Dantanic Panic
@ddt.bsky.social
Same ddt. Working in service design for govtech. Bikes, books, cats. But I get out. All content here is personal.
If you know how it works, you are not the user. If your mother says she loves you, find a second source.
If you know how it works, you are not the user. If your mother says she loves you, find a second source.
I mean, I'm avoiding updating my computer and phone, so maybe not just yet
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I mean, I'm avoiding updating my computer and phone, so maybe not just yet
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November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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“In bed by 9” seems to be popping up all over social media and for once I feel like a trendsetter.
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“In bed by 9” seems to be popping up all over social media and for once I feel like a trendsetter.
And fun fact! Gavin McInnes was just saying how privatizing airports would solve everything.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
And fun fact! Gavin McInnes was just saying how privatizing airports would solve everything.
I feel called out, but rightly so. I mean, I was trying to explain Thomas Guides to a young friend recently.
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I feel called out, but rightly so. I mean, I was trying to explain Thomas Guides to a young friend recently.
She's been all over the Bay Area for quite a while!
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
She's been all over the Bay Area for quite a while!
I am thinking about a live-action Gunbuster update
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I am thinking about a live-action Gunbuster update
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"The central goal of much anti-transgender rhetoric is to make cisgender people believe that their interests and trans people’s interests cannot be met at the same time."
YES! @gbbranstetter.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
YES! @gbbranstetter.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
Great @gbbranstetter.bsky.social read on how throwing trans people under the bus is not a winning political strategy and in fact the opposite is true. Democrats have an opportunity here to not be craven cowards succumbing to transphobic messaging.
Democrats Can’t Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures
Despite the attempts by so many in the party's establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week.
www.thenation.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"The central goal of much anti-transgender rhetoric is to make cisgender people believe that their interests and trans people’s interests cannot be met at the same time."
YES! @gbbranstetter.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
YES! @gbbranstetter.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
The Running Man looks fun (though it's more that it's Edgar Wright; don't think I'd be interested if it were some other director). But I'm not sure I'd try for a billion dollars if it meant I had to go on a killing spree.
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Running Man looks fun (though it's more that it's Edgar Wright; don't think I'd be interested if it were some other director). But I'm not sure I'd try for a billion dollars if it meant I had to go on a killing spree.
Under "don't take CEO statements at their word" is also "Codes of Conduct that conflict with permission structures are only performative"
The notion that Palantir's "code of conduct" would stop it from engaging in civil liberties violations is a bad joke theintercept.com/2017/02/22/h...
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Under "don't take CEO statements at their word" is also "Codes of Conduct that conflict with permission structures are only performative"
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I'm elbows deep into a thesis positing some version of magic (Alan Moore, et al) as resistive praxis, and I'm fairly confident I'll be able to argue that nothing about generative AI is worthwhile for use. In addition to being "the master's tools" etc., I suggest it's a null magic.
Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I'm elbows deep into a thesis positing some version of magic (Alan Moore, et al) as resistive praxis, and I'm fairly confident I'll be able to argue that nothing about generative AI is worthwhile for use. In addition to being "the master's tools" etc., I suggest it's a null magic.
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I think @damonberes.com nailed this one: Social media is not social anymore, and with the pivot to AI, companies that build social media are building something that is isolating us even more
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I think @damonberes.com nailed this one: Social media is not social anymore, and with the pivot to AI, companies that build social media are building something that is isolating us even more
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
There's a disturbance in the street outside my place and I thought it was due to the Senate vote
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
There's a disturbance in the street outside my place and I thought it was due to the Senate vote
I think it's agreed that consciousness is an emergent property
I think it's agreed that narrow AIs demonstrate some emergent behaviors
It does not logically follow that narrow AIs are conscious
I think it's agreed that narrow AIs demonstrate some emergent behaviors
It does not logically follow that narrow AIs are conscious
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I think it's agreed that consciousness is an emergent property
I think it's agreed that narrow AIs demonstrate some emergent behaviors
It does not logically follow that narrow AIs are conscious
I think it's agreed that narrow AIs demonstrate some emergent behaviors
It does not logically follow that narrow AIs are conscious
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
I called Schiff and Padilla just now. No reason.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I called Schiff and Padilla just now. No reason.
Chapter 4 in The Invention of Design and Adorno enters the chat. We'll see what the author picks from his works.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Chapter 4 in The Invention of Design and Adorno enters the chat. We'll see what the author picks from his works.
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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"Philanthropy"
(In the context of other recent news stories, they could have funded two public school districts for the costs they incurred with their unlicensed private school at their Palo Alto mansion.)
apnews.com/article/chan...
(In the context of other recent news stories, they could have funded two public school districts for the costs they incurred with their unlicensed private school at their Palo Alto mansion.)
apnews.com/article/chan...
Zuckerberg, Chan shift bulk of philanthropy to science, focusing on AI and biology to curb disease
For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty goal — “to cure, prevent or manage all disease” — if not in their lifetime, t...
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Philanthropy"
(In the context of other recent news stories, they could have funded two public school districts for the costs they incurred with their unlicensed private school at their Palo Alto mansion.)
apnews.com/article/chan...
(In the context of other recent news stories, they could have funded two public school districts for the costs they incurred with their unlicensed private school at their Palo Alto mansion.)
apnews.com/article/chan...
Where in the US is the price of gasoline down? I don't have a car but I ride my bike past a lot of gas station and I'm not seeing it (though I'm in CA, which has its own contributing factors to the price).
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Where in the US is the price of gasoline down? I don't have a car but I ride my bike past a lot of gas station and I'm not seeing it (though I'm in CA, which has its own contributing factors to the price).
I can get why LLMs are vulnerable to category errors, and "AI Safety" as practiced by OpenAI is one big one, but why are the people who set the algorithms and goals for LLMs so prone to the same issue?
“AI views both suffering and care as computational problems.” 😮💨
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I can get why LLMs are vulnerable to category errors, and "AI Safety" as practiced by OpenAI is one big one, but why are the people who set the algorithms and goals for LLMs so prone to the same issue?
Sadly (?) I cancelled my NYT sub, but that's okay.
Redefining either term would be a giant step. Ask animal researchers. Or Yudokowsky who, as you know, isn't sure six year old humans have it!
Redefining either term would be a giant step. Ask animal researchers. Or Yudokowsky who, as you know, isn't sure six year old humans have it!
Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!"
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sadly (?) I cancelled my NYT sub, but that's okay.
Redefining either term would be a giant step. Ask animal researchers. Or Yudokowsky who, as you know, isn't sure six year old humans have it!
Redefining either term would be a giant step. Ask animal researchers. Or Yudokowsky who, as you know, isn't sure six year old humans have it!
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I was hoping that one day somebody beside Isaac Chotiner would learn to ask interview subjects to verify their statements but I never knew that Rogan's one CTE-fried braincell was going to come back to life for this.
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I was hoping that one day somebody beside Isaac Chotiner would learn to ask interview subjects to verify their statements but I never knew that Rogan's one CTE-fried braincell was going to come back to life for this.
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I use FB to see what Oregon conservatives are saying, so FB thinks I'm a middle-aged white conservative. Over the past few weeks the algorithm has aggressively served me a non-stop barrage of straight up white nationalist and Nazi shit like this. I follow none of these accounts.
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I use FB to see what Oregon conservatives are saying, so FB thinks I'm a middle-aged white conservative. Over the past few weeks the algorithm has aggressively served me a non-stop barrage of straight up white nationalist and Nazi shit like this. I follow none of these accounts.