Psotle
@psotle.northsky.social
Older Millennial Lesbian Transfeminist Techworker Buddhist in the UK.
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Just wanted to say thanks to the many actual academics working on AI's deleterious effects on social economies and culture replying with links to their work. I'll just quote skeet them here
(I'm not an academic, I'm a hacker and trans rights researcher with some skin in tech and humanities)
(I'm not an academic, I'm a hacker and trans rights researcher with some skin in tech and humanities)
Insightful thread.
I think this argument rhymes with work @ntusikov.bsky.social and I have done using Susan Strange’s knowledge structure concept. AI’s effect on society is primarily in its reconception of knowledge away from “scientific” expertise and toward correlation-driven oracular knowledge.
I think this argument rhymes with work @ntusikov.bsky.social and I have done using Susan Strange’s knowledge structure concept. AI’s effect on society is primarily in its reconception of knowledge away from “scientific” expertise and toward correlation-driven oracular knowledge.
There's a kind of intellectual malaise among a certain kind of socialist that just doesn't understand automation and I think probably comes from not having worked much on or around it.
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
February 10, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Just wanted to say thanks to the many actual academics working on AI's deleterious effects on social economies and culture replying with links to their work. I'll just quote skeet them here
(I'm not an academic, I'm a hacker and trans rights researcher with some skin in tech and humanities)
(I'm not an academic, I'm a hacker and trans rights researcher with some skin in tech and humanities)
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Streeting has launched his attempt to distance himself from Mandelson.
Let's not allow key facts to be buried.
Let's not allow key facts to be buried.
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Streeting has launched his attempt to distance himself from Mandelson.
Let's not allow key facts to be buried.
Let's not allow key facts to be buried.
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AI is like asbestos. Seemingly promising for a bunch of stuff, built into core infrastructure and fucking everyone up.
“Since AI was added to the device the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions & adverse events…Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads”
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 AM
AI is like asbestos. Seemingly promising for a bunch of stuff, built into core infrastructure and fucking everyone up.
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suggestion for terminology: by analogy with 'daemon' and wordplay with the initialism LLM, using the term 'lilim' for large language models
bonus: gets us away from using the term 'ai', accurately describes them as inhuman entities that can be dangerous if improperly handled
bonus: gets us away from using the term 'ai', accurately describes them as inhuman entities that can be dangerous if improperly handled
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
suggestion for terminology: by analogy with 'daemon' and wordplay with the initialism LLM, using the term 'lilim' for large language models
bonus: gets us away from using the term 'ai', accurately describes them as inhuman entities that can be dangerous if improperly handled
bonus: gets us away from using the term 'ai', accurately describes them as inhuman entities that can be dangerous if improperly handled
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When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.
February 9, 2026 at 9:23 PM
The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.
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Now the King's Evil Counsellor is deposed we shall be govern'd well.
February 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Now the King's Evil Counsellor is deposed we shall be govern'd well.
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Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”
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a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification.
you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy
you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM
a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification.
you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy
you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy
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quick everyone, start playing hentai and super violent games for discord to notice you are an adult lol
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
quick everyone, start playing hentai and super violent games for discord to notice you are an adult lol
fuck discord i'm going back to bbs
fuck discord i'm going back to the toast comments section
fuck discord i'm going back to the bondage dot com forums
February 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM
fuck discord i'm going back to bbs
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Okay but you absolutely cannot be serious that we're just glossing over "there are more data centers under construction than there are active data centers in the U.S"
web.archive.org/web/20260208...
web.archive.org/web/20260208...
February 9, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Okay but you absolutely cannot be serious that we're just glossing over "there are more data centers under construction than there are active data centers in the U.S"
web.archive.org/web/20260208...
web.archive.org/web/20260208...
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Your boy White Confucious about to drop the worst understanding of Cause & Effect you've ever seen.
I’m writing what might turn into a book on rational government. It’s based on maths, science and logic. It doesn’t look anything like your idiotic view of the world.
February 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Your boy White Confucious about to drop the worst understanding of Cause & Effect you've ever seen.
