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Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
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Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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…If you think this is a good thing, a right thing, a "kind" thing, then we have such a fundamental mismatch of values that all questions of technology need to be put on Long Pause while you & i figure out what we mean by "good," "right," & "kind." You can't technofix your way out of values problems
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
…If you think this is a good thing, a right thing, a "kind" thing, then we have such a fundamental mismatch of values that all questions of technology need to be put on Long Pause while you & i figure out what we mean by "good," "right," & "kind." You can't technofix your way out of values problems
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It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.
December 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.
One of the worst habits of mind is seeing a single person doing or saying something and attributing it as class behavior of a whole group, which unfortunately is also one of the more ready tools we have for interpolating over the gaps and dotted lines that make up our sense-making
December 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
One of the worst habits of mind is seeing a single person doing or saying something and attributing it as class behavior of a whole group, which unfortunately is also one of the more ready tools we have for interpolating over the gaps and dotted lines that make up our sense-making
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Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
www.wrecka.ge
December 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
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They are building surveillance algorithms to fuel their concentration camps while we're squabbling over which kind of machine learning algorithms are good or not
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
December 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
They are building surveillance algorithms to fuel their concentration camps while we're squabbling over which kind of machine learning algorithms are good or not
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
An understated part of our present reality is that way too many ppl believe concepts are fixed and objective but the right, for all their obsession with rigid hierarchies, fully internalized that concepts are made up, and thus can be unmade and then remade, and turned this into a political weapon
I, a philosopher, hate to break it to that guy but all concepts are in fact made up, socially constructed, artificial, etc.
December 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
An understated part of our present reality is that way too many ppl believe concepts are fixed and objective but the right, for all their obsession with rigid hierarchies, fully internalized that concepts are made up, and thus can be unmade and then remade, and turned this into a political weapon
Being undead isn’t fun! Waiting for your body to regenerate from your phylactery is annoying and you don’t even get any discounts
December 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Being undead isn’t fun! Waiting for your body to regenerate from your phylactery is annoying and you don’t even get any discounts
My red team performance art aside, my take is that software and tech had all the time in the world to take librarianship seriously for search and discovery of information resources and instead settled on synthetically generating new knowledge on the fly so I don’t see why they wouldn’t continue that
After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible.
Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.
Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.
Just in time software
I didn’t plan to write software in the grocery store last night. I was tired and hungry, kids in tow. My long shopping list sat in a text message. I wished I could check items off as I found them.…
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December 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My red team performance art aside, my take is that software and tech had all the time in the world to take librarianship seriously for search and discovery of information resources and instead settled on synthetically generating new knowledge on the fly so I don’t see why they wouldn’t continue that
Give it a year and they are going to be running glitzy pro-pedophilia media spreads, shut down NCMEC after doing a “Twitter files” on it, and sanction or deport anti-human trafficking researchers, in the name of anti-woke or anti-censorship.
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Give it a year and they are going to be running glitzy pro-pedophilia media spreads, shut down NCMEC after doing a “Twitter files” on it, and sanction or deport anti-human trafficking researchers, in the name of anti-woke or anti-censorship.
The number one question for the fate of the future is whether or not we have constructed the digital conditions necessary to run the world on fairy dust that can sufficiently outpace the collapse into material conditions.
fascism collapses because in addition to it being morally execrable it turns out the world does not run on fairy dust
December 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The number one question for the fate of the future is whether or not we have constructed the digital conditions necessary to run the world on fairy dust that can sufficiently outpace the collapse into material conditions.
For anyone that thought disinformation was a social media problem, it’s great to see all of the legacy media organizations giving best book of the year to a Princeton University press published book full of Covid disinformation.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
For anyone that thought disinformation was a social media problem, it’s great to see all of the legacy media organizations giving best book of the year to a Princeton University press published book full of Covid disinformation.
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The supposed best book of the year about a pandemic doesn’t get the definition of quarantine right.
“By early April 2020, half the world’s population—3.9 billion people—were living under quarantine”
“By early April 2020, half the world’s population—3.9 billion people—were living under quarantine”
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The supposed best book of the year about a pandemic doesn’t get the definition of quarantine right.
