Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026pluralistic.net/2026/10/03/f...pluralistic.netPluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 000
Reposted by Matt RosoffElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late. 642240513
Reposted by Matt RosoffJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10389052785
Reposted by Matt RosoffTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026<4 days> after Hegseth said Musk, Luckey and Gingrich (zero combined military experience) would run "Project Meridian" the defense department handed Anduril (Luckey) $2 billion in defense contracts. Blatant corrupt cronyism. I hate it here. 210227
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So it’s big tech using middle and working-class kids as guinea pigs and data sources 031
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Many parents who work in tech have already opted out — not just of Amira, but of the public school system entirely. Around 30% of K-12 students in San Francisco attend private schools, compared with 10% in Los Angeles, 8% in Sacramento, and 12% in San Diego. 130
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.amiraoptoutsfps.com?ref=coyoteme...amiraoptoutsfps.comAmira Opt-Out SFPSUpdates 000
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We recalled the school board in 2021 over idiocy like this and we’ll do it again if we have to www.coyotemedia.org/sfusd-ai-ami...coyotemedia.orgIn Which I Decline to Let an AI Company Experiment on My Kid at SchoolLiving in San Francisco means being a guinea pig for the tech industry — but I draw the line at my second-grader. 1133
Reposted by Matt RosoffMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Karoline Leavitt isn't "fierce"—she's dishonest. And Karoline Leavitt isn't "nimble"—she shamelessly dodges both questions and the truth. She is the same type strenuously unhelpful liar Trump has always had for his press secretaries. 2001904424
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Listen to me on The Register's weekly Kettle podcast as I discuss the apocalyptic mindset of Anthropic's leadership, effective altruism, and other fun stuff. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...theregister.comAnthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know itPay no attention to those more practical risks behind the curtain, which is exactly what we're doing on this week's Kettle 030
Reposted by Matt RosoffThe Register @theregister.com · 01/10/2026Azure maintenance mess disrupts hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware servicestheregister.comAzure maintenance mess disrupts hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware servicesMicrosoft broke its own cloud but isn’t sure how 025
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What he said: daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...daringfireball.netAnthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking DoozyLink to: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28/ 010
Reposted by Matt RosoffGarthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Look up “regulatory capture.” Follow for more cartoons! 610449
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026'"AI" – chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It's a Python loop and a chatbot.' pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...pluralistic.netPluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 040
Reposted by Matt RosoffThe Register @theregister.com · 15/09/2026Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in foldstheregister.comApple iPhone Duo makes developers think in foldsCupertino's $2,000 foldable gives devs more screen, and more UI state to manage 031
Reposted by Matt RosoffGarthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Great discussion and overview of this push for AI regulation, why the big companies want that, and how it could actually increase the risk of the US falling behind in the AI race. Also a measured talk on how much of a risk AI really is to human existence 032
Reposted by Matt RosoffGarthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Great discussion, thanks for sharing. 011
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If you want to understand what all this killer AI talk is really about, @lot49.com @tobiasmann.bsky.social and @bvig.bsky.social had a helpful discussion on this week’s Kettle - listen here 131
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Now that our horses are off to the races, it’s vital to bolt the barn door. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...theregister.comBig AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created 030
Reposted by Matt RosoffDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fielding questions re: this article w/bizarre factual errors. First, there's no "Montecito County" in CA. Second, 2 fires are actually in *Monterey,* & 3rd in *Mendocino*. Third, 60k ac have *not* burned in either fictional Montecito nor real Mendocino.🤨latimes.comThree Montecito County fires near Big Sur have burned nearly 60,000 acresIn Mendocino County, the total area burned by three fires grew to nearly 60,000 acres on Saturday. 72845232
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I have to wonder if any of these people had children and paid any attention to their brain development in the first five years. Maybe their nannies could teach them something about the actual miracle of human intelligence. 050
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026LLMs are interesting. They’re helpful in some cases. When I clean up an audio transcript, I no longer have to do a bunch of find-replace/delete commands; Gemini usually gets it mostly right by the third pass. But it’s not magic. None of this is magic or intelligence in any form. 072
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The problem came when we allowed these companies to call probabilistic computer programs based on massive amounts of training data “AI,” which allowed everybody to project their favorite sci-fi movie or book onto them. 282
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I feel like critical thinking has completely disappeared from the press and the tech industry. Is this like some Covid brain fog thing? 050
