Reposted by Johnsophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 25/06/2026got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...sophiebits.comThere are no lossless transformations of natural-language text 1522166
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Flight 1337: “Control, we’re experiencing engine failure, requesting assistance for emergency landing” Ground control: “Git gud, noob” 000
Reposted by JohnSarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 10/08/2026Just found out that one of my all-time favorite short films is available to stream/rent! (It's been on Kanopy for a while, but my library system uses Hoopla.) Deborah Stratman's LAST THINGS is speculative nonfiction about the end of time from the perspective of rocks.americas.dafilms.comLast Things | watch online - americas.dafilms.comFrom before the beginning until after the end; evolution and extinction as told through the prism of minerals. 2153
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026“Fight Club,” the May 7, 2000 episode of The X-Files, featuring red & blue color-coded, kayfabe doppelgangers printing money & causing fights seems weirdly prescient. Especially considering the red state / blue state convention hadn’t solidified until the presidential election later that same year. 000
Reposted by JohnShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"The dvlpmt of co-ops around the world is another story that should not end too abruptly. We cld still be weaving it today... The struggle against big tech can have two stories in one: the vibrant resistance + refusal, but also the effort to build a better economy under workers’ and users’ control." 1205
Reposted by JohnShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"I wish the recent tellings of the Luddite mvmt wld... let their story go on a bit longer. By 1820, the Luddites had been crushed... But by that time weavers were already pursuing a quieter strategy. They formed [co-ops]... Thru them, weavers went from working in factories to co-owning factories."flaminghydra.comBodies upon the gearsAlternative approaches to The Man, considered by Nathan Schneider 16222
Reposted by Johnartnau @artnau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Transfer, 1968 by William Anastasi whitney.org/collection/w... 4902225
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I once met a master carpenter who helped build Skywalker Ranch. He told me a story about how an entire section of his intricate hand carved woodwork was painted over white because Lucas had showed it to a friend who complained about it being too dark. 253
Reposted by JohnEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Will’s is paywalled, but I wrote on the subject of the “It’s not X, it’s Y” and AI detection last month - and in one week it became the most widely read piece I’d ever written for my newsletter (ie, six years!). mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...mail.cyberneticforests.comIt's Not Just X. It's Y.Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs a... 2429
Reposted by JohnGuy Segal @guysegal.com · 09/07/2026I’m at a design panel and they just said “AI will solve taste” and I’m done 3235933
Reposted by JohnThe 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ BBC Radio 3 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @bbc3musicbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026 🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #NightTracks Marisa Anderson: 🎵 Pair of Duduk #BBCRadio3 #MarisaAnderson ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Track on #Spotify:open.spotify.comPair of DudukMarisa Anderson · The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music · Song · 2026 011
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Sorry no way in hell you’re founding a democracy or a republic or whatever without an actual project manager. 000
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Tired: the means of production Wired: internal mechanism —> 010
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026It’s no coincidence that Johnny Cash died the same year LinkedIn was launched. 000
Reposted by JohnPJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 19/06/2026The sooner musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Theil and the rest upload their consciousness to a computer system the sooner we can switch those computers off and get on with being human. 11207237
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Disappointed First Light didn’t use “hey bro” instead of “hello gorgeous” when Bond finds Hyperion. 010
Reposted by JohnBarbie Girl, Interrupted @leesha.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Bad co-op vs Good co-op 0121
Reposted by JohnJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...thedreydossier.substack.comI found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White HouseThere is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead. 6938072402
Reposted by Johnryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/05/2026AI probably has some uses for retail. A much more realistic potential magic bullet here as I discovered when reporting on Finland’s massive grocery coop (50% market share) was no need for profit prospect.org/2023/10/11/2...prospect.orgThe Cooperative That Could - The American ProspectHow S Group became Finland’s most dominant retailer 615522
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Just buy it with private equity, saddle it with debt, strip it of value, and watch it close. Duh. 0466
Reposted by JohnBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore. 687348997999
Reposted by JohnJeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891 1035020890
Reposted by JohnHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Why We Fear AI is a book about the political economy of AI! If knowledge is power, then what is the attempt to put knowledge into an extremely expensive privately controlled thing about? www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-aicommonnotions.orgWhy We Fear AI — Common Notions PressFears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than the technology of the future. 13110
Reposted by JohnMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 6228441231
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The dirty UI tricks that Apple is pulling to get me to upgrade to its latest OS are despicable. 010
Reposted by JohnEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I started writing a BlueSky post about that Nature essay and kept going until it turned into a whole piece in Tech Policy Press www.techpolicy.press/the-illusion...techpolicy.pressThe Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without ThoughtIt is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio. 010033
Reposted by JohnDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026to be clear, this definition, by limiting intelligence to *cognitive tasks*, conveniently ignores embodied, relational, social and cultural nature of intelligence 9/ 120628
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Merced by an AI-operated DHS drone while sleeping in my own bed because I posted a favorite Rumi poem on Bluesky 030
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This is the real problem. Worse than eliminating jobs by replacing humans with machines, this whole AI push is just one more enclosure of the commons. Culture, language, knowledge itself are all fundamentally collective endeavors that they want lay claim to, control, and sell back to us. 000
Reposted by Johnbakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026remember when that cronenberg movie 'existenz' came out and it seemed like a fun and silly conceit for there to be freedom fighters taking on corporate conglomerates in an attempt to protect consensus reality from an ocean of digital hallucination 221132211
Reposted by Johnsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again. 20376191628
Reposted by JohnMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/03/2026“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social 593119877
John @polizzi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I’ve been grinding rush mode exclusively since BF3, so I don’t need a lecture from the freaks who fetishize stats. But I recently discovered casual breakthrough in 6 and I’m having a blast. Don’t care if it doesn’t count. I absolutely love fucking up robots. 000
Reposted by Johnlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/02/20265:30-6:30 PM dinner is goated. just one more thing old people were right about all along 531827131