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bogbird.bsky.social
computer going to take my job? no. i’ll pour water on it
December 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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milkyblood.bsky.social
All the familiars
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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tbobrowsky.bsky.social
Me showing an interest in my dog's hobbies
A dog and a person looking out a window
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
I cosign every single word of this

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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samthielman.com
the duality of man
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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timprice.bsky.social
A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling Two young kittens in a cage taking notice A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
AI in education centres entrepreneurs as experts in teaching and learning

AI in education is based mostly on technical potential not educational needs

AI in education locks learning into models that afford summarization instead of archives of knowledge
October 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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yourfriendpiper.bsky.social
I love this piece and glad this part was noted: "The question of who wins or who loses in Triangle Posting Politics is divorced from material conditions, justice, or the common good."
October 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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jysexton.bsky.social
Weiss's ascendance represents the need for the wealth class to continue moving rightward as capitalism requires fascism. Individuals like Klein are there to help moderate white liberals begin to accept that "necessity." That's how this whole thing works and has always worked.
October 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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rachelgrant.bsky.social
So. While I was on vacation in Taiwan, I received this exceedingly entitled email from "a fan" that I have just responded to. I think she'll regret emailing me, but I hope she reads my reply. I will post my (very lengthy) reply in this thread.
#romancelandia
#archaeology
Good afternoon, I have never before reached out to speak to anyone in this manner, but I was so disappointed that it compelled me to do so. You have become one of my favorite authors over the last year or so and I have listened to most of your series, which I truly enjoy. I have a very high stress job, and often listen to audiobooks(2-3 per a week) while at work to help decompress. To me a book is a way to remove myself from my present day stress and jump into the world of the characters and relax my brain, as I try to figure out who the bad guys are and who the heros are. It is meant to be fun and entertaining. Lately you have shifted your writing to include real world political views and your believes. To be honest I do not care if you are white black purple or pink, have no hate or love if you are republican or democrat, and dont give a flying hoot if you are straight, gay, bi, or trans. In my opinion love is love and humans are humans. With less hate the world would be a much happier place. My only issue is that you are taking my happy time and my love of story telling and pushing political beliefs into it. Yes this is a political series, but to be honest I would not have known any of your political beliefs in the first 10 books of this series as the main subject was the characters. Unfortunately, in the last 3 it became blantly obvious, and very disappointing. Everywhere you look now a days it is about someone thoughts and beliefs and why their ideas are right and yours are incorrect. It is not supposed to be in my books as those are my happy place. I believe that if you feel as passionately as you obviously do about your political views you could write a non-fiction and I guarantee that people will buy it and read it. As far as your fiction stories, there is so much ugly in the world already, I really do not want it leaking into my happy place, where I go to get away from the ugly. Sincerely A fan
September 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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gilduran.com
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
photo of paulina borsook
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Sep 18
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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sevier.io
People who make this comparison are lazy. And that's a kind description. It takes a minuscule amount of curiosity to ask "why is Korea divided today?" and discover that Korea's division was the idea of two USians. The U.S. military then went on to massacre Koreans who opposed U.S. rule.
ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social holiday meghan 🎄 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · Aug 25
getting really tired of having need of this meme
August 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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partnardy.bsky.social
getting reacquainted with the @jonbois.bsky.social classic, "Golf Information," starring Tiger Woods

www.sbnation.com/2015/7/1/884...
Say Tiger! What's your favorite hobby? (picture of tiger woods) i guess going on the computer Going on the computer, huh! yep Sounds like we've got a bona fide tech guru here! A real online expert! i guess so (picture of tiger woods)
August 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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stcymsn.bsky.social
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:
2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
A friend made a prediction I can't get out of my mind.

Soon, reality will become too expensive for most people, and the virtual world will become the most accessible.

Men are increasingly unable to afford courtship, marriage, and educational parity with real women.

Enter the AI girlfriends.
July 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
the resentment around college admissions is fucking crazy but also tbh I think we should be talking much more frankly about the Ivy undergrads in particular not being meritocratic institutions but finishing schools for the super-rich. the legacy admissions are not an exception but the rule.
July 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM