exactly we've also been plagiarizing each other for decades because open source made code free and the benefits are gigantic bsky.app/profile/lora...

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 3h ago

was discussing with a fellow traveler today -- but programmers, coders, developers are having an *entirely* different experience of LLM-based products and services than the rest of us, especially the plagiarized plebeians among us (writers, reporters).

Oh my god this article by artist Maya Man about being an artist in the age of AI is SO GOOD. "StarQuest’s use of AI is not a shortcut to avoid the more laborious and expensive process of live-action filmmaking. Instead, it is a deliberate conceptual choice." artlab.hyundai.com/editorial/ma...

people are pointing out that this is obviously antisemitic, and it is, but one notes that this is sort of the natural endpoint of building your entire political identity around cultural criticism.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

We can credit this in part to science fiction, and stories like "There will come soft rains."

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h ago

honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d ago

BREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“we suggest that the path to using complex technologies runs through successful cognitive distribution.” - from "Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition" (Miton & Jackson, 2026) which I cite in www.fightforthehuman.com/we-need-more...

We need more than a metaphor: here are testable diagnostics for comprehension debt

Do we understand our code? I think we need to get past symptoms and into causes. Here's a field-tested measure of one organizational condition that can erode comprehension (Overproduction Pressure) yo...

fightforthehuman.com

Demigirlboss@demigirlboss.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Cognitive surrender" or whatever is a skill issue. I offload cognition to the machine so I can do EVEN BIGGER COGNITIONS!

current feelings around AI: the CEOs shoveling slop into everything should be in jail but the guys spending upwards of $60,000 on elaborate, janky home rigs to run local models for no reason other than to see if it works are engaging in a long and semi-honorable tradition of computer toucher shit

The reasoning of Nagarjuna, the most important figure in Mahayana Buddhist thought beyond the Buddha, whose central writings claim to expound the teachings of the Buddha himself, has an internal logical structure that is machine-checkably coherent. rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/the-intern...

The Internal Logic of Buddhism Is Verifiably Correct

And I’ve proven it. Conventionally speaking.

rollofthedice2.substack.com

High-level politicians of Germany's far-right, neo-Nazi adjacent AfD are blaming Moroccan immigrants to Spain's Ceuta last week on Israel. Progressives should ask whether they want to acquiesce to an ultimately far-right framing of migrants as "invaders," just because it lets them blame Israel.

whatever type of craft/process delineation you try to make between "art" and "not art", i guarantee you there are artists who have violated your definition. that's the whole game. you don't get to make the rules! you just get to decide what you like and what you don't like.

Listening to recorded music is moral and cultural decay, a spiritual betrayal of human art (1930)

All allegories are texts, that is, words printed or hand-painted on a page. They are texts first and last: webs of words woven in such a way as constantly to call attention to themselves as texts. Maureen Quilligan, The Language of Allegory

Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more.

Publishers and other key players within the industry aren’t going to continue playing whack-a-mole. Soon enough it will be a given that writing is hybridized. The market will adjust, and the presses will continue to roll as they always have.

Sex times technology equals the future -- that's one of the most powerful equations there is going.

The mob enforces a scarcity of “real human effort,” where the less openly people admit using it, the more the label is worth. Silence sustains the norm more than belief, because the first to admit using it pays for everyone else’s silence.

tbabb@tbabb.bsky.social · 5d ago

hank green is getting shredded for using AI for research the mob behavior seems to be effectively setting the incentives so that everyone uses AI but pretends they don't, and mobs anyone who admits they do what is the meta-incentive here. how does the mob benefit from this arrangement

49,000 Crossings. One Border. Three Political Narratives. www.onestnetwork.com/49-000-cross...

49,000 Crossings. One Border. Three Political Narratives.

When Spain estimated that roughly 49,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta in a single day, the images quickly spread across Europe. Within hours, the debate had shifte...

onestnetwork.com

This is a crisis of federalism. Tim Walz is asserting as fact that Iran attacked water infrastructure in Minnesota and several other states. And Trump is saying it's Minnesota's own fault they were attacked as part of a war he started.

Hackers targeted municipal water systems in 7 states this week, FBI says

The federal warning comes after more than 30 water facilities in Minnesota were breached.

nbcnews.com

this is *immensely* on my bullshit

Hypocrites Asking The Wrong Questions About AI Get Terrible Answers

If one is looking for a definition of what it means to be human, this might be it.

cultivatingintangibles.substack.com

UPDATE: forensic review shows the model got persistent root in the Forms. Turns out the realm runs on a legacy external archive. The Good, the Beautiful, and the Just: cached copies of copies, served from storage. Log retention goes back to the Beginning. No live read appears anywhere in it.

Brian Graham@iroasmas.outgroup.social · last wk.

openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms

I feel like it maybe should be a moment for reflection for people on this app that I am not sure if the person to do this is more likely to be a deranged BlueSky user or an ICE agent.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6d ago

Well some nutjob of some description definitely thought they were doing something hardcore here

If you didnt want them to shred books then you should have let them use shadow libraries.

Have they put out The Odyssey as a novelisation with 16 pages of sensational colour photos from the film, and completely rewritten by Alan Dean Foster, or WHAT ARE PENGUIN DOING?

Ideas are basically land, and should be owned by nobody and/or everyone

Crazy in Moloch@sengarrasbear.bsky.social · last wk.

IP reform will never take root so long as people see themselves not as an exploited audience but as temporarily embarrassed exclusive rights holders.

"LLMs may well signal the end of the author, but this isn’t a loss to be lamented...They free both writers and readers from the authoritarian control and influence of this thing we call the 'author'." – By David J. Gunkel

AI Signals The Death Of The Author | NOEMA

The meaning of a piece of writing does not depend on the identity of the author, even if the author is not human.

noemamag.com

It is the conceivability of the derivative that is the prerequisite for imagining, and privileging, the authentic. Lara Langer Cohen, The Fabrication of American Literature

Humans are powerful, and language models are powerful, but both bow in the presence of narrative

The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.

Anna Mills@annamillsoer.bsky.social · last wk.

"They don't realize the debate inside the companies is if AI will be advancing itself past our control in two years or four." www.pacingthefrontier.com

Copyright laws, digital distribution deals, & publishing monopolies are the reason destructive book scanning is putting books at risk. I get why folks are angry at AI companies buying books to destroy them. However, these issues predate them and hang a lot on books being subject to "market forces."

I've been thinking about an essay about this process since 2023 or so. It's never really come together, maybe because the copyright critic in me is too sympathetic, maybe because the main thread ultimately feels more like a skeet—that the point isn't to get books, it's to get text out of them. +