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Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
Oh no, my Too Online meter got too high yesterday, need to go touch grass today.
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Oh no, my Too Online meter got too high yesterday, need to go touch grass today.
I’m not saying things aren’t rotted to hell, but this is a great example of how when people talk about the “information ecosystem being broken”, they *aren’t* talking about the capability for people to get widespread access to factual information, which we can all still do, but rather something else
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m not saying things aren’t rotted to hell, but this is a great example of how when people talk about the “information ecosystem being broken”, they *aren’t* talking about the capability for people to get widespread access to factual information, which we can all still do, but rather something else
People really underestimate the neurological and proprioceptive skills that are required to stand up without falling right over because we don’t remember what it takes to develop them in the first place
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
People really underestimate the neurological and proprioceptive skills that are required to stand up without falling right over because we don’t remember what it takes to develop them in the first place
I do think we need to force a collective update toward the idea that political pundits (and dem consultants) are active sources of political disinformation driven by varying combinations of innumeracy, social media and information bubbles, participatory make-believe, and malice—and plan accordingly
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I do think we need to force a collective update toward the idea that political pundits (and dem consultants) are active sources of political disinformation driven by varying combinations of innumeracy, social media and information bubbles, participatory make-believe, and malice—and plan accordingly
Me whenever I try to remember about something
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Me whenever I try to remember about something
Did... did the White House just claim that Trump also ended the Human-Covenant Wars?
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Did... did the White House just claim that Trump also ended the Human-Covenant Wars?
This feels like the bottom line in the US’s push (which is also transnational) to designate “Antifa” as a foreign terrorist organization
October 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This feels like the bottom line in the US’s push (which is also transnational) to designate “Antifa” as a foreign terrorist organization
Fascinating. So this is like corporate sabotage of the web as a functional marketplace for other businesses to do business on top of, right?
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Fascinating. So this is like corporate sabotage of the web as a functional marketplace for other businesses to do business on top of, right?
I’ve been telling people for a while that if you think you can rationalize why a fascist regime wouldn’t have any logical reason to come after you, just throw that idea out because the people who get targeted will be due to someone making up random shit and it gets escalated to the wrong attention.
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’ve been telling people for a while that if you think you can rationalize why a fascist regime wouldn’t have any logical reason to come after you, just throw that idea out because the people who get targeted will be due to someone making up random shit and it gets escalated to the wrong attention.
When you get followed by scores of accounts with follower/following ratios like this who have never interacted with any of your posts before, all within the same 10-minute window, that's clearly gotta be inauthentic coordinated behavior. It's been happening in waves over the last two days.
October 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
When you get followed by scores of accounts with follower/following ratios like this who have never interacted with any of your posts before, all within the same 10-minute window, that's clearly gotta be inauthentic coordinated behavior. It's been happening in waves over the last two days.
lmao
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
lmao
I don’t really know how to explain it with words, but this shit is how you lose the meme wars. Truly awful levels of recuperation going on here.
October 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I don’t really know how to explain it with words, but this shit is how you lose the meme wars. Truly awful levels of recuperation going on here.
Sorry gang, it was an allegory for gnostic christianity! It’s incredibly clear in the text of the movie itself.
October 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Sorry gang, it was an allegory for gnostic christianity! It’s incredibly clear in the text of the movie itself.
This is a helpful writeup of how moderation actions work on the AT network. One question I have is how, or rather who, makes the policy decisions by which, eg, different types of media are classified along these different harm levels (and are these policy decisions centralized or distributed)?
October 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is a helpful writeup of how moderation actions work on the AT network. One question I have is how, or rather who, makes the policy decisions by which, eg, different types of media are classified along these different harm levels (and are these policy decisions centralized or distributed)?
They really turned graphics cards directly into the NFT scam, but at a national economy level.
October 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They really turned graphics cards directly into the NFT scam, but at a national economy level.
I like this conception of “zombie knowledge”
October 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I like this conception of “zombie knowledge”
Frame: It’s eugenics-level bigotry to talk negative about AI
Negation: AI isn’t alive but using hateful language against nonliving things probably isn’t healthy
Kirby: They want you to take AI more seriously than you do because they are holding the bag, and that’s why they are saying this
Negation: AI isn’t alive but using hateful language against nonliving things probably isn’t healthy
Kirby: They want you to take AI more seriously than you do because they are holding the bag, and that’s why they are saying this
October 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Frame: It’s eugenics-level bigotry to talk negative about AI
Negation: AI isn’t alive but using hateful language against nonliving things probably isn’t healthy
Kirby: They want you to take AI more seriously than you do because they are holding the bag, and that’s why they are saying this
Negation: AI isn’t alive but using hateful language against nonliving things probably isn’t healthy
Kirby: They want you to take AI more seriously than you do because they are holding the bag, and that’s why they are saying this
These aren't esoteric memes, even Dem comms staffers were posting this same stuff (with the political valence flipped) 5 years ago
October 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
These aren't esoteric memes, even Dem comms staffers were posting this same stuff (with the political valence flipped) 5 years ago
january 6 … october 1
October 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
january 6 … october 1
Nah, this an a16z post-AI pivot-to-humanoid-robots joint. At best this talk is kayfabe for the funders
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Nah, this an a16z post-AI pivot-to-humanoid-robots joint. At best this talk is kayfabe for the funders
September 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM