Lila Byock
@lbyock.bsky.social
Writer of television, hater of Big Tech in schools
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Lila Byock
@lbyock.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Oooh your chatbot is becoming sentient and may pose a threat to humanity? Should we throw a party? Should we invite all your most gullible investors?
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Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
If we could convince Brett Ratner to offer Trump a role in a new Rush Hour movie, maybe we could buy enough time to save American democracy???
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
If we could convince Brett Ratner to offer Trump a role in a new Rush Hour movie, maybe we could buy enough time to save American democracy???
Weird that the magician can’t just make this whole story disappear.
Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Weird that the magician can’t just make this whole story disappear.
96% of EdTech apps used by schools are harvesting student data and selling it to third parties. (Is that a fun fact?)
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
96% of EdTech apps used by schools are harvesting student data and selling it to third parties. (Is that a fun fact?)
LAUSD: Now’s your chance to tell the district we want AI slop & Big Tech out of our schools. EdTech listening sessions today & tomorrow at 5pm. Show up! www.schoolsbeyondscreens.com/important-ev...
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
LAUSD: Now’s your chance to tell the district we want AI slop & Big Tech out of our schools. EdTech listening sessions today & tomorrow at 5pm. Show up! www.schoolsbeyondscreens.com/important-ev...
Matthew Rhys already under contract for the inevitable Apple limited series about the AI hype bubble collapse.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Matthew Rhys already under contract for the inevitable Apple limited series about the AI hype bubble collapse.
I, for one, am shocked that an AI teddy bear named “Kumma” was providing detailed descriptions of sexual kinks.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I, for one, am shocked that an AI teddy bear named “Kumma” was providing detailed descriptions of sexual kinks.
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
I just came from a memorial where a guy was vaping a scrolling Instagram reels *with the sound on* throughout the service. Then he abruptly stood up and walked out in the middle of the sister’s eulogy???
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I just came from a memorial where a guy was vaping a scrolling Instagram reels *with the sound on* throughout the service. Then he abruptly stood up and walked out in the middle of the sister’s eulogy???
Saving this as my auto reply to every round of network notes.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Saving this as my auto reply to every round of network notes.
This photo is giving “Step inside the upstate retreat of these globetrotting empty-nesters!”
Epstein’s reading list: Emails reveal pedophile’s wide-ranging Amazon picks
Epstein’s reading list: Emails reveal pedophile’s wide-ranging Amazon picks
Epstein’s reading list: Emails reveal pedophile’s wide-ranging Amazon picks
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This photo is giving “Step inside the upstate retreat of these globetrotting empty-nesters!”
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This is our community's letter!! It was written by Josie Morway, a local artist and parent. After we started asking questions, the district slowed way down and starting holding forums, creating workgroups, and taking student privacy more seriously. Talk to us if you want to do the same!
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is our community's letter!! It was written by Josie Morway, a local artist and parent. After we started asking questions, the district slowed way down and starting holding forums, creating workgroups, and taking student privacy more seriously. Talk to us if you want to do the same!
You know it’s been a big news week when “DNA sequencing proves Hitler had a micropenis” doesn’t even rank.
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
You know it’s been a big news week when “DNA sequencing proves Hitler had a micropenis” doesn’t even rank.
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
It’s always the ones you most suspect. (Cough Larry Summers)
Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It’s always the ones you most suspect. (Cough Larry Summers)
Last night I heard a man who’d fled the Salvadoran civil war describe ICE as a paramilitary army aligned with an authoritarian government, and I thought… oh.
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Last night I heard a man who’d fled the Salvadoran civil war describe ICE as a paramilitary army aligned with an authoritarian government, and I thought… oh.
Trying to imagine a less cool combination of words than “Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party at Jeff Bezos’s house.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Trying to imagine a less cool combination of words than “Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party at Jeff Bezos’s house.”
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.
LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.
It’s an Interesting Time to cancel your @nytimes.com subscription!
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It’s an Interesting Time to cancel your @nytimes.com subscription!
My 12yo is already gaming out ‘28: “AOC, Bernie, Warren, and Zohran should all run for president, and at a certain point, three of them should just drop out and support whoever’s ahead.”
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My 12yo is already gaming out ‘28: “AOC, Bernie, Warren, and Zohran should all run for president, and at a certain point, three of them should just drop out and support whoever’s ahead.”
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Democrats need to start becoming more vocally against AI and data centers if they wanna get ahead of the bubble burst.
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Democrats need to start becoming more vocally against AI and data centers if they wanna get ahead of the bubble burst.