atomless
@atomless.bsky.social
Book:
Predictive Capital
Roads to Terminal Alienation: Soil to Server Farm, Reason to Vibe
https://www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predictive-capital/
Blog:
https://atomless.substack.com
Predictive Capital
Roads to Terminal Alienation: Soil to Server Farm, Reason to Vibe
https://www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predictive-capital/
Blog:
https://atomless.substack.com
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Hard disagree from me…
The Fair Use Tango: A Dangerous Dance with [Re]Generative AI Models
By Neil Turkewitz
medium.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hard disagree from me…
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Reform can't even run Kent county council but thankfully Starmer is here to help by doing the equivalent of putting the little side barriers up on the bowling lane, making sure the infrastructure is primed and ready for the handover to the fascists.
Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Reform can't even run Kent county council but thankfully Starmer is here to help by doing the equivalent of putting the little side barriers up on the bowling lane, making sure the infrastructure is primed and ready for the handover to the fascists.
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When will Institutions learn that you cannot reason or bargain with pure exterminationist malice? They won't stop until they're stopped, and that begins by doubling down against everything and everyone the fascist bastards throw at you.
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
When will Institutions learn that you cannot reason or bargain with pure exterminationist malice? They won't stop until they're stopped, and that begins by doubling down against everything and everyone the fascist bastards throw at you.
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We can have democracy or we have billionaires.
We cannot have both.
My thoughts on Silicon Valley's fascist turn and what it means for our future, on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
We cannot have both.
My thoughts on Silicon Valley's fascist turn and what it means for our future, on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
‘Nerd Reich’ Author Gil Duran on the Tech Authoritarian Movement | KQED
Airdate: Monday, December 1 at 10 AM Journalist Gil Duran’s newsletter “The Nerd Reich” documents the latest developments in anti-democracy extremism within Silicon Valley. These extreme views include...
www.kqed.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We can have democracy or we have billionaires.
We cannot have both.
My thoughts on Silicon Valley's fascist turn and what it means for our future, on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
We cannot have both.
My thoughts on Silicon Valley's fascist turn and what it means for our future, on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Completely brilliant, urgent, and vital.
youtu.be/ySEqfdRhRPo?...
youtu.be/ySEqfdRhRPo?...
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer: Idris Robinson on Martyrdom, Destituent Powe...
YouTube video by Acid Horizon
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Completely brilliant, urgent, and vital.
youtu.be/ySEqfdRhRPo?...
youtu.be/ySEqfdRhRPo?...
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“What AI produces is not “thinking in language.” An AI condenses its training data and outputs syntactically correct sentences, but it cannot leap to the deeper stratum where meaning is formed, where a text imagines hidden contexts, expands, implies, connects to other texts, and is reanimated […]
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mastodon.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“What AI produces is not “thinking in language.” An AI condenses its training data and outputs syntactically correct sentences, but it cannot leap to the deeper stratum where meaning is formed, where a text imagines hidden contexts, expands, implies, connects to other texts, and is reanimated […]
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It’s been great working with @d-j-frost.bsky.social on the third volume in our series on the history of the British far left. The volume, once again, brings together established and emerging scholars and Dan was instrumental in getting a lot of them involved in the project. It has been exciting to!
The hardback edition of our new edited book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, is published through @manchesterup.bsky.social today!
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Manchester University Press - In solidarity, under suspicion
In solidarity, under suspicion - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of In solidarity, under suspicion by Daniel Frost
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It’s been great working with @d-j-frost.bsky.social on the third volume in our series on the history of the British far left. The volume, once again, brings together established and emerging scholars and Dan was instrumental in getting a lot of them involved in the project. It has been exciting to!
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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The "deserving" are those who never ask and therefore never get, anyone who actually needs help is treated as a hostile external element within or without of society because of their crime of daring to demand what is offered, a truly hostile mockery of hospitality.
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The "deserving" are those who never ask and therefore never get, anyone who actually needs help is treated as a hostile external element within or without of society because of their crime of daring to demand what is offered, a truly hostile mockery of hospitality.
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"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
can you hear the pop?
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
can you hear the pop?
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Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
You know the crunch is imminent when the elite have flee to their bunkers. Thiel having to dump his stake in NVIDIA desperate to limit his exposure because he can’t/won’t dump Palantir.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
You know the crunch is imminent when the elite have flee to their bunkers. Thiel having to dump his stake in NVIDIA desperate to limit his exposure because he can’t/won’t dump Palantir.
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A beautiful essay
“AI is the symptom of a broken world. AI is the symptom; & AI is the disease…
In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were presented with…a technology that severs us from creative expression, dignity & truth.”
“AI is the symptom of a broken world. AI is the symptom; & AI is the disease…
In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were presented with…a technology that severs us from creative expression, dignity & truth.”
AI Grief Observed
These remarks were delivered this evening at the Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series at Illinois State University.
"There is no good way to say this."
