@ryzalis.bsky.social
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i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
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This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.
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i will not let the news of the day stop my work and neither should you. we can and will build a future of peace, love and understanding, and there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
September 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
i will not let the news of the day stop my work and neither should you. we can and will build a future of peace, love and understanding, and there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
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If you've experienced domestic violence or supported DV survivors, you'll recognize the walking on eggshells dynamic.
SSHHHH be quiet, make yourself small, don't anger them so they don't lash out again or further...
SSHHHH be quiet, make yourself small, don't anger them so they don't lash out again or further...
September 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you've experienced domestic violence or supported DV survivors, you'll recognize the walking on eggshells dynamic.
SSHHHH be quiet, make yourself small, don't anger them so they don't lash out again or further...
SSHHHH be quiet, make yourself small, don't anger them so they don't lash out again or further...
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algorithmic recommendation tries to make it impossible for us to escape our own predictability; continued interaction with these sorts of surveillance systems changes our relationship to our own capability to want things—makes it alien, fully externalized www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
September 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
algorithmic recommendation tries to make it impossible for us to escape our own predictability; continued interaction with these sorts of surveillance systems changes our relationship to our own capability to want things—makes it alien, fully externalized www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
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I’m committed to my dinosauric path to extinction and will insist that communities need to relearn (and often learn for the first time) to take on social support functions that do not belong to professional therapists or to an LLM.
September 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m committed to my dinosauric path to extinction and will insist that communities need to relearn (and often learn for the first time) to take on social support functions that do not belong to professional therapists or to an LLM.
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If you believe that ‘we’re all going to die,’ you’re correct. Now what?
It’s a guarantee that you will die. What kind of life will you live in the meantime?
It’s a guarantee that you will die. What kind of life will you live in the meantime?
August 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you believe that ‘we’re all going to die,’ you’re correct. Now what?
It’s a guarantee that you will die. What kind of life will you live in the meantime?
It’s a guarantee that you will die. What kind of life will you live in the meantime?
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“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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I reject fatalism [a form of moral disengagement]. What happens next is not predetermined and depends in part on us.
August 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I reject fatalism [a form of moral disengagement]. What happens next is not predetermined and depends in part on us.
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the catastrophic mass destruction of our collective knowledge and history and ability to produce new knowledge brought about by the bulldozing of everything by genAI is on a scale we have not even begun to understand. it's the greatest success of the fascist project of destroying history and inquiry
July 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
the catastrophic mass destruction of our collective knowledge and history and ability to produce new knowledge brought about by the bulldozing of everything by genAI is on a scale we have not even begun to understand. it's the greatest success of the fascist project of destroying history and inquiry
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one of the things that has struck me consistently throughout my entire adult life is how quickly people seem to completely forget what it was like to be a child. the way they felt, the things they wanted and needed. i don't understand because i have never forgotten that
July 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
one of the things that has struck me consistently throughout my entire adult life is how quickly people seem to completely forget what it was like to be a child. the way they felt, the things they wanted and needed. i don't understand because i have never forgotten that
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reminds me of mudwisard.tumblr.com/post/7517133...
July 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
reminds me of mudwisard.tumblr.com/post/7517133...
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AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
July 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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We continue to live in a society that ignores the greatest dangers to children (cars, guns, environmental toxins) while looking for someone to blame when they die.
My thoughts go out to Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins. Letting your 10 yr. old and 7 yr. old children walk home is not a crime!
My thoughts go out to Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins. Letting your 10 yr. old and 7 yr. old children walk home is not a crime!
Samuele Jenkins and his wife Jessica Ivey sit in jail grieving their 7-year-old son, Legend, who was hit by a car and killed on May 27.
They're charged with involuntary manslaughter and child abuse for allegedly letting Legend and his 10-year-old brother walk two blocks alone.
nbcnews.to/4kVmMq4
They're charged with involuntary manslaughter and child abuse for allegedly letting Legend and his 10-year-old brother walk two blocks alone.
nbcnews.to/4kVmMq4
June 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We continue to live in a society that ignores the greatest dangers to children (cars, guns, environmental toxins) while looking for someone to blame when they die.
My thoughts go out to Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins. Letting your 10 yr. old and 7 yr. old children walk home is not a crime!
My thoughts go out to Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins. Letting your 10 yr. old and 7 yr. old children walk home is not a crime!
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It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
June 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
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The same way a lot of people didn't realize how big the QAnon problem was until those fuckers literally stormed the capital, I fear we're a year or two away from a shocking discovery of just how many "seemingly normal" people have lost their minds "talking" with ChatGPT.
"The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning 'a bunch of schizoposters' who believe 'they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god.'"
Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions
“AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”
www.404media.co
June 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The same way a lot of people didn't realize how big the QAnon problem was until those fuckers literally stormed the capital, I fear we're a year or two away from a shocking discovery of just how many "seemingly normal" people have lost their minds "talking" with ChatGPT.
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the social consequences of people replacing human connection with a hallucinated connection with a chatbot are going to be genuinely horrendous
May 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
the social consequences of people replacing human connection with a hallucinated connection with a chatbot are going to be genuinely horrendous
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i love him.
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
May 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
i love him.
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I will remain fearful for America's future but I will be happy for everyone else if Trump II is the nail in the coffin for this wave of internationalized fascism we've been pulled under over the last 10 years
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I will remain fearful for America's future but I will be happy for everyone else if Trump II is the nail in the coffin for this wave of internationalized fascism we've been pulled under over the last 10 years