Gigawatt 🏴☠️🏳️🌈
@gigawattvertigo.bsky.social
Alleged musician. Cybernetics appreciator. Noted grouch, leftist. Birdsite refugee. Melburnian. Definitely not a vampire. (he/him if necessary)
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i really really really really think we are delivering on terrible, society destroying, applications of AI at about 10x the rate of "economically useful, liberatory, activity for normies"
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
i really really really really think we are delivering on terrible, society destroying, applications of AI at about 10x the rate of "economically useful, liberatory, activity for normies"
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i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved
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i am not anti-AI but i think people need to be clear eyed about what it means when we spend orders of magnitude more capital on orders of magnitude more applications that are obviously anti-social if not explicitly evil compared to the pro-social, liberatory, FALGSC style pitches
i really really really really think we are delivering on terrible, society destroying, applications of AI at about 10x the rate of "economically useful, liberatory, activity for normies"
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
i am not anti-AI but i think people need to be clear eyed about what it means when we spend orders of magnitude more capital on orders of magnitude more applications that are obviously anti-social if not explicitly evil compared to the pro-social, liberatory, FALGSC style pitches
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also, one tends to wonder how many solar panels you could buy with what it cost to produce the OpenAI Sora sloptok thing
i am not anti-AI but i think people need to be clear eyed about what it means when we spend orders of magnitude more capital on orders of magnitude more applications that are obviously anti-social if not explicitly evil compared to the pro-social, liberatory, FALGSC style pitches
i really really really really think we are delivering on terrible, society destroying, applications of AI at about 10x the rate of "economically useful, liberatory, activity for normies"
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
also, one tends to wonder how many solar panels you could buy with what it cost to produce the OpenAI Sora sloptok thing
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junji ito, what have u done
This was a really interesting detail: left to their own devices, AI chatbots will start inventing "spiralism" all by themselves. Something in their training seems to make them susceptible to this strain of mysticism.
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
junji ito, what have u done
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this is pretty standard forum moderation policy, but "user was banned for this post" is one thing bsky is missing
Our policy has been not to comment on individual accounts. You end up having to litigate every case in public, and we don’t have the capacity for infinite debates in public.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
this is pretty standard forum moderation policy, but "user was banned for this post" is one thing bsky is missing
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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Tasering your own balls is the weaponization of Cringe Culture
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Tasering your own balls is the weaponization of Cringe Culture
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James Bond is an alias of the God Emperor of Mankind he's using to subtlety influence the course of human civilization in this era.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
James Bond is an alias of the God Emperor of Mankind he's using to subtlety influence the course of human civilization in this era.
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What about instead of James Bond you make more George Smiley movies
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What about instead of James Bond you make more George Smiley movies
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Tatsuya Nakadai riding a demon motorcycle to death in The Wicked City. What a legend.
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Tatsuya Nakadai riding a demon motorcycle to death in The Wicked City. What a legend.
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begrudging congratulations to bari weiss, who manages to perfectly capture the zeitgeist of 2025 with "what's the point of standards?"
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
begrudging congratulations to bari weiss, who manages to perfectly capture the zeitgeist of 2025 with "what's the point of standards?"
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Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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"Nocturne" 1891
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
American Artist
Pastel on Paperboard
(43.8 x 36.8 cm.)
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
American Artist
Pastel on Paperboard
(43.8 x 36.8 cm.)
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
"Nocturne" 1891
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
American Artist
Pastel on Paperboard
(43.8 x 36.8 cm.)
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
American Artist
Pastel on Paperboard
(43.8 x 36.8 cm.)
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
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I wanna bait you like an animal
Fishing. U bring me closer to cod
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I wanna bait you like an animal
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Fishing. U bring me closer to cod
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Fishing. U bring me closer to cod
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November 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM