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Time to write more Hard Wired Island. Like the core book, Second Gig's setting will be a reflection of modern life. Inspired by it, but with a cool cyberpunk twist. [reading the news] Second Gig will be inspired exclusively by sci-fi books whose authors died before 1999
January 31, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Time to write more Hard Wired Island. Like the core book, Second Gig's setting will be a reflection of modern life. Inspired by it, but with a cool cyberpunk twist. [reading the news] Second Gig will be inspired exclusively by sci-fi books whose authors died before 1999
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Pygmalion Displacement:
9) Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it?
10) Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users?
PDF: doi.org/10.31235/osf... @spookyachu.bsky.social
9) Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it?
10) Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users?
PDF: doi.org/10.31235/osf... @spookyachu.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Pygmalion Displacement:
9) Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it?
10) Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users?
PDF: doi.org/10.31235/osf... @spookyachu.bsky.social
9) Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it?
10) Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users?
PDF: doi.org/10.31235/osf... @spookyachu.bsky.social
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To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
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one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces
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"While philanthropy invests millions pursuing a perfectly diverse and culturally sensitive AI, it perpetuates a more subtle epistemic violence: the normalisation that only digital, scalable, and disruptive technologies deserve this name."
www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/the-fal...
www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/the-fal...
The fallacy of choice: Technological pluralism as a path to real equity - Alliance magazine
In Brazil, a foundation finances the development of an AI algorithm to optimise food distribution. Also in Brazil, a collective of Black women has been developing for three years a solidarity exchange...
www.alliancemagazine.org
January 26, 2026 at 7:12 PM
"While philanthropy invests millions pursuing a perfectly diverse and culturally sensitive AI, it perpetuates a more subtle epistemic violence: the normalisation that only digital, scalable, and disruptive technologies deserve this name."
www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/the-fal...
www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/the-fal...
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Digital detox is like "giving up smoking", something that's within the power of some individuals, but not for society as a whole. The majority of the decades-long progress on smoking cessation/reduction is policy, not willpower.
“For a month, I tried: swapping my iPhone for a Nokia which I can only use to text, call and play Snake; also, a Walkman and a film camera. I picked up physical copies of books, newspapers…” What Emma Russell learned from her digital detox. [theguardian.com]
My analogue month: would ditching my smartphone make me healthier, happier – or more stressed?
When I swapped my iPhone for a Nokia, Walkman, film camera and physical map, I wasn’t sure what to expect. But my life soon started to change
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Digital detox is like "giving up smoking", something that's within the power of some individuals, but not for society as a whole. The majority of the decades-long progress on smoking cessation/reduction is policy, not willpower.
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drawing of naruto and his boywife michaelangelo ninja turtle making passionate love: we must marshall the full power of the state to destroy this
sadists turning photos of your real actual children into violent terror images in order to psychologically damage you: um whos to say if its good or bad
sadists turning photos of your real actual children into violent terror images in order to psychologically damage you: um whos to say if its good or bad
wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
“The industry is no longer willing to self-regulate.”
www.theverge.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:40 PM
drawing of naruto and his boywife michaelangelo ninja turtle making passionate love: we must marshall the full power of the state to destroy this
sadists turning photos of your real actual children into violent terror images in order to psychologically damage you: um whos to say if its good or bad
sadists turning photos of your real actual children into violent terror images in order to psychologically damage you: um whos to say if its good or bad
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All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
January 25, 2026 at 4:59 PM
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
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Really hard to not realise that the UK has one growth industry and it's called Being Racist Online
This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?
We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.
www.londoncentric.media
January 24, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Really hard to not realise that the UK has one growth industry and it's called Being Racist Online
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I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud
Delicious to me
January 22, 2026 at 6:29 AM
I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud
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If a random guy on the left told you that the government dreamt of using AI to build a digital panopticon so that the eyes of the state could be on you at all times you'd think that he was maybe a bit of a crank, and yet...
Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.
January 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM
If a random guy on the left told you that the government dreamt of using AI to build a digital panopticon so that the eyes of the state could be on you at all times you'd think that he was maybe a bit of a crank, and yet...
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COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be
January 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be
Slidy pond chickens
January 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Slidy pond chickens
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Domain-specific solutions require you to understand the problem, which requires domain expertise and/or user research.
But that requires decision-makers to admit ignorance.
Bolting an LLM onto every product doesn't require understanding the problem AND makes investors happy you're "innovating."
But that requires decision-makers to admit ignorance.
Bolting an LLM onto every product doesn't require understanding the problem AND makes investors happy you're "innovating."
It's maddening hearing folks talk about LLM use-cases within their tools that would seem to be so much more effectively and reliably addressed by simple domain-specific implementations of solutions.
December 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Domain-specific solutions require you to understand the problem, which requires domain expertise and/or user research.
But that requires decision-makers to admit ignorance.
Bolting an LLM onto every product doesn't require understanding the problem AND makes investors happy you're "innovating."
But that requires decision-makers to admit ignorance.
Bolting an LLM onto every product doesn't require understanding the problem AND makes investors happy you're "innovating."
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one of my pet hypotheses is that money buys you out of the need to think
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
one of my pet hypotheses is that money buys you out of the need to think
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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bluesky staff misexplaining the torment nexus post, a post about how tech people don’t understand the media they read, is going to make me laugh for a long time
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
bluesky staff misexplaining the torment nexus post, a post about how tech people don’t understand the media they read, is going to make me laugh for a long time
sometimes (in life) the toilet is dirty and you don't want to deal with it cause it's gross and so you ignore it. you don't want to deal with a dirty thing but that same aversion the dirty thing is what's keeping a dirty thing in your life because if you cleaned it up it would no longer be dirty
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
sometimes (in life) the toilet is dirty and you don't want to deal with it cause it's gross and so you ignore it. you don't want to deal with a dirty thing but that same aversion the dirty thing is what's keeping a dirty thing in your life because if you cleaned it up it would no longer be dirty
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this is how they treated a white woman who was a public figure. horrific torture, violent physical abuse and starvation. which means that the way they treat the innocent Palestinians that they kidnap is a degree of magnitude *worse*
Israel and Zionism are incompatible with humanity
Israel and Zionism are incompatible with humanity
October 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
this is how they treated a white woman who was a public figure. horrific torture, violent physical abuse and starvation. which means that the way they treat the innocent Palestinians that they kidnap is a degree of magnitude *worse*
Israel and Zionism are incompatible with humanity
Israel and Zionism are incompatible with humanity
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Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying,
"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"
"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"
"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"
"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"
October 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying,
"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"
"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"
"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"
"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"