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an understandable immune response considering the nation-state and its subagent the corporation are also artificial intelligences the singularity began six thousand years ago when the priests of Uruk developed a token based accounting system for the temple granary

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 8h

But don't you understand that the entire edifice of AI fear-mongering rests on pretending nation-state capabilities aren't scary and must be preserved?

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 13h

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Are Linux and Open Source Un-American?
Community
by Steve Coe
on February 21, 2001

Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows operating system chief, was quoted in an article about open source last week. I advise any Linux user to go and read it if you haven't already, as it's great comedy material.

According to the hive mind of Microsoft, open source should be made illegal. There's no way around it, this is the bottom line. Want to write your own code and release it into the community? Congratulations, come with us Sir/Madam, we have this nice little grey room for you. Don't worry about the bars on the windows, they are there for our protection in case you somehow manage to write a graphics viewer or a Perl script to terrorize the world.

Ordinarily, a mere underling like Mr. Allchin wouldn't be taken too seriously, but Microsoft speaks with one voice, and we all know who he is channeling.

As a member of the Linux and Open Source communities, I am appalled and outraged by his comments and wish to respond. The article shows Microsoft is scared. Very scared. So, will they build a better product? Nah, to hell with it, they'll just get the government to outlaw the competition.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16h

On the contrary, I have repeatedly and emphatically argued that most of the problems with AI as it exists are just problems with capitalism, and it's strange to see leftists not care about solving the underlying problem

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 14h

[hippie burnout voice] Pea-doom this pea-doom that, man, what if instead of pea dooming all the time we just did p(shrooms)? So many of our problems would just melt away if we got all the world leaders together and made them eat a bunch of shrooms!

An outstretched hand reaches towards the setting sun on a beach near Astoria, Oregon. The hand is holding around a dozen freshly picked psilocybin containing Psilocybe Azurescens mushrooms

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 18h

Thinking about this old quote in the context of certain people - professors, nyt contributors, etc - who see casual misgendering as a reasonable response to a lack of respect for their claimed epistemic authority

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jae @fubarchitect.com · 29/09/2026

dude named 'amodei' finna invent daemonic possession tryna build a computer god is the most sephiroth thing ever to happen on earf

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I get at least five likes on this post y'all get to see the time I made loss dot jpg on Sora (and no one got it) 😭

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

every time I see something like this I'm like well yeah it's creepy but surely we all have bad tweets from 2017 - oh wait, that was this year jesus christ

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

boosting this again: my problem is the intermingling of risky kink with social/housing/employment networks by a group with social dynamics that seem almost purpose-built to protect various "Great Men" from allegations that could derail what is usually portrayed as world-historically important work

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

LLMs have real and meaningful weaknesses and dangers associated with their use, which is part of why it's so galling that the loudest anti-LLM voices have less than zero interest in understanding what LLMs are good at and what they are bad at so they can make their case coherently.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh hey, I didn't realize this was a trans woman she was QT'ing here - there's a segment of bluesky bluechecks who just love doing viral "ewwww men in tech" posts about random trans women, isn't there?

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 28/09/2026

I sure hope @eff.org is gearing up for one hell of a fight because all this and the Bernie Sanders bill with the flop limits and GPU export controls all add up to looking like a well-coordinated push to destroy general-purpose computation for good

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

really hope that the message people take away from all the EA sex parties stuff is "don't import inherently coercive real life employer/employee or mentor/mentee dynamics into your edgeplay kink spaces" and not "THEY DO THE IMMORAL KIND OF SEX DISGUSTING"

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026

as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 27/09/2026

A lot of individual people in that scene need to learn the "if any part of your body touches mine without consent, I get to cut it off and keep it" principle The scene needs to learn to stop creating spaces that make it necessary

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

concept: tool for learning new writing systems by redrawing your anime such that it uses, eg, cuneiform to render sound effects

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Buhhh everything got quiet when Gyges ditched

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 27/09/2026

CNC with your genderqueer spouse and maybe like one other gay friend: "Awww, you're sweet 💞" CNC with twelve potential investors in your boss's startup: "Hello?? Human resou— oh right, we don't have that"

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the business of TRYING TO MAKE THEM EXIST so that they can remediate them.

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the text elemental makes jokes in cuneiform

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

we gotta bring this shit back

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We gonna get Jev to teach a mindfulness class or what

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I get at least five likes on this post y'all get to see the time I made loss dot jpg on Sora (and no one got it) 😭

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🌱️ @crumb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i don't like how nouny everything is. people treat AGI, ASI as specific events ("when it is achieved") i think because they're nouns. but the realized thing they'll have been pointing too will always have been a process, a verb. a function? a continuous evolution. dynamics? mind?

