Hypervisible
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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
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Eugenics is a lot more popular & mainstream in certain circles than most folks are willing to admit.
January 29, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Eugenics is a lot more popular & mainstream in certain circles than most folks are willing to admit.
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Sundance paid for me to travel to the festival so I could moderate a panel on the politics of AI. They pulled me last minute because of my q's for this movie and support of Ghost in the Machine. More details on the pod this week about what happened, but this thread makes me proud I got booted.
I just got done watching a truly horrible movie at Sundance ("The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"). It was introduced by the Sundance programming rep as having "a strong sense of informational integrity", but it's hard to imagine a characterization more off the mark.
A long thread 🧵>>
A long thread 🧵>>
January 29, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Sundance paid for me to travel to the festival so I could moderate a panel on the politics of AI. They pulled me last minute because of my q's for this movie and support of Ghost in the Machine. More details on the pod this week about what happened, but this thread makes me proud I got booted.
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i really can't get over how unimaginative tech companies are with LLMs. everything - almost literally every single thing - is a chat bot. you have to initiate and sustain a fake conversation with a chat window for every stupid thing. the least creative people in the world.
OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.
prism.openai.com
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.
prism.openai.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:25 AM
i really can't get over how unimaginative tech companies are with LLMs. everything - almost literally every single thing - is a chat bot. you have to initiate and sustain a fake conversation with a chat window for every stupid thing. the least creative people in the world.
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I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
January 28, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
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NEW with @makenakelly.bsky.social, ICE is using generative AI from Palantir to sort through immigration enforcement tips and summarize them. Details here:
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tipline since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:44 PM
NEW with @makenakelly.bsky.social, ICE is using generative AI from Palantir to sort through immigration enforcement tips and summarize them. Details here:
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Booooo.
'The Vince Staples Show' Canceled by Netflix After Two Seasons
Netflix has canceled 'The Vince Staples Show' after its s...
www.complex.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Booooo.
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The reason so many people haven't had a chance to hear these other narratives is, of course, financial. You're only hearing about "AI" at all because so many companies are trying so hard to sell it to you. And their interests are well supported by both the booster AND the doomer narratives.
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January 28, 2026 at 10:54 PM
The reason so many people haven't had a chance to hear these other narratives is, of course, financial. You're only hearing about "AI" at all because so many companies are trying so hard to sell it to you. And their interests are well supported by both the booster AND the doomer narratives.
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This was also true (for you) with the Metaverse, Mark. You’ll get there eventually!
Mark Zuckerberg says a future without smart glasses is ‘hard to imagine’ | TechCrunch
Take Zuckerberg's outlook with a grain of salt. After all, he thought we'd all be hanging out in the metaverse by now.
techcrunch.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:51 PM
This was also true (for you) with the Metaverse, Mark. You’ll get there eventually!
That’s because they are the target audience.
The Worst People Alive Are Obsessed With Meta's Video Recording Glasses
Meta's biggest fans for its video-recording Ray-Bans? Creeps and obnoxious pranksters that film themselves harassing people.
futurism.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
That’s because they are the target audience.
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lots of dunking on this premise (that language's primary function is to capture the world / a soul via one-to-one mapping) / pointing out how long ling anth has been dunking on it / that it doesn't even match up with how all data scientists engage w language in practice www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Claude has an 80-page “soul document.” Is that enough to make it good?
Anthropic philosopher Amanda Askell reveals what went into the chatbot’s moral education.
www.vox.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:22 PM
lots of dunking on this premise (that language's primary function is to capture the world / a soul via one-to-one mapping) / pointing out how long ling anth has been dunking on it / that it doesn't even match up with how all data scientists engage w language in practice www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Palantir working hard to be the IBM of this era.
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Palantir working hard to be the IBM of this era.
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Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
ICE and CBP are at the head of Trump's campaign to terrorize Minnesotans. But the Justice Department is not far behind.
ICE’s No. 1 Ally
The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents from accountability and launched needless criminal investigations into Minnesota officials and residents.
www.theatlantic.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
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In setting things up this way, he does his audience a big disservice. Instead of engaging in journalism (fact checking, what?) he just lets himself get buffeted by the imaginations of some of the most unhinged people in this space, and platforms their nonsense.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:43 PM
In setting things up this way, he does his audience a big disservice. Instead of engaging in journalism (fact checking, what?) he just lets himself get buffeted by the imaginations of some of the most unhinged people in this space, and platforms their nonsense.
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I just got done watching a truly horrible movie at Sundance ("The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"). It was introduced by the Sundance programming rep as having "a strong sense of informational integrity", but it's hard to imagine a characterization more off the mark.
A long thread 🧵>>
A long thread 🧵>>
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I just got done watching a truly horrible movie at Sundance ("The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"). It was introduced by the Sundance programming rep as having "a strong sense of informational integrity", but it's hard to imagine a characterization more off the mark.
A long thread 🧵>>
A long thread 🧵>>
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NEW: The firm behind the Mobile Fortify app, which ICE and CBP use for running facial recognition scans on the public, was revealed today to be NEC, according to DHS docs reviewed by @wired.com. NEC makes its of face rec platform called Reveal. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social with the scoop:
Here's the Company That Sold DHS ICE's Notorious Face Recognition App
Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:22 PM
NEW: The firm behind the Mobile Fortify app, which ICE and CBP use for running facial recognition scans on the public, was revealed today to be NEC, according to DHS docs reviewed by @wired.com. NEC makes its of face rec platform called Reveal. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social with the scoop:
Why would you do this.
NEW: Google’s “Auto Browse” AI tool includes a warning that attributes responsibility to users for the bot’s actions.
“Use Gemini carefully and take control if needed,” reads a disclaimer on the demo version. “You are responsible for Gemini’s actions during tasks.”
www.wired.com/story/google...
“Use Gemini carefully and take control if needed,” reads a disclaimer on the demo version. “You are responsible for Gemini’s actions during tasks.”
www.wired.com/story/google...
Google’s New Chrome ‘Auto Browse’ Agent Attempts to Roam the Web Without You
Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Why would you do this.
“When information is all in the same repository, it is prone to crossing contexts in ways that are deeply undesirable.”
What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier
Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life.
www.technologyreview.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:58 PM
“When information is all in the same repository, it is prone to crossing contexts in ways that are deeply undesirable.”
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it's been nearly 2 years since I wrote this (free to read) piece about Signal: why you want it, how it works, why it's better than most alternatives. I even included an example of how little information Signal can hand over if it gets a warrant for a phone number law enforcement already has
www.askwoody.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:30 PM
it's been nearly 2 years since I wrote this (free to read) piece about Signal: why you want it, how it works, why it's better than most alternatives. I even included an example of how little information Signal can hand over if it gets a warrant for a phone number law enforcement already has
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The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...
January 28, 2026 at 3:17 PM
The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...
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I interviewed dozens of today’s most influential Black mediamakers. The interviews were heavy, juicy, astute. I tell their stories through an arc of mediamaking that links them to predecessors and successors revealing a collective practice of national intervention and imagination they ask us to join
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I interviewed dozens of today’s most influential Black mediamakers. The interviews were heavy, juicy, astute. I tell their stories through an arc of mediamaking that links them to predecessors and successors revealing a collective practice of national intervention and imagination they ask us to join
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In A Second Sight I trace media made by African Americans from before the founding via the printing press through every technological advancement to show how this media intervened in US politics & culture. Think Phillis Wheatley to Ryan Coogler. This is a media, history, & politics book (and more).
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 PM
In A Second Sight I trace media made by African Americans from before the founding via the printing press through every technological advancement to show how this media intervened in US politics & culture. Think Phillis Wheatley to Ryan Coogler. This is a media, history, & politics book (and more).
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NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
January 28, 2026 at 11:32 AM
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
“UpScrolled is backed by the Tech for Palestine incubator, an advocacy project that helps fund tech initiatives to support the Palestinian cause.”
Meet UpScrolled, the anti-censorship TikTok alternative
The company's CEO says users are flooding the platform after the sale of TikTok in the U.S.
restofworld.org
January 28, 2026 at 2:56 PM
“UpScrolled is backed by the Tech for Palestine incubator, an advocacy project that helps fund tech initiatives to support the Palestinian cause.”
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Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.