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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 2d

AI is a "good bubble" and "millions of people will be living in space ... in the next couple of decades”. Sure Jeff. on.ft.com/4nBsWwL

Jeff Bezos hails AI boom as ‘good’ kind of bubble

Amazon founder’s comments follow warning by Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon that ‘it’s not different this time’

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Stuart Mills @stuartmills.bsky.social · 6d

Simon called it the "Information Fallacy." We call it "efficient inefficiency"--more efficiently doing things which aren't worth doing:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Efficient Inefficiency: Organisational challenges of realising economic gains from AI

Organisations are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI). Where AI performs productive tasks more efficiently than humans, organisations will…

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Angelos Arnis 🏴‍☠️ @arn.is · 11d

Here's a hypothesis: AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete.

AI could easily replace most management tasks: engagement metrics, OKRs, performance reviews, agile methods, innovation labs... You get it. Bullshit jobs as Graeber would say.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 10d

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · 10d

👏 supplementary readings with this here A to Z https://bsky.app/profile/businessbullshit.bsky.social/post/3ljkmdbaov22e

Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Mar 4

Action Point (n.): something to be avoided in a meeting at all costs, except when suggesting on behalf of a colleague with their camera off and mic muted.

Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · 12d

"Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers ... We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a task." @hbr.org hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · 12d

"How can intellectuals chronicle [the AI] shift — one that threatens their ability to chronicle anything at all ... resisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15d

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”

This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15d

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides

FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · 15d

"When we spoke to the emperor's leadership team, they would often say his clothing was very beautiful, but when we spoke to the emperor's subjects, we found zero clothing.”

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15d

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”

This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15d

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 23d

This is brilliant: a compilation of popular (business) buzzwords across decades.

Next: A sociological analysis of how these relate to the broader societal circumstances at the time of their conception?

Circling Back on 70 Years of Impactful Buzzwords

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23d

It used to be that you had to spend 5-10 years locking in customers before you could completely break your entire service. But thanks to the power of generative AI, today's companies can do it within a matter of months!

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23d

Replit, a vibe coding startup, pushed a new product called "agent 3" that appears to be completely broken other than in its ability to burn tons of money

Fear of Agent 3
Question / Discussion
Join
Hi all, I would like to share my experience so far.
Ever since Agent 3 was released, l've been stuck in a nightmare with my app.
I've already spent around $300 and lost an entire weekend completely isolated, trying to fix issues that Agent 3 keeps making worse. My app is live, with about 250 users, and right now it's broken. Users are complaining, and I feel powerless.
Every time I run Agent 3, it feels like pulling the lever of a slot machine. Sometimes it runs for an hour and produces nothing. Sometimes it introduces new bugs. Most of the time, it doesn't solve the problem. I've ended up spending money just to watch things break even further.
I'm mentally exhausted. I wasted a whole weekend like this, and I can't see a way forward. With Agent 2 l had something that worked, but now everything seems fragile and unreliable.
If there were even one way to get out of this at a reasonable cost, I would take it immediately. But everything is tied up on Replit like database, server, user base etc.. I wouldn't even know where to move, and I can't deliver the same experience elsewhere.
Right now, I feel destroyed and broken.
Please, if anyone has advice or a solution, I'd be deeply grateful.
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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · 23d

Some overlap, plenty synergy, much efficiencies to be utilised...

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Sep 1

"You don’t even have to be human to produce bullshit these days: the way ChatGPT mixes truth with confident assertions of error makes it a dead fit for Frankfurt-style bullshit." archive.ph/pXI7l

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · Aug 30

Please God, next time you think about using the word, “utilize”, just try “use” out instead. “Utilize” is such a long, clunky, articulated, mechanical word. “Use” is shorter, clearer and lets you let the spotlight fall on the actual content words in your sentence.

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Caveat perusor—let the browser beware"

Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wrote a review of ChatGPT 5 for the company newsletter. aboard.com/desperately-...

Desperately Seeking Software: Paul Ford reviews ChatGPT 5

If you want to be a true platform for the future, you have to actually make the thing work.

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Aug 24

In the old days, when faced with the word "smart" it was helpful to substitute with "surveillance". Now try it to replace "AI"...

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Aug 1

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it needs all of your data to do it.

In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Aug 23

And when we get to the "go girl, give us nothing" moment for AGI the roles it was supposed to replace will just be outsourced and offshored instead.

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Aug 23

The people telling you that you can't work from home anymore are the same people who want you to leave to create vacancies that they believe will be magic'd away by AGI.

Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · Aug 22

The people telling you that your job can be replaced by AI are the same people who said you can't work from home anymore because your job needs to be done in person.

Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 20

The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.

Questions to ask yourself
As GenAl poses to be a revolutionary tool that can change the academic space and beyond, it is important for you to understand why and how you intend to use these new, powerful tools. These are a few questions to consider and note that the answers to these questions will vary for each person.
• Is using a GenAl-based tool helping me learn more and think better?
• Is using a GenAl-based tool enabling or hindering my mastery of the stated course objectives?
• Is the content I generate accurate and verifiable? Is it free of biases that might harm other groups of society?
• How will I treat content that might have been generated using a GenAl-based tool?
• Is using a GenAl-based tool equitable to my peers in my course?
• How can my actions in using a GenAl-based tool lead to the greater good of society?
Understand that your usage of GenAl-based tools can give you the means to better not just yourself, but also society as a whole, and there is an ethical responsibility towards doing so.

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Aug 21

Lots of AI "pivot" talk on the socials these days

**taps the BS definition sign**

Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Mar 4

Pivot (v.): strategic gloss to a hasty or messy retreat - e.g. "Napoleon Announces Pivot to 'Invade Russia Strategy'"

Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Aug 21

"democratise" = *privatise* (a public asset), *deskill" and *defund* (a rewarding creative process) and/or/then *monetise* something for private reward

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Aug 20

Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean.

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A Dictionary of "AI" — Sonja Drimmer

Even if you spend just a small amount of time listening to people who believe that any kind of digital technology (whether that’s “artificial intelligence” or not) is an unquestioned good, you’ll hear...

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Aug 19

https://bsky.app/profile/businessbullshit.bsky.social/post/3lerdn5efqc2g

Posts from @businessbullshit.bsky.social noting the long list of ways managers avoid saying "I don't know"

Circle Back (v; no): return (to a topic, not at office) without returning such that any management accountability has been either jetsprayed away or muddied beyond clarity

Offline (adj.): alternative way of saying "later" or "never" or signalling "I don't know" - e.g. "let's discuss that question offline, Anna."

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · Aug 19

Typically insightful from @sarahoconnorft.ft.com.

I'd add that there's long been the BS art of avoiding saying "I don't know" (as @businessbullshit.bsky.social once noted, e.g. "we'll discuss this offline" or "circle back"). on.ft.com/41fqIu6

The lost art of admitting what you don’t know

Even LLMs are starting to show this worrying human tendency

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Business Bullshit @businessbullshit.bsky.social · Aug 19

https://bsky.app/profile/businessbullshit.bsky.social/post/3lerdn5efqc2g

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