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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 16h

He is. I not only tell him that everyday, I also ask him how.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 18h

Well, you should see his excitement when he sees me ;)

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 18h

Didn't dignify it with an answer, all I got was the that side-eye.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 18h

I beg to differ.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 3d

The imperial boomerang, even in the language used.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 5d

Lies are so in fashion so it is ok.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 5d

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 5d

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Posted by the President of the United States.

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 6d

Might as well take out all the trash.

onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 7d

What happens when ELIZA chats with ELIZA.

Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 8d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 8d

Already eight years ago, the early days of the marketing hype, well before the tech latched on to AGI. Today seems to be the "moment" that personhood would start to be granted, a legal foundation for the fetish of intelligent machines.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, and there's also Sophia that was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia (of all places). I followed that Air Canada case with interest, precisely because the future seemed to arrive a bit too soon.

www.wired.com/story/sophia...

The agony of Sophia, the world's first robot citizen condemned to a lifeless career in marketing

Sophia the robot was given the gift of legal personhood. Her reward? An eternity working in marketing

www.wired.com

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 8d

If I remember correctly, @cstross.bsky.social wrote an article about precisely that some time ago. This one I think www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

Invaders from Mars - Charlie's Diary

"Voting doesn't change anything — the politicians always win." 'Twas not always so, but I'm hearing variations on that theme a lot these days, and not just in the UK.

www.antipope.org

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 8d

We speculated about this as a far out science fictional possible future in Inhuman Power (inspired by @cstross.bsky.social Accelerando). That this OpenAI guy argues we will see it come soon is, well, scary.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 9d

Disruption, innit.

gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 9d

what is the legal theory according to which you can just declare that you're allowed to steal from everyone unless they explicitly say no don't do that www.reuters.com/technology/o...

OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 9d

My favorite subway graffiti right now is anti-friend hot takes.

Graffiti on ad reads "and is a living being — not AI!"

Graffiti reads "AI fuels isolation — reach into the real world!!"

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 12d

They may not wear brown shirts but ICE is the Trump regime's Sturmabteilung.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 13d

Hmmm, seeing this reminded me of this board game I used to play and absolutely love--Junta.
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24...

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 15d

Not only know it, they get their pants in a twist everytime they hear it.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 15d

Pretty fucking sure there’s a word in Arabic that means submission, lol. It’s a famous one. I bet you know it.

Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 16d

US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack:

Peace is an illusion. There has never been peace.

There will probably never be peace.

Somebody wants dominance, which means somebody has to submit. There is no Arabic word for submit. They can't wrap their head around submit.

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 17d

Interesting, but not sure I completely understand without more explanation. I've never heard that argument.

Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 17d

I do agree that just stating something is a real abstraction isn't very helpful at all, it's the process whereby it turns into it that's important and what the function of the real abstraction is.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 17d

suggests another source of abstract thinking instead of writing, in particular the Greek phonetic alphabet, which was invented around 800BC; coinage in Lydia started around the same time. And then you can go on a lovely journey into mathematics both back and forwards in time (2/2).

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 17d

I think it has a lot of explanatory power for how the domination of capital operates, in particular if we take it to what AI is doing (see Revolutionary Mathematics by @jjoque.bsky.social). As a media theorists interested in the rise of abstract thinking, Sohn-Retel's brief discussion of coins(1/2)

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 17d

I remember liking it but then I had no bone in the real abstraction debate. Now I do; I am partial but not wedded to it.

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 17d

Unless I am confusing it with another paper of yours; this was available before it was part of that edited collection, no?

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Atle Mikkola Kjosen @klumpen.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks, I now remember I read this but it's been a few years. Good time to read it again.

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