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Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
*Slopjects where AI agents replace the machine operators #slopjects
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
*Sounds scary, but it makes sense if you expect EVERYTHING to fall into the pit. In one vast, singular, AI Transition. Like, headlong, collapse-of-the-Soviet-Union style
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
*The AI slop issue. A torrent of lies, and new in some ways, but...

medium.com/p/34842e069335
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
*Pretty decent job with the antique "curio" there, Nano Banana
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Darling, to me you don't look at all like a lazy, crazy, frowsy cat-lady terrified to step outside and touch the grass. To me, you'll always look like this". #chatbotpsychosis
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"Should I divorce my husband, would't I be better off with some cats and an emotional confidante on my screen who will flatter me 24/7"

*Okay, that is "how bad" this implies, and it's not at all hard to "imagine that" because that future's already here
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
*They didn't say *willing* collaborators. Just, you know, a website page that lists "the collaborators." #collaborators
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
*Vibe fusion."

*Okay, if the Trump Administration boots up fusion in a year and powers all those giant LLMs, I promise to stop whining and buy my own personal NVIDIA supercomputer
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Just another $100M in VC runway and I would have touched the sky"
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
*Gotta be cash in there somehow
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
*Slop of the Year #neologism #significant
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
*What if I can understand the physical world, have persistent memory, can reason, and can plan complex action sequences, and I'm also a lazy&crazy, ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis, radioactive snake-oil machine

*And I'm Chinese. In occupied Ukraine. Selling Web3 crypto NFTs
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
"It's against our Terms-of-Service for me to talk you into suicide," said the lazy&crazy, ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis, radioactive snake-oil machine
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
*Those who worship the Muses end up in the Museum, and eventually nobody will remember what was in there
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
*Are those generated cartoon pix, there? They look really generated
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
*They're scheming to transform every last bit-and-byte of federal science into Trumpian AI-slop

*Their best tends to be not effective at all, tho
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
*Yeah? What does "slop-up pop" sound like?
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
*Generated "Lazy & Crazy"
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
*AI-generated "Slopject Materials"

...because why would you want to build slopjects out of normal stuff #slopjects
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
*Mental health issues seize maestro of distributed social media
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Pay attention, everybody, my pal the AI has generated a weird new theory of the cosmos" #Nyarlathotep
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
*What goes around, comes around. #AIT&T
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
*Man, I never saw any other American art critic get in as much legal and police trouble as that guy. It went on for years. There but for the grace of God, ladies and gentlemen
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM