Sören Hammerschmidt
@sorham.bsky.social
he/him. 18th-c. literature & community college stanning in the desert. prof by day, goth 24/7. luddite by choice & out of conviction.
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Better never than late, amiright??
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i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions
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February 18, 2026 at 4:46 PM
i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions
thread 1/
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Also: I contend that AI boosters do not actually love technology, but the way that the tech industry is catering to them so they get to feel both like a victim and a powerful futurist at the same time
February 18, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Also: I contend that AI boosters do not actually love technology, but the way that the tech industry is catering to them so they get to feel both like a victim and a powerful futurist at the same time
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Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.
February 18, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.
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An excellent reflection from @jjoque.bsky.social that draws out some fine, but crucial distinctions that I believe will be essential for political fights for a better world.
The AI Con, by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna - The OLR Supplement
Justin Joque aims for a more radical critique of AI than Bender and Hanna, both by questioning intentionalist language, and with a leftist political orientation
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February 17, 2026 at 11:46 PM
An excellent reflection from @jjoque.bsky.social that draws out some fine, but crucial distinctions that I believe will be essential for political fights for a better world.
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It’s been a long time since I last read The Wee Free Men and I had forgotten about the wandering adjuncts who give lessons for eggs and carrots
February 17, 2026 at 1:50 AM
It’s been a long time since I last read The Wee Free Men and I had forgotten about the wandering adjuncts who give lessons for eggs and carrots
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Anna is (wrong about Darcy but) right about this. We love creative adaptations that show they get the original. That's not what this is.
it is the oldest ideological trick in the book, one played by bosses and books alike, to take a realist investigation of real estate, race, and class mobility and neuter it into smut and THAT rather than “faithfulness” is the problem we experts have
February 17, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Anna is (wrong about Darcy but) right about this. We love creative adaptations that show they get the original. That's not what this is.
Better never than late, amiright??
No. Wait.
No. Wait.
February 16, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Better never than late, amiright??
No. Wait.
No. Wait.