Chris Broodryk
@chrisbroodryk.bsky.social
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Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.
December 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.
Fantastic news.
Screen Culture and KH Studio are no more; YouTube has deleted their channels, wiping out dozens of fake film trailers in the process.
filmstories.co.uk/news/youtube...
filmstories.co.uk/news/youtube...
YouTube has deleted two major channels which specialised in fake film trailers
Screen Culture and KH Studio are no more; YouTube has deleted their channels, wiping out dozens of fake film trailers in the process.
filmstories.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Fantastic news.
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
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“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”
-Carl Dreyer
-Carl Dreyer
October 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”
-Carl Dreyer
-Carl Dreyer
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HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
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It's the 14th anniversary of the Sudden Departure. How are you going to commemorate it?
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It's the 14th anniversary of the Sudden Departure. How are you going to commemorate it?
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so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus
Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.
opus.ing
October 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
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In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.
So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.
So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.
September 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.
So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.
So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. The second coffee of the morning
2. Springtime birdsong
3. Having many unread books on packed shelves
4. Finding a long-lost DVD
5. Cats!
1. The second coffee of the morning
2. Springtime birdsong
3. Having many unread books on packed shelves
4. Finding a long-lost DVD
5. Cats!
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
September 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. The second coffee of the morning
2. Springtime birdsong
3. Having many unread books on packed shelves
4. Finding a long-lost DVD
5. Cats!
1. The second coffee of the morning
2. Springtime birdsong
3. Having many unread books on packed shelves
4. Finding a long-lost DVD
5. Cats!
Sublime levels of cringe here.
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Sublime levels of cringe here.
This is the way
The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.
August 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is the way
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With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
www.lieffcabraser.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
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And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use
The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.
venturebeat.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
Excellent resource for those who care, and we should all care.
AI is theft. AI is environmental destruction. AI is anti-labor. AI concentrates power in tech capital. AI atrophies intellectual capacities. Here's something useful for struggling against its effects in education, courtesy of Anna Kornbluh, Eric Hayot, and Krista Muratore.
against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Excellent resource for those who care, and we should all care.
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ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.
August 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.
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Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.
OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’
GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
Solidarity with these colleagues.
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
mediastudies.hypotheses.org
July 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Solidarity with these colleagues.
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Just delete your account
If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.
June 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Just delete your account
Oh man, so I guess I'm going to have to boycott everything Natasha Lyonne does from now on. Bummer. I was really looking forward to Poker Face S2.
June 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Oh man, so I guess I'm going to have to boycott everything Natasha Lyonne does from now on. Bummer. I was really looking forward to Poker Face S2.
21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street are movie masterpieces worthy of both popular and academic investment.
What take would you choose to argue on jubilee with total confidence that you’d crush 20 opponents?
May 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street are movie masterpieces worthy of both popular and academic investment.
Usually I don't remember my dreams for months on end and then, suddenly, WHAM, last night my cat is helping me to direct a documentary about the Kurds.
May 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Usually I don't remember my dreams for months on end and then, suddenly, WHAM, last night my cat is helping me to direct a documentary about the Kurds.
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then let it die
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
then let it die