David Locke
@david-locke.bsky.social
Reject imposed obligations, expectations, and roles.
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David Locke
@david-locke.bsky.social
· Sep 17
You owe your best to the people who love you most.
Word.
"The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Word.
😮
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
😮
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over.
Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy.
Not a speech, not a statement.
The West as it used to be no longer exists.
Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy.
Not a speech, not a statement.
The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over.
Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy.
Not a speech, not a statement.
The West as it used to be no longer exists.
Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy.
Not a speech, not a statement.
The West as it used to be no longer exists.
If you’re a student or a lecturer who is shocked by reading this, then I have done a public service — we all need to think about the chaos we're descending into, and understand its implications:
Paul Mason [@paulmason.bsky.social]
Preparing for the Intermittent War
htsf.substack.com/p/preparing-...
Paul Mason [@paulmason.bsky.social]
Preparing for the Intermittent War
htsf.substack.com/p/preparing-...
Preparing for the 'Intermittent War'...
What I learned at the RUSI Long War Conference
htsf.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
If you’re a student or a lecturer who is shocked by reading this, then I have done a public service — we all need to think about the chaos we're descending into, and understand its implications:
Paul Mason [@paulmason.bsky.social]
Preparing for the Intermittent War
htsf.substack.com/p/preparing-...
Paul Mason [@paulmason.bsky.social]
Preparing for the Intermittent War
htsf.substack.com/p/preparing-...
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
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Siberia is one of the largest colonial frontiers in world history, but its Indigenous peoples are consistently pushed to the margins of mainstream discourse about colonialism and Indigenous rights. dailycollegian.com/2025/11/we-n...
We need to talk about Siberia
Learning indigenous history is just one step in restoring visibility to peoples who have been systematically erased.
dailycollegian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Siberia is one of the largest colonial frontiers in world history, but its Indigenous peoples are consistently pushed to the margins of mainstream discourse about colonialism and Indigenous rights. dailycollegian.com/2025/11/we-n...
I just heard the best jazz track in the history of jazz tracks.
Better than all the other tracks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pC...
Better than all the other tracks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pC...
Isma'a [Listen]
YouTube video by Release - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I just heard the best jazz track in the history of jazz tracks.
Better than all the other tracks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pC...
Better than all the other tracks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pC...
I don't know who posted this video. I don't know who this man is, or why he's standing in front of this particular background — but I can't think of a more complete or a more concise summary and message, which so many people need to hear so badly:
www.tiktok.com/@keishagray/...
www.tiktok.com/@keishagray/...
TikTok video by Bluetiful82
www.tiktok.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I don't know who posted this video. I don't know who this man is, or why he's standing in front of this particular background — but I can't think of a more complete or a more concise summary and message, which so many people need to hear so badly:
www.tiktok.com/@keishagray/...
www.tiktok.com/@keishagray/...
Reposted by David Locke
Uzumaki was a documentary, apparently
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Uzumaki was a documentary, apparently
Reposted by David Locke
My co-worker: "If you gave Trump an enema, you could bury him in a shoebox."
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
My co-worker: "If you gave Trump an enema, you could bury him in a shoebox."
MAG7 corporations are borrowing *how* much money to develop a *completely unnecessary* product — with almost no market value?
Who will lose what, exactly, because of this waste?
…
Leadership shouldn't be determined by who can pay to be a leader, but by merit.
www.honest-broker.com/p/10-scary-h...
Who will lose what, exactly, because of this waste?
…
Leadership shouldn't be determined by who can pay to be a leader, but by merit.
www.honest-broker.com/p/10-scary-h...
10 Scary Headlines the AI Cult Doesn't Want You to See
Forget Halloween—these news stories will give you a bigger scare
www.honest-broker.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
MAG7 corporations are borrowing *how* much money to develop a *completely unnecessary* product — with almost no market value?
Who will lose what, exactly, because of this waste?
…
Leadership shouldn't be determined by who can pay to be a leader, but by merit.
www.honest-broker.com/p/10-scary-h...
Who will lose what, exactly, because of this waste?
…
Leadership shouldn't be determined by who can pay to be a leader, but by merit.
www.honest-broker.com/p/10-scary-h...
