Michael Morrison
@rhetoricalreader.bsky.social
Reader, gamer, strongly anti-AI
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If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
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Or rather destroying them by restructuring the workforce, so that poorly paid workers are made to service corporate-owned machines to foster the illusion of their 'autonomy,' ensuring wealth flows upwards...the Jacquard loom strikes again
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Or rather destroying them by restructuring the workforce, so that poorly paid workers are made to service corporate-owned machines to foster the illusion of their 'autonomy,' ensuring wealth flows upwards...the Jacquard loom strikes again
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Every single person involved in creating this should be blacklisted from anything even tangentially related to art.
This is *awful.* AI is awful. PAY VOICE ACTORS.
This is *awful.* AI is awful. PAY VOICE ACTORS.
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Every single person involved in creating this should be blacklisted from anything even tangentially related to art.
This is *awful.* AI is awful. PAY VOICE ACTORS.
This is *awful.* AI is awful. PAY VOICE ACTORS.
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Here it is with the byline and alt text
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Here it is with the byline and alt text
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None of this AI slop is inevitable, and far from having to get used to it, it's been incredibly encouraging to see developers actively remove it from their games. Turns out it's as ephemeral as a fart in an elevator, everyone hates it and wants to get off, but it's gone after a short while.
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
None of this AI slop is inevitable, and far from having to get used to it, it's been incredibly encouraging to see developers actively remove it from their games. Turns out it's as ephemeral as a fart in an elevator, everyone hates it and wants to get off, but it's gone after a short while.
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I hope the people involved in saying yes to this poop their pants violently at the exact most embarrassing time to do so each day :)
They pay us so little in dubbing already & clearly think we aren't worth paying at all yet theyre also bringing in celebs for "name factor"
Performance means nothing
They pay us so little in dubbing already & clearly think we aren't worth paying at all yet theyre also bringing in celebs for "name factor"
Performance means nothing
Hey just so you know Amazon decided to give us an AI ENGLISH DUB of Banana Fish instead of actually hiring real voice actors
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I hope the people involved in saying yes to this poop their pants violently at the exact most embarrassing time to do so each day :)
They pay us so little in dubbing already & clearly think we aren't worth paying at all yet theyre also bringing in celebs for "name factor"
Performance means nothing
They pay us so little in dubbing already & clearly think we aren't worth paying at all yet theyre also bringing in celebs for "name factor"
Performance means nothing
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How the fuck did this get past approval? If an actual artist had tried to pass this off they've have been fired. Couldn't even get the dang FLAG right.
they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
How the fuck did this get past approval? If an actual artist had tried to pass this off they've have been fired. Couldn't even get the dang FLAG right.
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one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
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Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights
Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Magic Bean Adoption Flatlines as Magic Fails to Ensue
Multiple surveys are telling the same story: AI adoption has stalled. Census data shows ~11% of workers use AI, with rates falling at 250+ employee firms. Surveys show usage spiked then plateaued.
Meanwhile Big Tech is planning $5T in AI spend by 2030 that needs $650B/year in revenue vs ~$50B today
Meanwhile Big Tech is planning $5T in AI spend by 2030 that needs $650B/year in revenue vs ~$50B today
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Magic Bean Adoption Flatlines as Magic Fails to Ensue
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“While Shelby County has recorded the dirtiest air in Tennessee for many years — half the state’s admissions for childhood asthma come from there — local residents say the arrival of Colossus has made things worse.”
In Memphis, where people fear Elon Musk’s supercomputer is making them ill
Colossus, an xAI supercomputer, is blamed for worsening air pollution in a historic black community
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“While Shelby County has recorded the dirtiest air in Tennessee for many years — half the state’s admissions for childhood asthma come from there — local residents say the arrival of Colossus has made things worse.”
I see we're doing piracy discourse again. I know it's a mistake to wade in, but... I appreciate the quoted post.
