alice
@wonderinland.bsky.social
designer by day, writer by night • she/her
https://aliceliao.com/
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This is incredibly good & ties together so much that I’ve been thinking about lately.
From “AGI is perpetually just around the corner” to Thiel’s fixation w/the Antichrist, Tech has completely assimilated Christian eschatology: specifically the belief that The End is always imminent but never here.
From “AGI is perpetually just around the corner” to Thiel’s fixation w/the Antichrist, Tech has completely assimilated Christian eschatology: specifically the belief that The End is always imminent but never here.
Superintelligence as conspiracy theory or how Silicon Valley got AGI-pilled
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
www.technologyreview.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is incredibly good & ties together so much that I’ve been thinking about lately.
From “AGI is perpetually just around the corner” to Thiel’s fixation w/the Antichrist, Tech has completely assimilated Christian eschatology: specifically the belief that The End is always imminent but never here.
From “AGI is perpetually just around the corner” to Thiel’s fixation w/the Antichrist, Tech has completely assimilated Christian eschatology: specifically the belief that The End is always imminent but never here.
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Okay Bluesky is flagging or deleting every Palestinian account I boost as soon as I do it. Sahar needs $300 and she asked me to post her campaign because constantly making new accounts is becoming untenable
gofund.me/a42c29fe4
gofund.me/a42c29fe4
Donate to Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine, organized by Mahmoud Shehada
Hi world , it’s Sahar
Please read this as if I'm a member … Mahmoud Shehada needs your support for Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine
gofund.me
September 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Okay Bluesky is flagging or deleting every Palestinian account I boost as soon as I do it. Sahar needs $300 and she asked me to post her campaign because constantly making new accounts is becoming untenable
gofund.me/a42c29fe4
gofund.me/a42c29fe4
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Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City
bbbl (bring back blogging)
July 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
bbbl (bring back blogging)
film photos i took in mexico city
July 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
film photos i took in mexico city
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The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do.
My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
gofund.me
July 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
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This tech accelerationism is training people to just do the appearance of work: a headline, art that looks almost normal from a distance, to complete things as fast as possible and move onto the next... it's dissolving humanity and culture at large
May 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This tech accelerationism is training people to just do the appearance of work: a headline, art that looks almost normal from a distance, to complete things as fast as possible and move onto the next... it's dissolving humanity and culture at large
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Haters tell me "but that's not the technology's fault, you can also use it to enhance your own writing rather than outsource everything to the machine"
And this is a great lesson in User Experience Design: you CAN but you WON'T, because of how the software is designed.
Let's talk about friction.
And this is a great lesson in User Experience Design: you CAN but you WON'T, because of how the software is designed.
Let's talk about friction.
LLMs are the ultimate capitalist technology, part n: negative externality edition. Increase your productivity by instantly generating something you can pass off as "done" - and screw the people downstream who are going to use your outputs as their inputs.
Good programming and good writing esp in complex scenarios require a lot of things AI is bad at: namely, actual thinking, creativity and actual synthesis of all information. But, crucially, these tend to be jobs where the quality of the output isn't measured (3/?)
March 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Haters tell me "but that's not the technology's fault, you can also use it to enhance your own writing rather than outsource everything to the machine"
And this is a great lesson in User Experience Design: you CAN but you WON'T, because of how the software is designed.
Let's talk about friction.
And this is a great lesson in User Experience Design: you CAN but you WON'T, because of how the software is designed.
Let's talk about friction.
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Genly Ai
December 12, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Genly Ai
got my japan film back only to learn i had panorama mode on the whole time #filmphotography
December 3, 2024 at 5:39 AM
got my japan film back only to learn i had panorama mode on the whole time #filmphotography
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Hello blue sky it’s still Free Palestine all day, feel free to share resources below 👇
November 15, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Hello blue sky it’s still Free Palestine all day, feel free to share resources below 👇
anything to eat with you #DungeonMeshi
October 22, 2024 at 4:19 PM
anything to eat with you #DungeonMeshi
"do I scale the wall and enter at her window?" #rhaenicent
October 21, 2024 at 6:15 PM
"do I scale the wall and enter at her window?" #rhaenicent
Bluesky's open, quote one art to promote yourself 🤠
October 17, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Bluesky's open, quote one art to promote yourself 🤠