Remember Saadam Hussein's Minister of Information during the 2003 Iraq War, who was called "Comical Ali" or "Baghdad Bob" because his press conferences always featured staccatos of comically outrageous, demonstrable lies?
…
Mike Johnson is Baghdad Bob.
…
Mike Johnson is Baghdad Bob.
Q: "The threat against Hakeem Jeffries...Did President Trump make a mistake by just offering up a blanket pardon for every person that was convicted [for Jan. 6]?"
Johnson: "The assassination culture that's been advanced now, this is the Left...not the Right."
Johnson: "The assassination culture that's been advanced now, this is the Left...not the Right."
October 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Remember Saadam Hussein's Minister of Information during the 2003 Iraq War, who was called "Comical Ali" or "Baghdad Bob" because his press conferences always featured staccatos of comically outrageous, demonstrable lies?
…
Mike Johnson is Baghdad Bob.
…
Mike Johnson is Baghdad Bob.
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T1M1 at the solo show in SF last year.
#SciFi #cyberpunk #dystopian #sciencefiction #biomech #Ansible #scifiart #sculpture #art
@david-locke.bsky.social gives an idea of the space/show. Backdrop is old weed barrier that got dug up.
#SciFi #cyberpunk #dystopian #sciencefiction #biomech #Ansible #scifiart #sculpture #art
@david-locke.bsky.social gives an idea of the space/show. Backdrop is old weed barrier that got dug up.
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
T1M1 at the solo show in SF last year.
#SciFi #cyberpunk #dystopian #sciencefiction #biomech #Ansible #scifiart #sculpture #art
@david-locke.bsky.social gives an idea of the space/show. Backdrop is old weed barrier that got dug up.
#SciFi #cyberpunk #dystopian #sciencefiction #biomech #Ansible #scifiart #sculpture #art
@david-locke.bsky.social gives an idea of the space/show. Backdrop is old weed barrier that got dug up.
Now playing:
"Plainsong [Sine Bubble Embossed Dub]" by Seefeel
It's quite good.
"Plainsong [Sine Bubble Embossed Dub]" by Seefeel
It's quite good.
October 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Now playing:
"Plainsong [Sine Bubble Embossed Dub]" by Seefeel
It's quite good.
"Plainsong [Sine Bubble Embossed Dub]" by Seefeel
It's quite good.
Reposted by David Locke
In a police state everyone is a suspect including the police.....
October 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In a police state everyone is a suspect including the police.....
What might happen without Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, you ask?
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What might happen without Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, you ask?
Reposted by David Locke
I must create my own system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
Jerusalem
William Blake
Jerusalem
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I must create my own system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
Jerusalem
William Blake
Jerusalem
Reposted by David Locke
Let’s go spider peeps and wordsmiths! Do your best!
Excellent.
Now, it is up to us to invent a definition for this new and amazing addition to our lexicon.
Co-spider (v.): To ________________
???
Now, it is up to us to invent a definition for this new and amazing addition to our lexicon.
Co-spider (v.): To ________________
???
October 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Let’s go spider peeps and wordsmiths! Do your best!
Trump wants us to get used to the idea of military on the streets before the 2026 elections.
He'll post people outside of polling places, and control the elections by seizing ballot boxes so his administration can count the results.
J.B. Pritzker
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-...
He'll post people outside of polling places, and control the elections by seizing ballot boxes so his administration can count the results.
J.B. Pritzker
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-...
October 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Trump wants us to get used to the idea of military on the streets before the 2026 elections.
He'll post people outside of polling places, and control the elections by seizing ballot boxes so his administration can count the results.
J.B. Pritzker
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-...
He'll post people outside of polling places, and control the elections by seizing ballot boxes so his administration can count the results.
J.B. Pritzker
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-...
The machine of authoritative power is your own animated corpse —
A false identity controlled by data streams, it lives *someone else's* life… in an alignment of balance and decay.
Interior Ministry [ #AlienistManifesto ]
Principles of Anarchitecture
alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/p...
A false identity controlled by data streams, it lives *someone else's* life… in an alignment of balance and decay.
Interior Ministry [ #AlienistManifesto ]
Principles of Anarchitecture
alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/p...
