Mark Riva

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Absolutely fucking insane.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

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The man building some of the most powerful AI systems on Earth believes there's a 1 in 4 chance of catastrophe. If your pilot said there was a 25% chance your plane would crash, would you board?

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Meet me in Copenhagen Oct28 for my keynote at FutureTense 2025 buff.ly/FCYxt38
I am working on something very special for this event:)))) See ya there. #FutureTenseCPH

‼️ On April 26, 100+ AI scientists convened at the Singapore Conference on AI to produce the just-released Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities. 🧵⬇️

I am, Mark Riva, love me or simply misunderstand me, but you won’t forget me.

I’m sorry, I can no longer waste my time.

Bluesky, it’s just more pie in the sky…

Digital De-Arrangement

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Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy

Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you'll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they've built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to…

Expert Says a Specific Group of People Is Leading to the Collapse of Human Civilization A new book that covers 5,000 years and the collapse of more than 400 societies argues that we're in for a rude awakening.

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25 years later, where’s Mondo when we need them??

It’s not a movie, it’s a documentary.

What is it about these words that make 30+ people hit the like button?

YouTube video by The Beloved - Topic Dream On

Don’t stop Dreaming… youtu.be/svpXB2Bi7Qw?...

YouTube video by TranceMusicStation Samantha James - Right Now

If there ever was a time to act on our most radical plans to activate our most primal instincts and awaken our latent powers and highest potential to express our deepest longings and achieve our wildest dreams, it is Right Now… youtu.be/nFkmTa4oY84?...

As we descend into the digital abyss we walk a knife-edge crisis full of unimaginable revelations and unfathomable opportunities…

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YouTube video by SearchlightPictures NIGHTMARE ALLEY | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures

By all accounts, I’m blocking more accounts on Bluesky than all other “social media” sites combined. What has this sufferable cyberworld become? Our info-highway leads to a tawdry sideshow down some two-bit nightmare alley… youtu.be/Q81Yf46Oj3s?...

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen Newsom: "He's caught red handed. He's in the files"

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These people aren’t stupid

Stripe Press — The Dream Machine A biography of J. C. R. Licklider, the psychologist and scientist who inspired the work that led to the internet, and shifted our understanding of what computers could be.

my headcanon is that there was a schism early on between the licklider/engelbart camp (the computer is a tool) and the minsky/mccarthy camp (the computer is a slave), and it is somewhat substantiated by this book: press.stripe.com/the-dream-ma...

Ballroom Blitz.

YouTube video by Scorpions - Topic Humanity

Goodnight Humanity… youtu.be/40RzxKlWkmE?...

Their graves need no flowers
The tapes have recorded their names

It’s all being captured, collated, indexed, classified, profiled, commodified, and used against us. That’s what Technopoly is all about.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Just some nondual-lingo to keep the conversation going