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Misha
@panoptic.bsky.social
· Jul 18
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
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it is now more important than ever to become an enormous snob
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
it is now more important than ever to become an enormous snob
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Extremely William Gibson subplot. Down and out since AI started making all the art, a desperate beat poet falls in with a dangerous corporate espionage gang. Hacking OpenAI will require the perfect stanza. There’s just one problem: poetry is ILLEGAL.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Extremely William Gibson subplot. Down and out since AI started making all the art, a desperate beat poet falls in with a dangerous corporate espionage gang. Hacking OpenAI will require the perfect stanza. There’s just one problem: poetry is ILLEGAL.
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What a terrible day to know how to read
notable that in Sanskrit, 'a' (अ) and 'i' (इ) are the first two vowels.
if we could just get to 'u' (उ) then whales would be well on their way to constructing all other Skt vowels
(cc @evalina.bsky.social)
if we could just get to 'u' (उ) then whales would be well on their way to constructing all other Skt vowels
(cc @evalina.bsky.social)
CETI scientists have discovered vowel and diphthong-like patterns in sperm whale communication! Read: bit.ly/3WSn9rc
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
notable that in Sanskrit, 'a' (अ) and 'i' (इ) are the first two vowels.
if we could just get to 'u' (उ) then whales would be well on their way to constructing all other Skt vowels
(cc @evalina.bsky.social)
if we could just get to 'u' (उ) then whales would be well on their way to constructing all other Skt vowels
(cc @evalina.bsky.social)
what's the over/under that they inflict the multiverse on the Bond franchise?
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
what's the over/under that they inflict the multiverse on the Bond franchise?
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and don't forget to like and subscribe.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and don't forget to like and subscribe.
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it's funny i was doing a positioning exercise a little while ago and the last question it asked was something like "are there any trends you can hitch up to?" and i was like, i think the only salient trend right now is AI
AI is the mono-trend
AI is the mono-trend
he had a ton of help:
• millennia of mythology and lore (beginning with eg golems, all the way up through robots and contemporary scifi, to say nothing of what started with dartmouth &c)
• useful idiots who have been banging away about this for decades
in that way ai is unique as an object of hype
• millennia of mythology and lore (beginning with eg golems, all the way up through robots and contemporary scifi, to say nothing of what started with dartmouth &c)
• useful idiots who have been banging away about this for decades
in that way ai is unique as an object of hype
October 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
it's funny i was doing a positioning exercise a little while ago and the last question it asked was something like "are there any trends you can hitch up to?" and i was like, i think the only salient trend right now is AI
AI is the mono-trend
AI is the mono-trend
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i'd say put it in the louvre, but, y'know…
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
i'd say put it in the louvre, but, y'know…
you can just do things, as some people like to say
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
you can just do things, as some people like to say
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don't care what anyone says, I'm glad I got to witness the unipolar order. to watch a country completely waste its hegemonic status? we will never see anything like it again
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
don't care what anyone says, I'm glad I got to witness the unipolar order. to watch a country completely waste its hegemonic status? we will never see anything like it again
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Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
December 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
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Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”
Graydon Carter could do the funniest political prank call since Spy's heyday.
We all need to be prepared this week for when on Friday Donald Trump — much to his complete and total surprise — doesn’t actually get the Nobel Peace Prize and he loses his mind.
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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in hindsight machine personhood is shaping up to be the single biggest issue where my mind is changing. i really do increasingly take this seriously, albeit not for the reasons the author states
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
in hindsight machine personhood is shaping up to be the single biggest issue where my mind is changing. i really do increasingly take this seriously, albeit not for the reasons the author states
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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this basically articulates why i lost interest in "intelligence"
Yudkowsky is from the silicon valley techfash milieu, which firmly believes intelligence is whatever gives me personally a high score in being very good and cool and of the correct race
September 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
this basically articulates why i lost interest in "intelligence"
“George, I wish you’d look at the nursery.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy
The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experime...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“George, I wish you’d look at the nursery.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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You: "When we get back on the right track ..."
Doomer: "Oh, an optimist. What makes you think we're still going to have elections?"
You: "No, I mean back on the right track geologically speaking."
Doomer: "Oh, an optimist. What makes you think we're still going to have elections?"
You: "No, I mean back on the right track geologically speaking."
August 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You: "When we get back on the right track ..."
Doomer: "Oh, an optimist. What makes you think we're still going to have elections?"
You: "No, I mean back on the right track geologically speaking."
Doomer: "Oh, an optimist. What makes you think we're still going to have elections?"
You: "No, I mean back on the right track geologically speaking."
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To be sure, fires in Spain are partially caused by climate change, but as in other parts of the world, I wish there was more coverage of how fires in Spain are the result of past land management decisions - in this case an overemphasis on planting trees. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
More Soldiers and European Firefighters Join Battle Against Blazes in Spain
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
To be sure, fires in Spain are partially caused by climate change, but as in other parts of the world, I wish there was more coverage of how fires in Spain are the result of past land management decisions - in this case an overemphasis on planting trees. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
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TBH the internet got slopped up a long time ago. Algorithms turned most”engagement” into keyword search triggers that generate keyword salad responses… People acting like bots. LLMs just automate this slop and put those people out of a job.
August 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
TBH the internet got slopped up a long time ago. Algorithms turned most”engagement” into keyword search triggers that generate keyword salad responses… People acting like bots. LLMs just automate this slop and put those people out of a job.
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sea-lioning-as-a-service
this eventually could be a qualitative change in social media, where you have bots with decent argumentation programs (loosely speaking) wandering for random encounters in the same way human accounts do.
August 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
sea-lioning-as-a-service
this is the true meaning of Michael Hopf's "Hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make hard times."
This is not unrelated to my essay of today: “Crack-pot science-conspiracy theorists who have grown up in the most peaceful, prosperous, and healthy age in human history [are] undo[ing] some of the most magnanimous things humans have ever done for one another.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...
August 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
this is the true meaning of Michael Hopf's "Hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make hard times."