Ricky Wilhelmson - Writing the next chapter ...
@rickywilhelmson.bsky.social
rickywilhelmson.com
"AI’s primary role is to fortify governance systems"
Please read this article
then start worrying
then start acting
at the most basic level by refusing to use even the most harmless-appearing genAI tool, let alone chatbots.
Please read this article
then start worrying
then start acting
at the most basic level by refusing to use even the most harmless-appearing genAI tool, let alone chatbots.
@edzitron.com have you been following the Saudi funding for this AI investment madness even as Neom is collapsing?
www.investing.com/analysis/the...;
www.alestiklal.net/en/article/n...
www.investing.com/analysis/the...;
www.alestiklal.net/en/article/n...
These US Tech Giants Emerge as Big Winners in Saudi AI Investment Wave | Investing.com
Market Analysis by covering: Boeing Co, Oracle Corporation, Alphabet Inc Class A, NVIDIA Corporation. Read 's Market Analysis on Investing.com
www.investing.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"AI’s primary role is to fortify governance systems"
Please read this article
then start worrying
then start acting
at the most basic level by refusing to use even the most harmless-appearing genAI tool, let alone chatbots.
Please read this article
then start worrying
then start acting
at the most basic level by refusing to use even the most harmless-appearing genAI tool, let alone chatbots.
Questions to ask: Why is the CEO of a privately owned tech company *threatening* people like a head of state in posession of the atom bomb ? Who has helped to maneuvre him and others into that position ? And how the fuck does he dare!
No firm is immune if AI bubble bursts, Google CEO tells BBC reut.rs/43D5Zl4
No firm is immune if AI bubble bursts, Google CEO tells BBC
Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said no company would be unscathed if the artificial intelligence boom collapses, as soaring valuations and heavy investment in the sector fuel concerns of a bubble.
reut.rs
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Questions to ask: Why is the CEO of a privately owned tech company *threatening* people like a head of state in posession of the atom bomb ? Who has helped to maneuvre him and others into that position ? And how the fuck does he dare!
The Plagiarism Machine must be ....
"AI Guardrails" has the same connotation to me as "Clean Coal".
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The Plagiarism Machine must be ....
I will watch Blade Runner tonight (original, from the 80s)
because I just discovered this soundtrack
that so much reminds me of the work
the great composer and musician Vangelis
did for Blade Runner. #SciFi
(Don't be confused by the cover image, just listen)
on.soundcloud.com/TaVfDOcQ5wLT...
because I just discovered this soundtrack
that so much reminds me of the work
the great composer and musician Vangelis
did for Blade Runner. #SciFi
(Don't be confused by the cover image, just listen)
on.soundcloud.com/TaVfDOcQ5wLT...
Arthur's Dream
Music inspired by the legends of King Arthur and the isle of Avalon ...
soundcloud.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I will watch Blade Runner tonight (original, from the 80s)
because I just discovered this soundtrack
that so much reminds me of the work
the great composer and musician Vangelis
did for Blade Runner. #SciFi
(Don't be confused by the cover image, just listen)
on.soundcloud.com/TaVfDOcQ5wLT...
because I just discovered this soundtrack
that so much reminds me of the work
the great composer and musician Vangelis
did for Blade Runner. #SciFi
(Don't be confused by the cover image, just listen)
on.soundcloud.com/TaVfDOcQ5wLT...
Valuable resources, to help you resist the madness !!
Our resources page has been updated with @danmcquillan.bsky.social's Resisting AI book (he researched Gen AI as an instrument for fascism before a lot of us knew!) and @olivia.science's Critical AI website full of her academic research on the harms.
stopgenai.com/related-link...
stopgenai.com/related-link...
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Valuable resources, to help you resist the madness !!
Yes, keep going!
A bit of good news: I think you'd all be pleasantly surprised by how resistant the undergrads are becoming to AI. Institutions have lost their minds on this front, but more and more the students themselves are saying "no" to this horribly corrosive technology.
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Yes, keep going!
Brilliant! Sam Rockwell is absolutely the perfect man for this. #SciFi
Imagine the minimum wage worker who has to clean up Sam Rockwell's juices all over the diner floor:
Sam Rockwell Saves Us From AI in Trailer for Gore Verbinski's Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die - Reactor
Go with him if you want to live!!!
reactormag.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Brilliant! Sam Rockwell is absolutely the perfect man for this. #SciFi
Fuck me, as if we didn\t have enough wacko cults, monotheistic and polytheistic religions already ...
My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Fuck me, as if we didn\t have enough wacko cults, monotheistic and polytheistic religions already ...
Emergency rescue activated for Tiangong Space Station!
#space
#space
China prepares to bring home astronauts from the Tiangong Space Station. Officials say ‘emergency plans’ have been activated, sources say a new return vessel will be sent to replace one hit by debris. China always has both a Cargo Ship, and Manned Shenzhou Capsule on 'Hot Stand By' and ready to go!
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Emergency rescue activated for Tiangong Space Station!