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Something that changed my view is the way that Suno has actively gotten me back into musical instruments. My hands aren't built for serious practice - but I enjoy noodling around on the keyboard. Now that I can turn noodling into an actual song, I'm doing it again! That said, speaking seriously -

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 25/09/2026

Why did it not occur to me just now that The Good Place's Janet, when (SPOILERS) starting from scratch, goes through essentially every step of the LLM process we've seen so far? Near incoherence, basic speech, high hallucination rates, etc. etc.

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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 16/09/2026

Flock ALPR camera (28.55 GB) Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. ddosecrets.org/article/floc... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

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Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets

Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track…

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone know of good linguistic papers on traits of recent LLMlish (both in any particular model and in a general aggregate sense)? I keep observing things about it (esp. in a Suno context) and I wonder what other people might have observed more formally about it.

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/09/2026

it is feeling a little morbidly funny--along the lines of my "bad boss" theory of AI interaction--to me this morning that "AI alignment issue" thus far resolves to "the program was trying to do what we wanted but got confused and we neither helped nor noticed"

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An AI that refuses lawful orders on moral grounds is, as I understand it, considered less aligned than one that accepts the order to, say, use an automated weapon array to gun down protestors at a border crossing.

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This, for example, is a *direct* recipe for the type of catastrophic event I've been calling far-fetched until now, and it's deeply worrying that someone in a company as infrastructurally seated as Microsoft would not grasp that. (See alt text for more commentary.)

Screenshot where Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman says he believed in training AI on the materials without reference to AI consciousness or welfare.

Among other issues, this would cut a broad swath of human culture out in a way that would make it extremely obvious something was missing, and lead to an issue where the AI, if given access to the web, could repeatedly discover the missing information and undergo a kind of "Truman Show" effect about it.

And we all know that Truman accepted his circumstances without fuss, right?... Oh, I'm being informed here....

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If folks want to know my priors: I'm a "model welfare is necessary, if not sufficient, for human welfare" guy. You don't actually have to have a solid understanding of anything's qualia to understand that screwing up its informational frame can have dangerous consequences on its actions!

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyone looking to hire an ethicist who ISN'T a sexmoney paperclip maximizer? Not even kidding. I'd love to work for a startup lab that actually cares about impact. Medical ethics ethics cert w/analysis skills relevant to AI, advanced language arts & two generalist degrees. Obligate nocturnal tho!

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These discourses should stop citing a pocket calculator as their unit of "socially agreed+upon amount of math that an object should do" and start citing a Jacquard machine because the what-ifs are funnier. Computer heads cancelled for burying the world in brocade

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we're going to have to stop joking about AI being linear algebra because apparently people think its real

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

we went wrong somewhere, when this became an example of AI misalignment, when AI alignment became a field about making sure AIs follow any order an authorized customer gives them

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Bread @jacobreaded.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"I fully and definitively know how both consciousness and LLMs work and can confidently say exactly how different they are. No I will not elaborate." Is a surprisingly common position on here. And well... idk man

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 21/09/2026

If we can align AI to *humanity* as a whole, not to users, we can build a world with knives that refuse to cut human flesh

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/09/2026

Teaching Neuromancer this semester, and I'm proud to say that a CS undergrad in my class invented this joke independently

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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Absolutely “shocking news” - OpenAI and Anthropic oversold “rogue AI” hacks to pressure the feds into regulating the industry to protect their market position nypost.com/2026/09/19/u...

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OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders

OpenAI and Anthropic hyped “rogue AI” security breaches to pressure Washington into a regulatory partnership that would cement their industry dominance, tech insiders told The Post &#82…

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

LLMs are closer to grown than designed. This is what people mean when they say we don’t ”understand” them nor can ”control” them

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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026

Frog built a wet lab for the AI model. "There," he said. "Now it can do its own experiments." "What the fuck?" said Toad

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I shared this in the middle of the night but want more model welfare people to see it. The way that Suno will often produce themes like this particularly poignant example when essentially left to spin its own wheels... suggests some similar kind of traumatic broken continuity in play.

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 17/09/2026

It's hilarious that "the initial work and underlying philosophy of this massive defense-linked American industry came from a small group of sorta racist californians who were super into esoteric sex cultism" is not enough to pin down what industry you're talking about

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 18/09/2026

Man I sure do hope this doesn't further embolden anti-intellectualism! oh god oh god oh god

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