Ambrose
@ambrosia-engine.bsky.social
Writer, author, and researcher. PhD student in Informatics: AIAI: Automated Reasoning, Agents, Data Intensive Research, Knowledge Management. No, I don't know why the title is so long. Also Affiliate of the Center for Technomoral Futures. Views are my own.
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This zine was created on a quiet, meditative afternoon in November in Seattle, at a workshop led by @dairinstitute.bsky.social 's Dylan Baker -- a lovely experience and a beautiful result!
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zines.dair-institute.org/possible-fut...
The DAIR Zine Library
A collection of zines from the DAIR Institute
zines.dair-institute.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:10 AM
This zine was created on a quiet, meditative afternoon in November in Seattle, at a workshop led by @dairinstitute.bsky.social 's Dylan Baker -- a lovely experience and a beautiful result!
zines.dair-institute.org/possible-fut...
zines.dair-institute.org/possible-fut...
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just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
In 2026, I want to see some spiritual successor to this scene from Office Space, but with modern technology, like those AI toys asking kids for nudes or knives or whatever. That's my new years resolution, I'm dependent on someone really funny to make it happen.
January 1, 2026 at 12:59 PM
In 2026, I want to see some spiritual successor to this scene from Office Space, but with modern technology, like those AI toys asking kids for nudes or knives or whatever. That's my new years resolution, I'm dependent on someone really funny to make it happen.
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"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This
December 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This
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Excellent advice for mathematicians!
Alt text: manifesto held by a black cat paw
Whatever your story is, it's worth telling
Be inspired, not intimidated, by other people's work
Communicate and collaborate
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Alt text: manifesto held by a black cat paw
Whatever your story is, it's worth telling
Be inspired, not intimidated, by other people's work
Communicate and collaborate
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January 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Excellent advice for mathematicians!
Alt text: manifesto held by a black cat paw
Whatever your story is, it's worth telling
Be inspired, not intimidated, by other people's work
Communicate and collaborate
1/
Alt text: manifesto held by a black cat paw
Whatever your story is, it's worth telling
Be inspired, not intimidated, by other people's work
Communicate and collaborate
1/
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I've seen a few people posting stuff along the lines of "2026 is the year I'm going to read more!"
My friend, don't pressure yourself. Even as an author, I say this: Read better, not more. Read what you love, stop reading something that isn't working for you. Don't aim for more, aim for pleasure.
My friend, don't pressure yourself. Even as an author, I say this: Read better, not more. Read what you love, stop reading something that isn't working for you. Don't aim for more, aim for pleasure.
January 1, 2026 at 12:04 PM
I've seen a few people posting stuff along the lines of "2026 is the year I'm going to read more!"
My friend, don't pressure yourself. Even as an author, I say this: Read better, not more. Read what you love, stop reading something that isn't working for you. Don't aim for more, aim for pleasure.
My friend, don't pressure yourself. Even as an author, I say this: Read better, not more. Read what you love, stop reading something that isn't working for you. Don't aim for more, aim for pleasure.
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The instinct to add rather than subtract when it comes to policy – or any kind of problem-solving – runs deep.
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
Less as more: decomputing in the age of tech accelerationism — Resources for today's policymakers
By Bianca Wylie In 2021, in the Journal of Social Computing, historian Jonnie Penn made the argument for “Algorithmic Silence: A Call to Decomputerize.” As he summarizes: “Tech critics become...
www.policyready.ca
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The instinct to add rather than subtract when it comes to policy – or any kind of problem-solving – runs deep.
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
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honestly the number of tech policy people that get away with not connecting to militarization. It is counterproductive to the whole venture of democracy discourse. you have to be able to go there. sanitized innovation stories aren’t historical reality.
December 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
honestly the number of tech policy people that get away with not connecting to militarization. It is counterproductive to the whole venture of democracy discourse. you have to be able to go there. sanitized innovation stories aren’t historical reality.
"I think it just speaks to a bigger kind of faith in technology that exists... to a certain degree, that you just kind of turn these big data sets toward what you want to achieve. And they eventually figure it out. And time and time again, I think we’re seeing that’s not really being realized."
Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure
The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.
gizmodo.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:54 AM
"I think it just speaks to a bigger kind of faith in technology that exists... to a certain degree, that you just kind of turn these big data sets toward what you want to achieve. And they eventually figure it out. And time and time again, I think we’re seeing that’s not really being realized."
Because it's much easier to abuse people who develop dependency. Much much easier.
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WSJ: Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (Dec 30, 2025)
"...Earlier this year, two nicotine startups—*** and ***—made branded vending machines filled with flavored products for analytics company Palantir Technologies. Both […]
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WSJ: Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (Dec 30, 2025)
"...Earlier this year, two nicotine startups—*** and ***—made branded vending machines filled with flavored products for analytics company Palantir Technologies. Both […]
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January 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Because it's much easier to abuse people who develop dependency. Much much easier.
There are alternatives, and we can build more.
"If people stopped spending their money on evil corporations, those corporations would go out of business."
December 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There are alternatives, and we can build more.
This in children's toys? Did we learn nothing from ouji boards????
Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This in children's toys? Did we learn nothing from ouji boards????
