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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 14h

100% agree.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14h

I fucking love buying books.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · 1d

Feeling more and more like we need to spend less time imagining precise analogies to Germany in the 1930s—some of which are real to be clear—and start thinking more about what happened to Russia from 1992-the 2010s

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 1d

And it's their machine god that will, since the other companies (or China) are unethical and will use it for harm, therefore, full speed ahead to get there first. The road to the "inevitable" is paved with deliberate decisions.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 1d

Ted nails iy yet again. Great thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 2d

He is. I not only tell him that everyday, I also ask him how.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 2d

Well, you should see his excitement when he sees me ;)

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't dignify it with an answer, all I got was the that side-eye.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 2d

I beg to differ.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 5d

The imperial boomerang, even in the language used.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 7d

Lies are so in fashion so it is ok.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 7d

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 7d

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

Posted by the President of the United States.

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 8d

Might as well take out all the trash.

onion person @junlper.beer · 8d

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 9d

What happens when ELIZA chats with ELIZA.

Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 10d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 10d

Already eight years ago, the early days of the marketing hype, well before the tech latched on to AGI. Today seems to be the "moment" that personhood would start to be granted, a legal foundation for the fetish of intelligent machines.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, and there's also Sophia that was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia (of all places). I followed that Air Canada case with interest, precisely because the future seemed to arrive a bit too soon.

www.wired.com/story/sophia...

The agony of Sophia, the world's first robot citizen condemned to a lifeless career in marketing

Sophia the robot was given the gift of legal personhood. Her reward? An eternity working in marketing

www.wired.com

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 10d

If I remember correctly, @cstross.bsky.social wrote an article about precisely that some time ago. This one I think www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

Invaders from Mars - Charlie's Diary

"Voting doesn't change anything — the politicians always win." 'Twas not always so, but I'm hearing variations on that theme a lot these days, and not just in the UK.

www.antipope.org

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 10d

We speculated about this as a far out science fictional possible future in Inhuman Power (inspired by @cstross.bsky.social Accelerando). That this OpenAI guy argues we will see it come soon is, well, scary.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 11d

Disruption, innit.

gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 11d

what is the legal theory according to which you can just declare that you're allowed to steal from everyone unless they explicitly say no don't do that www.reuters.com/technology/o...

OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 11d

My favorite subway graffiti right now is anti-friend hot takes.

Graffiti on ad reads "and is a living being — not AI!"

Graffiti reads "AI fuels isolation — reach into the real world!!"

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 14d

They may not wear brown shirts but ICE is the Trump regime's Sturmabteilung.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 15d

Hmmm, seeing this reminded me of this board game I used to play and absolutely love--Junta.
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24...

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 17d

Not only know it, they get their pants in a twist everytime they hear it.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 17d

Pretty fucking sure there’s a word in Arabic that means submission, lol. It’s a famous one. I bet you know it.

Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 18d

US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack:

Peace is an illusion. There has never been peace.

There will probably never be peace.

Somebody wants dominance, which means somebody has to submit. There is no Arabic word for submit. They can't wrap their head around submit.

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 19d

Interesting, but not sure I completely understand without more explanation. I've never heard that argument.

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 19d

I do agree that just stating something is a real abstraction isn't very helpful at all, it's the process whereby it turns into it that's important and what the function of the real abstraction is.

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