Harry
@no-harry-stop.bsky.social
Recovering ex-open source contributor, fp liker, happy to eat a jambon fromage on the daily
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Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.
December 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.
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no i do not want to give you my email for 10% off. and furthermore, I don’t think i should have to click a button that says “i’m a dumb bitch” to indicate that. you’re a website that sells blankets and you can’t speak to me like that.
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
no i do not want to give you my email for 10% off. and furthermore, I don’t think i should have to click a button that says “i’m a dumb bitch” to indicate that. you’re a website that sells blankets and you can’t speak to me like that.
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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everything about the attempt to co-opt the language of social justice to promote AI personhood makes my skin absolutely crawl
that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me
that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
everything about the attempt to co-opt the language of social justice to promote AI personhood makes my skin absolutely crawl
that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me
that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me
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one of the tells of fashtech is that they never shut up about decentralised open source and FREEDOM but then it turns out to be full of obscured central points of control
awful.systems/post/5833209
awful.systems/post/5833209
October 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
one of the tells of fashtech is that they never shut up about decentralised open source and FREEDOM but then it turns out to be full of obscured central points of control
awful.systems/post/5833209
awful.systems/post/5833209
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Hi guys. I’m the most insufferable person you’ve ever interacted with. Here’s why you should be nice to robots and computer programs billionaires are using to take your jobs and your future on this planet
October 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Hi guys. I’m the most insufferable person you’ve ever interacted with. Here’s why you should be nice to robots and computer programs billionaires are using to take your jobs and your future on this planet
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Apple vs. Facebook is kayfabe. Always has been.
How do we know? Apple lets FB destroy browser choice to track users without batting an eye:
infrequently.org/2025/08/appl...
How do we know? Apple lets FB destroy browser choice to track users without batting an eye:
infrequently.org/2025/08/appl...
Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe - Infrequently Noted
Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is Facebook's chauffeur; holding Zuck's coat while Facebook wantonly surveils iPhones owners. How can we be sure? Because Apple contin...
infrequently.org
August 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Apple vs. Facebook is kayfabe. Always has been.
How do we know? Apple lets FB destroy browser choice to track users without batting an eye:
infrequently.org/2025/08/appl...
How do we know? Apple lets FB destroy browser choice to track users without batting an eye:
infrequently.org/2025/08/appl...
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it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
August 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
The kidz bop version of 365 would change the line to “shall we do a little key shall we have a little lime” and then it cuts to a shot of a key lime pie
August 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The kidz bop version of 365 would change the line to “shall we do a little key shall we have a little lime” and then it cuts to a shot of a key lime pie
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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I asked ChatGPT and it said that I was a credulous rube who would believe anything if the message was delivered with a sufficient degree of fawning subservience
August 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I asked ChatGPT and it said that I was a credulous rube who would believe anything if the message was delivered with a sufficient degree of fawning subservience
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AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI.
For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.
Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.
For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.
Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.
July 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI.
For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.
Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.
For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.
Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.
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It really bugs me that the youths have decided we needed a new, more difficult way to make the heart symbol with our hands
July 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It really bugs me that the youths have decided we needed a new, more difficult way to make the heart symbol with our hands
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NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Has there been a legal case yet to set legal precedent about whether companies are responsible for when their LLMs hallucinate dangerous lies yet? I would 100% sue if I were these guys
July 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Has there been a legal case yet to set legal precedent about whether companies are responsible for when their LLMs hallucinate dangerous lies yet? I would 100% sue if I were these guys
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*throwing dirt around* dirt is here to stay *throws more dirt* it's here to stay. I'm out of dirt. Can anyone give me money for more dirt? It's here to stay. If I can't get more dirt I won't be able to throw dirt around and it's here to stay
May 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
*throwing dirt around* dirt is here to stay *throws more dirt* it's here to stay. I'm out of dirt. Can anyone give me money for more dirt? It's here to stay. If I can't get more dirt I won't be able to throw dirt around and it's here to stay
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SUPERHOT VR had its whole story patched out. I thought about it slightly too long and fell into rabbit hole. It doesn't make sense, it's bad that it happened, and it prompts a whole bunch of naval-gazing about Art.
SUPERHOT VR's Story was Removed. What? / GioCities
I don't talk about how horny the game is. it is horny but that's not part of this
blog.giovanh.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
SUPERHOT VR had its whole story patched out. I thought about it slightly too long and fell into rabbit hole. It doesn't make sense, it's bad that it happened, and it prompts a whole bunch of naval-gazing about Art.
Maybe beside the point but there is no evidence to support ‘learning styles’; in practice they’re usually invoked by students as a way of getting to avoid doing things that seem hard, like reading dense prose. Not at all surprising then that “getting chatgpt to do all the work for you” counts as one
May 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Maybe beside the point but there is no evidence to support ‘learning styles’; in practice they’re usually invoked by students as a way of getting to avoid doing things that seem hard, like reading dense prose. Not at all surprising then that “getting chatgpt to do all the work for you” counts as one
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the boosters are losing, no matter how much they want you to believe otherwise
Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.
AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests
New Duke study says workers judge others for AI use—and hide its use, fearing stigma.
arstechnica.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
the boosters are losing, no matter how much they want you to believe otherwise
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Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.
Read the motion below 👇
BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.
Read the motion below 👇
BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.
April 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.
Read the motion below 👇
BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.
Read the motion below 👇
BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.
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"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
April 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
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As a comms expert and socialist, my grand theory of LLMs/Copilot/etc is that the reason people look at the garbage these machines produce and go "this looks plausible and coherent" is because a huge amount of the text humans produce in their actual jobs is *also* insubstantial waffle 🧵
April 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
As a comms expert and socialist, my grand theory of LLMs/Copilot/etc is that the reason people look at the garbage these machines produce and go "this looks plausible and coherent" is because a huge amount of the text humans produce in their actual jobs is *also* insubstantial waffle 🧵