Asia Górska
@mayome.bsky.social
Political activist, nuance enthusiast and ur mom’s biggest fan
🇪🇺 they/them, 🇵🇱 ona/jej
📍Warsaw, Poland
🌻 Europe RegCoord @ Global Young Greens
🇵🇸 #FreePalestine, 🇺🇦 #славаУкраїні
#Greens as 🍉, not greenwashing
(views my own)
🇪🇺 they/them, 🇵🇱 ona/jej
📍Warsaw, Poland
🌻 Europe RegCoord @ Global Young Greens
🇵🇸 #FreePalestine, 🇺🇦 #славаУкраїні
#Greens as 🍉, not greenwashing
(views my own)
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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If a product caused harm, or death, to a single person who was using it correctly, the person responsible for that product should be in a state of distress for what they did.
Doesn't matter about the scale of the product.
If they didn't say how to use it correctly, they are no less liable.
Doesn't matter about the scale of the product.
If they didn't say how to use it correctly, they are no less liable.
Nothing is more revealing of the character of Mark Zuckerberg than this
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If a product caused harm, or death, to a single person who was using it correctly, the person responsible for that product should be in a state of distress for what they did.
Doesn't matter about the scale of the product.
If they didn't say how to use it correctly, they are no less liable.
Doesn't matter about the scale of the product.
If they didn't say how to use it correctly, they are no less liable.
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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I've seen a particular drop in quality of the code produced by my coworkers leaning on LLMs.
Code running is absolutely not the benchmark for code quality. Being able to read and understand the code so that you can fix problems when they arise is.
Any jackass can trial and error into running code.
Code running is absolutely not the benchmark for code quality. Being able to read and understand the code so that you can fix problems when they arise is.
Any jackass can trial and error into running code.
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I've seen a particular drop in quality of the code produced by my coworkers leaning on LLMs.
Code running is absolutely not the benchmark for code quality. Being able to read and understand the code so that you can fix problems when they arise is.
Any jackass can trial and error into running code.
Code running is absolutely not the benchmark for code quality. Being able to read and understand the code so that you can fix problems when they arise is.
Any jackass can trial and error into running code.
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happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
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This is a systemic problem I will be writing more about elsewhere, but there's a tendency to see medicine and medical research as a solution to defective people, rather than as the prerequisite for all other basic freedoms. The catch is that we then question whether defectives deserve the fix.
November 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is a systemic problem I will be writing more about elsewhere, but there's a tendency to see medicine and medical research as a solution to defective people, rather than as the prerequisite for all other basic freedoms. The catch is that we then question whether defectives deserve the fix.
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Recent updates have turned on features that I had already, explicitly turned off.
That just undermines principles 4,5, and 8 of Mozilla’s principles, and you should review your internal procedures to prevent that from happening again.
www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/...
That just undermines principles 4,5, and 8 of Mozilla’s principles, and you should review your internal procedures to prevent that from happening again.
www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/...
The Mozilla Manifesto
www.mozilla.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Recent updates have turned on features that I had already, explicitly turned off.
That just undermines principles 4,5, and 8 of Mozilla’s principles, and you should review your internal procedures to prevent that from happening again.
www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/...
That just undermines principles 4,5, and 8 of Mozilla’s principles, and you should review your internal procedures to prevent that from happening again.
www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/...
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PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
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Then let people choose to opt-in, rather than forcing them to learn how to opt out. Especially when the technology being foisted is as useless and deceptive as A.I.
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Then let people choose to opt-in, rather than forcing them to learn how to opt out. Especially when the technology being foisted is as useless and deceptive as A.I.
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I did skip it entirely. It changed the settings against my will. You keep cramming it in our faces. We hate it. Knock it off! AI sucks and is hugely wasteful of both time and resources. It‘s an insult to your users
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I did skip it entirely. It changed the settings against my will. You keep cramming it in our faces. We hate it. Knock it off! AI sucks and is hugely wasteful of both time and resources. It‘s an insult to your users
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What PISSES ME OFF relentlessly about all this is the gaslighting:
tech industry: "AI will make everything faster/easier"
Reality: AI creates an incredible amount of work for me trying to uninstall, escape, move to whole new platforms/tech to get away from it
tech industry: "AI will make everything faster/easier"
Reality: AI creates an incredible amount of work for me trying to uninstall, escape, move to whole new platforms/tech to get away from it
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What PISSES ME OFF relentlessly about all this is the gaslighting:
tech industry: "AI will make everything faster/easier"
Reality: AI creates an incredible amount of work for me trying to uninstall, escape, move to whole new platforms/tech to get away from it
tech industry: "AI will make everything faster/easier"
Reality: AI creates an incredible amount of work for me trying to uninstall, escape, move to whole new platforms/tech to get away from it
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
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every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable
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“Every person using ChatGPT costs OpenAI more money then they pay them. Every free and paying user asking how to make a fluffy omelette or getting it to draft an email to their kid's teacher drains their resources.”
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...
The Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury
We can calculate the amount of money flowing into AI. But what will the full cost be to society when the bubble pops? This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Every person using ChatGPT costs OpenAI more money then they pay them. Every free and paying user asking how to make a fluffy omelette or getting it to draft an email to their kid's teacher drains their resources.”
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...
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Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
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The Telegraph’s latest “scoop” on BBC “trans bias” isn’t journalism. It’s propaganda designed to weaponise culture-war rhetoric and undermine trust in public broadcasting while casting anti-trans activists as silenced truth-tellers.
👉 archive.ph/b1Ski
👉 archive.ph/b1Ski
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The Telegraph’s latest “scoop” on BBC “trans bias” isn’t journalism. It’s propaganda designed to weaponise culture-war rhetoric and undermine trust in public broadcasting while casting anti-trans activists as silenced truth-tellers.
👉 archive.ph/b1Ski
👉 archive.ph/b1Ski
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Exactly. They are the same project.
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Exactly. They are the same project.
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
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okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting
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Reading the original Einhorn presentation about Lehman Brothers
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reading the original Einhorn presentation about Lehman Brothers
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And I wish there was more skepticism exhibited towards giant corporations who exist to make profit for shareholders. I don't care if people like pods, but I *do* care if options which let consumers figure out ideal dosing for themselves are artificially worsened as it sure seems like they are.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
And I wish there was more skepticism exhibited towards giant corporations who exist to make profit for shareholders. I don't care if people like pods, but I *do* care if options which let consumers figure out ideal dosing for themselves are artificially worsened as it sure seems like they are.
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Here’s the latest episode of Better Offline. I’m joined by software engineer and writer Charlie Meyer to talk about the BS of vibe coding, why the valley went so crazy about scaling laws, and the realities of AI coding.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Vibe Coding is BS w/ Charlie Meyer
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 11/05/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Here’s the latest episode of Better Offline. I’m joined by software engineer and writer Charlie Meyer to talk about the BS of vibe coding, why the valley went so crazy about scaling laws, and the realities of AI coding.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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The new security attack surface is literally every person around you wearing a “companionship” recording device
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The new security attack surface is literally every person around you wearing a “companionship” recording device