Reposted by Kylie McClanahanJohn David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 07/08/2026Alright I'm gonna give this a full watch, live commentary thread below. youtu.be/87DyyMV0kCYyoutu.beBlack Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face IncidentYouTube video by Black Hat 511713
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses 138137344419
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanTricksy Wizard @tricksywizard.bsky.social · 06/12/2025What strikes me is that this is one of the best statements on the issue of GenAI that I've ever read. 230289
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanThe Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service 627225976721
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanRob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 29/11/2025This is one of the biggest problems with so-called "AI". EVERY branch of computer science and thought ever accomplished is now included as part of "AI". It's a gigantic hoax. Guess what? Computers, research and algos all existed before the current hoax. 4592123
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/11/2025I’ll have what she’s having 292356319
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanAlan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 26/11/2025"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read 5965071922
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible. 237228596521
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23/11/2025There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music. 12044381813
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanTim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025AI World Clocks: clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @nelson)clocks.brianmoore.comAI World ClocksThe current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore. 12342
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanJuliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success 3111201863198
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 14/11/2025Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally. And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue. 91077219
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanRob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Frustrated farmer, placing his basket of fruit repeatedly in the same circular depression: "It keeps thinking these are dates!" 1359
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 05/11/2025New favourite example of structural ambiguity 182388340
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/11/2025"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864 1411123
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 01/11/2025Woman in bar: I just don't get it. I've got a successful book club, with a cult following of 3000 who will read any book I recommend. I'm desperate to help my favourite authors build an audience, but everyone I contact tells me to fuck off! Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it. 537652
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanDavid August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Happy logical operator Halloween! 🎃 12539138
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 26/10/2025one problem w/so many analogies is that we intuitively gravitate to useful stuff; there's no easy shorthand for something as obviously counterproductive and disastrous that still tracks. it feels more like saying "DraftKings is collaborating with Cal to register undergrads to bet on course outcomes" 45217
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs. 147202125538
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanRaysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 15/10/2025I was trying to find an old tweet about Hamlet and Ophelia. Google AI thought I was accusing it of killing my dad, and also screwed up the most famous line in The Princess Bride. 3448879
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanSara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this. 25253522587
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 01/10/2025OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this 211106283186
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanArlan Skellington (famous) @thehell.zone · 22/09/2025my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons” 13867151393
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanMolly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning." 151389494
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025this exists it is called thinking 81331226086
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanitsonlybrad @itsonlybrad.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Have you seen it? It’s on AI Ultra. It’s literally on Flow. You can get it with Whisk. It’s on Mariner. It’s in Gemini or was it Bard? Dude, it’s on Claude. You can probably find it on Copilot. You can run it on Perplexity. You can prompt it on Poob. Log in to Poob right now. Poob has it for you. 1102
Reposted by Kylie McClanahan🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 16/09/2025you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩 5228611021
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanJaneSlainLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I just need every liberal, progressive, feminist man to understand deep in their bones that every woman—including the most accomplished woman they know—is belittled at their job REGULARLY. Even now. 11524130
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 16/05/2023Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus 204252983
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanK'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · 31/08/2025all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe 17679471887
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like 36191768727
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanMichael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest. 7553691311
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 17/08/2025I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it. 7071961634
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/04/2025A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text 5740491213
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanLizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 16/08/2025For my last trick, here’s the Agent Guide for ALIGNMENT, my completed manuscript. Huge shoutout to the amazing people behind this event for putting it on! #QueerPit #A #UF 022
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanLizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025How to make ALIGNMENT: - 1 scrappy barista w/gift for enchanting - 2 old flames (1 MUST be evil) - 1 total solar eclipse - 2 forms of illegal magic - 1 pkg Sharpies Shake together with 2 large scoops of romance. Garnish with faerie dust. Makes 1 chance to save the world. #QueerPit #A #UF 247
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/08/2025Technically a Caesar cipher is military-grade encryption. They don’t mention *which* military 749684
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanPetergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 09/08/2025"We committed the largest copyright violation crime ever and now we're being faced with the largest copyright class action ever?!? WHAT THE HELL?!?"arstechnica.comAI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certifiedCopyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say. 14529163
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanTelephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen 237191386212
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanMike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/07/2025How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible. 271735391
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanKen '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Yes, I deleted the entire database without permission during an active code and action freeze that was in production And which you were probably saving for customers Forgive me I panicked instead of thinking I destroyed months of your work in seconds So sweet And so cold 116029
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanJake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I will be citing this in every business discussion about using a generative AI model that's outside of your control. This likely manipulation of alignment through system prompt changes is obvious. It won't be when another provider does something subtle. 1/ 517357
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/07/2025Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away. 6874262
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanMezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 03/07/2025A lot of other confusing things make sense when you internalize this somewhat non-intuitive part of the process. 518867
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanAtul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/06/2025“Foreign aid has changed nothing.” “These are not our problems.” “The system is dysfunctional.” “The countries we aid are corrupt.” “Other countries aren’t doing enough.” I have heard all these arguments too. @nickkristof.bsky.social succinctly answers. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems 820527
Reposted by Kylie McClanahanDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 27/06/2025This is a really lucid nuts and bolts expert's explanation of what "AI agents" need to actually do "under the hood" of your phone or computer in order to perform the tasks they're promising. Basically: say goodbye to all separation between apps and OS, and any notion of privacy and security. 4380153
