Beth Cardier
@bethcardier.bsky.social
Writer of science fiction for the real world. Collaborator on computer systems that integrate contexts. Modeler of story physics. Bioinformatics imagineer.
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Top 5 Film Genres:
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
Top 5 Film Genres:
Average Joes ineptly involved with crime
Yearning and Burning
The Vibes Are Off
Arty But Not Too Arty
Hotel Transylvania
Average Joes ineptly involved with crime
Yearning and Burning
The Vibes Are Off
Arty But Not Too Arty
Hotel Transylvania
Top 5 Film Genres:
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Top 5 Film Genres:
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
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"Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. (...) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios."
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. (...) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios."
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sad way to be an academic if you think a world you might want (not the past; a better present) is impossible: it's basically an abdication of the duty of the academic, which inter alia is about creation of new knowledge to — yes, why not? — help us progress to a better world
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
![3.2 We do not have to ‘embrace the future’ & we can turn back the tide
It must be the sheer magnitude of [artificial neural networks’] incompetence that makes
them so popular.
Jerry A. Fodor (2000, p. 47)
Related to the rejection of expertise is the rejection of imagining a better future and the rejection
of self-determination free from industry forces (Hajer and Oomen 2025; Stengers 2018; van Rossum
2025). Not only AI enthusiasts, but even some scholars whose expertise concentrates on identifying
and critically interrogating ideologies and sociotechnical relationships — such as historians and gender scholars — unfortunately fall prey to the teleological belief that AI is an unstoppable force. They
embrace it because alternative responses seem too difficult, incompatible with industry developments,
or non-existent. Instead of falling for this, we should “refuse [AI] adoption in schools and colleges,
and reject the narrative of its inevitability.” (Reynoldson et al. 2025, n.p., also Benjamin 2016; Campolo and Crawford 2020; CDH Team and Ruddick 2025; Garcia et al. 2022; Kelly et al. 2025; Lysen
and Wyatt 2024; Sano-Franchini et al. 2024; Stengers 2018). Such rejection is possible and has historical precedent, to name just a few successful examples: Amsterdammers kicked out cars, rejecting
that cycling through the Dutch capital should be deadly. Organised workers died for the eight-hour
workday, the weekend and other workers’ rights, and governments banned chlorofluorocarbons from
fridges to mitigate ozone depletion in the atmosphere. And we know that even the tide itself famously
turns back. People can undo things; and we will (cf. Albanese 2025; Boztas 2025; Kohnstamm Instituut 2025; van Laarhoven and van Vugt 2025). Besides, there will be no future to embrace if we deskill
our students and selves, and allow the technology industry’s immense contributions to climate crisis](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreic4ypelru3ajlx3k5afms62uouf7khpvvfkpgsqwn3sknifwlf2xe@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
sad way to be an academic if you think a world you might want (not the past; a better present) is impossible: it's basically an abdication of the duty of the academic, which inter alia is about creation of new knowledge to — yes, why not? — help us progress to a better world
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Today I learned that the total amount of philanthropic funding for journalism in the US since 2009 equals approximately 8.6% of OpenAI’s funding to date. Really useful #kleincamp session from @ninasachdev.bsky.social and Vince Stehle of @mediaimpactfunders.bsky.social.
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Today I learned that the total amount of philanthropic funding for journalism in the US since 2009 equals approximately 8.6% of OpenAI’s funding to date. Really useful #kleincamp session from @ninasachdev.bsky.social and Vince Stehle of @mediaimpactfunders.bsky.social.
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From the Guardian.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
From the Guardian.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.
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Security updates are generally worth it. That said, here is...
a slightly technical, automated way to remove the AI crap: github.com/Raphire/Win1...
a more layperson-friendly guide to manual steps you can take:
www.pcworld.com/article/2913...
a slightly technical, automated way to remove the AI crap: github.com/Raphire/Win1...
a more layperson-friendly guide to manual steps you can take:
www.pcworld.com/article/2913...
GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve you...