#space
#space
Toxic lure
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Toxic lure
"For the President of the European Commission
to repeat the misleading marketing language
of US technology firms without independent scientific
verification undermines Europe's credibility as a
reliable and trusted source of scientific knowledge"
to repeat the misleading marketing language
of US technology firms without independent scientific
verification undermines Europe's credibility as a
reliable and trusted source of scientific knowledge"
Read the letter:
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"For the President of the European Commission
to repeat the misleading marketing language
of US technology firms without independent scientific
verification undermines Europe's credibility as a
reliable and trusted source of scientific knowledge"
to repeat the misleading marketing language
of US technology firms without independent scientific
verification undermines Europe's credibility as a
reliable and trusted source of scientific knowledge"
Couldn't have said it better!
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Couldn't have said it better!
"Anders als viele sonstige Literaturpreise ist der sf-Lit Award gänzlich undotiert und garantiert nicht verkaufsfördernd. Macht aber Spaß."
Nie ist mir ein Literaturpreis besser erklärt worden Ü
Nie ist mir ein Literaturpreis besser erklärt worden Ü
'sf-Lit Award 2025' - Die LONGLIST ist da!
Bitte hier entlang:
>> www.sf-lit.de/aktuelle-mel...
#sfLitAward #sfLitAward2025
Bitte hier entlang:
>> www.sf-lit.de/aktuelle-mel...
#sfLitAward #sfLitAward2025
Letzte Meldung 2511
sf-Lit Award 2025: Die Longlist
www.sf-lit.de
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"Anders als viele sonstige Literaturpreise ist der sf-Lit Award gänzlich undotiert und garantiert nicht verkaufsfördernd. Macht aber Spaß."
Nie ist mir ein Literaturpreis besser erklärt worden Ü
Nie ist mir ein Literaturpreis besser erklärt worden Ü
Decompute
I'll be giving a talk next Tuesday for the EUt+ webinar series on digital transformation:
"Not the digital transformation you planned for: AI accelerationism versus decomputing"
Free registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
"Not the digital transformation you planned for: AI accelerationism versus decomputing"
Free registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Decompute
Now here is a question that is sure to trigger alarms in the surveillance machinery, but I am doing research on it for a book:
What methods could be used to disable a data center permanently by causing either physical damage to its infrastucture or 'functional only' damage or a combination ?
What methods could be used to disable a data center permanently by causing either physical damage to its infrastucture or 'functional only' damage or a combination ?
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Now here is a question that is sure to trigger alarms in the surveillance machinery, but I am doing research on it for a book:
What methods could be used to disable a data center permanently by causing either physical damage to its infrastucture or 'functional only' damage or a combination ?
What methods could be used to disable a data center permanently by causing either physical damage to its infrastucture or 'functional only' damage or a combination ?
I especially like #1, the plant/vine growing on the asteroid, on its way to the next star system. Although in real life this would prob. be microscopic algae or bacterial spores enclosed in water ice or sitting deep inside ridges on the asteroids surface. #astrobiology #SciFi
Space art by Ludek Pesek, Ron Miller, Don Dixon, John R Foster (all 1980s)
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I especially like #1, the plant/vine growing on the asteroid, on its way to the next star system. Although in real life this would prob. be microscopic algae or bacterial spores enclosed in water ice or sitting deep inside ridges on the asteroids surface. #astrobiology #SciFi
Dark at 5:30 ?
Eat you must
(Yoda and I are on the same page here)
Eat you must
(Yoda and I are on the same page here)
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dark at 5:30 ?
Eat you must
(Yoda and I are on the same page here)
Eat you must
(Yoda and I are on the same page here)
"Unlike old authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible."
'Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, AI, finance, drones, satellites—an integrated system we call the Authoritarian Stack.'
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"Unlike old authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible."
Exactly
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Exactly
I agree that this is worrisome. I don't think Europe is next. For many reasons. Autoritarian takeover in present day Europe is next to impossible because Europe as a political entity does not really exist, despite what the Eurocrats want to make you believe. It is at best a chaotic group of govts.
'Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, AI, finance, drones, satellites—an integrated system we call the Authoritarian Stack.'
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I agree that this is worrisome. I don't think Europe is next. For many reasons. Autoritarian takeover in present day Europe is next to impossible because Europe as a political entity does not really exist, despite what the Eurocrats want to make you believe. It is at best a chaotic group of govts.
Die Anthologie zum Thema Pflanzen vom OhneOhren Verlag ( @ohneohren.bsky.social ) Hat mich in ihren Bann gezogen und ich musste einen kurzen Clip über das schlaue Grün produzieren. :)
November 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Die Anthologie zum Thema Pflanzen vom OhneOhren Verlag ( @ohneohren.bsky.social ) Hat mich in ihren Bann gezogen und ich musste einen kurzen Clip über das schlaue Grün produzieren. :)
If this resource has not been on your reading list yet
and you want to educate yourself a bit better about
all the ominous A and I terms being thrown around
either because you are curious
or because you have an unspecified feeling of uneasiness about the whole thing ...
olivia.science/ai
and you want to educate yourself a bit better about
all the ominous A and I terms being thrown around
either because you are curious
or because you have an unspecified feeling of uneasiness about the whole thing ...
olivia.science/ai
Critical AI
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.
olivia.science
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If this resource has not been on your reading list yet
and you want to educate yourself a bit better about
all the ominous A and I terms being thrown around
either because you are curious
or because you have an unspecified feeling of uneasiness about the whole thing ...
olivia.science/ai
and you want to educate yourself a bit better about
all the ominous A and I terms being thrown around
either because you are curious
or because you have an unspecified feeling of uneasiness about the whole thing ...
olivia.science/ai