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Ulysses Pascal

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Geography Postdoc in Finance and Big Tech at VUB, Brussels. PhD in Information Studies from UCLA. Writing “Circuits of Finance: NASDAQ and the making of the global market.” Platforms | Information Infrastructure | AI | Sustainability | Uneven Geographies

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Close! It *randomly* samples from a distribution of statistically likely next possible word pieces & repeats for every word in the output, using your prompt and its growing randomly chosen completion as input in a long feedback loop

05.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

referencing debunked policing theory to justify bad management policy

30.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This isnt just ethnic cleansing it’s ethnic liquidation

30.09.2025 11:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

God is binge watching earth, telling himself he will put an end to it soon but keeps pressing “next episode”

24.09.2025 17:23 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m happy to do a more robust AI driven analysis for you

24.09.2025 16:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Merit based hiring is the first step to merit based firing archive.is/3FbPX

18.08.2025 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Weird example too… Chess “AI”predated pac man “AI”

29.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

outlook is the worst email client and email already sucks

29.07.2025 10:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If You've Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court Sam Altman has admitted that ChatGPT conversations can be used against you in court if they are subpoenaed.

"If you’re pasting in contracts, asking legal questions, or asking [the chatbot] for strategy, you're not getting legal advice…You’re generating discoverable evidence. No attorney-client privilege. No confidentiality. No ethical duty. No one to protect you."

28.07.2025 19:56 — 👍 544    🔁 293    💬 9    📌 44

Once everything is an ai chatbot it is trivial to rewrite history and monitor all interactions… it don’t really see the difference between slopification and surveillance capitalism

28.07.2025 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Detail of an AI generated image, showing what looks like US soldiers in desert camouflage alongside with an antique Roman mob and maybe some gladiators? It's a mess …

Detail of an AI generated image, showing what looks like US soldiers in desert camouflage alongside with an antique Roman mob and maybe some gladiators? It's a mess …

The groypers running the White House's social media accounts have posted yet another piece of fascist Trump AI slopaganda which I won't reproduce here in full. However, the Gladiator-esque backdrop of US soldiers in desert camouflage holding back the pseudo-Roman crowd is quite fascinating
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26.07.2025 10:35 — 👍 256    🔁 74    💬 5    📌 15

No!

25.07.2025 07:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Much funding in the justice & human rights sectors pivoted to "AI for good" and working with tech companies, weakening the work on important critical education and preventing harm. AI companies promised many fantasies they will NOT deliver. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

24.07.2025 05:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I knew the US had a cruel obsession with torturing muslims but the level of inhumane disregard for life in Gaza is horrendous even for US standards

23.07.2025 09:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think a lot of people mistake chatbots for the business model. Chatbots are free or cross-subsidized treats to entrap customers into sharing valuable data. The real AI is the AI hiding behind the chatbot that sifts through everything you say and comes up with ways to get you to buy stuff.

22.07.2025 11:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When does it stop being oligarchy and it is just authoritarianism though?

21.07.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Training an AI isn’t even digital programming. Programming is the part where you implement the model architecture. Programming is an even worse metaphor for what evolution does and an even worse metaphor for the cultural and individual diversity that changes at a rate faster than genetic changes.

14.07.2025 08:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Auschwitz I began as a concentration camp and forced labor camp in 1940. By 1942 Auschwitz II developed into a killing center. After 4 gas chambers were completed in 1943, the exterminations at Auschwitz intensified, resulting in over 1.1 million dead.

03.07.2025 09:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At least the DMV doesn’t spontaneously catch on fire

02.06.2025 05:33 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It’s so bizarre to tell the most renowned university in the world that it doesn’t know how to run a university

28.05.2025 11:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“interpretive ai” is too misleading and too cognitive… they aren’t interpreting

28.05.2025 11:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I wish real life mag still existed. I have been writing a piece about ai, politics and chess that is too weird for academia. Are there other homes for tech/cultural criticism?

08.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good thing about small models is they can fit inside google colab notebooks and you can peel them apart layer by layer. That’s what we do with gpt 2

06.04.2025 10:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Auto-regressive state apparatus

03.04.2025 06:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow this is perfect thing to cite in my intro

01.04.2025 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We don’t need more ai skeptics we need ai doomers

30.03.2025 12:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A free chat interface is not open ai’s product!

You are criticizing the hype. Not the product.

Am i the only one who finds these takes naive and dangerous??

We are being categorized and surveilled by ai. It’s built into everything on the backend. The chat interface is just the 1% you see

30.03.2025 12:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No signal hides your phone number unless you opt in to share it with a contact.

26.03.2025 13:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Extremely distressing.

20.03.2025 12:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is it unethical to get your Al to work better by telling it that it needs to do o good job or else its mom will die of cancer?

15.03.2025 08:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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