Lila Byock
@lbyock.bsky.social
Writer of television, hater of Big Tech in schools
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Lila Byock
@lbyock.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Oooh your chatbot is becoming sentient and may pose a threat to humanity? Should we throw a party? Should we invite all your most gullible investors?
Last night I heard a man who’d fled the Salvadoran civil war describe ICE as a paramilitary army aligned with an authoritarian government, and I thought… oh.
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Last night I heard a man who’d fled the Salvadoran civil war describe ICE as a paramilitary army aligned with an authoritarian government, and I thought… oh.
Trying to imagine a less cool combination of words than “Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party at Jeff Bezos’s house.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Trying to imagine a less cool combination of words than “Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party at Jeff Bezos’s house.”
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.
LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.
It’s an Interesting Time to cancel your @nytimes.com subscription!
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It’s an Interesting Time to cancel your @nytimes.com subscription!
My 12yo is already gaming out ‘28: “AOC, Bernie, Warren, and Zohran should all run for president, and at a certain point, three of them should just drop out and support whoever’s ahead.”
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My 12yo is already gaming out ‘28: “AOC, Bernie, Warren, and Zohran should all run for president, and at a certain point, three of them should just drop out and support whoever’s ahead.”
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Democrats need to start becoming more vocally against AI and data centers if they wanna get ahead of the bubble burst.
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Democrats need to start becoming more vocally against AI and data centers if they wanna get ahead of the bubble burst.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Unironically, leftists need to reclaim Sewer Socialism.
Abundance is just Sewer Socialism for neoliberals.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Unironically, leftists need to reclaim Sewer Socialism.
So much ink spilled on the question of what Democrats need to do to win, and the answer is just “run candidates who believe in things.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
So much ink spilled on the question of what Democrats need to do to win, and the answer is just “run candidates who believe in things.”
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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I’m so proud to be involved with @statesprojectus.bsky.social, which deserves a lot of credit for this result. Everybody find a giving circle and get to work for 2026!
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I’m so proud to be involved with @statesprojectus.bsky.social, which deserves a lot of credit for this result. Everybody find a giving circle and get to work for 2026!
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This needs to be shared more widely. It's on Facebook, which AFAIK doesn't allow direct links to its posts. Terry clearly wants it to be shared, so I don't feel bad about posting it in multiple screenshots.
Terry Wallace was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Terry Wallace was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
November 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This needs to be shared more widely. It's on Facebook, which AFAIK doesn't allow direct links to its posts. Terry clearly wants it to be shared, so I don't feel bad about posting it in multiple screenshots.
Terry Wallace was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Terry Wallace was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
For real it would be so amazing if all those people really did leave New York
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
For real it would be so amazing if all those people really did leave New York
Essential reading about how our entire economy has been warped by a bunch of woo woo nonsense
Superintelligence as conspiracy theory or how Silicon Valley got AGI-pilled
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
www.technologyreview.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Essential reading about how our entire economy has been warped by a bunch of woo woo nonsense
Turned my contractor onto David Graeber. Is this praxis?
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Turned my contractor onto David Graeber. Is this praxis?
Will Bart Simpson run out of time to save Springfield?
October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Will Bart Simpson run out of time to save Springfield?
This morning my tween noticed that his favorite breakfast cereal contains dramatically fewer strawberry yogurt clusters than it used to, which wound up being a great opportunity to explain the concept of enshittification.
October 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This morning my tween noticed that his favorite breakfast cereal contains dramatically fewer strawberry yogurt clusters than it used to, which wound up being a great opportunity to explain the concept of enshittification.
“Infectious monkey truck” is the new “dumpster fire.”
October 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“Infectious monkey truck” is the new “dumpster fire.”
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by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
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This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Woman on airplane complaining loudly about the $14,000 in property taxes she pays on her 5,000 sq ft home, “most of which pays for public schools, even though we sent our children to private.”
October 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Woman on airplane complaining loudly about the $14,000 in property taxes she pays on her 5,000 sq ft home, “most of which pays for public schools, even though we sent our children to private.”