teknomagic.bsky.social

@teknomagic.bsky.social

lo de siempre en otra red social. Si queréis verme hablar de política veníos a mastodon (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧ "Techno pessimist" and "AI hater" 😎

This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5h ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

Brains turning to mush... As I recall, my father told me to read Russian novels even if I didn't understand them because striving was good for the brain. 'Last of the Mohicans' isn't even that hard. AI isn't the Axios writer's reading buddy. It's a worm, and it's feeding on [their] cognition.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5h ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

new york is scary, you hear about the rats and they make it sound like some insane rodent situation unique to new york they cant solve then it turns out they werent putting their garbage in bins

Qué vergüenza. La Comunidad donde se domicilian todos los ricachones de España para no pagar impuesto de patrimonio, ahora mendigando ayuditas para paliar una catástrofe. Han convertido nuestro sistema de servicios públicos en la Gala de la Beneficencia 👇

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Hey! Did/Do you work at Saber Interactive? Were you replaced by AI (or do you suspect you were?) Wanna talk about it? Please get in touch. You can do so via discord @adashtra or Signal @adashtra.87 or even email aparrish@kotaku.com Reposts greatly appreciated

Your occasional reminder that there are places to do this for free or minimal $$. Neocities, for one, is currently great for this. I personally use the code provided by rarebit.neocities.org for all of my comics. Cartoonist Coop also has great resources like this vid: youtu.be/cMuKaDJ5rq0?...

Rarebit | HTML Webcomic Template

rarebit.neocities.org

Zach Clemente@clementeworks.com · 7h ago

Shit like this is why "never sign a deal with webtoon, host your own webcomic" has landed in my top 5 pieces of advice for young artists

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with
the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully
with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman-
der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be-
havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable,
fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many
political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

photo of paulina borsook

🚨¿A nadie le extrañó que Iustitia Europa fuera el 1° en denunciar la compra del ático de Ayuso? Esa denuncia ha PRIVADO a la FISCALÍA de la posibilidad de INVESTIGAR TÁCTICA PREMEDITADA + MECANISMOS LEGALES para frenar la investigación Por esto y más, Ayuso se siente IMPUNE (1/2)

As a heads up, the book recommendation site The Book Rex uses Claude AI coding. Normally, I don't go hunting for this sort of thing. Not being an experienced programmer, I don't think I can reliably spot it most of the time. Yet they were just so sloppy here, it stood out.

A text entry taken from The Book Rex's glossary page, with HTML code visible on the page.

Secret Identity / Hidden Truths

<p data-start="6g" data-end="443">When a character conceals an important part of who they are or what they’re facing. This could mean living under an alias, disguising their true role, hiding magical powers, or keeping something deeply personal—like an illness, trauma, or secret past—from others. The tension comes from what happens if (or when) the truth is revealed.</p> A snippet of The Book Rex's website source code. This tell of "font-claude-response-body" commonly shows up when someone copy-pastes Claude's generated output.

OH!? @maxxburman.bsky.social congrats!? If new ownership is willing to support the actual art community and moderate out AI influence and the cascade of slop, I'd be happy to welcome artstation back from "I Will Never Post Here Or Think About It Again" Hell magazine.artstation.com/2026/08/kitb...

KitBash Acquires ArtStation and Sketchfab - ArtStation Magazine

Today, ArtStation and Sketchfab are becoming part of KitBash, the company behind 3D art platforms KitBash3D and Greyscalegorilla.

magazine.artstation.com