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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · Dec 29

gen AI is an attempt to industrialize knowledge work. Luddites keep coming up in this discussion, because it's incredibly relevant.

A short thread, I guess

John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · Dec 28

I’m not convinced “(Generative) AI is here to stay”.

It’s massively expensive to train models, and companies are burning billions and billions of VC dollars on it with no clear path to profitability.

The idea that we should all get familiar with LLMs because they’re “here to stay” rings hollow

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 8h

I'll be really excited to hear everyone's nuanced and reasonable analysis of the strengths and weaknesses and fitness for purpose of AI when the providers have to jack up the cost by 50-100x

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 15h

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture

Screenshot of an article discussing the use of sparkle emojis for AI chat widgets, with several examples

Screenshot of an article about common products and food that had added radium in the 40s, with irritated tap water and butter as examples

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 15h

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 16h

The appropriate historical analogy is radium, not the web.

In this TED talk, I will

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 18h

LLMs everywhere - in software engineering, but in all other industries as well - is happening faster than any past tech adoption.

This is also why, the strategy to ignore AI for a few years is likely to have a similar outcome as ignoring the internet for a decade or two from the late 90s

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20h

What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18h

If you'd ever experienced getting that kind of oblivious fuckwittery on literally everything you post and the toll it takes, maybe you'd think more about the consent of the poster and less about the ✨tragedy✨ of not seeing a post from someone you have no relationship with on *one single view*.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 1d

No, I think I get it. I had to read it 4 times before my brain stopped automatically correcting it

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

One big reason I’ve written off finding a regular tech job (instead of continuing to try building my unique thing yolo) is the way mgmt techniques at the big tech cos have produced a conspiracist wonderland in those companies’ organizational practices—and filtered throughout the rest of the industry

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 2d

Some day I hope to be wrong about something like this 😫

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 2d

I'm old enough to remember how that happened, even
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I find myself thinking about the time, about a month into Biden's term, when he ordered ICE to halt deportations temporarily. They refused. They kept arresting and deporting people. And Biden just ign...

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 3d

I super don't want to return to twitter style follow policing, but come on. You know?

Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 3d

The only thing following does on here is establish a relationship.

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 3d

For real. And also, distinguishing between being an active follower vs passively interested vs occasionally curious is the thing that bluesky does best. There are lists and feeds, entirely separate from following. That is exactly what those things are for.

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 3d

"bluesky doesn't have affordances to distinguish between agreement, interest, and mere curiosity" says the person with the 2nd or 3rd most influence over bluesky's affordances of anyone in the world

Also, yes it does

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 3d

I thought it was an asterisk with too many fingers

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 4d

I was unaware of this. I guess i can downgrade it from uninterested to actively avoid

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 4d

It doesn't seem like using the term AI✨ is reducing the confusion, though. If anything, it's inviting people to conflate the tools with chatgpt or w/e

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 4d

Calling your automated moderation tools "AI" instead of ML is a choice. Particularly doing so one day after banning a bunch of the targets of that technopolitcal project.

That, in part, is what people are reacting to.

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 4d

It's actually not irrational for people to react strongly to any use of "AI" as a moniker.

AI doesn't mean anything. At best, it's a marketing umbrella term. More realistically, it's a group signifier for a right wing technopolitcal project.

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 4d

Well done, I'm proud of you

a man in a superhero costume is standing next to a batman figure .

Alt: Batman stands behind Superman, who is posed for takeoff. Batman flaps Superman's cape, to simulate wind

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Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus.com · 5d

We're going to need more hotdog suits around here

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 5d

no amount of shaming Jay will change the power dynamic. she has most of it, we are unorganized and have very little. if people want to make centralized social media platforms less shitty, we have to organize and take collective action when people like link (or chad loder, if you recall) are targeted

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damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣 @damien.zone · 6d

I can't believe Bluesky is making me argue that Eugen 'Website Boy' Rochko is doing a more decent job at the head of the Mastodon project in comparison. Maddening.

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