They want slaves.

🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽@rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 19h ago

My question is why do they need AI to be conscious so fucking badly. Why can’t they just say it scans the entire internet really fast and gives you an answer. Why do they have to be weird about it and insist there are feelings and morality in *software*.

"Hack the planet."

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · yesterday

Name a film quote you use all the time.

"That poster needs more exclamation marks."

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · last wk.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

The death of web development education. “The income from my book sales went from being enough for me to live off (2024) to zero (2026).” [molily.de]

Just finished re-reading The Player of Games. Such a brilliant book. Surely one of the best genre novels of all time.

The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.

They want conversation dominated by this bullshit, not the nuts and bolts of its affect on us, the economy, and the environment.

Science Magazine@science.org · last wk.

Can the new cutting-edge AI models feel pain? They at least behave as if they do, according to a recent study. The work, which has not been peer reviewed, has divided #AI researchers. https://scim.ag/4hHU6BA

If I found login credentials for a US government website and accessed it, I would go to jail. Just saying

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Starting my day making some art.

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites, according to researchers and government officials.

Higher education is good, actually.

Resolution Foundation@resolutionfoundation.org · 2w ago

The evidence is clear: countries with lower NEET rates than the UK get there almost entirely through higher rates of post-18 education. In these countries, more young people stay in education for longer and often combine it with work.

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

AI isn't going to kill us all, humans using AI are going to start the things that other humans will use as an excuse to do so.

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

Isn't there a sci-fi story where a character says something like "they're (billionaires/oligarchs) like a different species, not human anymore" It might be Neuromancer.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3w ago

There's a short line from this solipsism to billionaires' enthusiasm for AI. When you don't think other people are really *real*, it's easy to believe that they can be swapped out for chatbots.

There's a short line from this solipsism to billionaires' enthusiasm for AI. When you don't think other people are really *real*, it's easy to believe that they can be swapped out for chatbots.

Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

This was predictable on their part and I didn’t need an AI to figure it out.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3w ago

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.

This piece is wrong in so many ways. Only National museums in the UK are subsidised to allow free entry. Most others already have to charge everyone, including small, volunteer run places. This means foreign tourists already pay to go to, say, Salisbury or Devizes museum if they want to see...

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Great piece this. For the life of me, I don’t know how anyone who works in the museums and galleries sector could walk around a paid exhibition at the Tate, then walk around say, Moma or the Pompidou and not realise that “charging visitors” is not going to unlock more money:

264,754 * £3 if every member donates is £794,262 ~1.1% of £72M

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chip in £3! 🤡

This chart does a decent job of showing how Reform has dominated online political advertising in the UK in recent weeks. 75% of all spending, 5x anyone else. One way or another, the story is all about their money.

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

variety.com

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Marlow Stern@marlownyc.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

How it started / How it's going

Dividing up AI users in 3 categories: Wizard: approaches AI academically & with appropriate guards & wards. Treats it like a tool. Warlock: Makes a pact for power with an alien entity without considering the costs. Is corrupted by the whispers. Cleric: worships their new machine god. Is insane.

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is warlockphobic. Shameful.