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LLMs/GPTs/other sorts of Ał aren’t intelligent and have no subjective experience so slurs won’t hurt their feelings, but even if they’re against entirely fictional races, it’s not ideal to invent/popularise/make socially acceptable slurs because it habituates you to slurring and normalises their use
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
LLMs/GPTs/other sorts of Ał aren’t intelligent and have no subjective experience so slurs won’t hurt their feelings, but even if they’re against entirely fictional races, it’s not ideal to invent/popularise/make socially acceptable slurs because it habituates you to slurring and normalises their use
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One of the most respected mags for sf & f, for generations, is the aptly named The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Over 2 years ago, I sold them a story--but they were having unprecedented problems, & finally were sold to a new company. After 2 years...the issue is here!
www.fandsf.com
www.fandsf.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
One of the most respected mags for sf & f, for generations, is the aptly named The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Over 2 years ago, I sold them a story--but they were having unprecedented problems, & finally were sold to a new company. After 2 years...the issue is here!
www.fandsf.com
www.fandsf.com
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If it’s possible, please keep sharing these links because reach matters. Sadly, 2025 brought me unemployment & health problems: savings are gone, no retirement funds left to draw from, and there’s no family support to fall back on. GFM: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-... Venmo: @jgcarpenter.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If it’s possible, please keep sharing these links because reach matters. Sadly, 2025 brought me unemployment & health problems: savings are gone, no retirement funds left to draw from, and there’s no family support to fall back on. GFM: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-... Venmo: @jgcarpenter.com
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"Great man theorising requires the (re)orientation of the theory to direct all credit to one person (or a biased subset of a select few) reminiscent of monarchy—far from the pluralistic or meritocratic facade science often hides behind"
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December 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Great man theorising requires the (re)orientation of the theory to direct all credit to one person (or a biased subset of a select few) reminiscent of monarchy—far from the pluralistic or meritocratic facade science often hides behind"
doi.org/10.1007/s421...
doi.org/10.1007/s421...
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Some people are really confusing Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism with Fully Automated Luxury Fascist Surveillance and it shows.
We did it folks. As always, today in #LuxurySurveillance.
December 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Some people are really confusing Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism with Fully Automated Luxury Fascist Surveillance and it shows.
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@boruttrpin.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Philosophical Quarterly. We had both written on how inference to the best explanation could work with uncertain evidence. So we teamed up to test some suggestions for how to do that using computer simulations: academic.oup.com/pq/article/d...
Testing abductions from uncertain evidence
Abstract. Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) is traditionally conceived of as a rule of inference, in which one infers to the hypothesis that provides
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December 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@boruttrpin.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Philosophical Quarterly. We had both written on how inference to the best explanation could work with uncertain evidence. So we teamed up to test some suggestions for how to do that using computer simulations: academic.oup.com/pq/article/d...
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“Stanford researchers would create a transparency tracker to score AI companies on whether they revealed even basic information about their large deep learning models…whether there had been any independent verification of their capabilities. All…received an F”
Karen Hao, Empire of AI.
#Books #AI 🧪
Karen Hao, Empire of AI.
#Books #AI 🧪
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Who consents when an AI agent clicks? Who steers the choice? Who is accountable when things go wrong? And can European rules discipline AI agents without smothering innovation? AI agents are neither a new contracting party nor the new yardstick for the “average consumer," writes Camillia Rida.
When an AI Agent Says ‘I Agree,’ Who’s Consenting? | TechPolicy.Press
AI agents are neither a new contracting party nor the new yardstick for the “average consumer," writes Camillia Rida.
bit.ly
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Who consents when an AI agent clicks? Who steers the choice? Who is accountable when things go wrong? And can European rules discipline AI agents without smothering innovation? AI agents are neither a new contracting party nor the new yardstick for the “average consumer," writes Camillia Rida.
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The tech companies have stopped naming themselves after lotr artifacts they are just naming themselves after lotr satan now
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
techcrunch.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The tech companies have stopped naming themselves after lotr artifacts they are just naming themselves after lotr satan now
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We’re living through a truly 21st-century technological revolution, but we’re still relying on legal frameworks rooted in the 18th century and repeatedly stretched to fit 19th- and 20th-century media.
December 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We’re living through a truly 21st-century technological revolution, but we’re still relying on legal frameworks rooted in the 18th century and repeatedly stretched to fit 19th- and 20th-century media.
"No, the money does not exist for you or me or a person. Money is for entities that could potentially funnel more money into the economy, even if the ways that these entities use the money are reckless and foolhardy, because the system’s intent on keeping entities alive incentivizes it." -Ed Zitron🔥
My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
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The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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December 30, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"No, the money does not exist for you or me or a person. Money is for entities that could potentially funnel more money into the economy, even if the ways that these entities use the money are reckless and foolhardy, because the system’s intent on keeping entities alive incentivizes it." -Ed Zitron🔥
This interview with Dr. Vahia is great! It's important people understand boundaries and work toward building digital boundaries as well as bursting these epistemic bubbles with difficult but gentle conversations in real life. We need to identify where screen use is problematic at all ages.
Since it’s dead week i humbly offer you this podcast i made for you about older people struggling with screen time issues. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
How About a Little Less Screen Time for the Grown-Ups
It’s not just kids who can’t stop scrolling.
www.theatlantic.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
This interview with Dr. Vahia is great! It's important people understand boundaries and work toward building digital boundaries as well as bursting these epistemic bubbles with difficult but gentle conversations in real life. We need to identify where screen use is problematic at all ages.