Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Is AI just the latest link in the chain of Nymphs, Satyrs, and other nature spirits? We’ve always been obsessed with looking around and anthropomorphizing. 000
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Every time I read an article about AI, I am hit out of nowhere by a little nugget of horror that’s so dystopian. Here, Burger King’s piloting an AI in headsets that evaluates employees’ friendliness on the job? AI enabling constant surveillance is being normalized at a scary pace. 100
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I know that a lot of people don’t take what he says seriously but… he’s a deeply unwell man (read: lunatic) who’s being backed into a corner and has access to the nuclear codes??? 000
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 11/03/2026As if the headline wasn’t nightmarish enough, just wait till you read about how awful these people are treated and exploited by 9-9-6 glorifying 20-something founders who sound like modern day Scrooges 🤬🤬🤬 000
Reposted by PalakPalak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 15/02/2026tldr; the kids can’t read, what the fuck are they gonna do with AI 001
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Schools rushing to not just include AI but make it a focus reminds me of the people who complain that schools didn’t teach them how to do taxes. 100
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 12/12/2025I love and miss the days of the duck face, and I was wondering why it went out of style and I’m realizing… it never did! All the celebrities just got it permanently attached to their faces via lip filler!! 000
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 07/11/2025If this government shutdown and flight fuckery continues into holiday travel, can we please please please go with “the year the republicans stole Christmas” 000
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 10/10/2025I wonder if the proliferation of delivery robots will finally push forward bike infrastructure. They dragged their feet doing it for the common good, maybe they’ll do it for profit! 020
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 01/10/2025So many Americans believe in manifestation & redirection, and maybe that’s worked for people existing in this country rich with opportunities but it’s gonna be a big POV shift for all of us when we’re no longer this economic superpower 100
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 31/07/2025If nobody can give a definition of “woke”, aren’t all these media companies agreeing to censor “woke” (@ Skydance) pretty transparently agreeing to censor whatever-the-government-doesn’t-like? I’m not saying this is a profound observation, I just think we need to explicitly call it out more. 010
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 26/07/2025AI isn’t taking jobs en mass yet. At least in tech, a lot of those jobs are being offshored. I wonder if that’s going to make the transition to AI taking your job longterm that much more opaque/harder to track when it’s the worker in the Philippines who’s losing the job you had for the last decade. 110
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I feel like Apple is quietly sounding the alarm on AI. They’ve been modest even when talking about how they haven’t been able to get their AI to where they promised but I wonder (especially with their recent research paper) if the technology just isn’t nearly mature enough to be called AI! 110
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 12/06/2025….you’re pulling out the Afghanistan playbook for LOS ANGELES??? Are you liberating us from the influencers??? The bomb tacos??? ???????? 010
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 11/06/2025In a few years, they’re gonna actually come out with AI and are really gonna regret calling/marketing these LLMs as “AI” 010
Reposted by PalakCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 08/06/2025First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like. 400116913493
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 05/06/2025It’s very bold of the elites pushing forward Trump’s agenda of deepening the wealth gap in this country after Luigi made it clear where we’re heading… 000
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Repeat after me: You don’t want to be a trad wife, you want to be an aristocrat You don’t want a factory job, you want union benefits You don’t want to have a wife, you want an unpaid servant And you didn’t want a revolution, you wanted revenge. 030
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I’m not concerned as a software engineer because I think AI is capable enough to do my job but because I know decision-makers are dumb and greedy enough to convince themselves that AI’s capable enough 110
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Companies like Meta think they can replace entire industries (here, ad creative) with their AIs but do they think they can own and gate keep the AIs doing that work?apple.newsMark Zuckerberg just declared war on the entire advertising industry — The VergeIt’s not really a secret that the advertising industry is about to get upended by AI — one reason big platform companies like Google and Meta have been so deeply invested in photo and video generation... 120
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Or is it perhaps that this man at the top doesn’t see anyone below him as really human so that’s why his job requires intangible i.e. human skills but not any of the other workers’ 000
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Experts are saying that it’ll take years for America to really lose its economic/hegemonic status on the world stage but did any of them think that our institutions would (seemingly) fail as quickly as they did? It’s hard to know what to believe in “unprecedented times” 010
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I wonder if what’s so unimpressive about AI “art” and the idea that it’s a tool instead of a replacement is that it’s not being used at the right scale. Like if the printing press only printed one page? Or a sewing machine stopped at one stitch? 110
Reposted by PalakThe PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025we need to bring woke back it’s the only way. everybody do a land acknowledgement now 0202
