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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is not right-wing tech bros vs left wing activists. It is a technology that could be made accessible and helpful to many people, but is being turned into its worst incarnation under a banner that loudly proclaims "for all of humanity" while doing nothing for anyone worth less than 9 figures.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

youtu.be/afKqIR5qJ8Q?... A really thoughtful discussion from great speakers with diverse backgrounds on how to genuinely use AI to make the world better. I'm glad to see a growing middle band of people having nuanced conversations about AI, it's impact and the realities of our economic systems.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Being some mixture of eco-socialist with anarchist anti-hierarchy values, who got into AI a decade ago because of it's potential to accelerate science and medicine, and now watching it send us BACKWARDS on climate goals in order to create the worst version of TikTok sure is...an experience.

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Carolyn Page @jacuzzitubbs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

If you watched the address tonight I’d like to share something I learned after my 3rd breakup with my 2nd boyfriend: liars gonna lie, so just don’t listen.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My wife's smart watch just beeped to alert her that her BPM is over 100. Because she just pulled a legendary joker in Balatro that works REALLY well for her deck. I love this dork.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The story behind some of the earliest science around climate change is absolutely fascinating, if also very depressing.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/02/2025

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have cut off funding for half of the health centers that serve 400,000 Virginians, forcing some to close, which could mean up to 200,000 Virginians are suddenly without healthcare www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...

vpm.org

Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access

Despite pause on federal funding freeze, centers unable to access grants

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If we can get either Trump or Muskrat to start shit with Kendrick, I'm pretty sure the entire administration would collapse on itself.

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Kel 🧌 Disordered Fancy 🫈 @wallpaperarsenic.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Today, we learnt about Sarah E. Goode - she was one of the first African-American women to receive a United States patent for her cabinet bed. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_E... catalog.archives.gov/id/7560384 #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth (USA) Please #Alt4Me 🙏🏻

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/02/2025

we are reaching levels of national security threats I did not even realize were possible this is the kind of thing you put in a terrible b-movie where some nefarious cybercriminal has hacked The Entire Treasury and everyone rolls their eyes at the implausibility except somehow it's actually real

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 04/02/2025

This connects directly with @ntnsndr.in's point in Governable Spaces that our computer systems typically have a built-in fully-sovereign Admin King who permissions everything. We need to imagine better.

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Moneybag Mo🐝💛 @morneque.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

For those who think the Treasury breach isn’t a big deal, just know that Elon and his Baby Hitler Hackers now also have your banking information. Those treasury payments have to go somewhere and if you’ve ever gotten a tax refund or a stimulus check your account numbers are in there too.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Yeah, that’s more like it

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HamScoot @hamscoot.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"Bravery isn't an emotion, it's an action."

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 19/01/2024

This isn't an exaggeration. Before Cockpit Resource Management became a thing, captains who acted like, and were deferentially treated like macho gods of the skies did things like let their planes run out of fuel or fly straight into the ground, and the other officers were too scared to stop them.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I'm not saying you have to like LLMs, or think they are useful for anything you value. But if there is even a 1% chance that these models hold any sort of power, and I think there's a lot of evidence that they do, then maybe this is what seizing the means of production looks like in 2025.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Three weeks ago the rather unchallenged expectation for the next decade could be pretty neatly summarized as "tech company hegemony". Then a paper comes out that lays out step by step how to do it, and they release the model freely, to be distributed, retrained and improved as we see fit.

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madonna kilpatrick 💙🦄🖖🏻 @madonnaots.com · 02/12/2024

Still True, no matter what. #StrongerTogether 💙🖖🏻

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 29/01/2025

Real crony capitalism has never been tried

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Its been a long day, forgive me. But damn if you didnt just prove my point 😅

