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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

the current swing towards MAGA and overt fascism and hyper-militarism and surveillance capitalism has always been there waiting in the wings of the tech business, and they were relieved to throw off their rainbow flags and BLM bumper stickers the very second the political atmosphere turned

Guys I need all the help I can get right now

@bitocrosszer.bsky.social my husband was picked up by ICE

We have a 4 year old daughter together

I need all the fucking help I can get right now

our bluesky safety manager replied with this to a woman venting after ICE kidnapped her husband, and then banned her.

How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?

if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app

Let it be known that @bitocrosszer.bsky.social was kidnapped by ICE after attending a mandatory appointment, and taken to a jail out in Las Vegas because he has immigration lawyers out here in Boise. He has a severe seizure disorder, ADHD and autism and I fear that they knew this.

I’m gonna be honest @jay.bsky.team, banning a side account that I made after this one was suspended due to me being scared for my husband who was kidnapped by ICE and having a dev meme on this is insane PR for any site.

By that I mean BAD PR.

I’m simply asking for an apology. That’s it.

Every post from this dickhead moves me closer to deleting bluesky. Mocking a woman who's husband was taken by ICE is cruel. This guy's a fascist, the cruelty is the point for him.

not sure how one argues with a straight face anymore that liberal elites did not play an outsized role in the slow-then-sudden disappearance of the cordon sanitaire around open racism and eugenics

New neo-nazi just dropped, New England folks be aware

Shut up bitch

I hope you get sued for this

I genuinely can't fathom what possesses folks like you to act like this.

Reposting this for visibility. Especially when you suspend accounts in retaliation for accountability called on y'all.

bsky.app/profile/aest...

This

Has Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, or any other high ranking minority member in either the house/senate come anywhere close to releasing a similar public statement of solidarity against the unlawful program of racial terror

What has she said or done that you think is antisemitic?

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."

What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough

right wingers with their new transphobe of the month

Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

There are seriously trolls on here who reply to Palestinians begging from the rubble with, oh well, you shouldn’t have been a terrorist! I see it time to time. You HAVE to have something better to do with your life.

Jimmy the frog magestically rides through Heathcliff's snowy backyard on the back of a musk ox as Heathcliff cheers. The Nutmeg family watches from their back window, and Iggy says "Jimmy is riding a musk ox again."

04 Dec 2025

Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

AI is a fascist tool.

cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

@PeteHegseth on X: Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat. 04 Dec 25

What sticks out to me is how absolutely unafraid of prosecution this psychopath is. Part of it is narcissistic personality disorder, but it's mostly the perceived weakness of Democrats. Should they retake power, no one expects Democrats to hold anyone accountable.

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.

This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.

This is almost everything the government is doing.

Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies

I would like to know the name of every person of every rank who spent 41 minutes watching men drown.

Hegseth is a cancer, but this kind of moral abomination attaches to everyone who witnessed it.