Anthony Moser
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Anthony Moser
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· Aug 27
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I'm already tapping the sign
The correct answer to "is Die Hard a Christmas movie" is that it's copaganda
December 2, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I'm already tapping the sign
this is an important point
Viewing the second strikes as somehow distinctively beyond the pale, separate from the first strikes, grants rhe fascist framing that there was something legitimate about the first strikes. But there wasn't!!!
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
this is an important point
When you need a sympathetic ear Google is listening
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
When you need a sympathetic ear Google is listening
i'm told chatgpt had a birthday
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
i'm told chatgpt had a birthday
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I think one of the most helpful ways to think about AI systems comes from Jasmina Tacheva and Srividya Ramasubramanian's article, "AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI’s global order" and this figure. Open article is at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I think one of the most helpful ways to think about AI systems comes from Jasmina Tacheva and Srividya Ramasubramanian's article, "AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI’s global order" and this figure. Open article is at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
this reminds me of something @ali-alkhatib.com posted that i keep thinking about: what is the purpose of models?
are models tools for helping us understand complex systems? or are they just prediction machines to give us prophecies
are models tools for helping us understand complex systems? or are they just prediction machines to give us prophecies
Not knowing exactly how the data analysis is being done by the LLM is a choice.
How do they replicate what works and xfer that knowledge to similar districts or candidates?
Just trust the oracle?
How do they replicate what works and xfer that knowledge to similar districts or candidates?
Just trust the oracle?
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
this reminds me of something @ali-alkhatib.com posted that i keep thinking about: what is the purpose of models?
are models tools for helping us understand complex systems? or are they just prediction machines to give us prophecies
are models tools for helping us understand complex systems? or are they just prediction machines to give us prophecies
Llmao. As is often the case,"ai" is a rhetorical technology in this context: what it *does* is provide a justification for what they wanted to do anyway, and a reason why their washed up center of hacks should get more money
Using artificial intelligence to identify Congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system. n.pr/48mmSlu
An independent effort says AI is the secret to topple 2-party power in Congress
Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Llmao. As is often the case,"ai" is a rhetorical technology in this context: what it *does* is provide a justification for what they wanted to do anyway, and a reason why their washed up center of hacks should get more money
anybody else notice that Chicago's 311 app is only for English speakers?
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
anybody else notice that Chicago's 311 app is only for English speakers?
and remember you're only seeing the ones that were left
December 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
and remember you're only seeing the ones that were left
And this is why I prefer "predictive models"
A predictive model trained on weather data predicting weather data? Can be useful
Put weather words into a text prediction model and it will predict weather words because it doesn't understand anything
A predictive model trained on weather data predicting weather data? Can be useful
Put weather words into a text prediction model and it will predict weather words because it doesn't understand anything
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
November 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
And this is why I prefer "predictive models"
A predictive model trained on weather data predicting weather data? Can be useful
Put weather words into a text prediction model and it will predict weather words because it doesn't understand anything
A predictive model trained on weather data predicting weather data? Can be useful
Put weather words into a text prediction model and it will predict weather words because it doesn't understand anything
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i know what you're thinking, the pope is not usually in movies. neither am i. but I'm willing to make an exception
team ai hater includes Bong Joon Ho, Guillermo del Toro, Vince Gilligan, the Pope, and me
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
i know what you're thinking, the pope is not usually in movies. neither am i. but I'm willing to make an exception
i know what you're thinking, the pope is not usually in movies. neither am i. but I'm willing to make an exception
team ai hater includes Bong Joon Ho, Guillermo del Toro, Vince Gilligan, the Pope, and me
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
i know what you're thinking, the pope is not usually in movies. neither am i. but I'm willing to make an exception
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This is how you know when he’s speaking ex cathedra.
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is how you know when he’s speaking ex cathedra.
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I think this is also true for the nonprofit space
In this space, faculty are very hard to mobilize, either because they're deeply precarious and overworked, or because they're self-image is so wrapped up with the institution they have difficulty seeing themselves as having their own interests that may be at odds with it.
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I think this is also true for the nonprofit space
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Not just the Pope but also Patriaxh Elpidophoros of America as well!
I will bang this drum until my arms go numb: There is something very interesting happening within the older Christian Churches and their approach to LLMs & GenAI. Do
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Not just the Pope but also Patriaxh Elpidophoros of America as well!
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Bong Joon Ho please make this movie
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Bong Joon Ho please make this movie
team ai hater includes Bong Joon Ho, Guillermo del Toro, Vince Gilligan, the Pope, and me
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
team ai hater includes Bong Joon Ho, Guillermo del Toro, Vince Gilligan, the Pope, and me
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FOIA Friday, chicago public schools edition
when a parent or young person makes a Complaint about a CPS official, the legal department investigates itself and writes a memo
cps legal uses these memos to sweep bad actions under the rug, protecting the agency
cps doesn't want to release these files
when a parent or young person makes a Complaint about a CPS official, the legal department investigates itself and writes a memo
cps legal uses these memos to sweep bad actions under the rug, protecting the agency
cps doesn't want to release these files
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
FOIA Friday, chicago public schools edition
when a parent or young person makes a Complaint about a CPS official, the legal department investigates itself and writes a memo
cps legal uses these memos to sweep bad actions under the rug, protecting the agency
cps doesn't want to release these files
when a parent or young person makes a Complaint about a CPS official, the legal department investigates itself and writes a memo
cps legal uses these memos to sweep bad actions under the rug, protecting the agency
cps doesn't want to release these files
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i blocked the account ( @awkword.bsky.social ) immediately because of course I did but honestly the way the poster defends using a deepfake is abhorrent and no, absolutely not, we are not doing second life in meatspace
This video is AI (notice her hands, spatula, background details). Misinformation is the real purpose of these tools and everyone knows it.
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
i blocked the account ( @awkword.bsky.social ) immediately because of course I did but honestly the way the poster defends using a deepfake is abhorrent and no, absolutely not, we are not doing second life in meatspace
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Why are we paying for police misconduct settlements via bonds and not via CPD budget and calling it a good time?
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Why are we paying for police misconduct settlements via bonds and not via CPD budget and calling it a good time?
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Time to stop passing that graph around.
ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company.
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Time to stop passing that graph around.
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"Commander, what would you do if I asked you an outright question?"
"Tell you a downright lie, sir."
from Thud!
"Tell you a downright lie, sir."
from Thud!
Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times
“‘Am I alone in thinking, by the way, that it doesn’t add to the status of the University to have an ape on the faculty?’
‘Yes,’ said Ridcully flatly. ‘You are. We’ve got the only librarian who can rip off your arm with his leg. People respect that.’”
“‘Am I alone in thinking, by the way, that it doesn’t add to the status of the University to have an ape on the faculty?’
‘Yes,’ said Ridcully flatly. ‘You are. We’ve got the only librarian who can rip off your arm with his leg. People respect that.’”
Discworld QOTD, from The Color of Magic
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"Commander, what would you do if I asked you an outright question?"
"Tell you a downright lie, sir."
from Thud!
"Tell you a downright lie, sir."
from Thud!
Reposted by Anthony Moser
ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company.
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company.
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
foia goals
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I finally have written up the extraordinary fact that the @federalreserve.gov has created an entire page specifically devoted to my FOIA requests entitled "Historical Board Documents". Also, my birthday sale is still underway!
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The Federal Reserve Has Created an Entire Page Dedicated to My Successful FOIA Requests
Tomorrow is my 34th Birthday and as such this month's "Birthday" sale is still ongoing. Take advantage today!
Birthday Sale!
Longtime Notes on the Crises readers will remember that I hav...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
foia goals