Sevoris (he/him)
@sevoris.bsky.social
Grad Student in Data Science and NLP. Design, philosophy, sociology, politics, making a better world with listening and networking.
Also interested in speculative fiction writing and philosophy - letting reality write new things.
Also interested in speculative fiction writing and philosophy - letting reality write new things.
Digest that, like, mindfully. We now have technology demographically targeting people for demoralization and terror messages and ad tech has been integrated everywhere. So you can‘t skip past it. You can‘t avoid it.
Literal infrastructure of evil, in a new way.
Literal infrastructure of evil, in a new way.
One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
Listening to Mexican folk music on Youtube and they're running this horrible ad urging people to self-deport.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Digest that, like, mindfully. We now have technology demographically targeting people for demoralization and terror messages and ad tech has been integrated everywhere. So you can‘t skip past it. You can‘t avoid it.
Literal infrastructure of evil, in a new way.
Literal infrastructure of evil, in a new way.
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If the entirety of your op/ed compares demographic changes in London to the Khmer Rouge's mass murder of millions of people, you are willingly engaged in stochastic terrorism, and should be held responsible for any and all violent actions committed by fascists against non-white people
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If the entirety of your op/ed compares demographic changes in London to the Khmer Rouge's mass murder of millions of people, you are willingly engaged in stochastic terrorism, and should be held responsible for any and all violent actions committed by fascists against non-white people
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the notion that well educated or smart people can't be delusional is kind of loadbearing on the rat ecosystem, the racial component is like a nice garnish
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
the notion that well educated or smart people can't be delusional is kind of loadbearing on the rat ecosystem, the racial component is like a nice garnish
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I love how Scott decided the Zimbabwe school kid UFO story was more plausible once he realized the school kids were white colonists
November 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I love how Scott decided the Zimbabwe school kid UFO story was more plausible once he realized the school kids were white colonists
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"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
From Interactive to Interpassive
Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading
There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
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The Times adjusted it's headlines, but not until after other media started reporting the links as factual using the Times.
How comfortable should editors be with headlines that amplify the claims of an unverified claim, not subject to peer review, by a known vaccine skeptic?
How comfortable should editors be with headlines that amplify the claims of an unverified claim, not subject to peer review, by a known vaccine skeptic?
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Times adjusted it's headlines, but not until after other media started reporting the links as factual using the Times.
How comfortable should editors be with headlines that amplify the claims of an unverified claim, not subject to peer review, by a known vaccine skeptic?
How comfortable should editors be with headlines that amplify the claims of an unverified claim, not subject to peer review, by a known vaccine skeptic?
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My university just proudly announced both our “own” copy of ChatGPT/edu AND qualtrics new LLM generated “human-like” data collection approach as being “transformative for how we do research” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My university just proudly announced both our “own” copy of ChatGPT/edu AND qualtrics new LLM generated “human-like” data collection approach as being “transformative for how we do research” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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I am begging a lot of unhelpful men in my mentions to shut the fuck up as if I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. yes I have talked to people about figuring out what it is I need to do to get a book published! I don't need your unsolicited advice when I am far smarter than you!
November 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I am begging a lot of unhelpful men in my mentions to shut the fuck up as if I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. yes I have talked to people about figuring out what it is I need to do to get a book published! I don't need your unsolicited advice when I am far smarter than you!
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Every airman who participates should be tried for war crimes, in addition to the leaders. Trump can’t fly the planes himself.
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Every airman who participates should be tried for war crimes, in addition to the leaders. Trump can’t fly the planes himself.
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Another day, another reason I’m ashamed of this country - news that asylum seekers are to be banned from using taxis, even for urgent medical needs but still the govt refuses to issue bus passes
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...?
UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments
Move, which is part of crackdown on costs, comes after it emerged Home Office spends £15.8m a year on service
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Another day, another reason I’m ashamed of this country - news that asylum seekers are to be banned from using taxis, even for urgent medical needs but still the govt refuses to issue bus passes
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...?
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An app I’m using for lazy household budgeting - Budget Flow - has a 50% black week discount on the lifetime subscription + the dev will donate up to 3K of revenue to a charity www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/s/...
From the iosapps community on Reddit: This Black Friday Weekend I’m Donating the Developer Proceeds from my App "Budget Flow" to Charity – 50% Off Lifetime for You! 💸
Explore this post and more from the iosapps community
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November 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
An app I’m using for lazy household budgeting - Budget Flow - has a 50% black week discount on the lifetime subscription + the dev will donate up to 3K of revenue to a charity www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/s/...
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They supposedly ended it by ***checks notes** massacring, raping, and enslaving women and children. But they did it very Christianly.
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
They supposedly ended it by ***checks notes** massacring, raping, and enslaving women and children. But they did it very Christianly.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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Same. Saw a talk about microplastics and the speaker showed a Sora video showing a brain "melting away" leaving a bunch of lego-like bits, and it made me question all the data in the rest of the talk
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Same. Saw a talk about microplastics and the speaker showed a Sora video showing a brain "melting away" leaving a bunch of lego-like bits, and it made me question all the data in the rest of the talk
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Step 1: Post a fake AI video, thereby supporting the billionaire-enriching, planet-destroying disinformation machine
Step 2: Defend that video even though you know the harm fake videos cause to democracies and to justice movements; call people who ask for accountability "cowards"
Step 3: Profit?
Step 2: Defend that video even though you know the harm fake videos cause to democracies and to justice movements; call people who ask for accountability "cowards"
Step 3: Profit?
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Step 1: Post a fake AI video, thereby supporting the billionaire-enriching, planet-destroying disinformation machine
Step 2: Defend that video even though you know the harm fake videos cause to democracies and to justice movements; call people who ask for accountability "cowards"
Step 3: Profit?
Step 2: Defend that video even though you know the harm fake videos cause to democracies and to justice movements; call people who ask for accountability "cowards"
Step 3: Profit?
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I have regularly seen that reviewers and editors do not open supplemental files or read tables and figures tbh. I got comments back from reviewers particularly from software research journals that were continually wrong about the details in the paper itself. So yeah idk if review can be the savior
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I have regularly seen that reviewers and editors do not open supplemental files or read tables and figures tbh. I got comments back from reviewers particularly from software research journals that were continually wrong about the details in the paper itself. So yeah idk if review can be the savior
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Why We Fear AI is my favorite AI critique now, and these two paragraphs sum up so much so well, many thanks to @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer 🙏🏻
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Why We Fear AI is my favorite AI critique now, and these two paragraphs sum up so much so well, many thanks to @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer 🙏🏻
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Folks who wrote that 'AI autism diagnosis' paper in @nature.com don't give a shit what it actually says; all they care is they scored a high-value pub for their CVs. They should be rewarded with deep scrutiny of every future claim.
One of the purposes of this is, obviously, to completely alienate people from their intellectual and creative labor. When "write an article" becomes "push the big red GIMME SLOP button" you're gonna have less pride and investment in the outcome.
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Folks who wrote that 'AI autism diagnosis' paper in @nature.com don't give a shit what it actually says; all they care is they scored a high-value pub for their CVs. They should be rewarded with deep scrutiny of every future claim.
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
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I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
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Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
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#SaveSpeech
The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.
This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.
Chat Control still needs to be fought.
CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!
The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.
This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.
Chat Control still needs to be fought.
CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!
Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure...
www.patrick-breyer.de
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#SaveSpeech
The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.
This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.
Chat Control still needs to be fought.
CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!
The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.
This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.
Chat Control still needs to be fought.
CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!