Remmelt 🛑
@artificialbodies.net
Stop Big Tech that:
- launders our data
- dehumanises workers
- lobbies for unsafe uses
- pollutes our environment
Short book on how AI corps get destructive:
https://artificialbodies.net/artificial-bodies-preface-7042453348de
- launders our data
- dehumanises workers
- lobbies for unsafe uses
- pollutes our environment
Short book on how AI corps get destructive:
https://artificialbodies.net/artificial-bodies-preface-7042453348de
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· Dec 16
The tech invasion explained,
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Cool -- this article of mine on digital eugenics was the 12th most-read piece published by Tech Policy Press in 2025. Check it out:
www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...
www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...
Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity | TechPolicy.Press
If we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.
www.techpolicy.press
December 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Cool -- this article of mine on digital eugenics was the 12th most-read piece published by Tech Policy Press in 2025. Check it out:
www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...
www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...
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Either you build a good machine god or your extinct. That was their stance. And now they're doing satire here, rebranding as concerned citizens. Look at them here discussing "AI".
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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“Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday.”
New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings
Dec 26 (Reuters) - Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health ...
www.yahoo.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday.”
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And yes this is the core principle of “enshittification”
It depends on the fact that mostly white and or white collar people have great times on things that are purposely designed to entrap them . But view being treated like everyone else and epic battle
And everybody ran with it in journalism
It depends on the fact that mostly white and or white collar people have great times on things that are purposely designed to entrap them . But view being treated like everyone else and epic battle
And everybody ran with it in journalism
But again many of them were cool when every Black and Brown person got walked out of the building?
“Dismal,” “confused,” “demoralized,” “super fucked.” That, as one reporter tells Vanity Fair, is the mood inside CBS after editor Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment that was critical of the Trump administration.
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
And yes this is the core principle of “enshittification”
It depends on the fact that mostly white and or white collar people have great times on things that are purposely designed to entrap them . But view being treated like everyone else and epic battle
And everybody ran with it in journalism
It depends on the fact that mostly white and or white collar people have great times on things that are purposely designed to entrap them . But view being treated like everyone else and epic battle
And everybody ran with it in journalism
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“Blackburn’s bill doesn’t solve every problem, but it takes an important step: it says tech companies can’t hide dangerous products behind free-speech rhetoric anymore.
If you build it, and it predictably hurts people, you’re responsible for fixing it. That’s not censorship. It’s accountability.”
If you build it, and it predictably hurts people, you’re responsible for fixing it. That’s not censorship. It’s accountability.”
Meet the New AI Boss, Worse Than the Old Internet Boss
Senator Marsha Blackburn’s AI bill would apply a familiar idea to an unfamiliar technology: product safety. Instead of treating algorithms as untouchable “speech,” the bill would impose a duty of c…
thetrichordist.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Blackburn’s bill doesn’t solve every problem, but it takes an important step: it says tech companies can’t hide dangerous products behind free-speech rhetoric anymore.
If you build it, and it predictably hurts people, you’re responsible for fixing it. That’s not censorship. It’s accountability.”
If you build it, and it predictably hurts people, you’re responsible for fixing it. That’s not censorship. It’s accountability.”
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I cannot ever be surprised by tech sector people calling women stupid or whatever else because I did a compsci degree and saw this stuff daily. But this is a little bit extra funny because they are getting increasingly completely detached, as most such people do sadly, by calling her a creationist.
December 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I cannot ever be surprised by tech sector people calling women stupid or whatever else because I did a compsci degree and saw this stuff daily. But this is a little bit extra funny because they are getting increasingly completely detached, as most such people do sadly, by calling her a creationist.
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“Other experts suggest that while chatbots may provide short-term comfort, sustained use can worsen isolation and foster unhealthy reliance on the technology.”
‘He satisfies a lot of my needs:’ Meet the women in love with ChatGPT | Fortune
AI chatbots are becoming partners and confidants for thousands of users, but the same design features that make them so appealing may also leave users vulnerable.
fortune.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“Other experts suggest that while chatbots may provide short-term comfort, sustained use can worsen isolation and foster unhealthy reliance on the technology.”
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One of these cult leaders had predicted that the "singularity" was gonna be in 2025. I think we all made it right? Barring anything happening in the next few days.
