Matt
@flyinghyrax.bsky.social
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.
October 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.
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Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
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I normally take ibuprofen for my assorted pains but now that I know tylenol is good for autism I may need to switch.
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I normally take ibuprofen for my assorted pains but now that I know tylenol is good for autism I may need to switch.
“…it is absolutely imperative … that we put "AI" in context: that we talk about how it has been developed, how it is funded, how it is implemented; that we talk about who is pushing for this technology and how they imagine the future they're so eagerly engineering.”
“How Do You Want to Be Remembered?”
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/how-do-you-want-to-be-remembered/
> Rather, what they find so very appealing is that "AI" is a tool of behavioral engineering, data surveillance, and total information control.
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/how-do-you-want-to-be-remembered/
> Rather, what they find so very appealing is that "AI" is a tool of behavioral engineering, data surveillance, and total information control.
September 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“…it is absolutely imperative … that we put "AI" in context: that we talk about how it has been developed, how it is funded, how it is implemented; that we talk about who is pushing for this technology and how they imagine the future they're so eagerly engineering.”
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“Against the protection of stocking frames. — Ethan Marcotte”
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/
> This failure can’t be separated from the staggering social, cultural, and ecological costs associated with simply using these services
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/
> This failure can’t be separated from the staggering social, cultural, and ecological costs associated with simply using these services
September 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“Against the protection of stocking frames. — Ethan Marcotte”
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/
> This failure can’t be separated from the staggering social, cultural, and ecological costs associated with simply using these services
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/
> This failure can’t be separated from the staggering social, cultural, and ecological costs associated with simply using these services
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This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion — the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death.
So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.
So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.
I don't fundamentally disagree with a lot of this, especially the environmental cost/ benefit. I'll just offer that as a maker,tinkerer,experimenter, having access to a LLM has massively decreased the time required to design build and debug relatively sophisticated hw/sw prototypes.
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion — the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death.
So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.
So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.
