Anthony Moser
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Anthony Moser
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· Aug 27
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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this is not new information but it's worth stating plainly
the chicago police department has a process for starting investigations related to the first amendment and this process includes the use of infiltrators
one of their steps includes filling out a "first amendment worksheet"
the chicago police department has a process for starting investigations related to the first amendment and this process includes the use of infiltrators
one of their steps includes filling out a "first amendment worksheet"
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
this is not new information but it's worth stating plainly
the chicago police department has a process for starting investigations related to the first amendment and this process includes the use of infiltrators
one of their steps includes filling out a "first amendment worksheet"
the chicago police department has a process for starting investigations related to the first amendment and this process includes the use of infiltrators
one of their steps includes filling out a "first amendment worksheet"
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TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
"I hope you're not going to make me look like an asshole," says asshole
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"I hope you're not going to make me look like an asshole," says asshole
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The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
To state the obvious, doctors lawyers and priests are not products offered by a company that generates statistically likely text
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
To state the obvious, doctors lawyers and priests are not products offered by a company that generates statistically likely text
Well the show got popular and they canceled it
Kinda funny the Dems did the shutdown largely as a show for the base and now people are madder than before lol
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Well the show got popular and they canceled it
I am once again thinking about Italo Calvino's short story "beheading the heads" for no reason in particular
I Just Think Anyone Taking On A Position Of Power Should Have To Swear An Oath While Their Hand Soaks In A Bowl Of Their Own Blood And Then They Should Have To Dig A Grave With Their Name On It And Hang The Shovel In A Place Where They Will See It Every Day And I Don't See What's So Weird About That
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I am once again thinking about Italo Calvino's short story "beheading the heads" for no reason in particular
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Every single Senator who either voted for this or refused to call for Schumer’s ouster should not ever be allowed to go to a restaurant again without getting bood and heckled until they are forced to leave.
durbin should get primaried even after he retires. if he's trying to sit down at a restaurant somebody should take his seat
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Every single Senator who either voted for this or refused to call for Schumer’s ouster should not ever be allowed to go to a restaurant again without getting bood and heckled until they are forced to leave.
Hard to imagine a more compelling case, a more obvious moment, or a better chance of widespread support than right now.
Anybody regularly using the word "abolition" should find this easy to demand
Anybody regularly using the word "abolition" should find this easy to demand
one thing we could demand in chicago right now is shutting down the fusion center where chicago police and the department of homeland security coordinate
we would lose money but we can have principles that aren't based on taxpayer arguments
shut down the fusion center
we would lose money but we can have principles that aren't based on taxpayer arguments
shut down the fusion center
for this #FOIA Friday in Chicago, we offer ways to understand how city agencies work together to surveil and criminalize people in public spaces
the Chicago Park District + Chicago Police Department + private vendors and a Department of Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center make a playdate
the Chicago Park District + Chicago Police Department + private vendors and a Department of Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center make a playdate
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Hard to imagine a more compelling case, a more obvious moment, or a better chance of widespread support than right now.
Anybody regularly using the word "abolition" should find this easy to demand
Anybody regularly using the word "abolition" should find this easy to demand
please wear a mask in public. please send your kids to school wearing masks.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
please wear a mask in public. please send your kids to school wearing masks.
durbin should resign and let pritzker appoint a replacement. or walk into the lake, that would also be acceptable
John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
durbin should resign and let pritzker appoint a replacement. or walk into the lake, that would also be acceptable
This is also how the enforcement of environmental laws works in Chicago btw. Except the fines are smaller
bit.ly/IneffectiveByChoice
bit.ly/IneffectiveByChoice
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is also how the enforcement of environmental laws works in Chicago btw. Except the fines are smaller
bit.ly/IneffectiveByChoice
bit.ly/IneffectiveByChoice
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don't post about what you did with ai. that shit is embarrassing
March 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
don't post about what you did with ai. that shit is embarrassing
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
this is the right frame
You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
this is the right frame
Heads up, Illinois moved their data portal to Socrata a while back
which means you can now use better data portal to do keyword searches across all data sets, same as for Chicago!
Use this link:
www.betterdataportal.com?portal_url=i...
which means you can now use better data portal to do keyword searches across all data sets, same as for Chicago!
Use this link:
www.betterdataportal.com?portal_url=i...
Streamlit
www.betterdataportal.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Heads up, Illinois moved their data portal to Socrata a while back
which means you can now use better data portal to do keyword searches across all data sets, same as for Chicago!
Use this link:
www.betterdataportal.com?portal_url=i...
which means you can now use better data portal to do keyword searches across all data sets, same as for Chicago!
Use this link:
www.betterdataportal.com?portal_url=i...
An incredible choice for many reasons, among them that the requirement was first removed to pave the way for *Paul Vallas*
Meisha Ross Porter may stay in NYC. Alex Marrero may stay in Denver.
There is behind the scenes working in Chicago to undo the requirement for a superintendent license so that CPZ, the woman who wanted GardaWorld, can be CEO of chicago public schools.
There is behind the scenes working in Chicago to undo the requirement for a superintendent license so that CPZ, the woman who wanted GardaWorld, can be CEO of chicago public schools.
November 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
An incredible choice for many reasons, among them that the requirement was first removed to pave the way for *Paul Vallas*
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Yes! And to build on this, there are often times I start writing something and by the end I have problematized my own argument to the point where I have talked myself out of it.
And that is very annoying but also a sign that the writing is doing its job
And that is very annoying but also a sign that the writing is doing its job
This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
What people do not do, they often lose the ability to do. Which is sometimes fine! In my own life, I don’t have any great need to know how to do some of the math I once learned. But I don’t want to forget how to write.
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Yes! And to build on this, there are often times I start writing something and by the end I have problematized my own argument to the point where I have talked myself out of it.
And that is very annoying but also a sign that the writing is doing its job
And that is very annoying but also a sign that the writing is doing its job
I can make up my own bullshit tyvm lol
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I can make up my own bullshit tyvm lol
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the law isn't real
"Revolutionary change always involves the complete alteration of the structure of property relations and the institutional substructures that support them. It leads from hierarchy to mass society."
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
the law isn't real
Supreme Court's gotta go. Not saying where but they gotta go
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Supreme Court's gotta go. Not saying where but they gotta go
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In short, AI is fundamentally anti-human and should not exist.
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In short, AI is fundamentally anti-human and should not exist.
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You only argue that kids should be exposed to this because you believe the children matter less than the tech
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
You only argue that kids should be exposed to this because you believe the children matter less than the tech