These are the opening words of Yiyun Li’s l...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A beautiful essay
“AI is the symptom of a broken world. AI is the symptom; & AI is the disease…
In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were presented with…a technology that severs us from creative expression, dignity & truth.”
“AI is the symptom of a broken world. AI is the symptom; & AI is the disease…
In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were presented with…a technology that severs us from creative expression, dignity & truth.”
weeping watching this www.youtube.com/watch?v=swxg...
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”: New Film on Gaza Photojournalist Killed in Israeli Strike
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
weeping watching this www.youtube.com/watch?v=swxg...
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The PCR positivity map is out, and national positivity across England has nudged downwards a little further to 5%. In Scotland it's 4.05%.
Adjusted for non-reporting areas, we make the English average 6.50%.
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
1/7
Adjusted for non-reporting areas, we make the English average 6.50%.
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
1/7
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The PCR positivity map is out, and national positivity across England has nudged downwards a little further to 5%. In Scotland it's 4.05%.
Adjusted for non-reporting areas, we make the English average 6.50%.
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
1/7
Adjusted for non-reporting areas, we make the English average 6.50%.
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
1/7
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Mears (a sociologist who is a former model) wrote a whole book about it: www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit on JSTOR
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young wome...
www.jstor.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Mears (a sociologist who is a former model) wrote a whole book about it: www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
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Wer sagt, dass "KI" Zugang und Teilhabe vergrößere, muss sich erwidern lassen: Zugang wozu und Teilhabe woran, auf wessen Kosten und zu wessen Gewinn?
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Wer sagt, dass "KI" Zugang und Teilhabe vergrößere, muss sich erwidern lassen: Zugang wozu und Teilhabe woran, auf wessen Kosten und zu wessen Gewinn?
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Es gibt viele gute Texte, die "KI" aus einer Klassenperspektive betrachten, zB diesen von @atomless.bsky.social: www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...
Wer hingegen "Klassismus" als Synonym für "KI-Kritik" benutzt, hat weder Klasse noch "KI" verstanden.
Wer hingegen "Klassismus" als Synonym für "KI-Kritik" benutzt, hat weder Klasse noch "KI" verstanden.
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe
So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes o...
www.creativeapplications.net
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Es gibt viele gute Texte, die "KI" aus einer Klassenperspektive betrachten, zB diesen von @atomless.bsky.social: www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...
Wer hingegen "Klassismus" als Synonym für "KI-Kritik" benutzt, hat weder Klasse noch "KI" verstanden.
Wer hingegen "Klassismus" als Synonym für "KI-Kritik" benutzt, hat weder Klasse noch "KI" verstanden.
This is staged satire, surely? A propaganda attack attempting to burst the AI bubble by further undermining belief in robot technology?
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This is staged satire, surely? A propaganda attack attempting to burst the AI bubble by further undermining belief in robot technology?
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BBC report: "Israel passes first reading of bill proposing death penalty for people it deems terrorists". Yet Israel has for two years, and 70 more before that, been ruthlessly executing tens of thousands of Palestinian civilllians, women, children, and babies, people whose only crime is to have […]
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mastodon.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
BBC report: "Israel passes first reading of bill proposing death penalty for people it deems terrorists". Yet Israel has for two years, and 70 more before that, been ruthlessly executing tens of thousands of Palestinian civilllians, women, children, and babies, people whose only crime is to have […]
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Three of More is a Riot https://youtu.be/rVwlMbJYqgg
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Three of More is a Riot https://youtu.be/rVwlMbJYqgg
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“However, the court found that both the memorisation in the language models & the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights, according to a statement on the ruling.”
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“However, the court found that both the memorisation in the language models & the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights, according to a statement on the ruling.”
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‘Is this how rave dies? Not with a bang, but with a coffee-table book?’
@tomfaber91.bsky.social on the ‘ephemeral’, ‘ineffable’ thing called rave and cultural institutions’ increasing attempts ‘to fix this protean phenomenon in words or on a gallery wall.’
on.ft.com/3LnQkjp (unlocked)
@tomfaber91.bsky.social on the ‘ephemeral’, ‘ineffable’ thing called rave and cultural institutions’ increasing attempts ‘to fix this protean phenomenon in words or on a gallery wall.’
on.ft.com/3LnQkjp (unlocked)
How rave culture went from the dance floor to the museum gallery
Is this how the party ends?
on.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
‘Is this how rave dies? Not with a bang, but with a coffee-table book?’
@tomfaber91.bsky.social on the ‘ephemeral’, ‘ineffable’ thing called rave and cultural institutions’ increasing attempts ‘to fix this protean phenomenon in words or on a gallery wall.’
on.ft.com/3LnQkjp (unlocked)
@tomfaber91.bsky.social on the ‘ephemeral’, ‘ineffable’ thing called rave and cultural institutions’ increasing attempts ‘to fix this protean phenomenon in words or on a gallery wall.’
on.ft.com/3LnQkjp (unlocked)