They'll update their so-called "calculations" (I.e. numbers out of asses) for the next "prediction."
Who STILL platforms these people?
They'll update their so-called "calculations" (I.e. numbers out of asses) for the next "prediction."
Who STILL platforms these people?
Happy holidays! @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and I spoke with Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET on AI Inside about open source AI, regulation, and AGI’s messy middle. He argues “open” often stops at code. Two moments stood out.
Full episode: aiinside.show/episode/ben-...
Full episode: aiinside.show/episode/ben-...
Ben Goertzel: What AGI Means Now, Open Source AI, and Compute Constraints | AI Inside podcast
This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Ben Goertzel, founder and CEO of SingularityNET,...
aiinside.show
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
One of these cult leaders had predicted that the "singularity" was gonna be in 2025. I think we all made it right? Barring anything happening in the next few days.
They'll update their so-called "calculations" (I.e. numbers out of asses) for the next "prediction."
Who STILL platforms these people?
They'll update their so-called "calculations" (I.e. numbers out of asses) for the next "prediction."
Who STILL platforms these people?
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Excellent. I want to emphasize two aspects: 1.) the use of a purpose built server rather than 'cloud' and 2.) the use of a real information management system - Obsidian - to build the tracker. This is an example for all activist groups
December 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Excellent. I want to emphasize two aspects: 1.) the use of a purpose built server rather than 'cloud' and 2.) the use of a real information management system - Obsidian - to build the tracker. This is an example for all activist groups
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Apparently Fernando Pereira is donating to OpenReview (with a public announcement) because he cares about "open science" or "open research". News to me!
He's the Google VP who wrote an anonymous "privileged and confidential" letter, sent to HR instructing us to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.
He's the Google VP who wrote an anonymous "privileged and confidential" letter, sent to HR instructing us to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Apparently Fernando Pereira is donating to OpenReview (with a public announcement) because he cares about "open science" or "open research". News to me!
He's the Google VP who wrote an anonymous "privileged and confidential" letter, sent to HR instructing us to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.
He's the Google VP who wrote an anonymous "privileged and confidential" letter, sent to HR instructing us to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.
“refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided.”
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided.”
"Oracle’s largest backer for data center projects, Blue Owl Capital, will not invest in a $10 billion deal"
"Blue Owl…backed out amid rising debt and concerns about artificial intelligence spending"
"Oracle is planning a 1.4-gigawatt data center to serve ChatGPT-creator OpenAI"
"Blue Owl…backed out amid rising debt and concerns about artificial intelligence spending"
"Oracle is planning a 1.4-gigawatt data center to serve ChatGPT-creator OpenAI"
Oracle might have different backer for OpenAI data center after major investor backs out
The “Stargate” data center for OpenAI planned on land in rural Saline Township has faced pushback locally and across Michigan.
www.mlive.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Oracle’s largest backer for data center projects, Blue Owl Capital, will not invest in a $10 billion deal"
"Blue Owl…backed out amid rising debt and concerns about artificial intelligence spending"
"Oracle is planning a 1.4-gigawatt data center to serve ChatGPT-creator OpenAI"
"Blue Owl…backed out amid rising debt and concerns about artificial intelligence spending"
"Oracle is planning a 1.4-gigawatt data center to serve ChatGPT-creator OpenAI"
"All of these trendlines are intertwined, of course: The authoritarian state’s embrace of AI, the surge of corporate consolidation and dealmaking, the skyrocketing inequality, the automation of labor and the efforts to strip worker laws and protections."
There has to be a way
On the future of art and labor in the age of American AI and authoritarianism.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"All of these trendlines are intertwined, of course: The authoritarian state’s embrace of AI, the surge of corporate consolidation and dealmaking, the skyrocketing inequality, the automation of labor and the efforts to strip worker laws and protections."
"responsible" is a dead giveaway, every time.
“…the curriculum covers core AI concepts and newsroom-specific applications while emphasizing responsible use and internal governance frameworks.”
OpenAI Rolls out AI Academy for News Organizations | PYMNTS.com
OpenAI announced on Wednesday (Dec. 17) the launch of OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, an online learning hub designed to help journalists, editors
www.pymnts.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
"responsible" is a dead giveaway, every time.
