He also "planned" a working moon mission by 2024 & we're still in the "sometimes it doesn't crash" stage of that process. Stop reporting on any tech bro CEO's claims as if they are facts, especially in outlets connected to our shared collective hallucination called "the economy". CONTEXTUALIZE SHIT.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 12h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

He really is a fucking cartoon villain

The Independent@the-independent.com · 18h ago

BREAKING | An out-of-control SpaceX rocket has collided with the Moon READ MORE: trib.al/mGkWuJh

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

The reason not "everyone is doing it" is for exactly this reason. If you're a writer or an artist, you are not. As for someone who just "pumps shit out", then I don't know, but also I don't care. The writers and artists are the only ones I care about.

Ken Tremendous@kentremendous.bsky.social · yesterday

Writing fiction in any genre should be a purely human exercise. If you use AI to generate *any* dialog, story ideas, character shapes, *anything* creative, you're betraying the very concept of artistic expression. This is a bright flashing red line for me. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

Also the way Bluesky (currently) works makes it at least a little harder for assholes to grab a foothold. If they can't easily force their way into people's attention they get bored and frustrated and sulk away. Is it coincidence that more people who are "liberal" aren't assholes? Golly who can say.

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️@ashleylynch.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's not a liberal bubble -- it's just the place where everyone who wasn't morally okay with being at the Nazi club settled.

Breathe easy, InfoWarriors! Sen. Mitch McConnell just called in with a reassuring update from the space between life and death!

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

Please read..... #BookSky

This is, like, my whole *identity*.

Gary Whitta@garywhitta.bsky.social · 6d ago

What’s something that you still beat yourself up over years later?

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

This is all such nonsense but it's worth pointing out that not that long ago he was giving basically the same pitch for his app where you gave up location privacy in exchange for free fries. "AI" is not some lifelong dream of his. It's where the huckster winds blew. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5iz...

First look: Loopt provides more incentives to try location-based services with Loopt Star

YouTube video by Robert Scoble

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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

It's 2026 and you can still see ' everywhere. We're never going to fix this.

Sure, OpenAI's supposedly next-level technology just did all this on its own, with no one watching, despite being given instructions and the interfaces to tools to do so, and it all happened while whoever was monitoring the tests was out getting coffee. That's totally how it happened, Your Honor.

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: OpenAI’s “rogue” AI agent didn’t just breach Hugging Face — it also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services. It's now clear that the incident was more extensive than the company initially disclosed.

*Everything* "AI" companies do or say like this is an advertisement. This has been their marketing approach for literal years now. "We fear we may have invented God himself"...but also you will be able to purchase a premium plan for *your* business.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

"AI" companies make a garbage product based on theft, which is pretty clearly bad, but the simple reason for this is that as people they are just evil assholes.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

This is of course horseshit, and any article that reports OpenAI's claims about how wildly powerful their magic technology is should also mention that they're gearing up to do an IPO.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.

With the surface-level of analysis and discourse that usually happens, "looks like AI" has become a stand-in for "looks bad", or "I don't like that", or "doesn't look real". And it's fine (well, not really, always) to think that, but it's very important to make the distinction.

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️@ashleylynch.bsky.social · last wk.

It's almost worse when AI witchhunters wrongfully accuse a piece of art of using AI than when people actually use AI. Don't get me wrong, if you used AI, then you created trash, but everyone is harmed by runaway accusations that aren't true. If you're gonna accuse, you damn well better be right.

More companies should do this.

Amos Posner@amosposner.bsky.social · last wk.

Booked a voiceover job and was delighted to receive this follow up note from the client.

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

Your food processor has a chute that fits your dick. Should you?

CBS News@cbsnews.com · 2w ago

ChatGPT now has a space for sharing medical records. Should you?

This is all kinds of wrong. If you haven't seen DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES because you thought why would I want to see a movie about Dungeons & Dragons, all I can tell you is you are missing out. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Sequel Was Written but May Never Be Filmed Due to ‘Financial Reasons’

The "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" writers were hired to write a sequel, but it may never be filmed due to "financial reasons."

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My two greatest authorities when debugging a problem are William of Ockham and Dr. House, MD.

This — ALL of this — is because of vertical video. I tried to warn you. I tried to warn everyone.

Do we think the wealthy will behave any differently than they do now, controlling production, distribution, and hoarding wealth? Do we think robots will suddenly make people who now believe they deserve an unimaginable amount more than anyone else suddenly think oh, wait, I guess we'll share this!

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another odd moment occurred when Musk insisted that work in the future would be "optional" because robots would do everything. Musk said people might still work in the future but compared it to people who grow their own backyard tomatoes. He said they could just go to the store for better tomatoes.

Fascinating indeed, and yet another example of how "AI" and "prediction markets" are steadily wrecking everything for everybody.

Walter Hickey@walthickey.bsky.social · 2w ago

fascinating story from one of the best movie data guys about one of the best movie data guys stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...

Sometimes I'm looking for support on a company's website but what I really want is to be interrupted by a popup trying to sell me something else instead of helping me fix the thing I've already bought.

Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna

On one hand, I guess, good. But on the other it is absolutely infuriating that what amounts to compression and storage is covered as "fair use". arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

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