Reposted by zer0pointOrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The entire and complete reason why Every Investment Dollar is getting poured into this genAI shit is so that they no longer have to care what you think about it Your labor isn't needed, your spending isn't needed, your vote isn't needed, and neither is your life. They want you as vermin. 011634
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“I have many concerns about the accuracy of this new breed of artificial intelligence […] and quite a few more fully realised horrors about the breed of lipless psychopaths who own the infrastructure […]” haha preach. love to read a good hater’s manifesto 000
Reposted by zer0pointPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I don't think I've made this point on this platform before it's no coincidence IMO that so much fash faux nostalgia AI slop is indistinguishable from the most gonzo dystopian "what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war, this is the sixth Reich" parodies, IE: 171027102
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026blockchain fixes this [holds finger to earpiece] er, i mean agentic ai fixes this 000
Reposted by zer0pointKwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The only source of there being any kind of productivity boost in software is from the people who have had their brains fried by the "discovery" you can brute force a bunch of stolen code into compiling. Anyone still in this industry that hasn't been fried sees these people doing overtime for less. 181
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i was planning on looking for the amulet already, actually 040
Reposted by zer0pointAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It should be scaring more people how ‘AI’ is being used to displace, avoid, and control actual living human beings but for some reason some of us seem more fascinated by the conveniences and novelties of it all, like magpies with shiny baubles 26424
Reposted by zer0pointTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you. 241001107
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 01/10/2026quite the gap between their apparent conviction that this is the tech that’s going to define the future and their thin-skinned response to any and all criticism 000
Reposted by zer0pointaustin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 01/10/2026hot take: software people are going to regret not unionizing when we could 28984132
Reposted by zer0pointPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yet 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. 614834
Reposted by zer0pointJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115802875
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 01/10/2026case in point. obv this kind of bureaucratic abuse isn’t specifically intended to drive ai adoption but it’s a nice synergistic effect 010
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i know chris knows this but a lot of these tasks are symptoms of structural issues (often exclusive to the us). i get the individual calculus in using ai to address these but imo you’re just papering over societal problems with a technology that is just creating yet more problems 120
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i’ve always thought that was mostly a self-congratulatory myth. sure some devs are much more competent than others, but the 10x concept requires that productivity be reliably quantifiable in a way that it just isn’t imo 051
Reposted by zer0pointDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895445937
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 29/09/2026unfashionable to like tool i realize but they are good actually 120
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it’s like someone saying veganism is crazy if killing and eating animals had been invented four years ago 050
Reposted by zer0pointKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026GenAI is what I am going to optimistically call "pre-systemic" - it hasn't been baked in yet. And the stakes are HIGH, bc once baked in, the climate impacts push it up into a high category among the plastics industry, agriculture etc So....what that means is that heavy users *are* morally culpable 24513
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yes boss, i AM an easily replaceable cog in the machine 010
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this and apple trial-ballooning always-on audio recording in their smartwatch are these companies looking for a place to fit the thin edge of the ubiquitous public surveillance wedge. if it flies they will 100% escalate to video later 000
Reposted by zer0pointlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals 321891321
Reposted by zer0pointshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot 281760293
Reposted by zer0pointRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What's typical of slopaganda images (and what distinguishes them in part from classic propaganda) is not only the ostensible photorealism, which is not meant to fool anyone, but also the abundance of symbols. These are hyperlegible images, filled to the edges with graffiti, flags, and other signs 422930
Reposted by zer0pointdoctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 17/09/2026this is one of those things that almost sounds reasonable until you consider the way they've satanized every single concept. they're called frontier because they're completely unregulated. they're a lab so they can experiment on you. you're the product. you're being aligned. that's their safety. 1143
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 25/09/2026it’s wild to me how programmers across the board have just rolled over instantly like this. if i were still in the field (shudder) i’d view llms as an existential threat. crabs in a bucket i guess 000
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i hear a pretty pronounced queen influence in the last dinner party 000
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026[beastie boys voice] i know you’re gonna scroll cause i’m a fat young BOY 020
Reposted by zer0pointKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026Riffing on 2 week old discourse here but - something that bugs me about the part of this website that sees AI as automation and therefore a labour-saving good thing is that I can't think of any other automation or technological time-saving tool that requires constant input of all other human labour 59423
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026what is “bluesky communities” and am i right to immediately assume it’s bad? 000
Reposted by zer0pointSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Alpha School seems to exist solely to provide a fantasy projection of what tech-led public-service-as-business is. Whether it achieves anything is immaterial because its function is simply to be and in being issue an argument that AI can replace any function performed by public servants. 3137
Reposted by zer0pointSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The moment the AI company is asking you for your bank account data, that’s what we call a “clue.” That’s the ore they’re mining from you. That will become the basis for surveillance-pricing you on everything you buy in the future. Including those groceries 530671
zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 23/09/2026people seem to love that book but i found it rather tedious 010
Reposted by zer0pointdoctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 22/09/2026grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it's fall, fuckers. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...mcsweeneys.netIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFor the sixteenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads. 2155
Reposted by zer0pointAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/20268. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it 4448112
Reposted by zer0pointAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement 6403116
Reposted by zer0pointbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026seeing lots of people flip out about this poll but it’s only a sample of dem voters, not the electorate as a whole 1046044
