It was bad enough to be "flagged as needing extra support" by an actual human adult stereotyping me. Today's kids get to be flagged en masse by the Stereotype Maximizer

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 52m ago

A teacher in this article says she wants to eventually use "A.i." to "analyze student data and flag those needing extra support or a challenge." If you're setting teachers loose to embark upon projects like this with consumer "A.i." products, you're setting up massive privacy violations for kids.

Not to be all RETVRN but everything was better with paper

but actually just a pretty basic material analysis for how technology is employed within existing power structures. I don't think it's morally or philosophically incoherent for me to say that a heavy-duty Dodge Ram has some uses that are good (construction job, i.e.) and some that aren't.

I think, in fact, that saying that some uses of massive computer power are *bad*, because they are employed by bad people with bad intents and to achieve bad purposes, whereas some uses of massive computer power are *relatively neutral* or at the very least *not as bad*, is not only not incoherent,

I've felt the old world dying for decades, but the novel feeling in the last few years has been the long heralded new world dying simultaneously

Funny how all the predictable downsides of AI (plus a few no one saw coming) materialized immediately but the still benefits are on the horizon…

They are destroying the information on the printed page and they are destroying the information in the digitized material by making it possible to "access the information" only through a statistically generated plausible facsimile polluted by statistical noise

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

And I haven't even gotten to the fact that I (we) do not want AI to be trained on ANY books, not books published this year, not books published 200 years ago. I do not want these companies to exist as they currently do. Their output is little more than plagiarism and misinformation.

Maybe we shouldn't have legalized gambling immediately after we finished reorienting the economy and waking existence around a tiny always active slot machine for every person on the planet

Catherina Gioino@catgioino.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

AI has really paved the way for the erosion of consent and the use of other people’s images that these panopticon glasses require as a cultural base line. I do think there’s a powerful connection between people becoming acculturated to AI products || accepting that spy glasses are the new normal.

A thing I've been saying is that I think polls have been asking if people think the economy is bad and people have been answering that they think the economy is evil

When i say we need a better sociotechnical paradigm than the technosocial paradigm we've all been forced into, this Polly Pocket's Panopticon of "AI"-enabled camera glasses tied to deepfakes, facial recognition, & harassment networks, & other sureveillant nightmare horseshit is part of what i mean.

Hey, sounds like none of this stuff is actually inevitable!

New York Focus@nysfocus.com · 2w ago

A Western New York school district has halted its plans to place a humanoid robot in a classroom after a New York Focus report on the plan sparked fierce debate over the use of artificial intelligence in schools and backlash from local parents.

investors aren't pumping money into b/c they're wildly irrational and deluded about its capabilities or profitability. they're funding it because eliminating jobs and destroying epistemic reality are useful outcomes to them, and the tech *is* doing those things

And I was just saying that looking at images on the internet no longer brings me joy, I guess there are always exceptions

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w ago

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about Google burning through cash for the first time since going public decades ago as it raised its spending forecast for AI infrastructure. ft.trib.al/9z6a5Ym

Getting a sense from some quarters today that some folks are now treating genuine questions as to whether something was written by AI the same way the right treats genuine accusations of racism. Apparently it's the accusation that's worse, actually! Even when there are legitimate grounds for it!

oh, so a ceasefire is like when i say i’m going to stop eating cheese

"treatler" is another excellent bluesky thought-terminating cliche (same bin as "glonzo" and "slopulism") because really you can define anything other than the very barest necessities of life as "a treat". not living in a windowless box eating gruel is "a treat" if you want it to be

Otherwise critical people waxing poetic on the virtues of so-called open weights models is one of the stupidest developments in our international AI psychosis. It's actually bad to replace everything in life with predictive text!

Tyler@electriceden92.bsky.social · 2w ago

As funny as it is to see US CEOs panic, Chinese genAI is still genAI and therefore equally fucking stupid. You don't need to pretend otherwise

As funny as it is to see US CEOs panic, Chinese genAI is still genAI and therefore equally fucking stupid. You don't need to pretend otherwise

daniel sieradski@self.agency · 2w ago

you will pry my deepseek-v4-flash from my cold, dead hands

When your tool aggregates popular health narratives to produce a predictive result you get cliche rhetorical devices rather than evidence-based medical recommendations.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“The lawsuit claims that ChatGPT had assured Scott Winters that the early warning signs of his health crisis were “not something dangerous,” and had dissuaded him from seeking medical advice, instead telling him to trust that ‘God did not design your body to endlessly fail.’”

Opening this article that's been linked by everyone and finding completely obvious fully LLM generated text was definitely demoralizing. I didn't call "Palantir employee" though!

Thomas M, Full-time Rascal@newmadras.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've been seeing this blog shared around a lot so I just want to say: I'm pretty sure this entire site is AI-generated and the author works for Palantir and has no background in journalism.

I realize that it’s 2026 and this stopped being true probably in the 90s. Quantification of social sciences has accelerated and been a massive net loss to understanding ever since.

Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks@wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Macro is what’s left of the old discipline, before the bloodless quants doing math for idiots took over. Tracks totally.

incredible demonstration of how literally anything can be laundered into a scientific paper-shaped artifact

Display name@ajc-mis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Now I'm wondering if I should tell these researchers that Meta is about to rip them off? Hmm iscap.us/proceedings/...

Well, traditionally, this is what laws are for. Even more traditionally, a population that has been victimized and denied recourse to the law often explores other alternatives,

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

Every day bluesky breaks new ground in the field of inventing ways to call anyone who disagrees with you about anything an antivaxxer

oliver@eikopf.com · 2w ago

very tired of pretending that dismissing modern economics is somehow more reasonable than dismissing vaccines. if you’re not an expert, you don’t get to pick and choose parts of a field to believe! you have no way to tell between legitimate and illegitimate results in that field!

Gen AI has made appreciating beauty and feeling awe a tedious, multi-step process. It’s truly evil.

I think the thing I resent most about gen AI- and this is a selfish thing to say but it’s true- is that it’s put an asterix on my sense of wonder. What I mean is that now when I see an amazing or beautiful image I can’t have that initial “wow!” reaction. I doubt. I have to verify. I hate it.