We can talk about the failure of capitalism. We can talk about the fact that ai companies have pulled off the 2nd/3rd greatest theft of all time and we call it business as usual. 1/3
We can talk about the failure of capitalism. We can talk about the fact that ai companies have pulled off the 2nd/3rd greatest theft of all time and we call it business as usual. 1/3
People are going to pirate my books. I certainly can't stop them from doing it. But I refuse to pretend that it doesn't annoy me or that it has no bearing on my career. And I won't indulge them in the lie that they're doing anything other than stealing for pleasure
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I see we're doing piracy discourse again. I know it's a mistake to wade in, but... I appreciate the quoted post.
We can talk about the failure of capitalism. We can talk about the fact that ai companies have pulled off the 2nd/3rd greatest theft of all time and we call it business as usual. 1/3
We can talk about the failure of capitalism. We can talk about the fact that ai companies have pulled off the 2nd/3rd greatest theft of all time and we call it business as usual. 1/3
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I mean, hell, if you really believe GenAI is making your product better, you should not be relying on someone else to tag it.
It is weird how enthusiastic folks are to brand something with an “AI” label when users have no choice, but are so hesitant to do so otherwise.
It is weird how enthusiastic folks are to brand something with an “AI” label when users have no choice, but are so hesitant to do so otherwise.
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I mean, hell, if you really believe GenAI is making your product better, you should not be relying on someone else to tag it.
It is weird how enthusiastic folks are to brand something with an “AI” label when users have no choice, but are so hesitant to do so otherwise.
It is weird how enthusiastic folks are to brand something with an “AI” label when users have no choice, but are so hesitant to do so otherwise.
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
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The thing about this and the "Piggy" incident is how much it fires up MAGA nation. X has been braying for hours with approval. To them, the essence of the strong man is to tear down others, to humiliate and belittle. Even when awash in corruption, this is the love: he lets them feel strong again.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The thing about this and the "Piggy" incident is how much it fires up MAGA nation. X has been braying for hours with approval. To them, the essence of the strong man is to tear down others, to humiliate and belittle. Even when awash in corruption, this is the love: he lets them feel strong again.
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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Remember when the CEO of microsoft also said the very wrong thing that AI was great in software and that 30% of their code was done by AI and then this was the result
www.neowin.net/news/microso...
www.neowin.net/news/microso...
Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 Shell and every associated core feature and element are actually broken, and have been like this for many months.
www.neowin.net
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Remember when the CEO of microsoft also said the very wrong thing that AI was great in software and that 30% of their code was done by AI and then this was the result
www.neowin.net/news/microso...
www.neowin.net/news/microso...
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Two huge media properties dominated the Macy’s parade: Wicked and KPop Demon Hunters.
CEOs of major media companies: we will learn nothing from this
CEOs of major media companies: we will learn nothing from this
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Two huge media properties dominated the Macy’s parade: Wicked and KPop Demon Hunters.
CEOs of major media companies: we will learn nothing from this
CEOs of major media companies: we will learn nothing from this
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Multiple women came forward and their complaints were ignored.
This is the culture Hegseth wants to foster.
He doesn’t want women to be safe.
He won’t let them come forward anonymously.
Rape culture is alive and well.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
This is the culture Hegseth wants to foster.
He doesn’t want women to be safe.
He won’t let them come forward anonymously.
Rape culture is alive and well.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Army OB-GYN accused of secretly recording women under his care
This week, the U.S. Army has been reckoning with a sexual abuse scandal that could involve the largest number of allegations in its history. An Army doctor is accused of abusing women who were under h...
www.pbs.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Multiple women came forward and their complaints were ignored.
This is the culture Hegseth wants to foster.
He doesn’t want women to be safe.
He won’t let them come forward anonymously.
Rape culture is alive and well.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
This is the culture Hegseth wants to foster.
He doesn’t want women to be safe.
He won’t let them come forward anonymously.
Rape culture is alive and well.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
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Look, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Look, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
Accountability post, day 27.
Only 1,415 words tonight. I'm strangely depressed tonight. Just feeling low.
So I'm going to call those words a win, snuggle with my ancient cat, and watch other people talk about books on YouTube for a while.
Happy Thanksgiving, all.
#writing #writesky
Only 1,415 words tonight. I'm strangely depressed tonight. Just feeling low.
So I'm going to call those words a win, snuggle with my ancient cat, and watch other people talk about books on YouTube for a while.
Happy Thanksgiving, all.
#writing #writesky
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM