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For Dutch people: here's the petition to sign to support a boycott of the World Cup in the USA: actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
For Dutch people: here's the petition to sign to support a boycott of the World Cup in the USA: actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...
Read a piece by @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social on how AI chatbots are changing relationships and felt compelled to make this.
January 23, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Read a piece by @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social on how AI chatbots are changing relationships and felt compelled to make this.
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‘the us is *now* positioned as an imperial power’
is possibly the funniest sentence ever
is possibly the funniest sentence ever
January 20, 2026 at 2:11 PM
‘the us is *now* positioned as an imperial power’
is possibly the funniest sentence ever
is possibly the funniest sentence ever
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If you asked me what I believe is one of the biggest threats to European democracies today, I’d say it's the self-proclaimed political centre, which is either too dumb, too ignorant, or too hypocritical to admit that they themselves are constantly doing the far right’s work.
January 15, 2026 at 12:06 PM
If you asked me what I believe is one of the biggest threats to European democracies today, I’d say it's the self-proclaimed political centre, which is either too dumb, too ignorant, or too hypocritical to admit that they themselves are constantly doing the far right’s work.
Grok is een taalmodel. Grok kán helemaal geen excuses aanbieden @nieuws.nos.nl
January 8, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Grok is een taalmodel. Grok kán helemaal geen excuses aanbieden @nieuws.nos.nl
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
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if you push the buttons on a vending machine and it spits out a coke, that doesn't mean the vending machine understood thirst
the one that shows the "apology" followed by a prompt and reply for an aggressive non-apology is more accurate imo
it conveys the reality that there is no coherent viewpoint, only text likely to follow other text. ask for insults, get insults. ask for apologies, get "i'm sorry"
it conveys the reality that there is no coherent viewpoint, only text likely to follow other text. ask for insults, get insults. ask for apologies, get "i'm sorry"
January 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
if you push the buttons on a vending machine and it spits out a coke, that doesn't mean the vending machine understood thirst
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call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
January 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
Can’t begin to tell you how much I loathe generative AI.
January 2, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Can’t begin to tell you how much I loathe generative AI.
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just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
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We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
December 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
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Universities embracing generative AI be like:
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Universities embracing generative AI be like:
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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I made a 4 page comic for Root & Stem about Gen-AI which is pretty funny, if I do say so.
The whole magazine is very cool, with a goal of making STEM available to remote and Indigenous communities.
Read the whole thing here:
rootandstem.ca/learn/always...
The whole magazine is very cool, with a goal of making STEM available to remote and Indigenous communities.
Read the whole thing here:
rootandstem.ca/learn/always...
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I made a 4 page comic for Root & Stem about Gen-AI which is pretty funny, if I do say so.
The whole magazine is very cool, with a goal of making STEM available to remote and Indigenous communities.
Read the whole thing here:
rootandstem.ca/learn/always...
The whole magazine is very cool, with a goal of making STEM available to remote and Indigenous communities.
Read the whole thing here:
rootandstem.ca/learn/always...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
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I don't think generative #AI should be used in schools, as an "educational tool".
However, the Ministry of Education, in #Romania, certainly thinks it should.
I wrote up my personal position and translated it into English
catileptic.tech/posts/no-gen...
Fuck #genAI
However, the Ministry of Education, in #Romania, certainly thinks it should.
I wrote up my personal position and translated it into English
catileptic.tech/posts/no-gen...
Fuck #genAI
No genAI in Schools
This is catileptic. I move slow and fix things. I'm a tech activist, hacker, and a community-building person.
catileptic.tech
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I don't think generative #AI should be used in schools, as an "educational tool".
However, the Ministry of Education, in #Romania, certainly thinks it should.
I wrote up my personal position and translated it into English
catileptic.tech/posts/no-gen...
Fuck #genAI
However, the Ministry of Education, in #Romania, certainly thinks it should.
I wrote up my personal position and translated it into English
catileptic.tech/posts/no-gen...
Fuck #genAI
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if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.