This is technostress on steroids. It never ends well.

Wait, I've seen this before. youtu.be/GIUae04Ip2c?...

Google Toilet was hyperbole. Clearly something got lost in translation. youtu.be/GIUae04Ip2c?...

This open letter against the uncritical adoption of AI in universities, spearheaded by @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social who have both published a whirlwind of excellent academic papers in 2025: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

I'll be a hater forever. I'm working hard to be my area's final boss of AI haters. They'll need to claw the title from my cold dead hands.

There are so many trends, especially in tech, that I was told I'd effectively be forced to adopt and then never did.

My things worked fine before, if I don't want to use something I can just keep not using it. It's not incumbent on me to change, it's incumbent on tech to prove it's worth using.

People have had LED headlights for a good few years now and I still call them pricks when they drive behind me at night. Do not underestimate me

marginalized people are targeted for censorship *regardless of their opinions* because the main thing people want to prevent them from saying is simply "I exist."

And…talking heads and pundits are STILL blaming Dems for somehow not pointing out how awful things were going to be. JFC Kamala Harris clearly said he was going to do all these terrible things. People didn’t want to listen because penis and race.

I think we've all had quite enough of no imagination tech bro billionaires who don't know what it is to be happy saying, "you don't know what you like until we tell you what you like" then offering us cars that burst into flames, space trash, & an environment killing robot that encourages psychosis

When a customer says to a normal business "I don't want this," that business has to either change course or die. When a customer says to Meta "I don't want this," Meta says "oh you just wait, we'll figure out some way to convince you that you indeed DO want this, plus, where else can you go?"

TBF, most of those are bot farms

Red teaming tech harms is a myth. Guardrails are a myth. Algorithmic audits are a myth. Multi-stakeholder collaboration is a myth. These ideas serve to honeypot regulators and civil society into thinking they can work with tech companies to make them safe on their own terms, but it doesn’t work.