As someone with more data engineering experience than I wish I had, it is my unfortunate obligation to inform you that if somebody tells you that they are doing this, you are going to need to meticulously check all their work from now on, because they are doing their job badly and cannot be trusted

Just sending up a signal flare: by any chance do I have followers *in Berlin* who might be willing to go on a research adventure for me on Monday? I'd pay you or take you out to dinner, whatever seems more appropriate. (1/2)

Unsure who shared this banger interview from @tante.cc Resharing...

Tante on AI: ‘When this crashes, I want apologies’

YouTube video by Pivot to AI

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Someone replied to this saying they were unfollowing me and if I continued to besmirch Carney, they'd block me. I get why they feel such a kinship with Carney, since they're also terrible at negotiating.

of course its Harvard Business School

James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social · 11h ago

What are we even doing here? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...

Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students hiring Kenyans to write their papers & dissertations? I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics to the mainstream. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students

Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own

theguardian.com

"Are we, the left, messy as hell? Absolutely. Do I get sick of our shit sometimes? You bet. But our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies."

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · yesterday

I had some feelings to express about the "Woke 1" discourse.

I think this is right. When cyberlibertarian/reactionary centrist "AI" enthusiasts say "don't shame people, focus on structural change like better companies and products", they are really saying "people's outrage is threatening my sources of social and institutional power, and I'm afraid of that"

Loukas Christodoulou@loukas.bsky.social · 14h ago

If a boss forces someone to do a shameful thing then we don't make the situation better by pretending it's not shameful. Yes a lot of people like to identify with their bosses and with their workplaces. That seems like a luxury we cannot afford during a planetary extinction and rise of fascism.

Oh I fuckin hate it out here. Yesterday I had to search Gmail for the quotation-enclosed string “code of conduct” and Gmail showed me every email that contains the word “of”

"You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you." Honestly, this is a modern version of some ancient curse. It's a one-sentence tragedy.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 23h ago

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

So many people apparently weren't in their dating 20s when Atkins and South Beach was popular and it shows. Like watching Silicon Valley try to reinvent the bus and hoping no one notices

it's a little funny to see AI apologists try to foreground golf courses (and other stuff) to take heat off of data centers; like yeah people loathe golf courses too, but people *animately* hate AI, and you're apparently unable to think of anything that moves the needle. keep swinging though, i guess

The people outraged over the academic freedom of Cofnas (which is apparently the freedom to harass & drive a man to suicide) I dont recall your outrage for the profs who got harassed & fired for speaking on Palestine I'm just a silly gal, I guess I dont understand what I'm free to do as an academic

« I provide arguments in favour of the idea that we should individually and collectively respect and protect someone's right to refuse Al chatbot use to complete academic tasks, related to both teaching and research. » 1/2

Adolfo Neto@adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · yesterday

> The premise underlying this paper is that no person or institution should coerce a student, researcher or instructor to use AI chatbots to complete academic tasks. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

People vociferously defending AI like it was a sex pest cosplay socialist with a Nazi tattoo from Maine

Lots of scientists, engineers, and computer programmers are engaging in behavior that would be considered malpractice or fraud in a functioning society, and you do not have to take their assertions that AI is useful at face value.

"White men cannot even get JOBS anymore" he wrote, in his forty-seventh opinion column of the year, spending roughly two hours a week and earning a 225k salary.

It's Time For The Left To Have A Conversation That Has Already Happened Multiple Times But I Didn't Care Then

The voices of people—especially Black women—in marginalized communities are often systematically erased by white men. Attention-seeking AI guru Connor Leahy is now outlining an intellectual history of SV that is virtually identical to the one outlined by me and Gebru. 1/3

you can always tell when a guy is too chickenshit and/or dishonest to defend his real views, and instead claims he's Just Asking Questions or Defending Free Speech from the Intolerant Mob

Citing “lived experience” as evidence something works is literally the tactic of homeopaths and antivaxxers when confronted by large-scale or structured studies disproving their claims. That this now seems to be the go-to argument of the pro-“AI” crowd is a huge red flag.

Oh my god this is the best news I've heard all week lmao

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2d ago

Baffled that none of the spreadsheet people discourse has mentioned this incredible piece of news: windowsreport.com/microsoft-is...

"lived experience" does not mean product testimonials jesus fucking tapdancing christ

Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode)@probgobl.in · 2d ago

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Yeah by all means we should be thoughtful and strategic about how and when to confront people face-to-face, but I'm so tired of the reactionary centrist belief that people will only let go of their shitty harmful ideas if they are completely shielded from direct and ambient criticism

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's true that *at an individual level* you should be kind. Don't scream at your anti-vaxx neighbors or whatever. But when it comes to *public discourse* the most important message is that vaccines save lives and anti-vaxx beliefs kill children. If they feel attacked by that, it's not my problem.

AI is anti-intellectualism as a technology. But because it also is about the mass production of a substitute for understanding, it must brand itself with the positive imagery thereof. Hence the name, AI. And hence the bizarre fixation on the printing press

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago

What is it about the printing press that inspires bad metaphors about digital tech?

ai companies hate this trick — how to code without AI, a step-by-step guide

Putting this one high on my list!

Natasha Lennard@natashalennard.bsky.social · 2d ago

On UnCertainty… borders, genders, crises, duckrabbits and other sites of doubt and dangerous certainty… out from @versobooks.bsky.social on Oct 13. Or for pre-order now! Or if you are interested in covering the book in some way, lmk and we’ll get you a copy! www.versobooks.com/products/321...

This sign is a great example for helping to explain why chatbots present such a potent illusion. A probably not short thread 🧵>>

Vouchers are scams that funnel money to schools with no public transparency, accountability, or standards www.propublica.org/article/priv...

At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.

Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...

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I would probably use a different abbreviation but that's just me