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11D...
github.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Security updates are generally worth it. That said, here is...
a slightly technical, automated way to remove the AI crap: github.com/Raphire/Win1...
a more layperson-friendly guide to manual steps you can take:
www.pcworld.com/article/2913...
a slightly technical, automated way to remove the AI crap: github.com/Raphire/Win1...
a more layperson-friendly guide to manual steps you can take:
www.pcworld.com/article/2913...
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I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.
www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...
www.thedissident.news
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.
www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
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1. Before the No Kings demonstrations two weekends ago, I suggested that the shutdown of the government would look different afterward.
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
1. Before the No Kings demonstrations two weekends ago, I suggested that the shutdown of the government would look different afterward.
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I love that the opening on the body of an acoustic guitar is called "the sound hole"
October 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I love that the opening on the body of an acoustic guitar is called "the sound hole"
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The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work
www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...
www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...
October 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work
www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...
www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...
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Today's newsletter is about Trump's "woke AI" executive order and why it's really bad. www.readtpa.com/p/how-trump-...
How Trump Plans to Weaponize AI's "Superhuman Persuasion"
A new government plan would mandate that AI systems reflect the administration's worldview — or lose access to federal contracts.
www.readtpa.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Today's newsletter is about Trump's "woke AI" executive order and why it's really bad. www.readtpa.com/p/how-trump-...
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A Congresswoman calls for everyone like me to be locked up. The world's richest man proposes I be subject to a Nazi medical experiment. I no longer flinch at the sight of the soldiers with assault rifles on my commute. A billboard for AI tells me "keep thinking." One cold brew with oat milk, please
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A Congresswoman calls for everyone like me to be locked up. The world's richest man proposes I be subject to a Nazi medical experiment. I no longer flinch at the sight of the soldiers with assault rifles on my commute. A billboard for AI tells me "keep thinking." One cold brew with oat milk, please
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working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
September 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
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i think about this post every time i watch a movie
September 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
i think about this post every time i watch a movie
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I'm at the stage of capitalism where I was forced to sign up for an app to use my buildings laundry machines and now my buildings laundry is emailing me ads to buy roadside assistance lmao
not to be a boomer but back in my day, laundry machine companies sold laundry machines, not ads
not to be a boomer but back in my day, laundry machine companies sold laundry machines, not ads
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I'm at the stage of capitalism where I was forced to sign up for an app to use my buildings laundry machines and now my buildings laundry is emailing me ads to buy roadside assistance lmao
not to be a boomer but back in my day, laundry machine companies sold laundry machines, not ads
not to be a boomer but back in my day, laundry machine companies sold laundry machines, not ads
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My friend Heather Smith remarked to me recently that young
women are urged to “never stop picturing their murder.”
women are urged to “never stop picturing their murder.”
September 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
My friend Heather Smith remarked to me recently that young
women are urged to “never stop picturing their murder.”
women are urged to “never stop picturing their murder.”
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"an excellent resource for educators, administrators, and anyone concerned about AI (…) And it’s a fine arrow in the quiver for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy administrations or department heads." — @bcmerchant.bsky.social
“The position piece has the goal of shifting the discussion from the two stale positions of AI compatibilism, those who roll over and allow AI products to ruin our universities (…) and AI enthusiasm, those who have drunk the Kool-Aid (…)” — @olivia.science
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"an excellent resource for educators, administrators, and anyone concerned about AI (…) And it’s a fine arrow in the quiver for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy administrations or department heads." — @bcmerchant.bsky.social
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Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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Holy sh!t. The medical conspiracy theory now is that cancer helps the body fight toxins. This is so dangerous and people are believing her?!?!
August 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Holy sh!t. The medical conspiracy theory now is that cancer helps the body fight toxins. This is so dangerous and people are believing her?!?!
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For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
August 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
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Fabric Design, 1928 By Gunta Stölzl, textile artist, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop #womensart
August 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Fabric Design, 1928 By Gunta Stölzl, textile artist, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop #womensart
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the fuck
YouTube is secretly using AI to edit people's videos
• Skin is being smoothed or sharpened
• Features like ears are being altered
• YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity
• There's currently no way to opt out
(via BBC)
• Skin is being smoothed or sharpened
• Features like ears are being altered
• YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity
• There's currently no way to opt out
(via BBC)
August 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
the fuck