PRINCIPLES OF ANARCHITECTURE
Principles of Anarchitecture (full book/PDF), Interior Ministry (2019)
alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The machine of authoritative power is your own animated corpse —
A false identity controlled by data streams, it lives *someone else's* life… in an alignment of balance and decay.
Interior Ministry [ #AlienistManifesto ]
Principles of Anarchitecture
alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/p...
A false identity controlled by data streams, it lives *someone else's* life… in an alignment of balance and decay.
Interior Ministry [ #AlienistManifesto ]
Principles of Anarchitecture
alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/p...
Pretty soon you are paying a hundred bucks a month to carry around a telephone.
Freedom, they call it.
You pay to be surveilled.
We never escape the Iron Curtain.
Not really.
Agents everywhere…
r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
machine elf
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk/order-1/mach...
Freedom, they call it.
You pay to be surveilled.
We never escape the Iron Curtain.
Not really.
Agents everywhere…
r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
machine elf
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk/order-1/mach...
MACHINE ELF / Order | Sweat Drenched Press
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Pretty soon you are paying a hundred bucks a month to carry around a telephone.
Freedom, they call it.
You pay to be surveilled.
We never escape the Iron Curtain.
Not really.
Agents everywhere…
r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
machine elf
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk/order-1/mach...
Freedom, they call it.
You pay to be surveilled.
We never escape the Iron Curtain.
Not really.
Agents everywhere…
r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
machine elf
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk/order-1/mach...
Let’s return the term “versificator” to our popular lexicon as a euphemism for ChatGPT.
substack.com/@tedgioia/no...
substack.com/@tedgioia/no...
Ted Gioia (@tedgioia)
George Orwell wrote about AI slop in his book 1984:
"There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced...
substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Let’s return the term “versificator” to our popular lexicon as a euphemism for ChatGPT.
substack.com/@tedgioia/no...
substack.com/@tedgioia/no...
Titushki is a Ukrainian term for astroturf groups who disrupt democracy by mobilizing impressionable people into action.
Recent concatenations of disorder and violence are the tactics of asymmetric conflict staged by our enemies…
Paul Mason [@paulmason.bsky.social]
htsf.substack.com/p/britains-g...
Recent concatenations of disorder and violence are the tactics of asymmetric conflict staged by our enemies…
Paul Mason [@paulmason.bsky.social]
htsf.substack.com/p/britains-g...
Britain’s Got Titushki
Deep dive into a Whitehall demo about Gaza, organised by fans of Chinese communism and people who want to 'confront Zionism on campus'
htsf.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Titushki is a Ukrainian term for astroturf groups who disrupt democracy by mobilizing impressionable people into action.
Recent concatenations of disorder and violence are the tactics of asymmetric conflict staged by our enemies…
Paul Mason [@paulmason.bsky.social]
htsf.substack.com/p/britains-g...
Recent concatenations of disorder and violence are the tactics of asymmetric conflict staged by our enemies…
Paul Mason [@paulmason.bsky.social]
htsf.substack.com/p/britains-g...
Screens are lenses which distort *both* incoming and outbound expressions.
Our awareness is shaped by the characteristic distortions of these lenses.
…
And so is machine awareness.
Sam Samiee
Fig Leaf
Allegorithms [@litterariaprag.bsky.social]
litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/a...
Our awareness is shaped by the characteristic distortions of these lenses.
…
And so is machine awareness.
Sam Samiee
Fig Leaf
Allegorithms [@litterariaprag.bsky.social]
litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/a...
ALLEGORITHMS
ALLEGORITHMS edited by Vít Bohal & Dustin BreitlingISBN 978-80-7308-708-1 (paperback) 176ppPublication date: April 2017Price: € 12.00 (not including postage) Order: paperback / Kindle / Amazon.…
litterariapragensia.wordpress.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Screens are lenses which distort *both* incoming and outbound expressions.
Our awareness is shaped by the characteristic distortions of these lenses.
…
And so is machine awareness.
Sam Samiee
Fig Leaf
Allegorithms [@litterariaprag.bsky.social]
litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/a...
Our awareness is shaped by the characteristic distortions of these lenses.
…
And so is machine awareness.
Sam Samiee
Fig Leaf
Allegorithms [@litterariaprag.bsky.social]
litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/a...