pa28 🇨🇦
@pa28.bsky.social
Programmer, pilot, soldier, spy.
#banjessesingal
#banjessesingal
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Kidnapping is also bad when the victim isn’t a president. Just saying.
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Kidnapping is also bad when the victim isn’t a president. Just saying.
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We increasingly live in a world run by gangsters.
January 3, 2026 at 1:06 PM
We increasingly live in a world run by gangsters.
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The answer, by the way, to that rhetorical question is the same thing that is wrong with the US: that you just can't wrap your head around the fact that other countries matter and we should pay attention to the bullshit we pull everywhere, because it really fucking sucks.
January 3, 2026 at 1:32 PM
The answer, by the way, to that rhetorical question is the same thing that is wrong with the US: that you just can't wrap your head around the fact that other countries matter and we should pay attention to the bullshit we pull everywhere, because it really fucking sucks.
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Tagging here people who expressed interest in the notes of that talk back in September and people who are active in the critical AI discussion I follow:
@olivia.science
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@tante.cc
@hagenblix.bsky.social
and many others
collectivefutures.blog/a-short-crit...
@olivia.science
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@tante.cc
@hagenblix.bsky.social
and many others
collectivefutures.blog/a-short-crit...
A (short) critical history of artificial intelligence from a computational fallacy to tech fascism
Just before we wrap up 2025, we take a dive into a critical history of AI. This is an extended version of a short talk I gave in Helsinki at an event called Critical AI.
collectivefutures.blog
January 2, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Tagging here people who expressed interest in the notes of that talk back in September and people who are active in the critical AI discussion I follow:
@olivia.science
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@tante.cc
@hagenblix.bsky.social
and many others
collectivefutures.blog/a-short-crit...
@olivia.science
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@tante.cc
@hagenblix.bsky.social
and many others
collectivefutures.blog/a-short-crit...
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This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
This please.
Ditto.
I don't want gen AI in my software
I don't want gen AI in my phone
I don't want gen AI in my email
I don't want gen AI in my recipes
I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation
I don't want gen AI in my schools
I don't want gen AI in my healthcare
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my phone
I don't want gen AI in my email
I don't want gen AI in my recipes
I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation
I don't want gen AI in my schools
I don't want gen AI in my healthcare
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This please.
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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Thankfully, this interesting piece is not represented by this lede from the Conversation. Polite reminder that grave goods were not stored for future use, or for communication with the future. If we use them to feel connected with the past, that's our practice, not theirs
As an object of anthropological enquiry, the bunkered data centre continues the ancient human practice of storing precious relics in underground sites, like the tumuli and burial mounds of our ancestors, where tools, silver, gold and other treasures were interred.
Underground data fortresses: the nuclear bunkers, mines and mountains being transformed to protect our ‘new gold’ from attack
Bunkers, bomb shelters, mines and mountains all play critical roles protecting against our latest existential threat: the terrifying prospect of data loss.
tcnv.link
December 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Thankfully, this interesting piece is not represented by this lede from the Conversation. Polite reminder that grave goods were not stored for future use, or for communication with the future. If we use them to feel connected with the past, that's our practice, not theirs
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I can’t believe they’re doing this to the only person on earth who’s won the FIFA peace prize.
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I can’t believe they’re doing this to the only person on earth who’s won the FIFA peace prize.
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What if making sure people were housed and healthy is the way to restart the world's idea machine?
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What if making sure people were housed and healthy is the way to restart the world's idea machine?
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adore this concept & fully support it as a strategy. buy airhorns & do this for Christmas.
This is the best bit of advice I’ve seen on the internet 😂
November 24, 2023 at 3:03 AM
adore this concept & fully support it as a strategy. buy airhorns & do this for Christmas.
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SFWA is doing a survey on LLM use in the industry. You don't need to be a member to submit. Writers/artists/humans need all the advocates we can get, and I hope we can encourage SFWA to take a strong stance. www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...
SFWA Survey on LLM Use in Industry - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Thank you for participating in this survey. The data collected here is preliminary, not definitive, but it will help to […]
www.sfwa.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
SFWA is doing a survey on LLM use in the industry. You don't need to be a member to submit. Writers/artists/humans need all the advocates we can get, and I hope we can encourage SFWA to take a strong stance. www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...
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what happens when we trust a technology that does not discover or process information but instead simulates information
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
what happens when we trust a technology that does not discover or process information but instead simulates information
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
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For your Trump voting friends. He's a child rapist and did it dozens of times and your friends think its cool, far better than a black woman in power.
Fuck every single person who voted for him, or who couldn't "bring themselves" to vote for Harris. They all deserve cancer.
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
For your Trump voting friends. He's a child rapist and did it dozens of times and your friends think its cool, far better than a black woman in power.
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The really good truths are esoteric, but they’re not actually suppressed. I have a whole podcast that talks about them all the time.
This is a good point from Michelle Goldberg. I’d add that in an atomized media landscape, where attention is both critical and dearly bought, there are few incentives for the type of cooler, consensus-based presentations when audiences were both large and stable. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The really good truths are esoteric, but they’re not actually suppressed. I have a whole podcast that talks about them all the time.
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Guess I'll post this again
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Guess I'll post this again
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Finally.
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Finally.
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
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Everytime i see that shit it immediately triggers my "inscincerity repulsion"
i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Everytime i see that shit it immediately triggers my "inscincerity repulsion"
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How does an LLM work?
An LLM is a black box. We know why it works the way it does- the principles behind it- but we can't take the sides off and look inside it and go "ah, here's the bit that makes it say 'you're absolutely right and I'm sorry.'"
We do know it doesn't have any facts inside it.
An LLM is a black box. We know why it works the way it does- the principles behind it- but we can't take the sides off and look inside it and go "ah, here's the bit that makes it say 'you're absolutely right and I'm sorry.'"
We do know it doesn't have any facts inside it.
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
How does an LLM work?
An LLM is a black box. We know why it works the way it does- the principles behind it- but we can't take the sides off and look inside it and go "ah, here's the bit that makes it say 'you're absolutely right and I'm sorry.'"
We do know it doesn't have any facts inside it.
An LLM is a black box. We know why it works the way it does- the principles behind it- but we can't take the sides off and look inside it and go "ah, here's the bit that makes it say 'you're absolutely right and I'm sorry.'"
We do know it doesn't have any facts inside it.
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