Ari
@arithmetc.bsky.social
Mean to the right people and angry about the right stuff. Ex-software engineer and product designer building Desk Job Design Lab in Brooklyn as a community space for hands-on making in an increasingly synthetic world.
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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I should be able to FOIA how Donald Trump scrolls and posts. I want to know what his feed looks like. Is he an iPad kid? Are the tweets printed out and dictated? Very important information
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I should be able to FOIA how Donald Trump scrolls and posts. I want to know what his feed looks like. Is he an iPad kid? Are the tweets printed out and dictated? Very important information
Got this 100% wool coat for $16 from a thrift store this weekend (american/union-made per the tags, probably from the 1980s)
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Got this 100% wool coat for $16 from a thrift store this weekend (american/union-made per the tags, probably from the 1980s)
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there is no reason to expect—or fear—computers becoming intelligent. we should be afraid that people have already stopped thinking for themselves
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
there is no reason to expect—or fear—computers becoming intelligent. we should be afraid that people have already stopped thinking for themselves
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I’m very unhappy about the aggressive AI upscaling in the Beatles Anthology on Disney Plus. It’s added a whole extra Beatle! Who the fuck is “George”?
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I’m very unhappy about the aggressive AI upscaling in the Beatles Anthology on Disney Plus. It’s added a whole extra Beatle! Who the fuck is “George”?
All the emdashes, I think this was written with ChatGPT. No way he can find an emdash on his keyboard.
Every claim in this paragraph is false, which cannot bode well for the rest of the post.
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
All the emdashes, I think this was written with ChatGPT. No way he can find an emdash on his keyboard.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Another good article. Been yelling at colleagues about this too :-)
www.businessinsider.com/openai-cofou...
www.businessinsider.com/openai-cofou...
OpenAI cofounder says scaling compute is not enough to advance AI: 'It's back to the age of research again'
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said during a "Dwarkesh Podcast" that companies need to find a productive way to use the massive amounts of compute.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Another good article. Been yelling at colleagues about this too :-)
www.businessinsider.com/openai-cofou...
www.businessinsider.com/openai-cofou...
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Welcome to my epic vulgar roast party. Grok, take it away…
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Welcome to my epic vulgar roast party. Grok, take it away…
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Is the capitalism that creates a society that acts in a coordinated effort to ensure a better outcome for all in the room with us right now?
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Is the capitalism that creates a society that acts in a coordinated effort to ensure a better outcome for all in the room with us right now?
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okay this image is weird. when i pasted it in gimp the artifacts became a lot less noticeable. same thing when i move my browser window to a different monitor. but yeah i bumped the exposure on the image to make the editing much more clear
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
okay this image is weird. when i pasted it in gimp the artifacts became a lot less noticeable. same thing when i move my browser window to a different monitor. but yeah i bumped the exposure on the image to make the editing much more clear
Or it’s just about being as efficient printing whistles as possible my dude, but alas men with 3D printers are all like this
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Or it’s just about being as efficient printing whistles as possible my dude, but alas men with 3D printers are all like this
He’s going to change the rules so Zohran can run for president or at least replace JD Vance
“It was a Great Honor meeting Zohran Mamdani, the new Mayor of New York City!”
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
He’s going to change the rules so Zohran can run for president or at least replace JD Vance
If your biggest criticism of AI is that the companies are unprofitable, I’m going to assume you’re an imbecile
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If your biggest criticism of AI is that the companies are unprofitable, I’m going to assume you’re an imbecile
This picture is hysterical because why is her baby crawling around behind her unattended while she gets her pity portrait done
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This picture is hysterical because why is her baby crawling around behind her unattended while she gets her pity portrait done
The fact people keep calling the hemp ban a weed ban proves it needs to be regulated. THAT IS NOT PSYCHOACTIVE CANNABIS, that is a loophole of highly unregulated and shady manufacturers stocking gas station shelves with Delta 9 carts. Absurd.
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The fact people keep calling the hemp ban a weed ban proves it needs to be regulated. THAT IS NOT PSYCHOACTIVE CANNABIS, that is a loophole of highly unregulated and shady manufacturers stocking gas station shelves with Delta 9 carts. Absurd.
I didn’t think I’d have to say this in 2025 but it’s time for anti-necromancy laws
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I didn’t think I’d have to say this in 2025 but it’s time for anti-necromancy laws
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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“We have been following the slow growth in revenues for generative AI over the last few years, and the revenues are neither big enough to support the number of layoffs attributed to AI, nor to justify the capital expenditures on AI cloud infrastructure”
www.fastcompany.com/91435192/cha...
www.fastcompany.com/91435192/cha...
AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.
www.fastcompany.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“We have been following the slow growth in revenues for generative AI over the last few years, and the revenues are neither big enough to support the number of layoffs attributed to AI, nor to justify the capital expenditures on AI cloud infrastructure”
www.fastcompany.com/91435192/cha...
www.fastcompany.com/91435192/cha...
Pretty much exactly where I thought I’d be at almost 30 years old, sitting in a workshop watching Mythbusters and waiting for my open studio guests to arrive 😊
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Pretty much exactly where I thought I’d be at almost 30 years old, sitting in a workshop watching Mythbusters and waiting for my open studio guests to arrive 😊
How did this story get ZERO national coverage?
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
How did this story get ZERO national coverage?
My therapist said he’d been reading Ed Zitron and I told him an intervention is now scheduled for the first 15 minutes of our next session (and recommended he familiarize himself with a more intellectually-curious class of AI critics like @parismarx.com and @timnitgebru.bsky.social)
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My therapist said he’d been reading Ed Zitron and I told him an intervention is now scheduled for the first 15 minutes of our next session (and recommended he familiarize himself with a more intellectually-curious class of AI critics like @parismarx.com and @timnitgebru.bsky.social)