pa28 🇨🇦
@pa28.bsky.social
Programmer, pilot, soldier, spy.
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what happens when we trust a technology that does not discover or process information but instead simulates information
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
what happens when we trust a technology that does not discover or process information but instead simulates information
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
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For your Trump voting friends. He's a child rapist and did it dozens of times and your friends think its cool, far better than a black woman in power.
Fuck every single person who voted for him, or who couldn't "bring themselves" to vote for Harris. They all deserve cancer.
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
For your Trump voting friends. He's a child rapist and did it dozens of times and your friends think its cool, far better than a black woman in power.
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The really good truths are esoteric, but they’re not actually suppressed. I have a whole podcast that talks about them all the time.
This is a good point from Michelle Goldberg. I’d add that in an atomized media landscape, where attention is both critical and dearly bought, there are few incentives for the type of cooler, consensus-based presentations when audiences were both large and stable. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The really good truths are esoteric, but they’re not actually suppressed. I have a whole podcast that talks about them all the time.
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Guess I'll post this again
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Guess I'll post this again
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Finally.
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Finally.
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
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Everytime i see that shit it immediately triggers my "inscincerity repulsion"
i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Everytime i see that shit it immediately triggers my "inscincerity repulsion"
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How does an LLM work?
An LLM is a black box. We know why it works the way it does- the principles behind it- but we can't take the sides off and look inside it and go "ah, here's the bit that makes it say 'you're absolutely right and I'm sorry.'"
We do know it doesn't have any facts inside it.
An LLM is a black box. We know why it works the way it does- the principles behind it- but we can't take the sides off and look inside it and go "ah, here's the bit that makes it say 'you're absolutely right and I'm sorry.'"
We do know it doesn't have any facts inside it.
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
How does an LLM work?
An LLM is a black box. We know why it works the way it does- the principles behind it- but we can't take the sides off and look inside it and go "ah, here's the bit that makes it say 'you're absolutely right and I'm sorry.'"
We do know it doesn't have any facts inside it.
An LLM is a black box. We know why it works the way it does- the principles behind it- but we can't take the sides off and look inside it and go "ah, here's the bit that makes it say 'you're absolutely right and I'm sorry.'"
We do know it doesn't have any facts inside it.
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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Yall, this shit is *always* going to be the reason to get you to consent to genAI.
Do not consent. Do not approve.
Do. Not. Use.
Not now. Not ever.
Do not consent. Do not approve.
Do. Not. Use.
Not now. Not ever.
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Yall, this shit is *always* going to be the reason to get you to consent to genAI.
Do not consent. Do not approve.
Do. Not. Use.
Not now. Not ever.
Do not consent. Do not approve.
Do. Not. Use.
Not now. Not ever.
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Every real economist in America warned at the time he was imposing tariffs that it would affect each of these things, and deportations have affected the ability of farmers to access labor. This is all happening because of one man.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Every real economist in America warned at the time he was imposing tariffs that it would affect each of these things, and deportations have affected the ability of farmers to access labor. This is all happening because of one man.
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Please stop yelling at me to care/do something about things I cannot change. My own mental health takes precedent. Have a nice day ❤️
December 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Please stop yelling at me to care/do something about things I cannot change. My own mental health takes precedent. Have a nice day ❤️
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👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…
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Trans women pose no threat to me but the people who would reduce me to my reproductive capacities sure do. Ban them from public life instead!
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Trans women pose no threat to me but the people who would reduce me to my reproductive capacities sure do. Ban them from public life instead!
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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This is the open letter drafted by parents and other community members to school leaders - and it serves as a template for other communities for resisting the deployment of GenAI and other AI technologies into our children’s schools.
Stop AI in Malden Schools
openletter.earth
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This is the open letter drafted by parents and other community members to school leaders - and it serves as a template for other communities for resisting the deployment of GenAI and other AI technologies into our children’s schools.
I notice and care. Not only for the direct harms. The transformer could have been a pivotal development. Instead we have all these negative effects that will probably cause another AI winter. On top of that we have the fiscal shenanigans which could cause a world wide economic crisis worse than .COM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I notice and care. Not only for the direct harms. The transformer could have been a pivotal development. Instead we have all these negative effects that will probably cause another AI winter. On top of that we have the fiscal shenanigans which could cause a world wide economic crisis worse than .COM
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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this feels like a good time to remind people about @annaleen.bsky.social’s Four Lost Cities.
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
As taps run dry, Iran’s president raises the unthinkable: abandoning the capital
As taps run dry, Iran’s president raises the unthinkable: abandoning the capital
Decades of mismanagement, climate extremes and vanishing rainfall have pushed the capital to the brink
www.irishtimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
this feels like a good time to remind people about @annaleen.bsky.social’s Four Lost Cities.
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
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I think a lot of what leads to the "god bluesky is SO MEAN i'm going back to Muskland!" dynamic we see here is that, on Twitter, engagement is driven entirely by a politically motivated and largely broken algorithm that keeps a lot of bad faith ideas safe. That is not so on Bluesky.
Bluesky doesn’t have a central algorithm that’s forced on everybody, and allows users to create their own feeds.
I think that is the *only* ethical model for social media going forward:
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
I think that is the *only* ethical model for social media going forward:
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
A study shows that the order in which platforms like X display content to their users affects their animosity towards other ideological groups
english.elpais.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I think a lot of what leads to the "god bluesky is SO MEAN i'm going back to Muskland!" dynamic we see here is that, on Twitter, engagement is driven entirely by a politically motivated and largely broken algorithm that keeps a lot of bad faith ideas safe. That is not so on Bluesky.
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imagine you are a teenager and you already are at a disadvantage because covid happened while you were in school and you need to be prepared for the real world and this is what they give you
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
imagine you are a teenager and you already are at a disadvantage because covid happened while you were in school and you need to be prepared for the real world and this is what they give you
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I should print this for my uni as well. But we have finished semester so it may not have the same impact
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I should print this for my uni as well. But we have finished semester so it may not have the same impact