Reposted by Mari MarcondesTammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Of all the cities in the world,James Baldwin used Hong Kong, my city, to illustrate love. "Pretend...that you... have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong,...only a name on a map... some convulsion... throws you into connection [someone] who lives in Hong Kong[.]" ike.io/james-baldwi... 042
Reposted by Mari MarcondesShimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 13/06/2026When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story. 13978552508
Reposted by Mari MarcondesLars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This is obviously a very important german court ruling. AI providers are liable for false information given by AI. But I'd like to draw your attention to the original cause of the court case. It's something I noticed often, and I feel it's very dangerous. 1/ www.wired.com/story/a-cour...wired.comA Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI OverviewsThe ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. 419569
Reposted by Mari MarcondesKy @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.ky.fyiDo I belong in tech anymore?On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. 1281791544
Reposted by Mari MarcondesNaida Jazmin Ochoa @naidajazmin8a.bsky.social · 13/04/2026"Generative AI requires sacrificing the world’s water to feed its hideous data centres. Around the globe, chatbots induce schizophrenic delusions and urge teens to kill themselves – all while turning users brains to mush" Thanks Molly! ✊🔥 Artists too are fighting for a way of life. For sure we are! 213666
Reposted by Mari MarcondesAndrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 15/02/2026I'm beginning to think that the worst part of a grey goo scenario would be humans going "yeah, it's not great but... It's sort of comfortable? Doesn't taste too bad either, and you know... It's everywhere, so why fight it? Look how much grey goo we've all got, right? Discrete objects are woke." 0448
Reposted by Mari MarcondesTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 01/01/2026If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will 202107531
Reposted by Mari Marcondescuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 01/12/2025“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to 195233109464
Reposted by Mari MarcondesMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18/09/2025“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!” -ashamed -fragile -unreliable “A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.” -powerful -commanding -honest 251881451
Reposted by Mari MarcondesMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 01/07/2025How to be classy, how to be cute, how to actually walk the walk... Love you for this, @cloudflare.social ❤️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/t...nytimes.comCloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers 10520102
Reposted by Mari MarcondesInês Barreto @inesbarreto.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Eu não aguento mais IA em tudo. Não aguento mais falar sobre IA, ler sobre IA, trabalhar com IA. Eu só queria que todos os servidores de IA explodissem. 1433186
Reposted by Mari Marcondestante @tante.cc · 16/06/2025In the end it seems to me that one of the main distinctions between people who see LLMs as good and those who don't is whether they see the digital part of the world as "content" or "people". If it's all just content, LLMs make sense. If it's where people live LLMs become a somewhat dumb idea. 24515
Reposted by Mari Marcondes707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Open knowledge sharing AND copyright are both under siege. Whether you are for one or the other doesn't matter. This is a shared issue that's hitting "both sides". They are taking away YOUR choice, replacing it with regurgitation & centralisation while the open internet withers away. 📌 Instance🧵 36917
Reposted by Mari MarcondesRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025There are many reasons why AI slop has become the aesthetic of current digital fascism, but one may lie in the competitive and selective logic of AI training itself: GenAI amplifies the presence of those who are already highly visible – while rendering invisible those who are already marginalized 5/ 525290
Reposted by Mari MarcondesFrances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸 @franceshisgen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025deeply moved by this project from the Hong Kong Action Archives that is building a map of memories: everything from the taste of a now-closed dai pai dong to recollections of protest. 曾經，每年6月4日晚都會集滿人的地方。每次有咩唔開心都會喺度望住個維港沉思。we will remember. waysofrememberinghongkong.hkaa.co 1114
Reposted by Mari MarcondesHarald Klinke @harald-klinke.de · 08/03/2025TEXTPOCALYPSE: The proliferation of AI-generated text threatens to overwhelm the internet, making human-authored content increasingly rare. How will this deluge of machine-written language affect our ability to maintain meaningful communication? #AI #Textpocalypse #DigitalCommunicationtheatlantic.comPrepare for the TextpocalypseOur relationship to writing is about to change forever; it may not end well. 13516
Reposted by Mari MarcondesGabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵: 272047704
Reposted by Mari MarcondesBG | berlinergazette.de @berlinergazette.bsky.social · 21/02/2025We are witnessing the first generation of students who have full access to generative #AI and the first generation of teachers who are bombarded with offers to use AI tools. Is this leading to the creative destruction of knowledge ecologies? berlinergazette.de/generative-a...berlinergazette.deAfter Progress: Is Artificial Intelligence Degenerating Human Knowledge? · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DEWe are witnessing the first generation of students who have full access to generative AI (e.g. to write term papers), and at the same time the first generation of teachers who are bombarded with offer... 065
Reposted by Mari Marcondesjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/02/2025i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence 630376653788
Reposted by Mari MarcondesWraithtek @wraithtek.bsky.social · 05/02/2025“AI haters (complimentary)” 0724
