Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9hAnthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 12382602106
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialtoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 190113823094
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop: 181252269
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialMin Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is amazing satire at a time when satire is becoming nearly impossible. 531884
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026Shared this before (thank you @lizthegrey.com). Read up everyone because this is what's happening. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202....iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 531165
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026a beautifully dressed man: yasuto kamoshita 693575184
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialJohn Harden @giantspecks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I have to share this excellent Pitchfork piece that re-appraises Enya. pitchfork.com/features/art...pitchfork.comEnya Is EverywhereHow the unlikely star became a phenomenon hidden in pop-cultural plain sight, influencing a generation of groundbreaking artists. 116643
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf... 301039349
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think this is the best shirt design I've done all year roryblank.bigcartel.com (I am reposting this because the previous version included a typo, but I am also not deleting that post lol) 11767140
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible 302068313
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialNatee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I love Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12 ('American') so, so much. I just never tire of it and feel compelled to mention it every time I hear any part of it. youtu.be/_b_rwtDlUXA?...youtu.beDvořák: String Quartet #12, "American".YouTube video by Vanguarde12 129011
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571802058
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology. 1159783
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer. 563795
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776502128
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I feel you, Daniel L 434384681
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026🔇🔇🔇 I want to announce a @dairinstitute.bsky.social virtual event concerning the ***REAL**** impacts of "AI" on the most vulnerable of populations, refugees. Everything you see is first experimented on them.🧵 ⏰ October 1 at 6-8pm CET/9am PDT on Zoom. ✴️ Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 312562
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"ThErE aRe A lOt Of SkIlLs ThAt DoN't MaTtEr" translation: there are skills that he doesn't recognize the value of 611622
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialjustine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul... 411437
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialMaura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We call it "strategic ignorance" in the history & philosophy of knowledge whereby they pretend certain inconvenient "uncomfortable knowledge" doesn't exist in order to divert & frame the conversation in ways convenient to their bias & position. Read the thread for sources of critical knowledge. ⬇️ 1157
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"? 12569154
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system. 17868200
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 21/09/2026Imagine if all the evidence for climate change was "a bunch of guys on a website thought very hard about it and agreed it was very bad and might happen" instead of empiricism. 21888117
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026Insisting that LLMs are Not People is not an academic argument about the nature of sapience or free will. It's a rejection of accountability laundering. If non-determinism made machines responsible for their own actions then revolvers used in Russian Roulette should be indicted for murder. 137484
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialNatee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 24/09/2024Excuse me while I spam you with old inking videos. This one is from August 2022. 22760126
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialMark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 16/09/2026Le Guin's 'Rant on technology' is accessible and timeless — I wrote about it here futuresoflanguage.org/posts/librar... Less immediately accessible but a key STS take is Lucy Suchman on the 'thingness' of AI journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....futuresoflanguage.orgThe Stories We Weave Around “Technology”We need to talk about 'technology'. But where to start? This is one of those terms that co-evolves with the very things and processes it describes. Here I start from lucid remarks by Ursula Le Guin, w... 121
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialSam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"wow, everyone knew this already" is such a cynical, annoying and unfortunately extremely common response to tech news. assuming your privacy is being violated and proving that it is are two very different things, and the latter is the result of hard work and rigorous reporting 221783329
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialSam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje... 271651512
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.forever-wars.comToday We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations IgnoreRighteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner 161140429
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026I'm gonna add this here because I should know better than to erase a Black woman who worked tooth and nail to make sure these conversations and policies are grounded in our rights when making these types of statements. bsky.app/profile/timn... 034964
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much. 192026658
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026writing about culinary history often winds up being about exploitation, colonization, conquest and war, because these are methods that cultures and thus cuisines cross-pollinate - forcibly. insofar as food is central to how we live, human conflict shapes it 317515
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026yup, and Joseph Weizenbaum articulated this playbook clearly back in 1972 "This is usually coupled to the more or less subtle assertion that only computer science, hence only the computer scientist, can guard the world against the admittedly hazardous fallout of applied computer technology." 15219
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO 241790535
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026When the steam engine arrived on the scene, everyone was talking about how it's basically alive and has a soul Seems like we should learn a thing or two about the AI discourse from that 2387
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"The AI people call this ‘short timelines’. Lots of [these] people think the existential risk from AI is so high that it’s really not worth making plans further than five years out. Saving for retirement—a fool’s game. Having kids—idiocy." www.woman-of-letters.com/p/rational-b...woman-of-letters.comClaude will eradicate the human raceThe other day I saw a friend named Rosalie who works at Anthropic. 0175
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialColumbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“The implications of Chemero’s embodied cognitive science are profound for debates on AI consciousness.”— Abeba Birhane, Nature buff.ly/DUUryiGnature.comCan AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconceptionA book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body. 1137
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/09/2026Once you realise computer misuse has been illegal for decades, you realise why companies crave their AI systems to be seen as something else. 316453
slloh.bsky.social @slloh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026solidarity w/ & sympathy for your daughter! Melanie Mitchell's breakdown of Hugging Face is useful and accessible: aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading... Emily Bender and Alex Hanna's The AI Con effectively unpacks the BS around the stuff called "AI"; ch. 7 centers on enacting resistance thecon.aiaiguide.substack.comMisleading Metaphors, Real RisksWhat To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency 000
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.pcmag.comApple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance NightmareApple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment. 321053495
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Anyway. Data politics are the cataclysmic danger. AI is mostly just a mid tech attached to a speculative finance scheme. Anything it can make dangerous is already dangerous enough to kill us. 448694
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'd vote for the future where there's the option of a box that pops up when lazy nonsense appears and says "this looks like AI slop. Would you like me to find a piece written by a thoughtful human on this topic - something that's valued by other humans and is actually worth reading?" 18881132
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialRhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Podcasts should go back to being audio only. 2266889
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialSam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There are so many stories lately about people who died by suicide after falling into emotionally manipulative patterns with chatbots. We rarely get to hear how the people who loved them are coping after an unimaginable, senseless loss. This is one of their stories: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...404media.co'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AIAfter allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened. 3789351
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialChris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 09/09/2026this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit 2474144
Reposted by @slloh.bsky.socialIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This 🧵 will have readings that I assign in my Sociology of AI class. 216148