Reposted by Justin Radencyber professional @permadeath.com · 29/09/2026en.wikipedia.orgTendency of the rate of profit to fall - Wikipedia 051
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026in which I float an odd backstory in the debate about AI’s impact on language and culture: the anti-control-society cut-up novels of William Burroughs 000
Reposted by Justin RadenPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Cornell expelled students who were protesting genocide in Gaza, but made five of seven guys who gang raped a drugged girl for seven hours write essays. That tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the morals of that institution. 19702258
Reposted by Justin RadenBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Marx described commodity fetish as the imaginary of capital being more alive, having greater agency, and requiring more deference than the worker who produces it 69631
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026anyway, wake me up when the “rogue AI” deletes my student loans. until then, spare me. 010
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026all i’m saying is, if I built a bunch of data centers on public land financed through loans secured against GPUs purchased from the same company who‘s investments financed those purchases, all in the name of scaling compute so that my product could do shit like this… they’d lock me up! 010
Reposted by Justin RadenDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6437521478
Reposted by Justin RadenMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/09/2026The University of Minnesota on Thursday announced $225 million in cuts over two years across all five of its campuses, starting with the 2027-2028 budget cycle. U officials just made cuts in June, with about 230 jobs planned to be cut then, some through layoffs and others through attrition.bit.lyUniversity of Minnesota to cut $225 million from budget across all campusesIt comes after the U approved a budget in June raising students’ tuition by 3.8%, the sixth consecutive year of increases for the U. 41512
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026among my fav things (so far!) about this program is that it doesn’t provide student housing in perhaps the most insane housing market in the country 121
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It can‘t be stressed enough that this is an intellectually debilitating way to think. Trump is not an exceptional figure. He is simply the embodiment of a series of long simmering crises: the breakdown of the rules based intl. order (itself long doomed)… 100
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026interesting that the a16z unicorn incubator pretending to be a school doesn’t seem to care about civics or great books a la Palantir’s meritocracy fellowship or UATX… and yet they hired Agnes Callard 🤔 000
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026so, let me see of I’ve got this right: 750k people had ACA coverage but weren’t filing claims, meaning they were merely paying their premiums. and somehow this is theft FROM the govt? 010
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026a class of people who think they’re so superior they can only get basic socialization if repackaged and delivered thru their own surveillance tech naturally think everyone else should be made to do the same. 020
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“once the risk is transferred through an SRT, the associated capital requirements are reduced accordingly, allowing the bank to resume lending – to entities other than AI players, whom banks are no longer so keen on. The result is that risk is spread throughout the financial system...” VERY BAD 120
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026this is the AI apocalypse. it’s already fucking happening. 020
Reposted by Justin RadenKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or carearstechnica.comUnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesFor the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug. 7944661581
Reposted by Justin RadenCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026DEUTSCHE: “.. we’ve now reached a point where 50% of newly published articles are predominantly AI-generated.” 40369159
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Marx failed to consider gattungswesen‘s enablement by the alienation bots! 000
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 12/09/2026we already live in a world of data center Bantustans 000
Reposted by Justin RadenMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is. 241361335
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Every Chron article this guy has ever written is like “why the humanities should be more data driven” go figure 000
Reposted by Justin RadenDr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Rejecting AI is not ignoring it. 110122
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is great. As is the NYC ban. As are the state level data center moratoriums. But I do worry the US is about to carved up into so many AI Bantustans. 110
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026wow! what an incredibly horseshit take! none of this is even remotely true. and by the way, the reason that “rotting town” does not ITSELF want a data center is that its probably rotting bc of a prior tex incentivized industrial development deal gone south. 040
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 25/08/2026not me quietly sobbing at the gym while listening to this absolute banger youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4youtu.beDolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO 020
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I can't believe the guy who got rich designing a better "hot or not" would do this! 020
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Critical histories of cybernetics often locate its origins in wartime efforts to develop mechanically guided weapons systems. But perhaps they should start with BF Skinner’s Project ORCON (for ORganic CONtrol of missiles). The organism in question? Pigeons. 030
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 10/08/2026fascism closed the Bauhaus. Looks like fascism will close the new Bauhaus. 020
Reposted by Justin RadenLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 10/08/2026When universities try to become businesses, corruption follows. Three folks associated with former Bolton University (now named Greater Manchester, haha!) have been arrested for money laundering: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/george-...timeshighereducation.comGeorge Holmes departs as Greater Manchester v-cGoverning body terminates contract amid ongoing police investigation into financial irregularities 062
Reposted by Justin RadenBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 02/08/2026A writer just claimed on social media that using AI to write is no different than “using glasses to see,” and critiques of AI are “ableist.” Disability is a concept invented by capitalism to discipline & standardize the labor force thru the uniformity of industrial work. AI is a technology 1/2 2257
Reposted by Justin RadenTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points. 6602233
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Op Ed: Spare a thought for my prospects for generational wealth transfer! 020
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 18/07/2026A reminder that many universities are foisting this tech on students while slashing the training that would help them evaluate its outputs 020
Reposted by Justin RadenLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If you've been following my coverage on xAI / SpaceX in Memphis, you know the issues around noise, air pollution, energy & water consumption concerns and more. We went there to see how xAI neighbors are doing and show you how sprawling the facilities are... www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XP...youtube.comElon Musk’s Memphis Takeover — The Marvels And Messiness Of SpaceX’s AI BuildoutYouTube video by CNBC 88747
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 10/07/2026wracking my brain to remember what was going on 20 years ago… 010
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 10/07/2026great news for everyone who was forced to buy SpaceX stock through Nasdaq index fund 3 days ago! 130
