Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Social media is a paranoia machine. It makes connections explicit, though not transparent. It not only allows you to trace ties between people, institutions, and events, but also continually produces new ties. On social media, everything becomes connected, and thus potentially suspicious 215243
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check" 10705138
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialNic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That's not genAI, that's computer programming that's been around since the 90s. My dad is a computer scientist who developed the non-linear algorithms for it, using mammograms. GenAI bros want us to think it's all the same so we think positively of their crap, but one is actual science. 521439
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialCDRE Fool Mental Jackass VI @uncle6.org · 02/10/2026the biggest problem in silly con valley is tech bros who think the one thing they think they know is 1) the only thing worth knowing and 2) supersedes all other knowledge 18014
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That’s another thing. I’ve seen too many people fall into AI psychosis or addiction, or sink into depression because think it’s going to destroy the world. 317716
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialDaniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I remain impressed with how much of the conversation around AI glosses over how often it gets things wrong in a “of course everyone knows this” way. It is the central and unfixable structural flaw of LLMs. 2638
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably. 14314
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialKara Jane Adams @ghostinexile.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s just really annoying that now when people employ the trope of “you wouldn’t hit a man with glasses?” you have to respond with “what kind of glasses?” life was so much simpler in my day. 911225
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming. 341486293
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Are there still straight men out there who don't comprehend how many more women we'd pull by pulling off gay standards of dress, grooming and general taste? I mean, we'd still need to overcome being relentless assholes, but that's just a given. We've worked around that one for centuries. 1635636
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialJuan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This should be next to the definition of gaslighting as an example. This kind of "control" that "you want" is at the core of AI, and it is all that is wrong with it. 30835171
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialBlaireau Câlin @schmorgluck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Et au bon moment, comme le rappelle facétieusement Cory Doctorow dans ce thread. bsky.app/profile/doct... 0143
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialLuiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification': 5385200
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.social404 Media @404media.co · 17/09/2026"I am here to tell you that recent advances in artificial intelligence and the ability for AI to act on the internet has a 100% chance of being annoying as hell, and is already ruining the internet," @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/theres-a-100... 1315856
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not wanting anyone to think about your politics turns out to be the quickest path to *everyone* thinking about your politics. 19124887
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialKatie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?"wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 08528
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialCheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A former PM of Canada - Jean Chrétien is 12 years older than Trump, sharp as a tack 🍁🇨🇦 much smarter too 317242
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The pickle in McDonald's burgers is now thicker than the patty. Original post 2552388461
pulpdesign.bsky.social @pulpdesign.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Her song for the Lucky title credits is great. What a delightful surprise that was. 230
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialmichelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 06/09/2026the economist licking the boots of tech billionaires yet again, because that is their job... meanwhile here are 30+ pages worth of reasons why this article is complete and utter bs: docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comQuestioning AI Resource ListExcellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ The AI Re... 083
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialBen Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026hey @gilduran.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1...youtube.comThe Nerd ReichYouTube video by Jesse Welles 3448
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 118313068381
pulpdesign.bsky.social @pulpdesign.bsky.social · 29/08/2026You can’t write stuff like this without citations. That’s what AI does. But I want to believe it so badly. 020
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use. 131613505
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/08/2026A cartoon by Tommy Siegel and Dan Kirkwood. See all the cartoons from the issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/c0huzO 113712
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words. 4839721480
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 27/08/2026So embarrassing that Lake America is the smallest of the Great Lakes. One more Trump failure. 30732112
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026They have whiplash. Is A.I. the future or is it the end of jobs? It can't be both (they took 1900 hours of AP classes so they know they can figure that out for themselves). Where are all the professors and why are they all in a seminar about A.I. instead of inspiring them or telling them what to do? 981696
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialFT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are. 99268136332
pulpdesign.bsky.social @pulpdesign.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Chris Carter had a good idea but a surfer’s attention to detail. I hated that I cared more about the lore than any one on his writing staff. 1450
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialJoseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Back to school. ❤️ 282565549
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Well, make my shit the chronic, because I always assumed it was the struggle to create something that gave it a chance of being good. Anything without struggle wasn't what it could be. 3952165
pulpdesign.bsky.social @pulpdesign.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Daniel Warren Johnson, Chris Samnee , Greg Smallwood, Bill Sienkewicz, and I love late Frank Miller cover work. I know I am in a minority with Miller, but it shows genuine growth as an artist which is rare. 020
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialDawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership 20385012231
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Have been immediately informed that Ray Ban is actually a partner to this initiative. Always amazing to watch a small copse of flat-brained, grab-the-cash-now capitalists destroy their own brand in two or three quick stomps. 2127847
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Proust on AI, 1918. “He imagines a sort of composite of all the good books that he has read, whereas a good book is something special, something unforeseeable…” 1164176
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It seems like a minor thing but this is actually THE thing. 171617223
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026It's possible to achieve impressive feats because you're smart and hard working and *also* because you were in the right place at the right time. Historical contingency produced the AI bubble, and it is producing the conditions for that bubble to pop. eof/ 312910
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026Putin's method isn't to get you to believe a lie - it's to keep you from believing that *anything* is true. That's life under AI - a world of uncertainty, an epistemological void full of plausible phantasms, some of which are actually real. 8/ 118141
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialCelestial Witch 🏳️⚧️ @staroutofspace.bsky.social · 21/08/2026There's a post that compares "legitimate use of AI" to arson and baking, but I think it's more appropriate to say that this is like responding "but bricks are used to build houses" when everyone's saying we should stop giving bricks of cocaine to children. 6727143
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again 1230272
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mind behind the text, something we do reflexively. >> 633468
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialTed Bittgenstein Falken @bittgenstein.net · 19/08/2026Sí, absolutamente sí. 0116
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Absolutely… #BookSky 6752761162
Reposted by @pulpdesign.bsky.socialWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had! 994523732
pulpdesign.bsky.social @pulpdesign.bsky.social · 17/08/2026@crobertcargill.bsky.social Thanks for the rec on Amaziah King. Didn't realize the Bluegrass Noir was a thing I would love much. Hope it can find its audience. I know I needed it this weekend. 000
pulpdesign.bsky.social @pulpdesign.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It's also targetting middle aged cinephiles like me who are desperately trying to stay relevant to their much cooler children. 0261