Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think AI has already exceeded the intelligence of the type of person that believes AGI is imminent, which is why they believe AGI is imminent. 253375488
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialDavid Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 01/08/2026if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone” 201120972629
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialThe Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 22/07/2026Audiences in 2026 are sending a clear message to filmmakers: We want movies to look real — and for you to sweat while making them.bit.ly‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard WayAudiences in 2026 are sending a clear message to filmmakers: We want movies to look real — and for you to sweat while making them. 0286
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/wheresyoured.atRevenge of The Business IdiotIf you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in... 201143360
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialThe_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 24/05/2026A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. 9889184352
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/05/2026Jesus Christ this is the most chilling thing I've read in ages. The "new understanding of truth" described here is not new in any way, it is basically a return to pre-literate dark ages & the inevitable result is going to be fascism.wired.comGen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of TruthThe first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true... 872381831
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations. 10347761572
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialDannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared. I love these students & I am worried. 621183185
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026This is the first website built entirely on the purity of the user's soul. I'm having no trouble accessing it. If you are then you must look within 263451581
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS 252605821
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/03/2026Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:karlbode.com"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion. 633135768
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialMeg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you. 236185104523
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialsky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts 234865845
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialEmily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Movie critic: This is one of the best films of the year! Person who has not seen the movie: Really? The trailer is bad! 1723213
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 18/09/2025It was never about FREE SPEECH. It was always about the protection of HATE SPEECH. 111497348
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialDan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point 1351691150
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2025OpenAI isn’t a business, it’s the sunk cost fallacy with the brake line cut. 3406
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialVinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 05/09/2025F is for Fuck This 49123
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/08/2025LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never) 341109224
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read ittheatlantic.comAI Is a Mass-Delusion EventThree years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it. 14843861404
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 16/08/2025rightwingers love to make fascist art with ai generators, ai image generation is the aesthetic of fascism 2137757930
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialStephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 13/08/2025In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war... 25923240
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialAndré "Normal" Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 10/08/2025It's always been genocide in Palestine. Waiting until it's complete to call it that is complicity. 6961279
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialParis Marx @parismarx.com · 06/08/2025Microsoft can no longer deny it’s directly enabling the oppression and genocide of Palestinians by Israel. “According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.” 215777
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.social+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 06/08/2025Revealed: Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians. www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...972mag.comMicrosoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack PalestiniansMicrosoft developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians. 3150116
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialdr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 31/07/2025"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name. 240169654661
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialdash @knowpicnic.bsky.social · 23/07/2025This paragraph by @edzitron.com is everything. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g... 5479133
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialMatthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025My latest newsletter is about why being anti-genAI is to be pro-human. It's about why it's time to fight. Why we need to fight. And it's about the cost of failure. whatwelost.substack.com/p/people-are...whatwelost.substack.comPeople Are The PointI... uh... I think I wrote a manifesto. 946292
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/07/2025it's so cool that i get framed as a radical for saying these companies lose billions of dollars and their products don't do enough to justify any of this, and Roose gets framed as a luminary. I cannot wait for this bubble to pop because I have taken such detailed notes 1233013380
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The percentage of tasks AI "agents" are currently failing at may spell trouble for the industry... futurism.com/ai-agents-fa...futurism.comThe Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the IndustryThe best AI Agents are currently failing about 70 percent of the tasks assigned to them, as investments are expected to drop off a cliff. 1221260
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialAlistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing 218116584929
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 12/06/2025Teach a robot to fish and soon you won't remember how to. 15576123
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialDrew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 22/05/2025To be clear, no, he can't, because he's dead and he never agreed to this. Fuck everyone involved real hard. Right in the ear. variety.com/2025/digital...variety.comOrson Welles Can Now Be Your AI-Generated Tour GuideOrson Welles is back -- as a disembodied AI-generated voice in location-based storytelling app Storyrabbit. 810520
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Of course, managers who try to replace their team with AI quickly find that it is completely incapable of passing the same test, for three reasons. One is that AI can *do tasks* but expertise is not just a string of tasks. Two is hallucination; the tasks it does do, it doesn't do well. 2511
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialweinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 21/04/2025criticism is writing is art. as such, some of it will be lazy, uninformed, and ignorant. but then what of the countless excellent critics who create their own art by highlighting the work of others? also: without critics, everything written about a new book, film, etc. is marketing. 412132
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialwint @dril.bsky.social · 08/04/2025my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content 73199984887
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism. 10997804313821
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialweinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 30/03/2025"I used AI to make a Studio Ghibl--"media.tenor.comtwo cats are sitting next to each other on a bed looking at each other .Alt: Cat slaps another cat! 1466
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialKent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The two major parties have decided this election won’t be fought on climate change. Let’s decide otherwise. Vote for Climate 200 candidates. Vote Greens. #VoteForClimate #AusPol 61894242
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵 191103854333
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 09/03/2025We've reduced intelligence to what people can do with computers, which is fueling the current hype cycle. 713367388
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/... 15496613142
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialMatt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025For me, the worst thing about #Section31 (and there are many to choose from!) is that it shows how the people in charge of #StarTrek have no firm convictions about the franchise’s identity.commentarytrack.netWhat Is 'Star Trek' Supposed to Be Now?The new movie 'Section 31' is the latest attempt to chase other franchises rather than embrace a distinct personality. 283
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialEmily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Of course there is the corollary: "THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS THAN THE OSCARS." a.) Yes! b.) Caring about something fundamentally unimportant is vital, no matter how dark things become. c.) We need art and conversations around it! The Oscars, though very silly, start those conversations. 840031
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialRantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 18/01/2025The shrine to David Lynch at Bob's Big Boy is really something... 3753111068
Reposted by @maybenathan.bsky.socialJohn Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David. 268341253001
