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Wait are folks still doing “I asked the chatbot why it did something” discourse?

And as someone who closely monitors both websites I can assure you that X is a right wing radicalization pipeline, including for people who consider themselves smart and progressive, while Bluesky is just an overwhelming left leaning platform. Those are very different things.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

I know that @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social wrote a great piece on a related topic: how disability tech and technologies of war and violence are entangled for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social
It’s a must read to understand disability and AI discourse

newrepublic.com/article/1793...

Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Remember! bsky.app/profile/oliv...

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Just normal stuff

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Also the playbook between tobacco and AI as well as petroleum is basically shared...

bsky.app/profile/oliv...

olivia.science/before

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Long story short on relevant parts: tobacco industry jumped on "stress" to divert from cigs cause cancer, much like AI companies will inevitably do the same for psychosis or wtv to divert from the fact that their bots cause harm. No user is causing this.

& importantly: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

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Inevitably they will blame psychosis. And we've seen this before with companies and academics claiming lung cancer is caused by stress not smoking!

Remember Hans Eysenck? www.theguardian.com/science/2019...

> This research programme has led to one of the worst scientific scandals of all time

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In my book I call this the Disability Diversion where all criticism of techno fascism is deflected with appeals to technosaviorism.

I have ADHD and I'm pancreaticly impaired and I do not want people trying to forward those technofash slop generators on my behalf

We need to come up with a name for the technique where disability is used to advance tech, like AI, that tends to harm equity and often people with disability, it is so transparent and infuriating. Is disabilitywashing a term yet?

In comments of the quoted thread, @fractalecho.bsky.social says:

"In my book I call this the Disability Diversion where all criticism of techno fascism is deflected with appeals to technosaviorism."

"Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI"
by Rua M. Williams

All the more reason to develop a Luddite praxis in education:

"AI" is Yesterday's News I gave this talk yesterday to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as part of the MTA Retired First Wednesday Speaker Series. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I’m honored...

"'AI' marks one of the most pressing labor issues that everyone in every profession is facing, particularly since the technology – or certainly those funding and forcing its adoption – is resoundingly anti-worker," writes Audrey Watters.

Missiles fired by US, Israel hit two schools near Tehran: Iranian media The latest attack comes six days after the deadliest single one during the war on Iran, which killed 165 people.

They did it again twice today. It’s clearly deliberate and no surprise given they are likely being fed targets from Israel.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Everyone please appreciate the museum of the Irish Language that my definitely-not-autistic dad is setting up: ansugan.ie

CfA: Workshop “Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation” (@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Jun 2–3 2026.

Deadline: March 31.

Further Speakers: @adriendoerig.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @gualtiero.bsky.social, @seelikat.bsky.social, Oron Shagrir.

Meta sued over AI smart glasses' privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage | TechCrunch Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.

That escalated quickly.

Phone AI ad: 'if your friend texts you a question shouldn't your phone just...answer?'
Me: NO, because that's fucking creepy and my friends deserve genuine human attention from me jesus fucking christ.

I see this attitude a lot among disabled people in the west, and I think the issue of gAI demands critical thinking and choice from disabled people, too. We aren’t exempt from doing so because of our access needs, all the more so because disability is so often used to justify tech monstrosities

I do not understand how a /single person/ did not get that the purpose of the Meta surveillance glasses is to capture everything and archive centrally for multiple purposes, including ai training, and all the increasingly obvious reasons that states spy on residents; Meta and FAANG are state fascism

Literally the first thing academics pointed out about LLMs YEARS AGO was that they would be used for catastrophic levels of fraud—how nice that now the AI bros are confirming what we all knew by running fraud experiments to tell cheats which LLM to use to cheat

Except, this isn't a boycott. This is a mass transfer from one war loving brand to another war loving brand, enacted by a pro-AI faction of centrist effective altruists.

Refusing Generative AI stickers

If you see me at #4C26 and want a sticker, lmk!

a map of openai's influence on other media companies

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies.

imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!!

nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

Urbana to local data center naysayers: "Hold our beer"| RANCO annexation still "on track" despite setback | Clarifying how county TIF funds can be used Give us a few moments and we'll serve up what matters in Marysville, OH on Thursday, March 5, 2026

Urbana County, Ohio, a county of just 11,000 people, just passed a 12-month moratorium on data center construction.

open.substack.com/pub/marysvil...

Has a real “we asked Claude how to keep humans in control” vibe

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