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Nate

@natedub.bsky.social

Why We Fear AI is my favorite AI critique now, and these two paragraphs sum up so much so well, many thanks to @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer 🙏🏻

Excerpt from the book Why We Fear AI by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer: “…it shows, though, is how much the thought of something more intelligent has struck real terror into professional hearts. But the terror is not actually about some natural language processing tech-nology, and it is not about machine learning. It is about having mistakenly believed the justification of ‘intelligence’ - and what the fears show is that everyone knows that capitalism marks out some people as legitimately disposable. Most people know that the meritocracy is at least a partial lie whenever we look up the social hierarchy. In the same way, when we look down far enough, we all know that capitalism violently spits people out, cuts them out of society, and marks them as no longer deserving of the status of real (i.e., profitably employable) human beings. We all know this fact because we see it on our streets, where we avert our eyes from people deprived of food, housing, healthcare, and dignity.
The fear of artificial intelligence is the fear of that thinly veiled undercurrent of our justifications of social hierarchy, the ever-present if usually unspoken) possibility of marking some people as superfluous to society, because they are superfluous to capitalism.
It is the tacit recognition that we live threatened lives, coupled with the desire to forget about that fact again. It is the repressed class consciousness of those who live from a wage, but despise the working class. It's the terrible certainty that, had things gone just a little bit differently, if one had gone to a different school or had a different parent, if some mentor hadn't noticed, or if a family member had fallen ill-any of us could have been where our unhoused neighbor is. For the sake of functioning, those of the middle class must forget these facts: they can shut their eyes, but they shouldn't be surprised when they see the truth still behind closed lids, haunting their dreams and nightmares.”

November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Tim Johnson

@chatteringteeth.bsky.social

I have a new photobook available! A slim portfolio trying to tease out the aesthetics of devastated land and the fossil fuel industry in Southern California. xoxo 📸

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New photo book - "Petroleum Landscapes, Signal Hill"

Available now!!

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November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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Katelyn Burns

@katelynburns.com

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

police dressed as military in front of a police tank

police dressed in camo like soldiers like total knobs

cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers

November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM

Tim Johnson

@chatteringteeth.bsky.social

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Re-launching my archive of photographs I made in Western Mass circa 2015-2020 ✌️ ruminating on archives, scene reports, nostalgia

~~Nostalgia Time~~ Cold Spring Hollow 2015-2021, + new tape, etc

"Nothing left now but the recordings"

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September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM

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Adrian Daub

@adriandaub.bsky.social

I mean, the fact that all those institutions are absolute moral fiascos may have something to do with it. But still it's striking: I am less likely at 45 to talk to a cop, subscribe to a national newspaper, believe my employer when they say they are guided by certain values than I was at 35.

July 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM

Tim Johnson

@chatteringteeth.bsky.social

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Yippee 🤠 my first tape since 2020 out today

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July 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM

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Haus of Decline

@hausofdecline.bsky.social

Democrat candidates gotta do a reverse Voight-Kampff test where the more inhuman and detached the answers, the more suitable they are for candidacy. Buttigieg posted the best numbers they've ever seen.

July 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM

Tim Johnson

@chatteringteeth.bsky.social

Presented without commentary 🧠

June 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Ed Burmila

@edburmila.bsky.social

A lot of people are cringe and the most "edgy" political thing they've encountered is Hamilton and you're just going to have to live with that and be glad they're not at home OD'ing on white nationalist propaganda. They will be cringe and you can be like, jesus christ that's cringe. It's all fine.

June 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win

@planetoffinks.bsky.social

1 in 12 Americans live in California.

1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.

LA is America

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · Jun 8

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

June 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM

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dell cameron

@dell.bsky.social

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.