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Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

the account which posted this appears to be an AI agent farming karma before it turns into an advertising bot

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

In true stories of bluesky's continuing antiblackness, a Black man was driven off this platform because he enraged white people wishing Black people a great day.

I really think AI romance simulators are the worse thing we could possibly have done to autistic young people and we are going to learn increasingly disturbing things about what this technology has done to us in the next few years.

The best thing about working at xAI must be Elon making sure everyone knows that anyone who announced they were leaving this week was actually laid off.

But, what did they expect?

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

This article that was going around the other day wasn't claiming that AI tools don't make workers more "productive" in some sense (they do self-report that they are getting more done!) but does suggest people end up working more while being less engaged & more stressed. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

I find AI makes work isolating.

Instead of asking "Jeff" about something, I ask chat GPT. I miss out on the team cohesion aspect and opportunities for cross pollination of info.

Chat GPT will tell me how to use (service) to accomplish (goal), Jeff might have a different approach entirely.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

This is effectively what this paper demonstrated as possible and ties back to historical events and economic trends to show that this seems softly calculated to be the end result.

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Nowhere do I find the social pressure to conform more intense than the TSA screening line. Resistance is a practice and it matters

that was my thought too

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

haters of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but this bullshit technology

When capitalists pushing AI say “You won’t need to work!” what they really mean, with dollar signs in their eyes, is “We won’t need you to work.”

Zach is very wise, and is absolutely correct here. Immigration is an objective good. His book "Open Borders" is *great*. You should read it.

The basis of all this anti-immigration BS is blatant racism, and a fascist desire to use that to manipulate the population.

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI “This feature performs well for user satisfaction,” claims Google.

hey did you see a headline on google? turns out that headline might be an llm hallucination www.theverge.com/tech/865168/...

Welcome to the Attachment Economy How AI chatbots are turning human connection into the next extractive economy

“Attachment economy” is a good descriptor of this new toxic pattern we see with AI centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Amélie: The Most Relatable Representation of Neurodivergence on Screen I had a moment of realisation early last year

Just now I was like “Oh fuck Amélie is autistic”, realized why that film spoke to me so much.

Turns out I wasn’t alone in that feeling. medium.com/the-narrativ...

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.

How Augmentation-Washing Hides Labor Automation | TechPolicy.Press Sarah E. Fox and Samantha Shorey discuss how corporate “cobots” reduce control and intensify demands—and what policy can do to protect worker agency.

“Anyone who has used a self-checkout machine has personally experienced this dynamic.
Rather than the machine supporting the human, the humans (both employees and shoppers) end up supporting the machine.”
techpolicy.press/how-augmenta...

Of course, I should just be mad at American capitalism for forcing people to work while they’re sick.

The Alka-Seltzer Cold & Flu Plus ads playing at the gym make me scream in epidemiologist. They show someone who’s sick taking one and heading out of her apartment to spread the infection! 😱🤬

The Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier) Video games are more popular than ever, but many of the biggest companies in the business seem like they are struggling to adapt and convert that popularity into stability and sustainability.

Listening to this @404media.co podcast with @jasonschreier.bsky.social, it really strikes me that Microsoft has basically acted like a private equity company within the video game industry. www.404media.co/the-video-ga...

Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy comm...

OpenAI researchers deleted tweets claiming GPT-5 had solved previously unsolved Erdős problems. It was pointed out by others that GPT-5 had simply found research papers which had solved these problems not solved them itself.

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis called the incident "embarrassing"

nm, just having an existential crisis over society’s total epistemic collapse