“By early April 2020, half the world’s population—3.9 billion people—were living under quarantine”
“By early April 2020, half the world’s population—3.9 billion people—were living under quarantine”
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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Say hello to my first bluesky spam bot that’s running on my own bluesky PDS that was automatically created by dev.exe as part of an inauthentic bot account manager tool I had it create for me, all from my phone. Next step is to get an anthropic key so the bots can be backed by an LLM.
Just learned something new about testing federation!
December 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Say hello to my first bluesky spam bot that’s running on my own bluesky PDS that was automatically created by dev.exe as part of an inauthentic bot account manager tool I had it create for me, all from my phone. Next step is to get an anthropic key so the bots can be backed by an LLM.
Let’s see how trivial it is to make an inauthentic account bot manager tool to flood bluesky with fake accounts using this app that lets you create new apps on the fly!
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Let’s see how trivial it is to make an inauthentic account bot manager tool to flood bluesky with fake accounts using this app that lets you create new apps on the fly!
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.
December 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.
The amount of open anti-Indian racism on US software engineering forums (esp related to hiring) has really cranked up with the latest collapse of tech hiring + AI-driven labor displacement (and I guess the broader cultural turn). And people wonder why there is a reactionary culture foothold there.
December 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The amount of open anti-Indian racism on US software engineering forums (esp related to hiring) has really cranked up with the latest collapse of tech hiring + AI-driven labor displacement (and I guess the broader cultural turn). And people wonder why there is a reactionary culture foothold there.
Part of bluesky’s site culture problem is that it is the place for people to go to have endless debates where they take seriously the semantic merit of fascist propaganda (whether from billionaire owned media opinion pieces or random far right social media posters on X).
December 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Part of bluesky’s site culture problem is that it is the place for people to go to have endless debates where they take seriously the semantic merit of fascist propaganda (whether from billionaire owned media opinion pieces or random far right social media posters on X).
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Please. My labubu is very sick.
December 24, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Please. My labubu is very sick.
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This is a case study in how a US Right wing elite is collectively now so extremely online that it is caught in a groupthink death spiral which generates the exact opposite outcomes to what they demand
A transatlantic showdown over tech policy (as opposed to, say, net zero) could actually have a unifying & galvanising political effect within the EU. The union’s digital regulations are broadly popular and many voters actually want more, not fewer, controls on Big Tech.
yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is a case study in how a US Right wing elite is collectively now so extremely online that it is caught in a groupthink death spiral which generates the exact opposite outcomes to what they demand
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"Salesforce execs delivered a diff message to customers: Agentforce sometimes works better when it doesn’t rely so much on LLMs, otherwise known as genAI. Salesforce has been using rudimentary, 'deterministic' automation in Agentforce to improve reliability" www.theinformation.com/articles/sal...
Salesforce Executives Say Trust in Large Language Models Has Declined
Over the past year, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has touted his company’s main AI product, Agentforce, as a money saver for businesses looking to automate work using the power of large language models....
www.theinformation.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Salesforce execs delivered a diff message to customers: Agentforce sometimes works better when it doesn’t rely so much on LLMs, otherwise known as genAI. Salesforce has been using rudimentary, 'deterministic' automation in Agentforce to improve reliability" www.theinformation.com/articles/sal...
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it doesn’t take much digging to learn that tobacco companies are funding the “smoking is cool again” trend
With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing. That worries antismoking advocates. 🔗 on.wsj.com/49om2X4
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
it doesn’t take much digging to learn that tobacco companies are funding the “smoking is cool again” trend
Between making the “global censorship industrial complex” into international politics and the Arizona Senate trying to conduct public health studies on “Trump derangement syndrome” everyone now has to take online conspiracy memes literally as new social constructs (probably many other examples).
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Between making the “global censorship industrial complex” into international politics and the Arizona Senate trying to conduct public health studies on “Trump derangement syndrome” everyone now has to take online conspiracy memes literally as new social constructs (probably many other examples).