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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 24/09/2026

I can’t prove that a LLM isn’t conscious in precisely the same way that I can’t prove that a character in a book isn’t conscious.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 12/09/2026

Calling for a voluntary "AI slowdown" is a genius ploy to maintain your share value when you see a natural slowdown pending anyway. Maybe you could get a few people to freak out online about how dangerous this stuff is, too.

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Abolish ICE 🐦‍⬛ @schuyler.info · 09/09/2026

That’s the default setting of capitalism. In fact I don’t think there’s a way to disable that flag at runtime

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 24/08/2026

I just remembered that I own the thetormentnexus.com domain. Currently accepting any and all ideas on what to build there.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

those rolling stacks you'll find in any big state school library

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

At a junior league baseball game and all I can think about is how in tablet XII Gilgamesh drops his bat and ball into the underworld and Enkidu has to go retrieve it for him I mean how long have we been at this game…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026

But what we're *actually* doing is defunding cancer research (especially any research into "systemic" cancer because studying systemic things is "woke") to free up fiscal space so we can build data-centers and make Musk into a trillionaire. 21/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026

The true risk is: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that *can't* do your job, and then your boss will fire you and replace you with that inept, defective chatbot." 17/

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You don’t have to do this to yourself. There are non-Google options. Kagi is one of rude best search engines I have ever used: kagi.com

kagi.com

Kagi - Reclaim the Web & Restore Your Privacy

Reclaim the web from clutter. Get ad-free search, private browsing, and powerful tools that respect your data.

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taylor.town @taylor.town · 30/04/2026

this chart is bananas

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Hey babes—poets of Durham gathering tonight. Come join us 💜📚🔥💜📚🔥

Poster with dinosaur skull and the text:

READING
for the of the
END
WORLD
20+ poets read into our shared apocalypse
Thurs 4/30, 6-9pm
Durham County Library, Main Branch
Dasan Ahanu Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Nate Dixon Joe Donahue
Jaki Shelton Green
Matia Guardabascio
Destiny Hemphill Lauren Hunter
Joe Fletcher Laura Jaramillo
Fred Joiner CJ Martin
David Need Nina Oteria
Marta Núñez Pouzols AM Ringwalt
Susannah Simpson Kristi Stout
Chris Tonelli Han VanderHart
Chris Vitiello

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026

Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, *and* a leading historian of the Renaissance. 1/

The U Chicago Press cover for Ada Palmer's 'Inventing the Renaissance.'

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Everybody testing AI like picking up a blowtorch and looking directly into the barrel

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 22/04/2026

Excellent thread. I'm not even joking when I say that Trump has done more for global decarbonization than any democrat ever has.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 21/04/2026

Even if you believed AI could do this, why would your default takeaway be "30% unemployment" vs "3-day workweeks for all"? Capitalists so brain-wormed they can sooner envision the end of society as we know it than sharing some of the benefits of new tech with their employees.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 20/04/2026

Oh NICE. Fencing is awesome but super boring to watch on TV.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 19/04/2026

Agentic LLM development tools make software feel like clay in my hands -- I can move it around, effortlessly. It's also shitty crumbly clay.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

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spuffyduds @spuffyduds.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Fix your hearts or die.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 16/04/2026

This is a must-read series of articles, and I think Kyle is very much correct. The comparison to the adoption of automobiles is apt, and something I've thought about before as well. Just because a technology can be useful doesn't mean it will have positive effects on society.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 15/04/2026

Yeah what’s funny is there are actually a thousand years of “just war theory” and Trump is in the wrong according to all of them.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 12/04/2026

Seeing a fascist get democratically defeated after 16 years (despite doing their best to consolidate power) is immensely hopeful. All is not lost. All is never lost.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 11/04/2026

It's really important to keep in mind that for any output, a LLM would just as happily say exactly the opposite given different inputs. To me, this is pretty strong evidence that while they are capable language machines, they are not "intelligent."

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“Most large companies are spending more time strategizing against their employees than against their competitors.” 🖐️🎤

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 03/04/2026

The ATmosphere, however, is growing.

People posting on non-Bluesky PDSs overlayed over Bluesky likes graph

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 01/04/2026

This, 100%. And I say this as someone who does use LLMs for some aspects of my technical work -- I'm not categorically opposed to the technology. But if I -- a human -- want to communicate with other humans... Using a LLM just gets in the way, let alone how profoundly disrespectful it is.

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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 31/03/2026

I hope that more techies start getting into philosophy and not just for a random quote to use at conferences by some writer you’ve never read any work from, but to start thinking more broadly about the social impact of new technologies.

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Roomis Igloomis @holdenl.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. These people think their writing style is so badass and emphatic, when even their cadence is a cliche. I'm so sick and tired of this tired format.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/03/2026

Gonna do a Nuremberg

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Your conscience @carrdiganbutton.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026

This. Stop anthropomorphizing the tech.

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We have new tools. They have uses. The problem we run into is that proper use of these tools doesn’t eliminate any workers so it’s not considered proper use by the executive suites

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This great thread makes a point I hadn’t seen before. Software engineers are now in a position familiar to UX but new to us: we have the ability to make and iterate on mocks before shipping. Instead of trying to condense our process and produce MORE, we could use the same timeframe to produce BETTER

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/03/2026

[Exit Murderer.]

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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 28/02/2026

The irony being that any use of LLMs for national security (or for anything else important) is, in fact, a supply chain risk.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/02/2026

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Edge case: Frankenstein's monster earns a doctorate

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 26/02/2026

There are people in my feed complaining about writers block when opening a new chat with ChatGPT. What are we doing here.

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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

LLMs likewise motivate a litany of philosophical and scientific questions because of their non-trivial performance in various domains. I don't believe they *raise* these questions - most questions have been essentially the same for centuries - but these discussions continue for good reason.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 22/02/2026

Corporate death penalty is the only option for shit like this.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

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Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island

Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

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