Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialMaddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting 252074500
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"? 12569154
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core" 519161
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 416159783945
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialJan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 22/07/2026I’m surely not the first to come to this realisation, but the LLM industrial complex is to tech-life what MAGA is to politics: erode any and all trust in established institutions, people and practices for the benefit of the very few and worst people on the planet in the (poor) guise of freedom. 312443
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world. 7043292446
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialParis Marx @parismarx.com · 09/06/2026”Meta, Spotify, and Google don’t just host AI-generated imagery, ads, and music; they’re also responsible for making the tools that create it. … Allowing users to filter it out regardless would go against all the effort … to profit from AI: They want you to embrace the slop factory.”theverge.comLet us filter AI slop, you cowardsLet’s put those AI labels to the test. 113224
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/06/2026I love watching grown men walk around saying stuff like "p doom" and "permanent underclass." True cargo cult shit, an insane way to talk that sounds weird and exists only to signal to other peculiar people that you know the special words that bring about the great capitalist prophecy 1674367
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialtante @tante.cc · 26/06/2026It's weird how every little automation is an "agent" these days. Weird LLM that tags your uploaded photo: Agent. A sequence of filters and pipes in a shell: Agent. Pre-saved prompt: Agent. "AI" burns through terms quicker than even crypto did. 107811
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/06/2026A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>> 17598255
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 25/06/2026To summarize, AI will cause personal computers to cost $10,000, all applications are frozen to about 2025 design and implementation, power to run the computer will be twice the price and also you need to sign in with your passport to start your computer. Explain to me again how this is progress? 1422744
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>seattletimes.comSeattle uses AI to help triage, divert 911 medical callsThe Seattle Fire Department started using AI technology during live 911 calls in 2023. There hasn't been any public review process. 22917434
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialChristian Ward @cjward.bsky.social · 10/06/2026"We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards and signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot." I like this kid. 1876992123
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialYvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Tangentially, it continues to bug me that people are willing to structure information for machines that they weren't willing to structure for other people, e.g. coworkers. 25915
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/05/2026Wrote up this story - honestly it undersells how bad it is. OpenAI had a negative 122% non-GAAP operating margin in Q1 2026 and ChatGPT growth has stalled. OpenAI is a company with broken economics that has hit its ceiling. www.wheresyoured.at/news-openai-... 942489
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialParis Marx @parismarx.com · 20/05/2026ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.disconnect.blogGoogle is its own worst enemyIn its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too 221562524
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.socialnature.comMeet the academics refusing to use generative AIResearchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. 26905354
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 04/05/2026This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing. 4944221846
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialCominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026the thing you don’t realize about the apocalypse is that you basically have to keep working through it 510523
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialDr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay 120111864070
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialRua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia. More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist. Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water. 7387113
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26/03/2026This is the way404media.coWikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.” 141011202
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.social404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2026NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.404media.coWikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.” 201237816753
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21/03/2026There's a learned helplessness here that feels a lot like obeying in advance. Use your brain, don't let anyone tell you you can't, and definitely don't tell others they can't. 015826
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026machine translation is acceptable for "help me sort of make sense of this news article" or "plz help the instruction manual isn't in my language" or "only an obscure blog in japan ever covered this vintage lens…" not for anything that is meant to endure 1506
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/03/2026One other note from today's newsletter: I'm worried about over-use of LLMs in software engineering. If people aren't reading (or are barely reading) code they ship, "writing code fast" becomes a liability. It also can stop you from learning to solve problems. www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-s... 1735367
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/02/2026Hello everyone! I am working on something and could use your help. If you pay for Claude code, please type npx ccusage@latest into your terminal and send me a screenshot of your usage from the last month, along with your level of subscription ($20/100/200). I would be so grateful! 2637697
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...404media.coWith Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance DragnetRing's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism. 5427221037
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/02/2026But now we are fortunate to have @fractalecho.bsky.social 's amazing book out in the world. Read it to be better prepared to recognize & combat ableism and eugenics in "AI" discourse. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...link.springer.comDisabling IntelligencesThis book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people. 19922
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 21/12/2025This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!! 353000639
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialBenjamin Kunkel @kunktation.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I wrote about an obscure German contribution to the critique of political economy, for @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...harpers.orgThe Sameness of Different Things, by Benjamin KunkelReading a new translation of Capital 24013
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialJathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 04/10/2025The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai... 114434
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/10/2025I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the doorFor the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras. 624093
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialC. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2025Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week. 411683505
Reposted by @josef-p.bsky.socialdash @knowpicnic.bsky.social · 23/07/2025This paragraph by @edzitron.com is everything. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g... 5479133