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Everyone’s talking about how we’re just in another reactionary cycle. After all the civil rights gains of the 60s, we got Reagan. After Obama, we got Trump. And after Trump, we deserve the biggest, greatest blue haired white lib whiplash of our goddamn lives!!!!! 041
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 06/03/2025so do Elon Musk and Sergei Brin and all the transhumanists that want employees to work nonstop realize that other people don’t have full time nannies? that they have other responsibilities but not the ability to push the domestic labor onto other people? 010
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 24/02/2025ok having lived in LA for 8 years where a lot of people say “nobody takes the bus” I can confirm that what they mean is they think “nobodies take the bus” 131
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 06/02/2025History is a circle. This article goes over Hitler’s Elon Musk, Alfred Hugenberg, a chaos agent in the early Nazi run who Hitler empowered and tolerated for his money, and all the other industrialists who supported or at least profited from Hitler’s steady stream of prison slave labor.apple.newsThe Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler — The AtlanticThey helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps. 120
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The world would be so much better if we all just started demanding numbers more. “Immigrants are criminals!!!” -> “Show me the numbers” “The subway is more dangerous than driving!!!!” -> “Show me the numbers” 000
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 31/01/2025There’s a lot of hand wringing going around that amounts to “why didn’t we just feed the trans ppl to the big bad wolf when we had the chance!!!” which… do you really think that if we had ceded that ground, they wouldn’t have just started frothing at the mouth for the next minority??? 131
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Maybe I read too much Sci-fi but with humanity heading into its space colonization era, I’m scared that Musk is going to be remembered as a visionary for being loud about pushing us forward instead of as the evil villain he actually is. 130
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 16/01/2025If this algorithm wants to prioritize chronological order than they need to come out with a schedule post feature QUICK!!!! I’ve got things to say!!!! But only after everyone else has gone to bed 👉🏾👈🏾 031
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 16/01/2025There is nothing more beta than Mark Zuckerberg going around prooning about how alpha he is for all of the worst people’s validation 010
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 09/01/2025This has been horrific for LA but I honestly have faith in my city to learn and grow from this. After the Northridge earthquake, the city and state both took steps to be better prepared. We’re a national leader in building public transit proving that we have big projects in us. We can rebuild BETTER 020
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Watching fires ravage all around the edges of my city and knowing this isn’t even the peak yet feels like Election Night all over again. 110
Reposted by PalakKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/01/20256,000 stories about Trump's fake invasion of canada 4 stories about Trump's concrete, court-approved plan to dismantle the entirety of U.S. consumer protection 531290509
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Mark Zuckerberg knows that his platforms have grown GENOCIDES and today, he still doubled down on his “free speech” low-moderation bullshit. In the late 2010s, there was this weak defense of “oh shucks, did I do that”. But there’re no excuses for him to hide behind now. He’s a bad man. 100
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I’m a coder who recently lost his job to an “offshore resource”. I obviously don’t blame that person at all, especially because I think the offshore game is going to get wrecked by AI SOON. Copilot, etc can definitely code on par or better than a lot of the offshore coders I’ve seen. 130
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I can’t stop wondering if the election results would’ve been different if everything with Luigi Magione had happened a month earlier. A useless exercise, I know, but it FEELS like there’s been this groundswell of class consciousness since. Anyways, we’ll still need it in the future. 020
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Ok so we’ve managed to avert the most heinous Trump picks, Republicans hold Congress by such a thin margin they’ll have to work with us, and hopefully Trump’s learned something from Korea’s failed martial law… feeling a little more hopeful about the next 4 years! 020
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Unpopular opinion but… I kinda love the genre of AI slop? It’s so perfectly uncanny valley. Whereas art captures soul, this captures a deep perversity. It’s anti-art! The fact that the infrastructure standing it up is a little evil and exploitative… what better voice for our times! 130
Reposted by PalakNeil Traft @ntraft.bsky.social · 03/12/2024A new foundational infrastructure is needed to achieve the Internet as the participatory, self-organized collective we initially dreamed it would be... rather than the centralized, uncustomizable, ad-choked Internet we've ended up with. 034
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 01/12/2024So much of personal branding, identity, and virtue signaling nowadays comes from the tech we use: Troll-overrun X vs sane Bluesky? Green texts vs blue texts? AI Art - but what about the original artists??? 120
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 28/11/2024So social media’s big flaw towards destroying our democracy is how virality shuts down the majority’s voice in favor of an extreme loud minority… then is Bluesky doing enough to be the better, next generation of social media? 293
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Starting anew here feels like the first day at a new school. Like I don’t know who to be!!!!! I wanna totally change and be cool and that means… never posting because I don’t know who I am here? But only one way to find out… 020
Palak @palakalaka.bsky.social · 15/11/2024This has been the most (and maybe only comforting) idea to me this past week. We’ve survived “the end of the world” before and we will again. It’s all a cycle! Progress isn’t a straight line and look how far we’ve come since Ulysses S. Grant! 030
