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“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future
Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.
techpolicy.press
I'm at a wedding where the favor is the bride made linoleum print blocks of the face of every guest????
Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?
McGill University@mcgill.ca · 3d agoFormer McGill professor Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. 🏆 Awarded “for her bold and inventive oeuvre", she has helped redefine contemporary literature through poetry, essays, translation and criticism. Congratulations! ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5HS
Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755
Inside The Failed Fight To Unionize Double Fine
Double Fine employees petitioned for a union in May. It created a rift in the studio that still hasn't healed
kotaku.com
It does feel like an insane moment when a company is regulating “cruelty” towards its AI systems in such crudely anthropomorphic terms, while the worth of whole peoples is still treated as negotiable, live-streamed executions are being discussed, & the sentience of animals is still largely ignored
Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems
The firm said users can no longer engage in "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards the tech.
bbc.co.uk
trout haven billboard, "no license needed," route 385, black hills, south dakota, 1980
I want to see more things that were tried honestly and maybe don't quite work.
Got memories of going to a building near where the Ex is in Saskatoon in 94 or 95 or 96, people selling software on floppies, giving away shareware, devil sticks and hacky sacks for sale
Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · 4d agothe "adapt or die" people failed to consider the secret third option of forming a neoluddite community where I'm selling my latest video game on usb sticks in a little lemonade stand
I could absorb this feeling for days and feel no hunger or weakness.
Kybosh@kybosh.bsky.social · 5d agoI like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
being a professional software engineer in this day & age is exactly this but knowing you’d get fired if you ever said what this guy did to a coworker
Kybosh@kybosh.bsky.social · 5d agoI like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
The way I know academic twitter is dead is that this deranged scandal where a Claude-brained prof who published 200 papers this year attacked one of the people who pointed it out by sending an AI-generated review of his work to his boss and also being racist, is getting 1/10 the traction I’d expect
Winnipeg is home to more than 100,000 Indigenous people. We can't elect a mayor whose newspaper questions the deaths of children at residential schools. Vote against Kevin Klein.
Bartley Kives@bkives.bsky.social · 6d agoSCO condemns Winnipeg Sun, mayoral-candidate CEO for column questioning deaths at residential schools www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7d agoAI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
IGN@ign.com · 7d agoGTA 6 has received a rating of PEGI 18, revealing mentions of "decapitation," the ability for players to snort cocaine at any time, "scenes of sexual fetishes," and much more.
"I hate to be a downer, guys, but I’m still hungry." "What are you talking about? We just split a Triscuit!"
don't hug me I'm porksweats@porksweats.bsky.social · last wk.what's your favorite kids in the hall skit that's not girl drink drunk or the daves i know
Hello? Yes. Pizza please. Yes. My house. Yes please. Dad will pay. Also two pizzas. Yes, and three. My house. Yes please. My dad will. He says okay.
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
Nick Pettigrew@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 8mo agoI'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
This is the lesson that the Biden admin failed to learn and that UK Labour is also flailing about horribly at:
roterote@roterote.bsky.social · last wk.The Magyar government understands if they let up then Fidesz and Orban will regroup like the Brasilian Far Right did and can come right back in. So they have to move with intense endless purpose to cut out the cancer of Orban. Because five years is not much time to reverse it all & clock’s ticking.
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