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harem anime but all the girls are secretly competing to be the one who cracks the "guy"'s egg
February 9, 2026 at 12:17 PM
harem anime but all the girls are secretly competing to be the one who cracks the "guy"'s egg
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'G-Witch starts off as a more slice-of-life anime'
The show that starts with soldiers invading a research facility and slaughtering everyone there? Do people just not watch the prologue? I mean yeah the lives were sliced (mostly shot).
The show that starts with soldiers invading a research facility and slaughtering everyone there? Do people just not watch the prologue? I mean yeah the lives were sliced (mostly shot).
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 AM
'G-Witch starts off as a more slice-of-life anime'
The show that starts with soldiers invading a research facility and slaughtering everyone there? Do people just not watch the prologue? I mean yeah the lives were sliced (mostly shot).
The show that starts with soldiers invading a research facility and slaughtering everyone there? Do people just not watch the prologue? I mean yeah the lives were sliced (mostly shot).
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Levels of ketamine never before ingested
February 9, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Levels of ketamine never before ingested
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Pre or post-game newsletter from me: Everything about Jeffrey Epstein is maddening. Especially how much I missed, even though it was hidden in plain sight. Also, we have to talk about QAnon again. www.altrightdelete.news/p/qanon-help...
QAnon helped hide the cabal in plain sight
How the Epstein files explain our current hellish reality
www.altrightdelete.news
February 8, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Pre or post-game newsletter from me: Everything about Jeffrey Epstein is maddening. Especially how much I missed, even though it was hidden in plain sight. Also, we have to talk about QAnon again. www.altrightdelete.news/p/qanon-help...
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So I asked what happened to your [activists] and she said "I [stake them out] but they keep [getting arrested at hotels]" so I said "It sounds like you're just feeding [activists to the feds]" and then her daughter started crying
Something that would be fascinating to cover, but something I am not personally sourced for, are the arrests of activists or press by federal agents. I did try staking out one activists home, but she was arrested at a hotel instead.
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
So I asked what happened to your [activists] and she said "I [stake them out] but they keep [getting arrested at hotels]" so I said "It sounds like you're just feeding [activists to the feds]" and then her daughter started crying
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They bent over backwards to please this roaring crackpot. Hasn’t gone quite as planned.
February 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
They bent over backwards to please this roaring crackpot. Hasn’t gone quite as planned.
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I've been banging the "discrimination, hate crime and harm are structural" drum for a long time. I've been long past particularly caring about random acts of personal hatred because there's really not a lot we can do about those incidents treated in isolation.
February 8, 2026 at 6:02 AM
I've been banging the "discrimination, hate crime and harm are structural" drum for a long time. I've been long past particularly caring about random acts of personal hatred because there's really not a lot we can do about those incidents treated in isolation.
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My theory several years ago when I set up TSN was that understanding how harm was organised means opportunities to challenge, deconstruct, disrupt the organisation of harm. To make it clear where systems controlling trans life are being set up without trans input that this was a vehicle for harm.
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 AM
My theory several years ago when I set up TSN was that understanding how harm was organised means opportunities to challenge, deconstruct, disrupt the organisation of harm. To make it clear where systems controlling trans life are being set up without trans input that this was a vehicle for harm.
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It's really haunting to me that one of the key things that the Cass Review, the Appleby Report, the Sullivan Report etc have been designed specifically to do is to hide the harm that has been arranged to happen to trans people.
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 AM
It's really haunting to me that one of the key things that the Cass Review, the Appleby Report, the Sullivan Report etc have been designed specifically to do is to hide the harm that has been arranged to happen to trans people.
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I founded Trans Safety Network on the basis that one of the key things we needed to do under the anti trans backlash was document and highlight the organisation of harm occurring to trans people. Understanding that such harm is the product of organised powers whether intentionally or unintentionally
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 AM
I founded Trans Safety Network on the basis that one of the key things we needed to do under the anti trans backlash was document and highlight the organisation of harm occurring to trans people. Understanding that such harm is the product of organised powers whether intentionally or unintentionally