mechybara
@mechybara.bsky.social
Your typical New Yorker w/ a kink alt account. Also CPTSD, AI anxiety, spiraling, and intellectualization. Smut @ Twitter
This harper's piece on gooning...
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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
harpers.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This harper's piece on gooning...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
now that's what I call we're cooked vol. fuck this timeline www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Z4...
Sora's so bad, it proves AI is a bubble
YouTube video by Adam Conover
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
now that's what I call we're cooked vol. fuck this timeline www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Z4...
Ship it now, someone else will deal with it later. AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity archive.ph/KkvD7
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September 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Ship it now, someone else will deal with it later. AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity archive.ph/KkvD7
Breaking up the sporadic AI panic w/ a rare #mechabare post. Full smut is mostly, quarantined to Twitter.
🔈 [Ghost / Bunnybot in the Medium] “AI is a new medium, and therefore the message is us, rearranged—fragments of our cognition returned to us in a form we cannot control.”
- Marshall McLuhan
🔈 [Ghost / Bunnybot in the Medium] “AI is a new medium, and therefore the message is us, rearranged—fragments of our cognition returned to us in a form we cannot control.”
- Marshall McLuhan
September 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Breaking up the sporadic AI panic w/ a rare #mechabare post. Full smut is mostly, quarantined to Twitter.
🔈 [Ghost / Bunnybot in the Medium] “AI is a new medium, and therefore the message is us, rearranged—fragments of our cognition returned to us in a form we cannot control.”
- Marshall McLuhan
🔈 [Ghost / Bunnybot in the Medium] “AI is a new medium, and therefore the message is us, rearranged—fragments of our cognition returned to us in a form we cannot control.”
- Marshall McLuhan
"AI is at least 4 different transformations happening simultaneously - in how we work, how we invest, how we power our world, and how nations compete. We're trying to integrate an unpredictable technology into systems that weren't designed for it. What’s happening in this messy middle?"
AI That Works for Workers: Survey Results
How do people actually feel about artificial intelligence in the workplace?
kyla.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"AI is at least 4 different transformations happening simultaneously - in how we work, how we invest, how we power our world, and how nations compete. We're trying to integrate an unpredictable technology into systems that weren't designed for it. What’s happening in this messy middle?"
"...the impacts will depend on how many in the management class fall for the hype from the people selling this tech, and retool their workplaces around it. The more this happens, the worse off everyone will be.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"...the impacts will depend on how many in the management class fall for the hype from the people selling this tech, and retool their workplaces around it. The more this happens, the worse off everyone will be.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
beautiful www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/m...
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in NYC mayoral primary leaves Wall Street 'alarmed' and 'depressed'
His potential victory could bring what the Street despises the most — tax hikes and tighter regulation that threaten corporate and investment interests.
www.cnbc.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
beautiful www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/m...
holy shit NYC i don't want to get my hopes too high
June 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
holy shit NYC i don't want to get my hopes too high
"real connection feels too elusive to chase" The kids aren't alright. Are Young People Having Enough Sex?
Confronted with a Vegas buffet of carnality, Generation Z appears to be losing its appetite. archive.ph/AK8Bu#select...
Confronted with a Vegas buffet of carnality, Generation Z appears to be losing its appetite. archive.ph/AK8Bu#select...
archive.ph
June 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"real connection feels too elusive to chase" The kids aren't alright. Are Young People Having Enough Sex?
Confronted with a Vegas buffet of carnality, Generation Z appears to be losing its appetite. archive.ph/AK8Bu#select...
Confronted with a Vegas buffet of carnality, Generation Z appears to be losing its appetite. archive.ph/AK8Bu#select...
Palantir is now busily combining personal data on every American gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, and Internal Revenue Service... robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-t...
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Palantir is now busily combining personal data on every American gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, and Internal Revenue Service... robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-t...
"Therein lies the issue: Generative AI is a technology that works well enough for users to become dependent, but not consistently enough to be truly dependable." archive.ph/LAZyH
archive.ph
June 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"Therein lies the issue: Generative AI is a technology that works well enough for users to become dependent, but not consistently enough to be truly dependable." archive.ph/LAZyH
Amistics “the choices that different cultures made as to which technologies they would, and would not, make part of their lives.”
The great friendship collapse: Inside The Anti-Social Century | Derek Thompson
YouTube video by Big Think
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June 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Amistics “the choices that different cultures made as to which technologies they would, and would not, make part of their lives.”
shit is gonna be (more) bananas when Facebook and the other surveillance apps do similar things when they pour more gas on optimizing for ai engagement
June 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
shit is gonna be (more) bananas when Facebook and the other surveillance apps do similar things when they pour more gas on optimizing for ai engagement
ruh roh “What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
ruh roh “What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
"Because lies are also a kind of violence, violence against the truth, against the compact we have that words describe realities, and we live in a shared reality."
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Because lies are also a kind of violence, violence against the truth, against the compact we have that words describe realities, and we live in a shared reality."
"The uncertainty in programming came from my own fallibility, the reality that it would take me dozens of iterations to solve a problem correctly. For gens... it was normal to accept that we humans would err, but that our computers would remain stubbornly, inflexibly logical & rational."
AI isn’t magic. It’s just weird
A new paper argues that AI should be treated as a ‘normal’ technology like electricity or the internet. But it’s far more unknowable
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"The uncertainty in programming came from my own fallibility, the reality that it would take me dozens of iterations to solve a problem correctly. For gens... it was normal to accept that we humans would err, but that our computers would remain stubbornly, inflexibly logical & rational."
It's time to drink coffee and listen to the new Stereolab.
June 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's time to drink coffee and listen to the new Stereolab.
I'm going to do it. I'm going to finally watch HyperNormalisation.
May 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I'm going to do it. I'm going to finally watch HyperNormalisation.
It’s time to drink coffee and listen to Fugazi.
May 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s time to drink coffee and listen to Fugazi.
After watching Love on the Spectrum, it’s very difficult to watch Love is Blind.
May 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
After watching Love on the Spectrum, it’s very difficult to watch Love is Blind.
When tattoos suddenly seem like a good idea.
May 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
When tattoos suddenly seem like a good idea.
Well it looks like AI has officially killed the Buzzfeed quiz.
❌ Wat type of bread are u?
❌ Which Disney villain is yr attachment style?
✅ What does yr highly specific #mechabare kink reveal about yr unprocessed relational trauma, subconscious needs + the structural limits of yr coping mechanisms?
❌ Wat type of bread are u?
❌ Which Disney villain is yr attachment style?
✅ What does yr highly specific #mechabare kink reveal about yr unprocessed relational trauma, subconscious needs + the structural limits of yr coping mechanisms?
May 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Well it looks like AI has officially killed the Buzzfeed quiz.
❌ Wat type of bread are u?
❌ Which Disney villain is yr attachment style?
✅ What does yr highly specific #mechabare kink reveal about yr unprocessed relational trauma, subconscious needs + the structural limits of yr coping mechanisms?
❌ Wat type of bread are u?
❌ Which Disney villain is yr attachment style?
✅ What does yr highly specific #mechabare kink reveal about yr unprocessed relational trauma, subconscious needs + the structural limits of yr coping mechanisms?
“By the time we all get over the novelty of these new toys and start taking stock of the social, political and economic wreckage, the tech is already so ubiquitous that the courts and policymakers throw up their hands.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein
Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“By the time we all get over the novelty of these new toys and start taking stock of the social, political and economic wreckage, the tech is already so ubiquitous that the courts and policymakers throw up their hands.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...