In the Japanese PC-88 port of Ultima 3: Exodus by Pony Canyon, if you try to Talk/Transact (T key) to an enemy monster, they literally say "FUCK YOU!!" in English. Hilarious, and apparently nobody has discovered or posted about this before online in English or Japanese

I hate English department Halloween. What do you mean, you're the hermeneutics of suspicion

As Alex notes in this thread, AI doesn't "democratize" science. Rather, it compels scientists to rely on anti-egalitarian means of directing their attention.

Alex Holcombe@alexh.bsky.social · last mo.

Consequences of the flood of AI manuscripts: "An early-career researcher at an unbranded institution loses the one mechanism that ever let them be read on merit — anonymous review of the work itself, however badly it functioned in practice.

If you’re ever worried about the quality of art for your game, this is a screenshot of one of the five most influential video games of the last 15 years.

My sleep paralysis demon is an open mouth YouTuber

This is what my nightmares are like after I take too much cough syrup

I don't actually mind if some people want to reach out to friends and family and colleagues who use 'AI' and are wary that shaming will be counterproductive. A diversity of tactics is good. What I object to are categorical statements that certain tactics should be abandoned by all people.

We are living in the second wave of fascism. I don't think we should abandon shame as a tactic even though it feels icky. Shame is actually one of the most powerful non-hierarchical tools for peaceful social change. It's far less violent than laws imposed by police and prisons.

The extent to which these companies (and the people who represent them) are actively hostile to students cannot be overstated. “Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject” is something to articulate if profit is the *only* motive.

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/

Over the last few days I've watched highly politically engaged, educated people who are otherwise clear and careful thinkers attempting to litigate the obvious facts of the matter with respect to the late Arday's obvious layers of misconduct, taking their turn wheeling the horse into the gates. 11/

WHEN will emily wilson review THIS

everyone calling out any hint of slop seems great! but reducing that to AI-or-not would terribly miss the point people want to use AI as a yes/no proposition to side step the harder task of instead judging if something was made with only efficient and viral intent

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Raise your hand if you look forward to a cultural future that consists of policing every artist, performer, entertainer, or author whom you love and admire for the slightest whiff of “AI,” defined by vibes and whatever set of folk forensics is currently in circulation.

Absolutely stone cold dedication to a work of popular history

Ridicule as praxis is a very shitty way to be, and I’m not sure I wouldn’t prefer a big old service of slop if those were the only two alternatives.

Raise your hand if you look forward to a cultural future that consists of policing every artist, performer, entertainer, or author whom you love and admire for the slightest whiff of “AI,” defined by vibes and whatever set of folk forensics is currently in circulation.

Folks: this is no way to live.

dame@dame.is · 3mo ago

it’s worse than i thought… Hank’s audience merely heard him use a phrase in a video they thought *sounded* like AI, but it was just him adlibbing after viewers pointed it out, he clarified it wasn’t an AI line, but explained that he does use AI in the research process! then the pile on begin bleak

If you’ve never recalled a book from yourself, are you even an academic?

Monica C. Schneider@poliscimonica.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pro-tip: If you are looking for a book, don't spend so much time on the library site or googling for a pdf or ordering it on Amazon until after you've looked through your own shelf.

"Cognitive surrender" is a fascinating concept to think about the impact of AI as it exists under reactionary tech Preventing people from thinking for themselves and imagining different worlds is a godsend for authoritarians thenextweb.com/news/wharton...

I know that most of our digital tools are controlled by awful billionaires and it's almost impossible for us to divest ourselves of all of them. But I think that X and Substack are so horribly toxic that everyone should avoid them as much as possible.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝@seven.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

I have to do a lot of napkin math for interactive installations and just realized i could make a multitool for common things. Welcoming comments! laserpilot.github.io/interactive-... -Monitor placement, LED simulation, projector, sensor, speaker positioning

oh yeah? can AI writing and art do this?? (disappoints my parents)

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

in this game, you can upgrade your pigeon's negative traits.

it's a horror game about a bird trying to write a screenplay.

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”