"You can be a part of the creative process, but the ultimate goal is to make everyone's life pointless. Isn't that exciting?"

hailey@hailey.at · 11h ago

journalism? ai is getting there medical? ai is getting there legal? ai is getting there farming? ai is getting there art? ai is getting there you can absolutely be a part of the creative and design process with ai, and you very well may keep a job! but your job is going to be very different

I don't know how I can gently break this to people but when you embrace transphobia you literally embrace Jeffrey Epstein's greater societal project.

Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...

A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms

The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.

ms.now

When It Happens, they're going to end up instantly suspending 90% of BlueSky's user base.

Remember the LMAO@ass.golf · 18h ago

lmao eat my entire ass you fucking crybabies

Saying that he was in hell was clearly doxxing.

It would be kind of nice if you could just automatically block all automated accounts, the same way you can filter out adult content.

Do you think all this is happening right before IPOs just by coincidence?

Could machines ever be conscious? Sure, maybe. If you believe that humans are just a complex bundle of electrochenical signals run through a meat culture, then there's no reason to think silicon is inherently less special than we are.

Sometimes it starts to feel like China Mieville's Kraken was a kind of recursive meta-prophecy.

Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 3d ago

From Evangelical Christians to Rokos Basilisk-pilled AI engineers, it's funny how many people exist out there who are actively trying to bring about the apocalypse. I feel that if you have stated omnicidal intent, it should be automatic grounds for [redacted]

Surely we can solve this with open weights!

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d 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.

People seem a little bit overly skeptical about the new technology, why might that be (Another former Anthropic engineer posts something floridly insane) Ah

ICE raided a children’s cancer ward at the NIH. Kids died because of that.

If the people *saying* they believe their own product could definitely wipe out all life on the planet actually believe it and they *continue to work on it*, they should be placed in prison and never allowed to touch a computer again.

Just going to point out that all of this is happening because the rest of the GOP and SCOTUS have collectively decided we're a monarchy now. They could end this shit any time.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it would appear that the White House has banned the importation of Crown Royal, Canadian Club, and all other Canadian whiskeys/scotches. Stock up if they're one of your favorite brands, because the U.S. might not get any new supply for the next couple years...

Something I've seen a lot of in the last few days from people who want to justify using ai from the resource management side of things is that we can solve a lot of the environmental dangers through proper regulation. The problem with this argument is that we *haven't done that yet.*

In the US, harming rich people is the only crime

Eamonn Binman@dunphitydunph.bsky.social · 5d ago

the thing that still fucks me off about Holmes is she was convicted for harming investors, but not for harming real people.

I have an evil annual tradition of reminding all my colleagues what grade this year's college freshmen were in when Covid started.

demonstrating reason and language capabilities in coat hooks alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d ago

Um, no?

I'm not a Satanist, but years ago I concluded that if I believed in the God described by a lot of Christian fundamentalists, being a Satanist would be the only moral choice. Because a God that hateful, violent and cynical would be a God worth despising. This is a skeet about AI.

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

I think the other problem is that people have mistaken language for intelligence. Language is a product of intelligence, but it isn't the actual intelligence.

"Please stop being mean to AI users" "You lying morons"

Paul Frazee@pfrazee.com · 6d ago

People who aren’t using AI to code at this point are delusional or lying, trying to ride a horse down the highway and backing up the traffic instead of asking “what can we do to make cars safer and electric.” They have no ethical high ground

“did woke 1 go too far?” they intoned while stroking their beards.

Edward Wong@ewong.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

One thing I would like to see discussed more is the role data centers play in generating e-waste as old equipment becomes obsolete and damaged over time. Currently we only recycle like 20% of global electronic waste, and this increase in data centers will drive that number down significantly.

Teaching AI is not my job. Teaching history is, and more to the point, teaching critical thinking. All these calls to "teach ai" in the classroom treat learning how to use ai as the point of the class, which is the exact opposite of critical thinking. It's teaching students *not* the think.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6d ago

What the fuck does this even mean for a History classroom?

Extremely frustrating to see legacy media breathlessly and uncritically reporting on the Kennedy Center ceiling collapse, that the courts have stopped Trump from building restorations. They did not. They just won't let him put his name on the building.

I have similar feelings about to, two and too. They rhyme but they do all sound slightly different.

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · last wk.

Every few years, I realize that I’m talking to you guys like you’re normal people, but you don’t pronounce the extremely obvious distinctions between Mary, merry, and marry.

Continuing the regime's bold plan of curtailing immigration by making the US an irrelevant, powerless, impoverished backwater so that nobody sane would want to move here.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce

gotta bring this classic over here