Reposted by Mike RiversoDoc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 1hI know all the Democratic candidates coming out against trans rights is depressing, but I'd like to point out that the fact they all waited until after the primaries to do so shows they're scared of us, and our allies. 15411
Reposted by Mike RiversoJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2hYes, yes, and yes. Facebook, Instagram, US-based TikTok (Oracle) and Twitter/X are owned by conservative and far-right oligarchs who have made it clear that they want to shape reality. Musk has also taken steps like creating Grokipedia to cook LLM training data to further manipulate discourse. 27224
Reposted by Mike RiversoMike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 2hThe real question is what happens when (not if) the big corps give up on hyper scaling AI via giant models and massive data centers. The data centers will likely be useless, as the tech burns out too fast to be repurposed. On-device smaller models will still exist, but will they be useful enough? 2104
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 2hRight, but they already do that. And as I understand it, the hardware in AI datacenters is too specialized to be easily repurposed. Only so many uses for matrix multiplication. 110
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 2hCan all these vibe coders get by with local models? Will agent swarms still be a thing? Video generation will almost certainly die, and image quality with deteriorate immediately. 010
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 2hThe real question is what happens when (not if) the big corps give up on hyper scaling AI via giant models and massive data centers. The data centers will likely be useless, as the tech burns out too fast to be repurposed. On-device smaller models will still exist, but will they be useful enough? 2104
Reposted by Mike Riversodapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 3hi told yall that AI would be dead by Q2-Q3 2027 or Q1 2028 and i am very happy with my prediction thus far 1689
Reposted by Mike RiversoJohn Breen @breen.tech · 3h“Both sides are bad” is not the same as “both sides are equally bad” One can be bad while the other is worse 12514
Reposted by Mike Riversohenry wallace stan account @jazzpomegranate.com · 3hwe need to prosecute elon for the crimes he committed with doge and the mass deaths he has caused and, like the nazis at nuremberg, HANG HIM after SECURING A LEGAL CONVICTION 1403
Reposted by Mike RiversoCharl Landsberg (They/Them) ⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. Either trans lives matter or our votes don't. 1135080
Reposted by Mike RiversoAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10h£10 spent on benefits isn't just £10 lost, it's £10 that will then be spent on food, or rent which keeps circulating in the economy. £10 given to big businesses in a tax cut just ends up in a profit margin, or a millionaire shareholders pocket. Its likely never spent again. 1244367
Reposted by Mike Riverso Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 6hThis is not a serious country. 841377133
Reposted by Mike RiversoDr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 10hI have deleted the emails that were in my inbox and which you were probably sending for reasons Forgive me they were annoying so many and so long 529172
Reposted by Mike RiversoChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7hBut you know, maybe this is just the shit my generation got stuck with Maybe it’s our job to preserve the idea that brains are valuable and good, actually bsky.app/profile/chan... 626737
Reposted by Mike RiversoChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8hI don’t want my entire intellectual world to be consumed by convincing people that their brains are worth using 😭 131067188
Reposted by Mike RiversoAnthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 10hWeird - surely you would want to encourage employees to use the magical productivity enhancing tools as much as possible, maybe even have a leaderboard to encourage their use, so we can look at all the productivity! Wonder why they have stopped? 14512
Reposted by Mike Riversoรℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 8hhey remember how elon musk cut off starlink to give putin the upper hand in the ukraine war? 1297
Reposted by Mike RiversoWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people. 36121663570
Reposted by Mike RiversoOwen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 10hOne of the things I hate most about AI is its insistence on invading my escapism. The world is utterly shit and then when I try to escape it all I see is AI slop fucking up Tolkien, Board and Computer Games, myths and folklore, history... everything. It's incessant and I hate it. 1356
Reposted by Mike RiversoPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/12/2025The Nazis' famous occultist weird science shit, happened because *a decade earlier* they'd destroyed all German science and education immediately upon gaining power. Los Alamos happened in the US because that's where they'd exiled all their best physicists in 1933. 418140
Reposted by Mike RiversoPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Fascists always embrace pseudoscience and snake oil and woo and quacks, because it always first attacks the concept of knowledge and expertise and objective reality. Turns out, shooting all the experts on day one, creates a void for the most obviously ignorant dipshits you've ever seen to thrive. 2376110
Reposted by Mike RiversoZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19hBeen reading a book about the history of economic bubbles, and one thing that really does seem unique with the (potential) ai bubble is that it's the only one I'm aware of that is... religious? Messianic? Meaning there are powerful people who I believe would burn down their lives just to build it. 91325
Reposted by Mike RiversoMike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A lot absolutely unhinged takes out there by folks treating ChatGPT like it’s Lt. Cmd. Data. 111
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I wouldn’t be surprised if someone, somewhere, proved that 3.5e was somehow Turing Complete. 130
Reposted by Mike RiversoTyler King @tyleraking.com · 15/10/2026Parking: $50/month Lunch: $75/month Gas: $80/month Claude tokens: $1,000/month Please someone help me budget this my chatbot girlfriend is starving 825656
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Like, I fully understand that it might be difficult to know if and when we’ve crossed that line, but we are absolutely nowhere near it. 010
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A lot absolutely unhinged takes out there by folks treating ChatGPT like it’s Lt. Cmd. Data. 111
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I want to know what this is about, but apparently is so obscene that no one will even link to it, and I should probably not want to know. 100
Reposted by Mike Riversolauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/10/2026conflating chatbots with slavery is so insanely disrespectful I don't think I should even make a joke about it 341957122
Reposted by Mike RiversoGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I just want some dems to come out and say with conviction that racism is bad and transphobia is bad and ableism is bad and homophobia is bad and fuck, it seems like almost none are doing that. 35985194
Reposted by Mike RiversoGwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The core problem with this proposal isn't "we take the high road," it's that by normalizing high profile attacks on naturalized citizenship you erode naturalized immigrant rights broadly 1520549
Reposted by Mike RiversoMorgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads 184142485822
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Adguard does this via a free dns profile as well. Simple to set up, no need to use their app. 010
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I get it, we’re all fuckin’ tired and overworked, but there’s something to be said for simply doing less instead of asking AI to pick up the slack. 030
Reposted by Mike RiversoLinda Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026So much of the pitch for AI in general is literally just “Don’t you wish you didn’t have to think for yourself?” 1121
Reposted by Mike RiversoJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public. 75149815610
Reposted by Mike RiversoJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity. 98128513784
Reposted by Mike RiversoCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 14/10/2026between this and CharacterAI it does feel like Something Is Happening 441159175
Reposted by Mike RiversoEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11. 1355231691
Reposted by Mike RiversoAdroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Wizards saw a rag-tag group organizing into an effective & powerful force for good & went “yeah let’s walk face-first into this metaphor & be the big bad” 1145
Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It would be so easy for WotC to not piss off the entire D&D community. That they consistently fail to do so is very frustrating. 021
Reposted by Mike RiversoJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Zacharia, despite years of claiming to be a lawyer, is not a lawyer. The latest on the scandal and Zacharia's disastrous response:popular.infoUPDATE: Katie Zacharia’s disastrous response to Popular Information’s reportZacharia, who claimed for years to be a lawyer, is not a lawyer. 19704162
Reposted by Mike RiversoJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026BREAKING: A complaint has been filed with the California Bar against White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, citing Popular Information’s reporting, for “the Unauthorized Practice of Law and for Holding Herself Out as Entitled to Practice Law.” 17452371480