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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

am I the only one that finds the NY Times reporting on software breaking software as "science-fiction" kinda odd? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/t...

The incident, which happened last week while OpenAI was testing the cybersecurity capabilities of its systems, displayed the kind of science-fiction potential that A.I. companies warned would soon become a reality.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Crows lose. Australia is in trouble.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

excellent piece covering how we got here. Not a horse race politics analysis, no pearl clutching amplification. At least one news outlet in this country gets it

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 27/06/2026

“The media has treated Hanson as entertainment and consistently given her a platform,” writes Marcia Langton. “They have failed to fact check her in real time, allowing her lies to hang around unchallenged.” trib.al/qBEsX9T

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Can Pauline Hanson be stopped?

Pauline Hanson’s populist and mostly false declarations have changed little in 30 years. They are her personal grievances writ large for an audience hungry to attribute their own grievances to particular races and religions.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

been chewing on the notion: Australia is American since Jan 2025, and what it means to see the seat of Empire falling. This longing must be part of that.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

noticed it while watching the Socceroos play in San Fran yesterday. The look of the sky through the gaps in the stadium reminded me of Adelaide Oval. An American announcement, the voice of Empire

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

a year into returning to South Australian suburbia and I'm starting to understand the US culture longing. Unsure why yet, but it feels alive in me

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

theguardian.com

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

so when I see our supposed bastions of the free press giving free press to someone who *doesn't have any real power* I fear for our future. Like this person wants to destroy you, ABC -- why are you giving her airtime? STFU www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

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Hanson's Socceroos own goal should have been a free kick for Taylor

Pauline Hanson has chosen one of Australia's most popular national sporting brands and visible expressions of cultural diversity in her pitch for a "monoculture".

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

it doesn't seem to matter much whether the mention is 'positive' or not, especially when mentions come from outlandish controversies or subversions. What matters is the name being said over and over and over and over. It's kinda like Bettlejuice for fascism

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

earned media is, like, really valuable. There's an authenticity and virality, a hyperstitional reality to it that you don't quite get with ads. Here's a chart of bought v estimated earned media in February of the 2016 US election

chart showing Trump middle of the pack in terms of bought media but WAAAAAYYYY ahead with free (earned) media reach during the 2016 election.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

there's a fun flywheel effect happening here with 'good faith' political criticism (opinion) from the media which only serves to repeat the de facto opposition leader's name over and over and over. Presumably they think they're helping by adding to the discourse, but it's got an amplifying effect

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

fascism is coming to Australia. The billionaires and the white nationalists are getting together to meme their way into power. They are going to get inside the heads of your friends, families, neighbours. Get ready. It's 2016 in Australia.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

the most responsible thing Labor can do is lock up the house on the way out. Weaken all the state powers everyone warned would be *awful* in the wrong hands. The surveillance apparatus, heavy-handed but speech laws, anything that blindly went through under the guise of 'national security'.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

a uni prof once told me "Australia didn't get the 60s until the 70s" and with that I'd like to welcome you all to 2016! we've got: - an orange-haired 'populist disruptor' - a weakened, desperate media credulously amplifying memetic power - major parties institutionally unable to deal with it

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

the computer is evil. Do not trust it. Do not trust any of them

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James Wood @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We are perpetually haunted by 2016

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

stop 'embracing' and 'adopting' the cold, dead machine. The machine is only to be used or built

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

whole thing is spinning to position Anthropic et al as the High Priests of Computers while us peasants get clamped down. Classic control society OGU garbage

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

oh god why is he repeating this "AI will be a country of geniuses in a datacenter" line. It's embarrassing. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BUILDINGS WITH COMPUTERS IN THEM, DARIO, GET A GRIP

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

section 4 on civil liberties is kinda fine. Don't use autonomous weapons, protect privacy -- sure. The 'give people rights to AI advice during adverse government action' is weird and self serving

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

the FDA reform section (and Fable nerfing biology) is nakedly a marketing exercise intended for pharmeceutical companies. We're doing corporate strategy in the form of a 'thought leadership' blog post.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

also very funny that this guy and his superintelligent machine have come up with groundbreaking policy ideas like (I kid you not): - collect more data - incentivise employment - macro-economic support bro what do you think governments *do* all day?

