Annemarie
@annemarienavar.bsky.social
professional hater of the tech industry. media studies professor, mother to dog and cat with more mental health issues than me, reality tv junkie. she/her.
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It’s a category mistake nobody really talks about: most AI companies are not trying to sell creative tools, they are trying to sell content streams.
Why would anyone buy an AI-written romance novel when you can just prompt the chatbots yourself and "write" your own? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
February 10, 2026 at 10:39 PM
It’s a category mistake nobody really talks about: most AI companies are not trying to sell creative tools, they are trying to sell content streams.
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this whole thread
There's a kind of intellectual malaise among a certain kind of socialist that just doesn't understand automation and I think probably comes from not having worked much on or around it.
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
This is the smart person’s “if wishes were horses.” Morozov repeatedly asserts that technologies have politics but he chooses to overlook here that technologies do also have material properties that circumscribe their politics. www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...
February 10, 2026 at 2:10 PM
this whole thread
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I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
February 5, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
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On one side is a nurse and a poet dying while saying “Are you okay?” and “I'm not even mad at you dude"
And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.”
And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.
And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.”
And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
January 24, 2026 at 8:31 PM
On one side is a nurse and a poet dying while saying “Are you okay?” and “I'm not even mad at you dude"
And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.”
And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.
And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.”
And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.
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This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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Tech bros are doing their best to convince everyone they should have a best friend that sells their intimate details to the government and tells them to kill themselves.
Mustafa Suleyman says you’ll be BFFs with AI in 5 years
Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts everyone will form intimate bonds with AI companions within 5 years to navigate life’s challenges.
www.windowscentral.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Tech bros are doing their best to convince everyone they should have a best friend that sells their intimate details to the government and tells them to kill themselves.
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
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“The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise, short-circuiting decision-making, + isolating people from each other. These systems are anathema to the kind of evolution, transparency, cooperation, + accountability that give vital institutions their purpose and sustainability.”
"If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies
papers.ssrn.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM
“The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise, short-circuiting decision-making, + isolating people from each other. These systems are anathema to the kind of evolution, transparency, cooperation, + accountability that give vital institutions their purpose and sustainability.”
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🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
www.science.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ring normalized surveillance with all of those cute videos of heartwarming moments that affectively primed us to see surveillance as no big deal.
Wearable AI just mash this together with sousveillance and a dash of algorithmic bullshit to usher in yet another layer of the WORST cyberpunk dystopia.
Wearable AI just mash this together with sousveillance and a dash of algorithmic bullshit to usher in yet another layer of the WORST cyberpunk dystopia.
“…the endgame is to record and analyze everything in your life, and that's not hyperbole.”
CES 2026 laid out a Black Mirror future of wearable AI that's always listening, watching, ready to help, and 'knows everything about you.' I'm not enthusiastic
With new AI assistants like Lenovo's Qira, tech brands are laying out the helpful-surveillance endgame that started with smart glasses.
www.androidcentral.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Ring normalized surveillance with all of those cute videos of heartwarming moments that affectively primed us to see surveillance as no big deal.
Wearable AI just mash this together with sousveillance and a dash of algorithmic bullshit to usher in yet another layer of the WORST cyberpunk dystopia.
Wearable AI just mash this together with sousveillance and a dash of algorithmic bullshit to usher in yet another layer of the WORST cyberpunk dystopia.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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It took 6 years for the Iraq war to impact the the Bush 43 administration politically... And it was in part because of the images of abuses from Abu Grahib. Half to country wouldn't even see those images today or could easily dispel them as AI generated if they did.
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
It took 6 years for the Iraq war to impact the the Bush 43 administration politically... And it was in part because of the images of abuses from Abu Grahib. Half to country wouldn't even see those images today or could easily dispel them as AI generated if they did.
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Specifically, a protest song about how the sons of the rich were able to avoid fighting, like fighting-age Donald Trump who got four deferments for being in college and another for bone spurs.
Trump posts footage of the Maduro raid set to "Fortunate Son" -- a protest song about the Vietnam War draft
January 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Specifically, a protest song about how the sons of the rich were able to avoid fighting, like fighting-age Donald Trump who got four deferments for being in college and another for bone spurs.
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Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
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You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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I’m embarrassed for these people. I was at a writing retreat this summer that suggested we use genai for ideation. They told academics to use a plagiarism machine for ideas. If you are doing this, do us all a favor and leave the field. If you have no more ideas, you shouldn’t be an academic.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m embarrassed for these people. I was at a writing retreat this summer that suggested we use genai for ideation. They told academics to use a plagiarism machine for ideas. If you are doing this, do us all a favor and leave the field. If you have no more ideas, you shouldn’t be an academic.
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As much as Netflix pretends to be an entertainment company and a studio they move through the world like a tech company, up to and including devaluing the product they initially sold as a premium service (tv and movies).
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
As much as Netflix pretends to be an entertainment company and a studio they move through the world like a tech company, up to and including devaluing the product they initially sold as a premium service (tv and movies).
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Embracing a label of "disabled" made me more confident in asking for accommodations. I can't get through a full work day in person without suffering in pain.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Embracing a label of "disabled" made me more confident in asking for accommodations. I can't get through a full work day in person without suffering in pain.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
Honestly I might have given the OU essay like a 50% just because I think the kid actually wrote that (offensive, idiotic, not the assignment at all) screed herself and shared her own actual thoughts. My bar is so low these days 😭
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Honestly I might have given the OU essay like a 50% just because I think the kid actually wrote that (offensive, idiotic, not the assignment at all) screed herself and shared her own actual thoughts. My bar is so low these days 😭
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
The actual earnings call quotes say so little about how this actually would work or what it looks like but as an IP protection measure this seems like shooting yourself in the foot and putting D+ into the content moderation business like that sounds terribly ill -conceived
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The actual earnings call quotes say so little about how this actually would work or what it looks like but as an IP protection measure this seems like shooting yourself in the foot and putting D+ into the content moderation business like that sounds terribly ill -conceived
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Once again, per @jztidecat.bsky.social, we have (sadly, in many cases, not for the first time) learned these last six months that a great many of our colleagues, leaders, & institutions are not actually in the business of .
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Ok so they’ve just drank the kool-aid around AI and only see a university education as a job training program. This actually makes a lot of sense
![And we buttress that with: We believe that
these tools are going to become fundamental, just like the internet is today - every industry, every academic field, every discipline is going to be using these tools. So, we need our students, our community members, to engage with them now. We're not going to wait until we're far behind everybody else ... to give this
access.
And on the workforce side, in terms of student preparation, we already know that employers are expecting students to graduate with [AI] skills. ... We want our students to be prepared for the workforce or graduate school or whatever they're going to do when they leave the CSU.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:szt5gohiatgtykukx627lh7w/bafkreidwnooy2i2xoq4vc3xd2l7pp6ilh3fifmrualqua6yblbywtzajfi@jpeg)
August 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Once again, per @jztidecat.bsky.social, we have (sadly, in many cases, not for the first time) learned these last six months that a great many of our colleagues, leaders, & institutions are not actually in the business of .
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...