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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 18h

This person is an economist, so it’s not surprising that he’s just making shit up.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 16h

It wouldn't shift to any random "something else" either, it'd shift right onto the braces. Classic schoolyard bully move.

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 16h

We heard you like shopping cart so we put shopping cart in your shopping cart except it's a game of telephone with computer

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 16h

"Basic things like write a shopping list"

I shit ye not one of the local delivery apps is doing this: write a shopping list in app & have it add the items on it to your cart from that list..

It's like pissing in a spray bottle and then spraying your wee into the bog. Why'd I do that? Why?

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 1d

Thank fuck! I like Ruby, hope this is the start of something larger too, saving it from the burden of RoR. Such a bullshit framework, everytime I touched it it felt like I had just moved to Germany and had to learn how to navigate the bureaucracy and use a fax machine

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Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

In times of dearth tech turn to their most reliable cash cow: desperately horny creeps

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

ChatGPT sales are flat — so Altman offers OpenAI adult chat

hi, I’m Misa! — uh, Ani

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFV... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251017-cha... - podcast

time: 6 min 03 sec

man's eyes pop and tongue and tie roll out looking at a robot striking a sexy pose

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

It sure “has lower barriers to entry” cos it’s true. Flat earth has high barriers to entry, you need to invest in a made up fantasy version of life, much more involved than believing science. And why invest time in something I don’t need? I’m not a plagiarist so I’ve no use case. Fucking economist..

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

“Econ professor”

Fucking clown ass discipline

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 2d

Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

Open-, Open-, Open Eyyyy Aaaayyy
I'm begging of you, please, don't take my man
Open-, Open-, Open Eyyyy Aaaayyy
Please, don't take him just because you can

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

Reddit versus Sam Altman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYsN... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251016-ai-... - podcast

time: 5 min 31 sec

woman in arms of robot, looking lovingly at each other

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 4d

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 4d

Not even coherent clips, either. Quite trippily everything changes frame to frame (and perhaps even in between, maybe depending on if it reproduces compression somehow). Hence why it feels like a terrible fever dream.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 5d

Because capitalism

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 5d

There _is_ a lot of benefit right now in moving to Linux if your workflows are accommodated by it, and much more than ever _is_, but if at some point it gains substantial user share, of course your fave distro, package, etc, a lot of which is long corporatised already, will be windows 11-ised

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 5d

Problem here is, besides “Linux issues”, people seem to believe that Linux or open source are somehow immune to tech hype, but this is very much not the case. Just look at Android or Chromebooks, just installing a different software is not a substitute for reigning tech in for the users.

Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 5d

Also, before the Linux comments arrive.
I use Linux, both in VMs and as the base OS on some of my machines in the lab here.

I cannot edit videos, run a DAW with my favorite plugins, control my cameras, etc, etc in Linux.
I wish I could.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 5d

Hello Github users we added Maximally Gullible Himbo Simulator 2000 to all your repositories, ‘ave fun! Our website is now literally the phished version of itself for shitbots. Welcome to the future!

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 5d

Prompt-inject Github’s AI Copilot Chat

‘You won a free $10 Copilot coupon!’

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iapC... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251014-pro... - podcast

time: 5 min 32 sec

cartoon laptop broken in two down screen

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 5d

I'd like to imagine youtube used "AI" extensively in their new redesign of apps and icons on account of how fugly and borked it all is.

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 7d

“But Gen-…”

Shut up stop being wrong.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 7d

If your opinion mentions any of those weird ass USian pop-culture generation names, it’s wrong.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 8d

I looked at that subreddit. I shouldn’t’ve.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 9d

Well, couldn’t get leek conveniently, so did peas instead, and some avocado toast while that was cooking, as a snack.

Actually the first time I used avocado myself, somehow it was much better than any avocado toast I ate outside.

Veggie stew with potatoes carrots and peas in a pot.

Four wedges of avocado toast sandwiches on plate on table, made of white square bread that is nicely browned

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Nugget @nuggetthenonbiner.bsky.social · 10d

These still give A. I. too much credit and leeway.

A pencil helps the artist in someway.

A. I. does not help, it turns you into helper.

Autotune lets you modify your voice to better fit your creative vision.

A. I. distorts other peoples' creative visions in order to let you lie and take credit.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 9d

Blocks work so annoyingly on bsky, i block someone and so now if i look at a post on the subthread we had an exchange, can't see the whole thing anymore. Just hide their posts this is awful and disincentivises blocking

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 9d

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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