Anyway, remember that things are inevitable right up til the moment they’re not. “Inevitable” describes potential, not reality. It is a nightmare of the future coming to bully those who are asleep—not a description of some kind of logical or pragmatic reality, as some would have us believe.

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

My fav Mary Oliver poem.

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 6d ago

Man even the dumbest fucking piece of shit bird is so cool to watch. Some random shithead of birds. All the other birds know he sucks. But he can still fly and look at our asses down here.

Secondhand shop barista: We have a new spewing animal jug! Me: That’s… worse.

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been

*sigh* An "AI" does not "escape containment", as breathless news articles claim. It is *told to do something by its programmers*, then it *goes and does what it's been told*, then the corporation it belongs to releases a statement to drive fear-based engagement and media laps up the lie.

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I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Every so often I think about the journalist who called me every name but a child of God back in late 2021 because I said people should swab their throats in addition to their noses on covid rapid tests, because the research on Omicron said it presented lower in the respiratory tract. /1

Ever since I was a child, from the very first time I experienced the joy and wonder of dinosaur fossils at a natural history museum, I always knew I wanted to grow up and submit expense reports in Concur for institutionally sponsored travel

The Next DC data centre in west Footscray’s colloidal expansion is now impinging on not only neighbourhoods but also one of the few areas of natural wildlife in west Footscray, Stony Creek. Please sign amd share the petition objecting to its expansion.

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this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

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I found this thread helpful in thinking through the horrific story of British sociologist Jason Arday.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together). 1/

They don't have to believe in AI in order to think it a good investment: like an investor betting that Joe Rogan can sell millions of dollars' worth of peptides to desperate young men, they are assessing the sales potential, not the merits of the thing for sale: pluralistic.net/2026/08/03/a... 9/

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placing my eau de toilette right next to my soap de spencer

Fucking hell 😂

The Government™ has made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Looking forward to a big piece rounding up all the ways people are starting to reject technology and step back into the analog world.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Went to parent-teacher night at my kid's middle school this evening and got told that the district is now moving away from technology in the classroom and going back to pen and paper. I love that this excellent news of rebellion came on the same day as Zuckerberg's AI supremacist screed.

Internet promise 1996: "The rise of the world wide web means your writing could be sold to everyone on the planet without needing a publisher" AI promise 2026: "The rise of AI means your writing will be stolen by everyone on the planet and regurgitated in a lesser form without any recourse."

This is the Cam Wilson story I spoke about on last Wednesday’s show… published today www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat

When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.

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Breakfast of champions: Australia’s best porridge makers cause a stir at inaugural national competition

Breakfast of champions: Australia’s best porridge makers cause a stir at inaugural national competition

On Saturday, a sold-out crowd cheered on as 15 contestants battled it out to claim the championship spurtle – with a pinch of Celtic salt the deciding factor

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Your bad art is better than AI slop.

"Predicting what you'll say through an understanding based on a theory of your mind" and "predicting what you'll say based on a statistical analysis of your utterances" might produce the same *outputs*, but they are *not* the same trick. You can tell by what happens when the trick fails. 14/

Finally, there's an *economic* coin-trick: "AI will destroy jobs." Sure, yes, AI is destroying jobs. But there's a vast difference between "You got fired because an AI can do your job" and "You got fired because your boss was convinced that the AI can do your job, even though it *cannot*." 45/

The Jeep Rubicon Childkiller. Celebrate the climate emergency and mow down pedestrians with 5,000 pounds of pointless metal.