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Brent Bump
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Just here for some good clean fun.
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.
jwherrman.bsky.social John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · Jun 26
The real AI arms race is between one another 🥰 nymag.com/intelligence...
Stories about Al deployment tend to fall into a few categories. You've got productivity stories, where workers — most visibly at tech companies — talk about how Al tools are making parts of their jobs easier or harder, increasing their workload or simply making them redundant and taking their jobs. You've got top-down management stories, where Al use is suggested or mandated by leaders demanding more efficiency, who are either betting that a great deal of automation is possible within their firms, or who are just worried about getting left behind. Then you've got the stories in which people are more clearly using new Al tools against one another in an escalatory way. Job hunters, now able to generate custom applications instantly, flood employers, so employers turn to Al to manage the glut. Spammers and other bad-faith actors flood social media with near-infinite material, pushing the platforms to double down on automated moderation. Rapidly generated presentations lead to rapidly scheduled meetings recorded and automatically transcribed by AI assistants for machine summarization and analysis. Dating-app users generate chats with Al only to be filtered and then responded to by someone else using AI. The starkest and most consequential such story is what's happening in education: Teachers dealing with students who generate entire essays and assignments are turning to Al-powered plagiarism detectors, or getting pitched on ed-tech software that solves cheating with surveillance - with, of course, the help of AI. These are stories about AI, but they're also stories about broken systems. Students flocking to ChatGPT in the classroom suggests that they see school in terms of arbitrary tasks and attainment rather than education. The widespread use of Al in job hunting drives home the extent to which platforms like LinkedIn, which promises to connect job seekers with employers, have instead installed themselves between them, pushing both sides to either pay up or dishonestly game their systems. A dating app where users see opportunity in automated flirting must already be a pretty grim space. If Facebook can be so quickly and thoroughly overwhelmed by Al-generated imagery and bots, it probably wasn't much of a social network anymore — a low-trust platform better at monetizing users than connecting them. Smaller-scale AI arms races like these don't take hold unless users (or workers, or students) have already been pitted against one another by systems they don't respect. In an uncomfortably large portion of modern life - especially online - that's exactly what's happened.
June 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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broke-mechanic.lol
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April 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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duskyroses.bsky.social
Sir, I am a concerned federal employee.

Have you heard about the alleged infiltration of OPM by Project 2025 people?
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January 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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January 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
This by the way is how you immediately counter message illegal and unconstitutional acts by a domestic enemy in residence.
govpritzker.illinois.gov Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Jan 21
Trump’s proposal to strip birthright citizenship from those born in this nation is unconstitutional.

In Illinois, we follow the law.

This is only the start of attempts to undermine the rule of law, and Illinoisans can count on me to stand against unconstitutional actions.
January 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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wapplehouse.bsky.social
Lots of things to consider but honestly I’m probably just gonna keep on truckin’ for now
January 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
oh ho ho! looks like gobungo shut down and its users are migrating to florp. you’ll find us elder florpians don’t take kindly to you savage gobungans
January 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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catbus.phd
please do not teach the goats italian
hand proffering something to a goat with a red line through it
October 24, 2024 at 9:37 PM