Rene
renebeekman.bsky.social
Rene
@renebeekman.bsky.social
Artist, gallerist, product manager, former teacher, perpetual student
This is not what is happening, because this is not how this works.
Typists with typewriters were not replaced by typists with WordPerfect or MS Word. Repeating this nonsense shows you do not know or understand the history of technology.
January 29, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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I couldn't help but track it down, and that article is underselling what the AI report said, too.

www.parkrecord.com/2025/12/16/h...
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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“Constant lying is not about making people believe a lie, but about ensuring that no one believes anything. A people who no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between good and evil: a people deprived of the power to think,”
Hannah Arendt.

Are we there yet?
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.

More in the piece:
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM