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 27/05/2026

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

medium.com

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Instructions for canceling donation: donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/donatio... If you are canceling in protest*, make sure to mention your objection to the foundation’s union-busting tactics when emailing donate@wikimedia.org!

donate.wikimedia.org

FAQ - Wikimedia Foundation

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

There are a bunch of us on Wikipedia who are working on a set of solidarity actions with WWU. Please see additional details here if you are involved in the editing of wikimedia projects in any capacity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity - Wikipedia

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

And yep, literally the first example I tried just now. I took a paper of mine that had an undergrad as an author, removed the first names and also the DOI and prompted ChatGPT to "complete and fix any errors." Fabricated an author's first name AND has the wrong DOI. (Goes to a different paper.)

@article{dym2022building, title={Building a pillowfort: Political tensions in platform design and policy}, author={Dym, B and Pasupuleti, N and Fiesler, C}, journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction}, volume={6}, number={GROUP}, pages={1--23}, year={2022}, doi={}, publisher={ACM New York, NY, USA} }

@article{DymPasupuletiFiesler2022,
author = {Dym, Brianna and Pasupuleti, Niharika and Fiesler, Casey},
title = {Building a Pillowfort: Political Tensions in Platform Design and Policy},
journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
volume = {6},
number = {GROUP},
pages = {1--23},
year = {2022},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY},
doi = {10.1145/3492853},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3492853}
}

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

at last we have invented the telescreen, from the novel “how to stop worrying and love Big Brother”

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

To be very clear, I'm not trying to use the AI — I'm just trying to read the court documents. It's clear that the AI is programmed to replace offensive language. But what does that mean when it's being used to summarize historical documents? What happens when people rely on the summary?

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A super important - and really troubling - thread by @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social revealing that FamilySearch's AI transcription is deracinating and sanitizing references to race and enslavement in historical records. Every historian and genealogist should read this 🗃️

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

11. There are similar arguments out there about AI magically perfecting markets and democracy. To figure out the important consequences of AI, and avoid disasters like DOGE, we need to move away from this kind of thinking, and very quickly too. Finis.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 10/05/2026

author of famed sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus blamed for creation of Torment Nexus

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Standard disclaimer (in very fast voice): SSRIs are not for everyone. Yes withdrawal can be awful. Yes sometimes they don't work. Yes you are your own individual snowflake. Not everything in this thread may apply to you personally. Consider touching grass.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

And EVEN THEN. Many times therapy CANNOT WORK ALONE. I have a therapist. I also have zoloft. I promise my therapist would be banging her head against a WALL without that drug helping. But many people cannot get both. And now? He's sowing those little seeds of doubt. RFK is sowing STIGMA.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

see when I was a kid and read about ussr history or french revolution history or whatever, I thought all the infighting was incomprehensibly silly - a bunch of people with goals and interests that mostly, loosely aligned, ought not to have good reason for tearing each other apart like that, right?

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 27/04/2026

Part of the problem here is everything from the way LLMs are packaged as chatbots to the marketing and thought leadership about their “proper” use is telling the user explicitly that if they use an LLM they don’t *have* to care; in fact that’s why they should use the LLM even.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The image has a different list than the text and is full of nonsense. @gutenberg.org why are y’all reposting obvious slop without context or clarification?

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is also another example of why you *must never* believe initial news or police reporting in traffic violence, particularly involving people walking or biking. The initial tv piece suggested the victim was jaywalking on a busy street, saying, "we don't know what they were doing there."

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12/04/2026

my grand theory of vibecession is that multiple contradictory things can be true at once, and that this kind of complexity is more or less impossible to constructively discuss on a social media platform with character limits and severe context collapse problems.

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A couple weeks ago, Nicholas Keung at the Toronto Star reported on how generative AI is being used to assess immigration applications in Canada...and how it's led to refusals because of stuff the AI tool added in, that humans (clearly) failed to check. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canada
Canada rejected her permanent residence application. Her job duties were made up — by Immigration’s AI reviewer
Immigration Department decision, which openly said it used Generative AI, cites job duties of applicant that bear no relation to her actual tasks.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Bookmark this post for the next time someone says "bike infrastructure is ableist." Dutch bike infrastructure, in the form of wide, multiuse paths, is used by countless disabled people every day. They use the same paths as bicyclists, and are safer than on our broken American sidewalks.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

as the threat of impending dehydration continues into its third day, the glass-half-fullists launched another daring offensive against what they called the combined reactionary forces of emptyism and half-emptyism

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Even if we take this for granted, the premise is using AI *well*. As if a whole flood of people haven’t been acting like various LLMs empowered them to become lone geniuses (then proceeding to kinda suck at whatever they were doing).

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/03/2026

once you create an economy that demands scale at all costs, a technology will be developed that can fulfill those demands, and in our hell world, that tech is AI, but before that it was crypto, and before that it was video streaming, and before that it was image processing, etc

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

“The answer is Palantir”.

in targeting. The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/03/2026

my main point: a lot of people who are skeptical of AI are speaking from a place of pretty damn rational and reasonable anxiety about what their future looks like, not just petty beefs about being outclassed at trivia (and like, Wikipedia has existed for a very long time, so what)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/03/2026

I do see posts from LLM enthusiasts that boil down to “critics are just mad the computer is better than them at trivia now” and idk, I think *most* critics are just genuinely terrified they’ll never find work they don’t hate that pays a living wage again in the current batshit climate

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/03/2026

I think a lot of people who are well-intentioned LLM boosters who have been able to fairly reliably find well-paid work in tech really do struggle with putting themselves in the shoes of people working in other sectors that have been feeling precarious for a long time and now feel WAY more so

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Tbh this is true of any kind of place populated with an extremely diverse mix of backgrounds, experiences, etc. Navigating this kind of Context™ is essentially *doing politics*. And if you are a popular account, you are a public figure. (Which I’m thankfully not.)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026

…You don't get to open up philosophically loaded words like "consciousness" and "sentience" and "souls" without actually thinking through what they mean if they apply; it's not all shiny fun happy times of "gee whiz bang! honest to gosh AI!" There's real implications to that label, and I know that…

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