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Alex Hanna-ween

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · May 13

It's book press day! The AI Con is available where ever you find fine books! Check out thecon.ai for details.

@emilymbender.bsky.social and I think we wrote a damn fine book, and we hope you'll enjoy it too.

For a taste, check out the preview of Chapter 1, graciously published by LitHub.

On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

As long as there’s been research on AI, there’s been AI hype. In the most commonly told narrative about the research field’s development, mathematician John McCarthy and computer scientist Marvin M…

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h

I haven't!

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h

I wish you were more employed!!

Last time we did this discourse, someone pointed me to openalex.org but I haven't explored it much.

OpenAlex

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 1h

I just saw a commercial for smartphone “AI” where a woman is standing at a flower shop asking her phone which flowers to buy and if they’ll last a few days.

Or she could, you know, ask the florist.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h

We need to stop using Scholar yesterday.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1h

I weep.

Google Scholar Homepage with an AI assistant

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1h

this guy is also doxxing women in other posts so @aaron.bsky.team if you want to at least remove the posts from 6 hours ago with phone numbers that resolve to imessage accounts that would probably be some relief to that one woman.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 1h

If you have white hair you might want to block this guy.

And dear god I am not 80.

And right. Not within 100 feet.

A screenshot of a bluesky post:

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Based on your silver-gray hair, I presume you're almost as old as I am. I'm 80. You're reasonably good looking. I want to run my tongue across and between your lips.
But my face is so ugly that you would never let my face get within 6 feet of yours, right?

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h

Yep

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

For a long time, I was very itinerant, and had to stick to digital media for my own convenience, but the AI-ification of everything is reminding me how important physical media remain.
Especially books.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h

Folks, I'm saying I need it to be written, I'm assuming it hasn't been

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3h

Need a crossover theoryish book on white gay tech fascism. Thiel, Rabois, Helberg, etc.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2h

yeah, I mean, I think the theory is there. I mostly want a contemporary analysis and the way it's crystalized into the current moment

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, it's whiteness and wealth. But also these gay boys like to make anything non-homonormative and trans their personal foil.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3h

Need a crossover theoryish book on white gay tech fascism. Thiel, Rabois, Helberg, etc.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 20h

I really think it's a skill issue. Some people use them to do work they themselves can't do. (A few have told me as much directly.) When the machine gives something approximate, they 1) see the LLM as better than themselves, and 2) fail to see the shortcomings of the answer.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 20h

Sometimes you just can't tell people things. You just have to sit back and let them find out for themselves. Usually those people are children.

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, although I'm glad Weizenbaum crashed out after making it. Can you imagine if Minsky made it...?

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h

Oh hell yes Sour Patch *tosses the casebook onto the floor*

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 18h

I'm in San Francisco. Come hear me talk tomorrow with AI researcher, tech critic, and author Alex Hanna.
www.eventbrite.com/e/gilded-rag...

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk & the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

Veteran financial reporter Jacob Silverman joins Alex Hanna to discuss the tech world's reactionary turn.

www.eventbrite.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 20h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21h

Lmao.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 21h

Tomorrow in San Francisco: @jacobsilverman.com and @alexhanna.bsky.social at Litquake.

7 p.m. See you there?

litquake2025.sched.com/event/28YrM/...

Litquake 2025: Gilded Rage—Elon Musk and the Radicaliza...

View more about this event at Litquake 2025

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve finished writing a one page solo journaling game, and I’m looking for play testers!

Once Upon a Time in Palestine is a utopian (?) narrative game about returning home. Write your testament of how the world changed and changed you.

Lmk if you’re interested in testing it!

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 23h

Furthermore, I have named this book “Disabling Intelligences” because the concept of intelligence is inextricable from the heart of eugenics and must be dismantled as a socially constructed, metrically derived, and algorithmically upheld category of oppression.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 23h

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Rua M Williams's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI, publushed by palgrave macmillan, is held in front of rainbow glass. The cover is deep pink with orange vines.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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