The number one thing I've heard from people about this essay (which is a lot more people than I expected) is that they felt the same way and were glad somebody said it

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 8h ago

We can practice being bold and clear with our positions, and in doing so set an example and create space for others to do the same, as @anthonymoser.com does so well here. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h... >>

He wore a Grand Seiko chronograph GMT on election night. considerable demonstration of ball knowledge

do you hate ai enough to pay an artist

regular heron@thxnywy.art · 2d ago

an important thing about art people is that none of us have any money and you should give some to us

I'm doing some cursed shit after some ppl in my lab were talking about using chatGPT to lay out a PCB, so since I still have the ridiculously huge token budget from Muse I set it upon the task of "Vibe PCB design" by giving it a link to our paper and telling it to make a replacement for one of […]

Bela Uitz, Plates from the 'General Ludd' Portfolio (Dated 1923) www.nationalgalleries.org/search?artis...

my favorite thing about AI stories like these is that the author often tries to turn them into anodyne-sounding teachable moments, despite the circumstances leading up to these completely avoidable, self-made crises being utterly insane like how tf did you even get to this state in the first place?

Good! I’m sorry, but I’m absolutely sick of people acting like we cannot do without this tech… that we all absolutely did without just a couple of years ago. It’s insanity. We do not need AI. We really, truly don’t. Not LLMs, for sure.

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2d ago

Meta’s warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harder

"Wiggle your cursor to activate Gemini" is so insane I stared at this ad for a solid minute. Like, there's no explanation for this beyond "we desperately need to pad activation stats", right? Wiggle the cursor to activate Gemini?! WIGGLE THE CURSOR?! THE THING I DO FIFTY TIMES A DAY?!

neoreactionary: how do you do fellow uh wokeists

cosigned. i sometimes wonder if my position that there’s no ethical use case for ai is a bit extreme, so it’s nice to have the ol’ biases confirmed

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 3d ago

Genuinely: Fix your hearts or die. Equivocation about AI is equivocation about everything that matters.

One thing the past 24 hours has emphasized for me - with Google's attempt to extort schools and the rejection of (techno)fascism - is that now is the time to embrace a critical tech education that helps youth and teachers analyze AI as a political project while also pursuing decomputing in schools.

Fight Club is about a guy who gets so mad at ikea that he kicks his own ass

books. buy some. on a variety of subjects. put them in a big room. call it a bookarium if you want. hire some bookary sages to care for them. let the students use the books to learn.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d ago

Google is now threatening America's schools, saying they will turn off their core search functions if schools choose to entirely block AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/u...

It’s a constant process of seeing what they can get away with.

Google, accused of trying to bully schools into using AI, backs off from announced change

The Mountain View digital advertising giant has embarked on a major push to bring generative AI into students’ work.

mercurynews.com

Just shows the typical "AI" bias: Everyone else's skills are irrelevant, just mine matter. But of course design and product shit is gonna be next. With similarly bad results. "AI" means everything is fast fashion now: Disposable, crappy, shit for the environment.

They spelled “crediting” wrong.

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d ago

“The features are also currently unavailable in the European Union, a decision that Apple made months ago. The company is blaming strict EU tech regulations.”

can i assume from the redesign of the youtube app that they are intending to gradually phase out the subscriptions feed (or even the concept of subscriptions altogether)?

I never know when or why they do this, but the Blood in the Machine ebook is $1.99 right now on Amazon. I can endorse this because the company clearly loses money on this transaction www.amazon.com/dp/B09N3G2TG...

really dire state of the industry that nintendo's secret sauce is just not firing people for no reason

Zal@zalman.bsky.social · 5d ago

From the Ocarina of Time - Ask the Developer interview Look at this flex. Being able to just go and ask the original developers from three decades ago is easily Nintendo's greatest strength

AI is an attempt to hobble, if not outright destroy, the liberatory possibilities of information technologies—the ability to use voice, image, video, and text as authentic witness and testimony, in a globally accessible human archive that transcends distance and time, to easily contradict power

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

“As it stands, if people don’t like what they hear, they can simply turn something off; the system outlined by Microsoft describes an environment where people can instead adjust someone else’s speech to their personal taste.”

We can’t let thinking of that level of depth disappear, and sorry but fuck the AI corporate invasion of academic work. I got into this racket to take my mind into new places, and to try to develop a novel perspective to solve problems. No one is allowed to simulate my experience of thought for me.

My "AI anxiety" is constantly worrying every piece of text, image, video, or sound I interact with online was not created by a human being, thus making me a more irritable, less trusting, and less interested in engaging with contemporary art at all.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

Researchers define AI anxiety as feelings of apprehension or fear tied to the accelerated development of AI technologies. Here's what therapists recommend to manage AI anxiety:

Coming right out and saying that OpenAI's vision of the future is one in which they own all computers and you rent computing from them... or at least, you rent time and power doing whatever Sam Altman thinks you should be allowed to do. This is an authoritarian worldview that must be annihilated.

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

fuck off, sam

This week alone we have gotten three requests to sell our games' codebases to train generative AI and I am tired of it.

Google did this, mostly through mechanisms that only a tiny handful of people understand. Extremely angry about it.

Marielza@marielza.bsky.social · last wk.

"...the old bargain built on the open web — content from creators and publishers in exchange for acknowledgement and traffic from platforms — has broken down, and the values of reciprocity and sharing that have been essential to build and sustain a thriving knowledge commons have been abandoned."

I've talked about how this was inevitable. Generative AI has made superficially polished "perfection" universally accessible. But things that are universally accessible have much less social or artistic value. Even disregarding the moral an political objections: Gen AI is the new "Looks cheap."

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2w ago

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change

Latest work by Arundathi Roy is a delight to read and also terrifying at the same time. Please read @abeba.blacksky.app's thread if you cannot read 4K works written by an absolute rock star.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵

“i will *never* just let people enjoy things” that’s right

John Duncan@johntheduncan.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW VIDEO!!! We all know AI art sucks but in this video I explain why. It's not just about farming out creativity to a machine but the spread of consumer logic throughout society. I connect AI to mass production, consumption and alienation via Raymond Williams and Walter Benjamin