Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age. 1128348
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The mathematician made this discovery at the mountains of madness, surely. 001
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026Every day we get closer to this: 121461448
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Always good to see markets make an irrational system even more irrational by using AInytimes.comBattle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs HigherThe use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care. 22315
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Great article. Liberalism is the doula of fascism (redux). What is written about Germany's "centrist" parties applies to many other countries too. 011
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Doing the same, a much livelier classroom. While I can't say if everyone likes it, the feedback has been very positive so far. 000
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services?? 223561
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There were a few making this argument last time Zuckerberg complained about Meta's AI devt and called for open sourcing AI. 001
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A low-effort report by a conservative think tank is pushing the narrative that anti-Flock sentiment is being pushed by China and a far-left billionaire. This "study" was picked up by Sinclair broadcasting and pushed in dozens of cities around the country: www.404media.co/smear-campai...404media.coSmear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese PropagandaSinclair Broadcasting is pushing the idea that China and the No Kings protesters are the reason people don't like Flock. 29474152
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I presume these are not hyperscale data center? Either way it is also missing a point: "data center" has kind of become a master signifier that stand in for and helps to make sense of AI, fascist take over, tech bros, scams and corruption. 000
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The start of the term always reminds me how much I absolutely hate Brightspace. Passionately. 110
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this. 15233968816100
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I like trainwrecks, this one shows immense promise. 120
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenAjuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026What a great illustration of the scam of technosolutionism! 👏 @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social 314269
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hot off the presses. Breaking Frontiers: Debates in Marxist Theory Today, edited by John Holloway and Sin Liang. @stnhfj.bsky.social and I contributed "Marxism and the Critique of AI," @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social has a piece on the state, and others by Bonefeld, Federici, Dinerstein and Grubacic 121
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"I don't want to pay a living wage and lose my power" 040
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenRaphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end. 127111774659
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"It’s crazy that amidst our unending contrition we’ve forgotten a truism of academic life: that humanists are very obviously the best writers. Even our most cringe takes are good" 041
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenCPN @oksettledown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Thank you for your attention to this matter!! 14571231328
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026If you like Horkheimer and Adorno, you will like this 020
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I guess I will never fly through the US ever again. 000
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026All free time must be transformed into surplus labour. 000
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Why am I not surprised to learn this idiot is from Great Yarmouth. 000
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Spot on. As that old Australian (?) anarchist pamphlet said: you can't blow up a social relationship. 000
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This article will be perfect to pair with Haug's "commodity aesthetics" for my consumption course since that explains the inverse of “Tobacco in standardized packaging was generally perceived as worse tasting and of lower quality than branded tobacco.” 000
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I am not surprised. I admired his sense of style when I watched his season of Traitors. 000
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them. 2793362633
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Great review. Can't wait to read it, alas, it's still not arrived at our library despite the rush order they made a few months ago. 110
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comAI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of DebtAI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt. 10355922419
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When a major strategic victory in war is achieved by drone attacks on e-commerce hubs then you know the 20th century is well in the rear-view mirror 282511550
Reposted by Atle Mikkola Kjosen👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 23/07/2026Hi, vernacular architectural historian here! So what’s happened here is basically yeah that’s a gate to hell 603936832
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Last time I read up on risk averse vs. gamblers, the figure for the latter was typically around 10% in a population (IIRC). 000
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026@annakornbluh.bsky.social has a lot of great zingers in Immediacy. I almost spat out my coffee laughing to this comments on streaming and data extraction: "we swim in a shitstream of our own excretive analytics." Book is brilliant, such lines make it bloody so. 000
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenThe Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt 4567741795
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/07/2026‘His legacy is cringe’: how Charlie Kirk became a meme among the young – even his supporterstheguardian.com‘His legacy is cringe’: how Charlie Kirk became a meme among the young – even his supportersCrude jokes about the Maga luminary are exploding online – less than a year after conservatives were suppressing any slander against him 2332875
Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Tracks, McConnell looks like someone described in the Dunwich Horror. 010
Reposted by Atle Mikkola KjosenLeigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes" 17107172608
