A contrasting take to the “moral imperative” argument is @doctorow.pluralistic.net's. Really interesting read.

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h ago

You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.

Growing increasingly obsessed with the testicular cat-mouse

Congratulations to ★ by David Bowie on being named the Feel Weird Song of the Summer ten years in a row by me.

Gimme me five minutes alone with an incorrigible guy. I bet I could corrig that motherfucker

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

CNN@cnn.com · 7mo ago

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

A review of Berserk Deluxe Edition Vol. 2.

IIIIIIII am a mance of constant neuro I’m in trouble, my name’s Case IIIIIIIII bid farewell to old Night City I’m headed baaaack to cyberspace (He’s headed baaaaack to cyberspace)

TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Oh Brother Where Art Thou?'s thrillingly loose, modern and musical adaptation of The Odyssey. "It can develop or dismiss any parts of the source material as it sees fit in order to kick the maximum possible amount of ass." flaminghydra.com/issue-618/#f...

Mean old world

Rax King enjoys the ride and isn’t worried about the wheels

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TODAY: Nathan Schneider on what comes after Luddism. "The struggle against big tech can have two stories in one: the vibrant resistance and refusal, but also the effort to build a better economy under workers’ and users’ control." flaminghydra.com/issue-617/#b...

Bodies upon the gears

Alternative approaches to The Man, considered by Nathan Schneider

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Kurt Vonnegut man

dude i think your uncle is getting brigaded on rate my uncle. seriously, pull up the avuncul-o-meter, these analytics make no sense. he's a top ten uncle for two weeks and then his score falls off a cliff right into the toilet, mid-flush? bro they're review bombing him. how the fuck are you so calm

I’m twenty nine years old.

Neuromancer is chillingly relevant today because it asks: what if a guy would rather Die than stop Going Online

thank goodness they included the reading order so i don't get them mixed up

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

[eleanor rigby voice] connecticut bigfoot hids in the woods outside Lyme but is spotted by rubes doesn't have boobs

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last wk.

FAKE NEWS, BIGFOOT HAS PROPORTIONALLY BIG NATURALS

Marvel Editorial: “We need an X-Men miniseries, any ideas?” Chris Claremont, startling awake: “BONDAGE DINOSAURS”

theres this one tumblr post ive seen talking about that phenomenon but w fiction writing that I think about often

kind of a half-baked thought here but it's a shame criticism as a paid professional discipline has been sidelined by social media because it could point the way forward out of the internet madness-induced problem of writing that's crouched in what the author anticipates a comments section will say

Happy birthday to milk I guess

A two hour documentary called You, Me & Jimothy will be streaming on Hulu this time next week.

I for one am simply astounded that the creator of Det. John “Robin” Blake would dare to reinterpret someone else’s story.

Using a time machine to show Homer Nolan’s Odyssey to make sure he approves. He thinks the boats are really coming at him, shits his robes in terror, and dies of a heart attack.

You won't catch me posting matrix or terminator bits in relation to real-world AI deployment because that would constitute a reproduction and endorsement of the foundational marketing lie that these technologies ought to be conceived of as comparable to the "thinking machine" science fiction premise

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I flinch a little when people use words like “normies” and coworker-core” to describe taste. Let people like what they like! Not everyone has a useless literature degree and a Letterboxd account! But then my brother tells me that he thinks Young Sheldon is a really great show and I get it again.

Folks have a lot of pet peeves with movies these days, but my biggest one is probably that an absurd number of score composers are afraid of melody. I should be walking out of a theater humming your lietmotifs, you cowards, not feeling vaguely unsettled by ambient atonal strings

Stay tuned #Understudy