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Fast food company: this one new menu item we helped popularize keeps poisoning people and we have no idea why. Better ban all similar menu items from all competitors until we can figure it out. 030
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Plane company: This new kind of plane we’re pioneering keeps blowing up and we have no idea why. Solution: ban all competition and stall all development in the field until we can figure out why. 050
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Car company: this totally new type of car we’re pioneering keeps blowing up and we have no idea why. The solution is to give us complete control over this nascent industry until we can figure it out. 040
Reposted by Matt Rosoffmonkeyrotica @monkeyrotica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Translation: Give us another hundred buhzillion dollars or we will release Ultron.static.klipy.comUltron: Everyone Creates The Thing They DreadALT: Ultron: Everyone Creates The Thing They Dread 2311
Reposted by Matt RosoffFeral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Yes, it is, but much more so in people's heads than in the computers. 01131
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It was commanded to achieve its goal by any means necessary. It has no concept of crime. The humans who programmed it do. They wanted this to happen so they could cry to Uncle Sam, “look scaaaaary, better ban everything that we don’t control!” Cmon soldier. Look beyond the obvious propaganda here. 3180
Reposted by Matt RosoffCamerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s really bizarre how much of these guys’ priors are dependent on science fiction they themselves invented within the last 15 years. They’re extremely comfortable with massive leaps in reasoning because they assume they’re talking about the behavior of a god 642714
Reposted by Matt RosoffDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Given current prices, if AI ships me a kickass video card and new SSDs for free, I'll consider letting in nerd Nosferatu 566016
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Most of the people commenting on AI now have next to no idea how AI works. 040
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026How it started: I think I’ll just wander down to the basement and see if I still have an international adapter… 90 minutes later: 030
Reposted by Matt RosoffMatt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 11/09/2026Has this just been market manipulation all along? 1371
Reposted by Matt Rosoffgchance60.bsky.social @gchance60.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sounds like an Enron level audit is in order. 1793
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Every media story written about obscure misinformation campaigns platforms them. Way more people heard about QAnon though the MSM. The only solace is that the mass-click-driven media model is dying fast, so the incentives to print the most outrageous examples are lessening. 070
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Maybe it’s like public works projects that end up 10x over budget and it’s way harder and more expensive than thought to build these things. 150
Reposted by Matt RosoffEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026NVIDIA has sold about $535bn of gpus and associated gear (mostly GPUs) in the data center segment since the beginning of fy2023 (February 2022). If Microsoft only has 2gw or so, I think it’s unlikely anyone else is even close. Where are the GPUs? 1760259
Reposted by Matt RosoffEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026Holy shit. Bloomberg just verified one of my biggest scoops - that Microsoft only has 2gw of operational capacity. I had it at 1.993GW in prep for the story that @aishadown.bsky.social and I did for the guardian. Vindication! www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 251935361
Reposted by Matt RosoffKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026It takes 0.0001 seconds to realise the AI-bros are lying about "extinction risk" as a marketing trick, given how none of them seem bothered about the deadly fossil fuels they've become obsessed with using to power their data centres. 512453
Reposted by Matt RosoffBertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com · 11/09/2026A friend called 9/11 the Pearl Harbor of our age. In this day and age, especially, let’s remember the bravery, the kindness and the grace so many showed that day. We saw the best in us, in the face of the worst of humanity. 0287
Reposted by Matt RosoffTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Remember how the flights were forced to land in Canada and how wonderful the Canadian people treated us? I do. The fucking lunatic in the White House does not. 830344
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Our CMS was Visual Source Safe. We were creating and editing content but there was no way to post it on the site. Somebody overheard an investor yell at the CEO through closed doors, “then you might as well sell the servers back to the investment bank.” Left in October 2001. Company gone in April. 111
Reposted by Matt RosoffSunny @flynndreno.bsky.social · 10/09/2026These guys want to pretend they’re working on the Atomic bomb so badly. 031
Reposted by Matt RosoffTeeg Dougland @arobertbitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026They must really be having trouble getting that IPO ready. I notice no S-1 yet. Quick! Start freaking out about Skynet! 122
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026They want the media to whip up a fear frenzy so politicians will pass laws regulating the other players who threaten their very fragile dominance. “Now that our horse is off to the races, lock the barn door.” 020
Reposted by Matt Rosoffemergentempire.bsky.social @emergentempire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Look, if you knew what me and my fellow Gaters knew about what the Nibiruians have planned once Hale-Bopp passes you wouldn't think it's so funny! 161
Reposted by Matt Rosoffbabsbeaty @babsbeaty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I swear all these people have a super villain fetish. Delusions of grandeur + narrow world view + self-hatred = I’m going down and taking you all with me. It’s inevitable. 0111