"Gulf-based energy and compute centers (where models are trained and hosted) will be linked with India’s vast pool of digital labor (where models are refined, debugged, and integrated into services). New high-capacity fiber optic cables will cement India as the AI economy’s “back office”"
Writing about various aspects of the AI bubble that we should pay more attention to in 2026. Part One is on AI geopolitics: attempts to replace the petrodollar system with a "technodollar" system, Sovereign AI, exporting inference to the gulf, and more thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...
December 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
"Gulf-based energy and compute centers (where models are trained and hosted) will be linked with India’s vast pool of digital labor (where models are refined, debugged, and integrated into services). New high-capacity fiber optic cables will cement India as the AI economy’s “back office”"
"Today's data center building boom promises even less community benefit than the mall once did. Where malls at least provided social spaces and entry-level employment for teenagers, data centers offer communities almost nothing once construction is complete."
The AI Bubble and the Extinction of the Mallrat
How Americans will foot the bill for market speculation
www.tomorrowsmess.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"Today's data center building boom promises even less community benefit than the mall once did. Where malls at least provided social spaces and entry-level employment for teenagers, data centers offer communities almost nothing once construction is complete."
Dario kicked off the race to the bottom.
A deep-dive into what happened👇
A deep-dive into what happened👇
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Dario kicked off the race to the bottom.
A deep-dive into what happened👇
A deep-dive into what happened👇
When I led local 'EA' groups, I used to half-jokingly say that effective altruism is a cult. I still like many of the well-intentioned people there. But I've left. Over time, I've come to understand how it's actually a cult.
My forum bio now says this:
My forum bio now says this:
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
When I led local 'EA' groups, I used to half-jokingly say that effective altruism is a cult. I still like many of the well-intentioned people there. But I've left. Over time, I've come to understand how it's actually a cult.
My forum bio now says this:
My forum bio now says this:
“Job loss is not theoretical, it’s tangible—14% of our industry has lost work in the last year,” a voice actor said. To us, “AI training on copyrighted material without consent is theft, not fair use,” a writer said.
Thoughtful piece by @bcmerchant.bsky.social
Thoughtful piece by @bcmerchant.bsky.social
There has to be a way
On the future of art and labor in the age of American AI and authoritarianism.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“Job loss is not theoretical, it’s tangible—14% of our industry has lost work in the last year,” a voice actor said. To us, “AI training on copyrighted material without consent is theft, not fair use,” a writer said.
Thoughtful piece by @bcmerchant.bsky.social
Thoughtful piece by @bcmerchant.bsky.social
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Eros Bendato (Eros Bound) by Polish artist Igor Mitoraj
Krakow, Poland
To me, it speaks to our present suppression of our humanity, of our very bodies, at the hands of AI & at the service of authoritarians. Desire replaced by avarice. Love by cruelty. The erasure of time & place.
Krakow, Poland
To me, it speaks to our present suppression of our humanity, of our very bodies, at the hands of AI & at the service of authoritarians. Desire replaced by avarice. Love by cruelty. The erasure of time & place.
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Eros Bendato (Eros Bound) by Polish artist Igor Mitoraj
Krakow, Poland
To me, it speaks to our present suppression of our humanity, of our very bodies, at the hands of AI & at the service of authoritarians. Desire replaced by avarice. Love by cruelty. The erasure of time & place.
Krakow, Poland
To me, it speaks to our present suppression of our humanity, of our very bodies, at the hands of AI & at the service of authoritarians. Desire replaced by avarice. Love by cruelty. The erasure of time & place.
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According to a WaPo spokesperson, “This is how products get built and developed in the digital age: ideation, research, design and prototyping, development, and then Beta.”
Washington Post Says It Will Continue AI-Generating Error Filled Podcasts as Its Own Editors Groan in Embarrassment
The Washington Post said it will continue deploying its error riddled, AI-generated podcasts, because "this is how products get built."
futurism.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
According to a WaPo spokesperson, “This is how products get built and developed in the digital age: ideation, research, design and prototyping, development, and then Beta.”
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Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
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Joseph Weizenbaum: “The myth of technological ... inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it. But in fact there are actors.”
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/manufactur...
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/manufactur...
Manufactured Inevitability and the Need for Courage
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 3
theconvivialsociety.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Joseph Weizenbaum: “The myth of technological ... inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it. But in fact there are actors.”
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/manufactur...
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/manufactur...