Reposted by Mari MarcondesMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Come for strands of trenchant analysis uncommon in AI journalism, stay for davidjroth.bsky.social 's truly great writing. defector.com/the-future-i...defector.comThe Future Is Too Easy | DefectorLAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of ... 27717
Reposted by Mari MarcondesEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Much of the "is AI art?" questions are really "is AI communication?" but in disguise. AI can make art because a urinal factory can make art. If AI makes art, it's through designation, not intent. AI is a one-sided simulation of communication processed exclusively by the viewer. There's no exchange. 46211
Reposted by Mari MarcondesPaul Andrew @paulshoots.bsky.social · 23/01/2025If the AI is going to make mistakes too then WHY DOESN'T A PERSON JUST HAVE THAT JOB 0481
Reposted by Mari MarcondesTaipoTuna @taipotuna.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Yay. www.edx.org/learn/langua...edx.orgHKPolyUx: Cantonese Language and Culture for Beginners | edXThe course aims to enable students to master the sounds of Cantonese and conduct basic conservations in Cantonese. It is suitable for learners of the following 3 categories: (1) People from Hong Kong ... 082
Reposted by Mari MarcondesRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 12/01/2025Good points in the thread about gender coding and regulation. 041
Reposted by Mari Marcondesali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 27/12/2024AI is more consistently a meandering military moonshot project than it is ... almost anything else, but to the extent that it's anything else it's still more consistently a vehicle for political consolidation and accumulation of power 3247
Reposted by Mari MarcondesJeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Not sure of the original source of this, but the depiction with the final domino set to crush the pusher is devastatingly accurate. 5036461794
Reposted by Mari MarcondesPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 01/01/2025I've made one resolution, not to work too hard. 418125
Reposted by Mari MarcondesJack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 27/12/2024"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages. 75139155055
Reposted by Mari MarcondesUnpaid Cat Maid @emeraldjaguar.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth. 71123214979
Reposted by Mari Marcondesdoctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 27/12/2024read this and had a full epiphany that ai has simply trained all these idiots to give it easy prompts. 26707202
Reposted by Mari MarcondesAlex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 19/12/2024UK Folks. If you're concerned about the catastrophic impact of generative AI on the creative industries & the theft of artists/writers creations, then you REALLY NEED to complete the below online consultation form. This is your chance to say 'fuck off, this is not okay' www.gov.uk/government/c...gov.ukCopyright and Artificial IntelligenceThis consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together. 4015421211
Reposted by Mari MarcondesAnna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas. 15272412273
Reposted by Mari MarcondesSalomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 11/12/2024If you need chatGPT to interpret a legal term, you probably shouldn't be a federal appellate judge www.google.com/url?sa=i&url... 49016
Reposted by Mari MarcondesJoe Amditis @jamditis.com · 11/12/2024if you wanna read something that's really well-written but also incredibly depressing, might i recommend this from @404media.co www.404media.co/i-went-to-th...404media.coI Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies“With premium original content, precise ad-targeting capability, and an AI-powered, innovative engaging viewing experience, TCL’s content service will continue its double-digit growth next year.” 911536
Reposted by Mari MarcondesiProgramInCpp @iprogramincpp.com · 09/12/2024Tapping the sign as too many people forget 82159309
Reposted by Mari MarcondesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/12/2024It occurs to me how similar the current state of genAI in tech products is to the plastics producing industry in the 1980s - where they openly dreamed about waste bins overflowing with single-use plastics - and importantly, *actually made that into a reality* discardstudies.com/wp-content/u... 10297123
Reposted by Mari MarcondesAlex Reisner @alexreisner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Dialogue from more than 139,000 movies and TV shows has been used to train generative AI. I wrote about it for The Atlantic and built a search tool for screenwriters, directors, and actors to find their work. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...theatlantic.comThere’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AIDialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems. 46528
Reposted by Mari MarcondesFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/12/2024OpenAI explores advertising as it steps up revenue drive www.ft.com/content/9350d075-1658-4d…ft.comOpenAI explores advertising as it steps up revenue driveChatGPT maker hires advertising talent from big tech rivals 4207
Reposted by Mari MarcondesHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/12/2024Quoting this piece by @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com/p/practico-i...robhorning.substack.comPractico-inertiaGoogle recently released an generative model called Gemini but had to suspend its image-generation capabilities because of how it was programmed to address brand safety concerns. 14316
Reposted by Mari MarcondesEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/11/2024It's the two year anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT and still nobody can actually say what it is or why it's the future 2804918562
Reposted by Mari MarcondesMelissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano) 146154533263
Reposted by Mari Marcondeselle is not ok [📌’d 👀] @scretladyspider.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I don’t want AI chatbots I don’t want AI commercials I don’t want AI art I don’t want AI books I don’t want AI reviewing medical records I don’t want AI music I don’t want AI poetry I don’t want AI movies I don’t want AI writing assistance I don’t want AI I don’t want it I don’t want it i don’t want 28679145
Reposted by Mari MarcondesViolet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 18/11/2024📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines 751706619
