Came here to say "She breeeeeaaaaks her horses"

Somewhat ashamed to admit this was my first exposure to Smashing Pumpkins as a child www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgU-...

Saw this post and immediately started hearing "Moootherrrrrr..... Faaaatherrrrrrr"

This has been written about recently - it's called "workslop" hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Everyone just keep blocking this garbage.

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Any excuse to keep showing the Pepe documentary in my intro digital rhetoric classes
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"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell" also feels apt

There is another issue that the broligarchy isn't attending to, or are deliberately ignoring: Accountability

There is a legal entity to whom errors can be attributed, penalties can be assigned if necessary, and corrections made.

AI systems cannot be held accountable.
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By "miss," I think we're referring to the fact that this is a very silly thing to get upset about considering what else is happening in the AI / tech oligarch world right now

Really like your work, Ed, but I think this is very much beside the point rn

Don't know why people are dedicating so much time to criticizing this - seems like a weird distraction from far worse things. Let this scholarly trend away from talking about phantasms like AGI take shape, someone else will publish a paper with prose more to your liking someday

Idk man, picking on a group of researchers because of their prose style feels like an inconsequential soft target compared to the actual morons who believe in AGI currently ransacking the federal government and feeding sensitive data to AI models

One thing that hasn't changed is the rhetorical front of "national security" discourse that's being used to justify the ban, which we interpret as an attempt to obscure the realpolitik of consolidating tech & communications infrastructure within the US economy (and under its legal jurisdiction)

Would love to be wrong about this, though!

Between some people's astonishing inability to understand very basic sarcasm and irony to the more general takes on politics that completely ignore questions of political economy, I fear the discourse here is swiftly accelerating toward uselessness