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

actual quote: "...even in a world with AI’s that are better than everyone at everything..." what is he even talking about? Never go full software brain

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"omg the software we've made is toooooo powerful and no one else should be allowed to do it like we did!!" gtfo darioamodei.com/post/policy-...

darioamodei.com

Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"capitalism is artificial intelligence"

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"Our data is _soil_, never oil. Treat it like oil, and it is all extraction and concentration. Treat it like soil, and our community travels with us, and grows where we plant it."

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

the problem isn't one category of software, it's bigger. But 'AI' has become a handy catchall that easily slips between reference layers so as to rarely refer to the same thing to two speakers. 'AI' is vague and loaded and gives more power to software companies tryna trick us

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

by 'the thing we reserved for us' do you mean 'digital art'? the online experience has been getting markedly worse (surveillance, enclosure, verification, addiction, control) while encompassing more of our lives.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

first-person pronouns are all part of the illusion, baby! As are the engagement mechanisms and questions. The software wants to be used, relied on, but that's software for ya

The result is a sentence-continuation machine that is likelier to emit sentences resembling those that a thoughtful, moral person could utter. This might seem like a reasonable goal to work toward; I think we’d all prefer it if chatbots never emitted sentences such as “You should kill yourself.” However, for all the times that “honesty” is mentioned in Claude’s constitution, I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

now for the fun part. Starcraft 2 heads might remember Tasteless once saying he only cares about bots playing SC2 if they can use a mouse, and this is kinda that. Get real, machine. But also, let me propose that the machine has many sense organs: microphones, cameras, keyboards, mice

So what context would cause me to seriously consider the possibility that engineers created a computer program that is conscious and an intentional user of language? Let me outline one potential sequence of steps. The first requirement is that the computer program has a body (either physical or virtual) and sense organs; there are many reasons for this, but for the purposes of this discussion, the most relevant one is the fact that without a body, a computer program could have no desires or emotions, and I believe desires and emotions are necessary for consciousness.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

*chef's kiss* the 'AI is software' equivalence is alive and well, folks His next point about people not saying DeepMind or AlphaFold are conscious also slaps. It's never been about 'AI', always about some other thing whether that be capital, sentience, etc

Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded. Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document, you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one, you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time. Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously. We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious, and conversational transcripts fall in that category.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

we begin on a technical note. Is this strictly true? The 1 word at a time thing, sure, but I don't think a model is "run dozens of times" for a simple prompt. You 'run' a model and it generates one word at a time until finished, based on the parameters. (same tbh)

Also important to remember is that an LLM is a machine that generates only one word at a time. When you ask a chatbot to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, you will get the entire pledge at once, but the underlying LLM is actually being run dozens of times. The first prompt has the form “User: Recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Chatbot: …” and the LLM generates the word I. The second time the LLM is run, the prompt is “User: Recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Chatbot: I …” and the LLM generates the word pledge. And so forth. It’s only when the prompt reads “User: Recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Chatbot: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for” that the LLM will emit the final word, all. The same thing is true for a conversation between Caesar and Genghis Khan.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

add in other content forms and what have we got? A saturation of code + words + multimedia generated by or with the assistance of 'AI'. Searching of 'AI' in the provenance of the web, of digital content, becomes useless. Of course it was 'AI', there is only 'AI'.

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we're all doomed @vontonks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

same bias problem with this but Anthropic is saying 80% of merges are written by Claude. The quote from a staffer -- "it’s now been ~5 months since I last wrote any code myself" -- is what I hear from devs regularly. Good marking spin, sure, but not far from reality.

chart showing the code contribution per person by quarter and it increases sharply with Claude Mythos

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