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This might be the highest humor to word ratio of anything I've seen this decade. Art is alive, and it can be just 6 words long.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If only the oaths of office of Congress had the same legal authority as literally any piece of paper normal people have to sign in their daily lives. If only there were some mechanism of accountability. Accountability not bound by ink will be found with blood. No one comes out of this better off.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A reminder to all those saying the Cons wouldn't touch reproductive healthcare because...they said they wouldn't? to go fuck yourselves, because no one else should risk it. Rights aren't given, they are won. Rights aren't kept, they are protected. Vote and protest accordingly.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We can make whole new models built from ethical, consensual data, and then pay those who contributed their data for use of the model. LLMs learn patterns, very well. And then they mix and manipulate them into new and useful forms. What those forms are, and to what ends they are used, are up to us.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We can create systems that use these models responsibly for the explicit benefit of marginalized communities not by perscription, but by supporting them in discovering if and how these models can be of service to them, can help with problems only they fully understand because they live them.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I know a lot of people in progressive circles are, very understandably, anti-LLM/genAI. But regardless of who created it originally, R1 shares the recipe with everyone who wants to read it. We can build open models for medicine, science, learning and more, free of corporate control.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Not perfect, by any means, but I've not found perfection to be a useful standard IRL. The big issue ive found with this approach is that if it does mess up through the contingencies and corrections, it's likely hard to spot. You have to be on your guard, but it can get you quite far very fast.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

People are still judging LLMs pass/fail based on what they produce by themselves. Give them a few tools, force it to cite things for each statement, have another verify that the source and statements line up, and you have something far more reliable than most believe is possible right now.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hopefully with R1 being open, distillations, fine tunings and retrainings of it done in the open and by people attuned to these use cases will mean we'll see an end to corporate hegemony and more use of AI actually doing work that helps people.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I'm not an AI expert. But IMO, the biggest take away is that our biggest AI companies tried to make competition about how much money they could spend. Locking out others. Deepseek turned that upside down. Which could open the door to many smarter, more entrepreneurial competitors

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/01/2025

Some thoughts and an apology. I'm going to step away from Bluesky for a bit. It's already enough dealing with the attacks on the trans community without being torn apart by my own community like this for a mistake.

I'm going to address this once. I compiled a list of federal grant and loan programs that would potentially be impacted by the order. I used AI as a starting point for that process and then went through and manually checked each to verify that those were a valid program that would be impacted. I also added my own. I then made that list publicly accessible and tried to update it with new information as it came in. I have nearly a decade of legal experience dealing with federal policy and administrative procedures. This wasn’t some random list I only relied on GPT for, it was a starting point that I built on in a rapidly moving situation. I fully disclosed it immediately. It was not something I was hiding.

Given the limited nature of posts, some believed that it was a definitive list from the admin. It was not. Others thought this was simply me asking GPT for a list and passing it off. It was not. It’s entirely on me for not clarifying or accurately state what the information was from. I apologize. I also did not clarify enough in the initial post what this list fully encompassed. I apologize.
Many are critical of any and all use of gen AI in any context due to its environmental costs, blatant theft of IP, and use by tech companies to destroy creative professions. These are all valid critiques and concerns. As a result, many will deem any and all use of gen AI as evil regardless of the context. While I may disagree with some characterizations and believe there are some proper and ethical uses of generative AI, many do not. I won’t change anyone’s mind about this. I believe it’s the capitalistic use of gen AI to expand big techs power that is destructive rather than the underlying technology but that’s neither here nor there.

I do not monetize my online presence. I purposefully do not make any money off of my online presence at all. I do not intentionally seek clout.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The stock market is an index of how efficiently workers can be seperated from their money, and the fact that pensions and other critical investments for the working class are tied to it is the economic equivilant of using human shields.

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It's incredibly telling that the "economy's" (see, the stock market held overwhelmingly by the already wealthy with pensions thrown in as hostages) reaction to a free, cheap to produce, cheap to run model that can do good things for everyone (once censoring's been removed) is to aggressively crash.

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Jo Mc @schadenfreude4u.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

When we get real, proper, General AI; the first thing most people will ask it to do is get rid of all the bullshit LLM 'AI' that corporate has forced down our our throats. The second thing will be "How do we get rid of corporations?"

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"There is no moat" is gonna get way more literal than a lot of CEOs are comfortable with. Next come the walls...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 24/01/2025

Maybe my friends are ahead of the curve, idk? But most left-leaning people I know in real life seem to agree with Karl Marx (as imagined by Zach here). Outside of social media noise, I no longer hear ppl confidently dismissing LLMs as mere stochastic parrots.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Every fkin school district should take a stand! It shouldn't take courage to protect children.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025

Unlike Theranos' bullshit, This cancer screening blood test has been submitted for peer review & investigation so other people can check their results. (Also? When people talk about the uses of "AI" in medicine & some of us say that we have to disambiguate what we mean by "AI"? This is part of why)…

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Nex @nex-addo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025