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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 29/09/2026

Selling tech with cartoon mascots is almost always a sign that there's bad shit lurking under the bright colors.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 28/09/2026

I really don't understand why anyone should give their work to a product made by a company built on appropriating the work of others.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 27/09/2026

I wonder if "it's all going to shit" was this obvious in past eras.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 23/09/2026

Holy shit I can see why Fielder is still trying to figure what he experienced through making this film. That trailer is creepier than any fictional horror movie A24 has produced.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 21/09/2026

I'm working on a thing with an LLM at its core that probably shouldn't have an LLM involved at all. Praying for the day when "let's use 'AI'" isn't the first thing a bunch of people jump on first.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 21/09/2026

I'm getting comments on a public gist from a few years ago that start off seeming to be about the actual code then veer off into some marketing link. LLM-generated spam seems like a top five use case.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 19/09/2026

Ah yes, Jurassic Park, the famously awesome use of genetic engineering, nothing bad ever came from that, nope, all good

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 19/09/2026

Anthropic, leading the way on "AI safety" once again 🙄

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 18/09/2026

The most prolific serial killers operate in plain site.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 18/09/2026

It's hard to state how *sane* @doctorow.pluralistic.net's recent writing has been. He's consistently finding the islands of stability in the chaos, then setting beacons to help the rest of us come ashore.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 17/09/2026

The TESCREAL sex cult thing is a real challenge. Not only are the members of that cult incredibly dangerous, with dangerous goals, their whole belief system is so nutty it's hard to get normal folks to believe that it could be the driving force behind "AI".

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 16/09/2026

Seems like a good day to recommend @adambecker.bsky.social's "More Everything Forever" if you want to get a view inside what's driving many of the folks tied to the current wave of AI Doomerism.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 16/09/2026

The people worried about AI doom are all members of the Hermetic Circle of the Golden Dong.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

There's lots of reasons to believe AI "hyperscalers" can never be profitable, and not just the gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money on new customers and every use, and they lose more with each generation of their products): pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Tenniel's 'Red Queen's Race' engraving from Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass.' It has been altered so that the Red Queen and Alice now have the heads of 1940s pulp robots. The image has been hand-tinted.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 15/09/2026

"But why did you get into beastility?!" Surely there's a different, far less hilarious way to phrase that, but im glad Kennedy didn't because LOLOL

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 11/09/2026

I came across some writing I did a few years ago and one sentence immediately stuck out: "We often confuse disruptive innovation and bullshit." plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 10/09/2026

I'd already stopped using my Apple Watch for a Casio. I seriously doubt I'll buy another in the future, if only because I'd like to be allowed into public spaces without everyone being worded I'm recording everything all the time.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 09/09/2026

Folks, if you can't stop throwing trans folks under the bus, you aren't worth a damn. Seriously, fuck all the way off with the shit.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 09/09/2026

Chatting with Dana is always enlightening. @danhon.com is building quite the collection of conversations with amazing folks for us all to enjoy.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 08/09/2026

Alpha School sounds like a grab bag of wacky education and ed tech theory wrapped in a reactionary shell.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 04/09/2026

I forgot my AirPods and had to acquire some cheap earbuds and wow do I have a renewed appreciation for AirPods

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 04/09/2026

"Area man accidentally robs another bank"

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 04/09/2026

I am what I am: a Jersey boy greatly influenced by three decades in New England.

A map of the United States overlaid with an affinity map showjng a strong correlation with speech patterns of the northeast, with a focus on Maine.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 02/09/2026

The nightmarish screams of electric zombies

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 02/09/2026

Well, @bitwarden.bsky.social is not as smooth as @1password.bsky.social, but they haven't given money to any creeps*, so I'm going to work through the transition pain. I'll definitely miss 1P's polish, but not their choice in partners. * that I know of

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 02/09/2026

This is the same BS letter they sent me. Seems like @bitwarden.bsky.social is my best option based on the features I need.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 02/09/2026

One more reason I won't use cash often

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 02/09/2026

I walked away from Basecamp and 37Signals over DHH. I won't even use Rails anymore because of that asshole. There's no way I'm going to knowingly support anything he does, even indirectly.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 02/09/2026

I heard back from @1password.bsky.social re their decision to support Omarchy and DHH. The explanation makes it clear they value their association with DHH more than my business. So I will be taking my money elsewhere.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 02/09/2026

"Siri, show me an egregious example of voluntary boot licking"

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 02/09/2026

Tired: Apple and Google are locked in a race for technical dominance Wired: Apple and Google are locked in a race to lick the most boot

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 02/09/2026

I can't say that I'm over the moon that our choice was between an 80 year old incumbent and a guy who ran on an anti-trans message. But I'll take Markey over a bigot every damn day of the week. I hope the rest of the Democratic Party learns something from how badly Moulton has crashed and burned.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 28/08/2026

Chick Bongo nails the interview

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 28/08/2026

Based *everything, every day*, I feel like we should be hearing the word "shambolic" a lot more

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 28/08/2026

Possibly the greatest failing of human beings is a repeated failure to recall that a lot of the things we don't like about the world are the result of shit that we made up and absolutely could change at any time.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 27/08/2026

From Lake America to the Gulf of America, there is a country desperately in need of a new president.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 25/08/2026

The world needs more Dolly Partons.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 25/08/2026

I am an occasional podcast listener, but there are some that demand a listen. Going to find out if this is one such podcast.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 24/08/2026

I see the John Roberts Gang has once again honored their fealty to Trump and ignored their oath to the constitution.

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George White @its.stonehippo.com · 24/08/2026

I got this email from OpenAI and it's baffling. Why would I ask ChatGPT anything when I have a perfectly reliable map app that already does what I need?

A screen shot of an email from OpenAI.
Subject: Check your route with ChatGPT

The body of the email includes a suggestion. To use ChatGPT to plan out trips and routes, a thing that map apps do just fine, thank you.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's Monday morning on the other side of the dateline, so let everyone over there know about this. Friday morning! Skip your other meetings for critical thinking. www.eventbrite.com/e/1997974168...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters:

I can comprehend, and do, that lots of people don’t believe climate change is real, but is there some great benefit in me listening, again, to those who refuse to listen to the global community of scientists and see the evidence before our eyes? A lot of why the right doesn’t “understand” climate change is that climate change tells us everything is connected, everything we do has far-reaching repercussions, and we’re responsible for the whole, a message at odds with their idealization of a version of freedom that smells a lot like disconnection and irresponsibility. But also climate denial is the result of fossil fuel companies and the politicians they bought spreading propaganda and lies for profit, and I understand that better than the people who believe it. If half of us believe the earth is flat, we do not make peace by settling on it being halfway between round and flat.

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