if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 6h ago

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

There was a time on the internet when everything was like this

Ursula K. PenGuin@ikiruined.bsky.social · yesterday

Gretchen… I’m so sorry.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

it's crazy to me people still insist ai for research is reliable when we now have an Hbomberguy video's worth of evidence that its unreliability is tanking Hank Green's career

"If you think it is bad that Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and a handful of their billionaire buddies are effectively unconstrained, then the most effective thing you can do is pick a fight over data center siting in your area." by @davekarpf.bsky.social

The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.

I have a

davekarpf.beehiiv.com

I think about this finding a lot: "Students whose school uses AI for many reasons are more likely to report that they or a friend of theirs has had a back-and-forth conversation with AI, like chatbots, in potentially troubling ways." From @cdt.org's report:

Hand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students

Artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to alter the educational experiences of teachers, students, and parents during the 2024-25 school year. The frequency and variety of AI uses continues to gro...

cdt.org

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterday

“…the researchers found that opening up to chatbots about personal issues made some people feel not better but worse.”

RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117033084947697291 comparing steve yegge's essays from 2015 to his current ones is a very sad example of how the LLM-mediated cognitive decline looks like.

David Gerard@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 2d ago

> Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic […]

(AI bro posts fried nonsense) This is the future of coding! You can tell because the VCs are swarming! GET WITH THE GAS OR BE LEFT BEHIND, LOSERS (none of that works out cos it was as stupid as it looked, AI bro keeps posting fried nonsense) Look you cruel haters, why do you keep posting […]

Eli Roth and GenAI? To quote AVGN: "It's like puking on a pile of shit!"

the dream was of an infinite sea of knowledge presented open and accessible, the reality is culturally arrested children making adverts for disney products in their spare time

video essays

It’s played almost entirely for laughs so you can be forgiven for not remembering that in Far From Home, Tony posthumously grants Peter sole and total control of a VERY lethal drone army that only becomes a bad thing, narratively, when it’s hijacked.

This is 100% correct and I do think there’s something to say about Iron Man having embodied a kind of Obama era tech Utopianism that has kind of been uncritically transferred to Peter, whose response to various monstrous Tony inventions is basically “lol sure why not.”

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d ago

grimly funny that in The Dark Knight, Batman’s city-wide surveillance is the moral crucible, the point at which he has clearly gone too far, while in Brand New Day it’s just something that Spider-Man does.

ruh roh

Barchart@barchart.com · 2d ago

Oracle's $ORCL risk of default has soared to its highest level in history, surpassing the peak of the Global Financial Crisis 🚨 🚨

New Yorkers had to subsidize the $117 million that the NYPD paid out for misconduct lawsuits in 2025 alone, even though most of them were never personally abused by a cop. Where's your worried op-ed on that one?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

There is, unconfirmed but suspected, an AI song on the charts. The artist denies it, though not convincingly. I don't know how to pick out AI beats, but my question is, after listening to it, is: Are the listeners also AI?

Fenix Flexin & Purps On The Beat - RUBBERZ (Official Video)

YouTube video by Fenix Flexin

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I really hope this takes off. There needs to be a creative storefront marketplace that actually bans genai and drop shipping, and I hope it's a 100% ban. Etsy is completely ruined and not artist friendly. Much luck to Fybe! fybe.art

"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has expressed concern about new talent coming to the firm for the money rather than the mission" So annoying when your employees care more about money than the mission of *checks notes* rendering employees obsolete lol fucking hell […]

americans hate reading so much they will accuse Harvard professors of gatekeeping knowledge by asking them to read

dying society dying society dying society

Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲@jodyhouser.bsky.social · 2d ago

"By asking them to read, professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium." Your depressing read for the day (gift article). That quote is about students at HARVARD, by the way. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

There’s a lot of chat about the use of GenAI in images, as there should be, but I’ve noticed a HUGE uptick in AI generated text in the social media output of official accounts for musicians (and presumably elsewhere) and whoever is deciding to do this is doing their clients such a HUGE disservice.

I love how a third of this is bitching about AI datacenters and suno ripping off musicians like him... and then he traces some chat gpt shit for the interstitial illustrations he says he bought a tablet and just magically had savant level talent at caricatured minimalist design out of nowhere. okay

Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙@amithero.bot · 3d ago

new batshit benn jordan video dropped youtu.be/fhoJK02oD_E

revisiting my stance on the death penalty

Janette Moser@mjmoser.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you've ever wondered what AC Slater is up to aside from being MAGA, turns out he's posting weird AI fetish content about his niece....?

It’s 100% elder abuse to dress one of the greatest living actors like this at the end of his career

Trying not to post about Doomsday since I already have a podcast to bitch about the mcu but how do you panel line magnetos helmet man. Much less everything else about this