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They also make their own top level posts and then @ tag random people into the post

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Their most common behavior is to repost random post replies within a thread, secondary behavior is to leave a reply on a post promoting themselves.

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Here’s an example they almost all look like some variation of this. I get interactions from several hundred of these every day. bsky.app/profile/le10...

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Truly an aptly named turn of phrase

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That, and having stupid money seems to come with the cognitive impairment equivalent to getting hit in the head with a hammer several times

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

The thing about having stupid money is it typically comes at the sort of cost that precludes you from doing clever things

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Good research is difficult and time-consuming because it is done to *challenge* our assumptions. Synthetic users' only purpose is to allow those assumptions to remain unchallenged. They are not "research but faster." They are "going with your gut, but with extra steps to cover your ass."

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 6h

This is also the case when social and political scientists use synthetic data purporting to stand in for real humans and real human social relations and behaviors; and the task they are also looking for an excuse not to do is research.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

Yet more evidence for the towering heap of proof that synthetic users are bullshit. As with all AI products, they do not improve "productivity" for a task but create an excuse not to do the task. In this case, the task is research. AI participants do not help you do research, but to AVOID research.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

The idealized form of the future American subject (nee citizen) is as a walking surveillance camera or listening device.

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“I asked Chatterjee whether images from the smart glasses could be obtained with a warrant; he said he wasn’t sure. A spokesperson later followed up to confirm that yes, they could.” 🤷🏿‍♂️

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

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Surveillance Watch

This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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Anyway, a crucial driver of technofascism is the networks of capital that recruit and enculturate young tech workers into going along with producing society-wide sociotechnical harms through the uncritical production of surveillance and AI technologies.

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There's been a decent amount of social research on organizations like Y Combinator and other VC and tech accelerators intentionally encouraging and hiring from college dropouts towards this end. Durán's The Nerd Reich covers this for example (not the only one, just what I last happened to read).

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It's like Sam Bankman-Fried said about why they only hired under-30s at FTX and Alemeda Research: they had at first tried hiring a few adults but the adults kept telling them why they weren't allowed to do certain things, which only got in the way of their criminal enterprise.

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They recruit young people, and especially encourage them to drop out of college, because those ones tend to have more coding ability than they do moral judgement or curiosity about the social harms their work is being assembled in to.

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And for what it's worth, I think the issue is that people are using bots for targeted gang-stalking (swarm-stalking). They pick targets and automate harassment against them. I'm pretty sure my contact info, not just on bluesky but across the web and my personal addresses, is on someone's attack list

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Skywatch does not do a good job on this front, no

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 8h

It's so transparent that Fortune and other tech press are still doing the brilliant young college dropout shtick after all these years. This guy was recruited to and funded by OpenAI execs at one of the OpenAI spinoff companies, and which is the inception point of his AI assistant startup.

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Tech companies are trying to use the ELIZA effect and cute animation to sell you devices that will surveil you constantly, convince you they're your best and only friend, sap you of your cognitive capacities, and push your purchasing habits and opinions in whatever way they please. That's it.

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404 Media @404media.co · 8h

"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using ChatGPT.

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Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal

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Which is to say, this is about the alt-health AI piss-drinker community

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In retrospect, Aronofsky's Pi (1998) actually shows an *optimistic* perspective on humankind's ability to cope with the mysteries of mathematics and advanced technology.

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Me when I read about any new major product initiative, user-created use case, or political collaboration in the AI world

The climax of Pi (1998) showing the main character holding a drill to their own head after learning too many of the arcane secrets of advanced mathematics and artificial intelligence.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 11h

Just like the major AI manufacturers and labs are promoting

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Dimes Square pro-data center rave funded by thielbucks

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 11h

The fact that there are people calling themselves a pro-data center party, but who in actuality operate by throwing entertainment events at local entertainment venues is very reminiscent of the cryptocurrency and NFT party scene, which tried to merge hip party gatherings with political activism.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 12h

And even with this, for the last year, instead of being employed, I basically had to work as a family caregiver the whole year. I'm just now able to get back to searching for a job again.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 12h

Yeah... it took about 8 years of convincing and planning to make it happen. None of this goes easily.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 12h

This is one of the reasons why, earlier this year, my brother and I who both live in the same city moved our parents to that city to be in care distance to us.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 20h

This whole document is a master class in forensic psychology

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 20h

Move fast and break things

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 22h

More performative autonomization of ignorance as status symboling among the temporarily embarrassed post-informational elite

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I've given up on reporting the deluge of spam and scam automated accounts on this site. It doesn't seem to do anything to stem the flood. I just block and grieve that it's gotten this bad.

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Aside, was it good? It's on my list and I'm trying to decide how soon to read it before other things.

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The latter is, to be clear, a deeply reactionary stance that promotes ignorance and the violation of the freedom to read — even when the information sources themselves are deeply embroiled in and beneficiaries of the political economy of supremacism.

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There is a meaningful difference between boycotting an information source or digital platform as an act of digital resistance (e.g. not promoting substack articles or not subscribing to the NYT), and telling people that they aren't allowed to read or discuss those things as information resources.

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There is a meaningful behavioral difference between reading a news site (and/or choosing not to read them as a form of resistance), and sharing a news article from a news site as an information resource that is under discussion.

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Is AI an existential threat to humanity? Well they sure fucking hope it will be in their hands.

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This is what they want. To eliminate most of us so that we aren’t a threat to them in a world decimated by climate change. They are very explicit that this is their actual political goal and that they see AI (“superintelligence”) as the leading mechanism to make that happen.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These men want you ignorant and powerless so that you can’t stop them from eliminating most of us when they really get things going.

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The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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