Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

This has me going until I saw they used Claude for fact-checking 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This, by @smgrimes.bsky.social, is brilliant & so needed: a refutal of Jonathan Haidt's & Jean Twenge's moral panic by academics with evidence. It is brief, clear, accessible, and devastating. I, too, quoted those scholars in The Web We Weave. kidsplaytech.com/wp-content/u...

Can he step into a black hole please instead?

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ask yourself why Fox News is puffing up Rahm Emanuel as a Democratic candidate for president. Do you think it’s because they think he’d unify the Democratic Party? Or is it maybe the opposite?

I trust the packaged pastry company to tell me which cloud services provider is the best

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3mo ago

Ever see an advertisement that makes you wonder if you’ve had a stroke

Starting a new branch of the church that's like the Amish but for "AI"

Pretty cool that Alysa Liu skated to some kind of parody of Weird Al’s “Jurassic Park”

Watching the 60 Minutes CECOT segment the way Bari Weiss intended (split into 5 3-minute segments due to blue sky video hosting restrictions)

Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz · 8mo ago

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

This is why my TV is not connected to the Internet

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 8mo ago

There's a lot of stuff out there marketed as "you're always connected! 🤩" that people are now realizing is actually "you cannot disconnect 🥸"

Here’s a handy protocol to determine whether AI could be helpful with your problem or project.

If you get to a trillion dollars you should have to start the game over from the beginning at a higher difficulty like your parents not owning a bunch of emerald mines or whatever idk that’s just a random example

You dont actually have to platform everything they say without evidence

60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm

Can’t wait to play Silksong and find out exactly how much my motor skills have been withered by seven years of aging

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

Keith Fitzgerald@keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · last yr.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

There are road signs on I-85 in VA that read "Speed limit enforced by aircraft". I thought this meant that a helicopter would come pick up your car with a big magnet if you were caught speeding

Bill Childs@billchilds.bsky.social · last yr.

“Bizarre things you firmly believed when a kid” is one of my favorite genres and I firmly believe we all have excellent examples if we can remember them

newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one

Looking forward to the upcoming headlines about NYPD apprehending multiple innocent people at the behest of the magic computer

DVS@dvsblast.bsky.social · 2y ago

"have u ever seen a computer? we have a big one like for if u wanted to play sonic. but this one is fast, it could play two sonics at the same time. it promised us it knows magic, so we'll shoot whoever it says" said the NYPD spokesman

I am seeing more and more opinions bubbling up about how throwing trans people to the wolves would be a winning strategy for Democrats, and I just want to quickly say: Fuck off with that absolute dog shit.