Hagen Blix
@hagenblix.bsky.social
Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
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Hagen Blix
@hagenblix.bsky.social
· Jul 8
Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares
On the Interpretation of Nightmares
bookshop.org
We wrote a book about AI, Class, and Capitalism!
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
"Why We Fear AI" has shown up in the usual shadow libraries
Just wanna say a) well, download it, b) if you can, buy a physical copy regardless, and c) please ask your local library to get a copy either way!
Just wanna say a) well, download it, b) if you can, buy a physical copy regardless, and c) please ask your local library to get a copy either way!
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Why We Fear AI" has shown up in the usual shadow libraries
Just wanna say a) well, download it, b) if you can, buy a physical copy regardless, and c) please ask your local library to get a copy either way!
Just wanna say a) well, download it, b) if you can, buy a physical copy regardless, and c) please ask your local library to get a copy either way!
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Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 11/24/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
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Excited to see my article "The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley" has now been officially assigned a volume and issue in Critical Studies on Security (Vol. 13, Issue 3)! I have 50 free copies; let me know if you need one. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Excited to see my article "The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley" has now been officially assigned a volume and issue in Critical Studies on Security (Vol. 13, Issue 3)! I have 50 free copies; let me know if you need one. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...
I keep saying, this ruling class has nothing at all to offer us. They have no vision, no ideas, no sense of responsibility, nothing. We need to take away these people's power to rule and structure the world
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I keep saying, this ruling class has nothing at all to offer us. They have no vision, no ideas, no sense of responsibility, nothing. We need to take away these people's power to rule and structure the world
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To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
www.gofundme.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
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What the fuck
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
What the fuck
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We wrote a book about AI, Class, and Capitalism!
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares
On the Interpretation of Nightmares
bookshop.org
July 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We wrote a book about AI, Class, and Capitalism!
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
This shit is so weird
Krauss: Hey you two, look at my article about atheism
Epstein: I like religion, actually
Chomsky: We don't have to ridicule them tho
Epstein (dropping Chomsky from the convo): You should invite Depp to the island btw
Krauss: Hey you two, look at my article about atheism
Epstein: I like religion, actually
Chomsky: We don't have to ridicule them tho
Epstein (dropping Chomsky from the convo): You should invite Depp to the island btw
Lawrence Krauss: Re: an article you may both hate. or like. — Epstein Emails
Email from Lawrence Krauss in [email protected]: When I was with him yesterday I told him we were going to caribbean and he asked where.. He has an i
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This shit is so weird
Krauss: Hey you two, look at my article about atheism
Epstein: I like religion, actually
Chomsky: We don't have to ridicule them tho
Epstein (dropping Chomsky from the convo): You should invite Depp to the island btw
Krauss: Hey you two, look at my article about atheism
Epstein: I like religion, actually
Chomsky: We don't have to ridicule them tho
Epstein (dropping Chomsky from the convo): You should invite Depp to the island btw
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Bumping this thread bc there is yet another long form review out that purports to summarize the text and in the process gets it wrong, this time demoting my mom to a founding “member” of an organization she started. Founder. That’s the word!
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
So there is a review this week in @thenation.com of a book that is 1/3 about my mother and grandmother and their organizing work, and this is now the nth review that states the misinformation that the Wages for Housework Campaign ended in the 1980s.
This is completely false. 🧵
This is completely false. 🧵
The Enduring Lessons of Wages for Housework
Emily Callaci’s history of the international feminist movement examines the influence of their intellectual and political victories.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Bumping this thread bc there is yet another long form review out that purports to summarize the text and in the process gets it wrong, this time demoting my mom to a founding “member” of an organization she started. Founder. That’s the word!
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
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Hi @emilybaughan.bsky.social I hope you’ll consider asking @bostonreview.bsky.social for a correction regarding the framing of my mom as a “founding member“ of Black Women for Wages for Housework when she was a co-founder along with Wilmette Brown. Making sure Black women get credit for their work
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hi @emilybaughan.bsky.social I hope you’ll consider asking @bostonreview.bsky.social for a correction regarding the framing of my mom as a “founding member“ of Black Women for Wages for Housework when she was a co-founder along with Wilmette Brown. Making sure Black women get credit for their work
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omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world
Fascinating essay on care work, labor struggles, feminism, and the racialized history of care extraction from @emilybaughan.bsky.social
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
www.bostonreview.net
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Fascinating essay on care work, labor struggles, feminism, and the racialized history of care extraction from @emilybaughan.bsky.social
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A useful essay. It strikes me again while reading this that it's through critical analysis of the care economy that the stakes of a Marxist labor theory of value versus a Marxian critique of the labor theory of value should come most starkly into view.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
www.bostonreview.net
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A useful essay. It strikes me again while reading this that it's through critical analysis of the care economy that the stakes of a Marxist labor theory of value versus a Marxian critique of the labor theory of value should come most starkly into view.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
"telling ain’t teaching" is an excellent way of putting this. So much of teaching is about creating contexts that are both safe and challenging, where failure is a positive part of a project that's not the end, but a stepping stone, etc
telling ain’t teaching
even if it’s not making up 45%+ of what it says, which of course it is
even if it’s not making up 45%+ of what it says, which of course it is
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"telling ain’t teaching" is an excellent way of putting this. So much of teaching is about creating contexts that are both safe and challenging, where failure is a positive part of a project that's not the end, but a stepping stone, etc
There's been tons of research into how to manipulate LLM output. They can easily be made into propaganda machines, they can be turned fascist.
Though as today's examples of Elon Musk as the best <insert horrible thing> remind us, propaganda is always subvertible.
Though as today's examples of Elon Musk as the best <insert horrible thing> remind us, propaganda is always subvertible.
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
There's been tons of research into how to manipulate LLM output. They can easily be made into propaganda machines, they can be turned fascist.
Though as today's examples of Elon Musk as the best <insert horrible thing> remind us, propaganda is always subvertible.
Though as today's examples of Elon Musk as the best <insert horrible thing> remind us, propaganda is always subvertible.
I'm getting the extremely online impression that everyone is having a field day with thinking this is a form of sabotage, but it's mostly a way of making the LLMs do produce stuff from overt racism to malicious code, so I'm not sure we should really compare this to hacking or whatever
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I'm getting the extremely online impression that everyone is having a field day with thinking this is a form of sabotage, but it's mostly a way of making the LLMs do produce stuff from overt racism to malicious code, so I'm not sure we should really compare this to hacking or whatever
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Wow, this is a great summary of COP30! All the COPs, come to think of it. 🤔
Wow. People are way too chill around an active & uncontained fire in the building they're standing in.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Wow, this is a great summary of COP30! All the COPs, come to think of it. 🤔
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5 ways to think about OpenAI in education 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
5 ways to think about OpenAI in education 🧵
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
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Please give @tessajbrown.bsky.social a follow for the latest updates on www.heliotropejournal.net --and much more!
HELIOTROPE
www.heliotropejournal.net
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Please give @tessajbrown.bsky.social a follow for the latest updates on www.heliotropejournal.net --and much more!
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I’m a dedicated hater of this book so I will have to listen
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I’m a dedicated hater of this book so I will have to listen
As a generative syntactician, I have to say that this is pretty nauseating
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As a generative syntactician, I have to say that this is pretty nauseating