Reposted by Brian Oberkirch
I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it.
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions
maggieappleton.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it.
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
Is it safe to Sonos again?
July 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Is it safe to Sonos again?
Reposted by Brian Oberkirch
I know that many joined Bluesky to keep up with what's new and hip in the world. WELL:
-I can finally reveal the cover for my book, A Physical Education
-Pre-orders are open, pub date May 6 2025
-I'm biased but it's really good
www.shesabeast.co/a-physical-e...
-I can finally reveal the cover for my book, A Physical Education
-Pre-orders are open, pub date May 6 2025
-I'm biased but it's really good
www.shesabeast.co/a-physical-e...
November 21, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I know that many joined Bluesky to keep up with what's new and hip in the world. WELL:
-I can finally reveal the cover for my book, A Physical Education
-Pre-orders are open, pub date May 6 2025
-I'm biased but it's really good
www.shesabeast.co/a-physical-e...
-I can finally reveal the cover for my book, A Physical Education
-Pre-orders are open, pub date May 6 2025
-I'm biased but it's really good
www.shesabeast.co/a-physical-e...
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“It’s just a different way of being realistic.”
—Boots Riley on world-building; interviewed by @annaleen.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
—Boots Riley on world-building; interviewed by @annaleen.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Boots Riley - Believer Magazine
I dressed carefully for my interview with Boots Riley. Layered under my flannel shirt was a purple tee featuring a cartoon explosion around the words i got the s#*@ kicked out of me! It was a deep cut...
www.thebeliever.net
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
“It’s just a different way of being realistic.”
—Boots Riley on world-building; interviewed by @annaleen.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
—Boots Riley on world-building; interviewed by @annaleen.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
Reposted by Brian Oberkirch
declaring my love for Jenny Holzer's Truisms with a little web thing inspired by her Guggenheim exhibit
completely handwritten, no frameworks, builds, AI, or best practices involved truisms.ginatrapani.org
Who is making the Bluesky Holzer bot??
completely handwritten, no frameworks, builds, AI, or best practices involved truisms.ginatrapani.org
Who is making the Bluesky Holzer bot??
Jenny Holzer's Truisms
Jenny Holzer's Truisms: A mini interactive tribute, sparked by Light Line.
truisms.ginatrapani.org
November 1, 2024 at 2:25 PM
declaring my love for Jenny Holzer's Truisms with a little web thing inspired by her Guggenheim exhibit
completely handwritten, no frameworks, builds, AI, or best practices involved truisms.ginatrapani.org
Who is making the Bluesky Holzer bot??
completely handwritten, no frameworks, builds, AI, or best practices involved truisms.ginatrapani.org
Who is making the Bluesky Holzer bot??
Turns out, whittling down to one and a half newspapers was bad.
October 26, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Turns out, whittling down to one and a half newspapers was bad.
Reposted by Brian Oberkirch
So @tinysubversions.bsky.social and I spent a big chunk of this year talking to great people who run Mastodon and Hometown servers about how they govern their parts of the network. We learned SO MUCH.
erinkissane.com/fediverse-go...
erinkissane.com/fediverse-go...
Fediverse Governance Drop - Erin Kissane's small internet website
After a few months of prepping and conducting interviews and then many more months of analyzing and writing up what we found, we’re <a href=
erinkissane.com
August 20, 2024 at 6:45 PM
So @tinysubversions.bsky.social and I spent a big chunk of this year talking to great people who run Mastodon and Hometown servers about how they govern their parts of the network. We learned SO MUCH.
erinkissane.com/fediverse-go...
erinkissane.com/fediverse-go...
Reposted by Brian Oberkirch
✩ 20 years of microformats: web standards by the people, for the people. Congratulations and thanks to Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg.
tantek.com/2024/044/t1/...
tantek.com/2024/044/t1/...
February 15, 2024 at 12:06 PM
✩ 20 years of microformats: web standards by the people, for the people. Congratulations and thanks to Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg.
tantek.com/2024/044/t1/...
tantek.com/2024/044/t1/...
Serious inquiry for Google leaders in charge of Project Eat the Seed Corn: what do *you* use to find things on what used to the Web?
January 21, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Serious inquiry for Google leaders in charge of Project Eat the Seed Corn: what do *you* use to find things on what used to the Web?
The Paul Ford Extended Universe in one board: https://app.aboard.com/boards/2Guc8LcAlptxqFKiDqDoCs?view=columnar
(also: I've been using Aboard for a bit, and I love it. It's taken the place of Pocket)
(also: I've been using Aboard for a bit, and I love it. It's taken the place of Pocket)
July 26, 2023 at 9:02 PM
The Paul Ford Extended Universe in one board: https://app.aboard.com/boards/2Guc8LcAlptxqFKiDqDoCs?view=columnar
(also: I've been using Aboard for a bit, and I love it. It's taken the place of Pocket)
(also: I've been using Aboard for a bit, and I love it. It's taken the place of Pocket)
I miss reading Alex Balk. Happened on this while looking for his current whereabouts: https://lithub.com/alex-balk-on-the-bittersweetness-of-encountering-a-beloved-childhood-toy/
Includes the bio slug: "Alex Balk is something of a lost object himself."
Includes the bio slug: "Alex Balk is something of a lost object himself."
July 22, 2023 at 2:24 PM
I miss reading Alex Balk. Happened on this while looking for his current whereabouts: https://lithub.com/alex-balk-on-the-bittersweetness-of-encountering-a-beloved-childhood-toy/
Includes the bio slug: "Alex Balk is something of a lost object himself."
Includes the bio slug: "Alex Balk is something of a lost object himself."
Wonderful read, full of threads you'll want to pick up. Past readings you'll want reflect on, deflect, inflect. Thanks, @beep! Er, Ethan.
i thought i’d read a couple paragraphs of this before work, and ended up devouring all 8000 words in one riveted sitting
thank you tricia, also: my goodness
https://bsky.app/profile/tricialockwood.bsky.social/post/3jzrmkeec2v2n
thank you tricia, also: my goodness
https://bsky.app/profile/tricialockwood.bsky.social/post/3jzrmkeec2v2n
it’s what everyone wants in the year 2023: 8000 words on david foster wallace
July 5, 2023 at 3:34 PM
Wonderful read, full of threads you'll want to pick up. Past readings you'll want reflect on, deflect, inflect. Thanks, @beep! Er, Ethan.
I adore the brief moment when you sign up to something new, and the first thing you do is build a little list of people who make you smile when you see their names. Hello, world.
July 4, 2023 at 11:02 PM
I adore the brief moment when you sign up to something new, and the first thing you do is build a little list of people who make you smile when you see their names. Hello, world.