Hill Harman
@hillharman.bsky.social
This is what happens when a company whose bottom line depends on actually delivering a product that you pay for tries to implement AI.
Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri
Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri
More Siri delays.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:24 PM
This is what happens when a company whose bottom line depends on actually delivering a product that you pay for tries to implement AI.
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Hello, I also have a big piece of paper that says I'm a doctor of philosophy and I'm here to tell you this is not a smart thing to say.
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Hello, I also have a big piece of paper that says I'm a doctor of philosophy and I'm here to tell you this is not a smart thing to say.
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Functionalist approaches measure intelligence by how closely its outputs resemble the human mind. If you constantly recalibrate its outputs to resemble a human mind, you're not creating a thinking machine. You are creating a machine to trick other functionalists.
To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
February 11, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Functionalist approaches measure intelligence by how closely its outputs resemble the human mind. If you constantly recalibrate its outputs to resemble a human mind, you're not creating a thinking machine. You are creating a machine to trick other functionalists.
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what if, due to AI, in a couple of years the only people who have jobs are podcasters? that brings us to the obvious question: how are the rest of you going to get the money to pay for my podcasts? that's something you all need to be thinking about because i will not change my lifestyle.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
what if, due to AI, in a couple of years the only people who have jobs are podcasters? that brings us to the obvious question: how are the rest of you going to get the money to pay for my podcasts? that's something you all need to be thinking about because i will not change my lifestyle.
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4) Vested into SpaceX stock and don't need to actually succeed to get rich
So apparently at least 11 senior people (including 2 co-founders) left simultaneously xAI yesterday
Explanations?
1) Incriminating Epstein documents being circulated internally
2) Illegal activities discovered in the business
3) Extraordinary coincidence
Explanations?
1) Incriminating Epstein documents being circulated internally
2) Illegal activities discovered in the business
3) Extraordinary coincidence
February 11, 2026 at 7:24 PM
4) Vested into SpaceX stock and don't need to actually succeed to get rich
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When @willknight.bsky.social tried turning his digital life over to OpenClaw, it became obsessed with buying guacamole and then tried to scam him with a series of phishing emails:
I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me
I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me.
www.wired.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:29 PM
When @willknight.bsky.social tried turning his digital life over to OpenClaw, it became obsessed with buying guacamole and then tried to scam him with a series of phishing emails:
Fucking yikes.
Those of us who like to say things like “popular culture is a complex space of ideology and antagonism, repression and resistance” really eating shit today:
“The group that should be in the streets has been bought off by Jay Z” - Jes Stanley, CEO of Barclays
“The group that should be in the streets has been bought off by Jay Z” - Jes Stanley, CEO of Barclays
February 11, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Fucking yikes.
Yes, but this is not a large number in the context of historic deaths from respiratory viruses in the US. Twice as many people likely died in traffic accidents in that period. Many more routinely die from flu in a month.
February 11, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Yes, but this is not a large number in the context of historic deaths from respiratory viruses in the US. Twice as many people likely died in traffic accidents in that period. Many more routinely die from flu in a month.
Uttering violent misogyny in public should get you sent to the hospital before you even realize what has happened. We’ve actually had something like this in the West, even if many of the other dimensions of the culture were problematic. We may need to bring back dueling, but with baseball bats.
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Uttering violent misogyny in public should get you sent to the hospital before you even realize what has happened. We’ve actually had something like this in the West, even if many of the other dimensions of the culture were problematic. We may need to bring back dueling, but with baseball bats.
Put it in a museum, though. This could only ever be written about one of the worst shit heads to ever live, and that is self-evident to anyone with a brain and morals.
They're calling it the most embarrassing op-ed of all time: The Louisiana SG, who has multiple cases pending before the Supreme Court right now, writing an essay about how his old boss, Justice Samuel Alito, is the nicest, smartest, bestest justice who ever lived www.foxnews.com/opinion/i-wo...
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Put it in a museum, though. This could only ever be written about one of the worst shit heads to ever live, and that is self-evident to anyone with a brain and morals.
We’ve got to get to a world where guys who say shit like this immediately get knocked out.
February 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM
We’ve got to get to a world where guys who say shit like this immediately get knocked out.
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Pro-trans humanist but anti-transgender is a really funny ideology. We will transcend the boundaries of flesh, be whatever we want to be EXCEPT IN THAT ONE WAY, NONE OF THAT, freeing ourselves from the shackles of our physical husks BUT DON’T TOUCH THE GENITALS.
February 10, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Pro-trans humanist but anti-transgender is a really funny ideology. We will transcend the boundaries of flesh, be whatever we want to be EXCEPT IN THAT ONE WAY, NONE OF THAT, freeing ourselves from the shackles of our physical husks BUT DON’T TOUCH THE GENITALS.
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I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
A culture that tolerates this is dying.
Congressman wants to round up and deport people who liked Bad Bunny’s show. This is the Republican Party.
February 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
A culture that tolerates this is dying.
Rosalia and she should sing in all 13 languages on LUX except English. Either that or Seu Jorge with a full Life Aquatic show.
Bad Bunny again. I want to see some of the worst people in the world explode
February 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Rosalia and she should sing in all 13 languages on LUX except English. Either that or Seu Jorge with a full Life Aquatic show.
I think what he's saying is that Bad Bunny is too hot.
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I think what he's saying is that Bad Bunny is too hot.
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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“Many critics suggest that LLMs are useless. I disagree. It’s debatable if they are worth their costs—economically, environmentally, socially—but users of an LLM do something both powerful and concerning: they engage with an alienated abstraction of their own thoughts.”
- @eryk.bsky.social
- @eryk.bsky.social
The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought
It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
www.techpolicy.press
February 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM
“Many critics suggest that LLMs are useless. I disagree. It’s debatable if they are worth their costs—economically, environmentally, socially—but users of an LLM do something both powerful and concerning: they engage with an alienated abstraction of their own thoughts.”
- @eryk.bsky.social
- @eryk.bsky.social
Mindblowing album.
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Mindblowing album.
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NEW WOLF DROP
A female gray wolf was spotted in Los Angeles County over the weekend. This marks the first documented wolf in the area in at least a century.
With an estimated 60 wolves currently living in CA, her presence offers real hope for the continued return of wolves to the state.
🔗 https://bit.ly/403A8Yk
With an estimated 60 wolves currently living in CA, her presence offers real hope for the continued return of wolves to the state.
🔗 https://bit.ly/403A8Yk
A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century
Around 6 a.m. Saturday, the 3-year-old female arrived in the mountains north of Santa Clarita, as tracked by a GPS collar.
www.latimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
NEW WOLF DROP
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my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system
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NEW: The “centrist” Abundance think tank pushing Democrats toward deregulation is run by a registered corporate lobbyist for OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, and a crypto think tank.
February 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
NEW: The “centrist” Abundance think tank pushing Democrats toward deregulation is run by a registered corporate lobbyist for OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, and a crypto think tank.
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Analysis: we fired all our arts and culture writers
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Analysis: we fired all our arts and culture writers
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Every Super Bowl ad was just “HEY REMEMBER THIS SHIT? HUH? YOU REMEMBER THE POP CULTURE YOU CONSUMED THAT ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN NOT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FUCKING SUCKED. REMEMBER THAT?? brought to you by a company causing your electric bill to increase 287%”
February 9, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Every Super Bowl ad was just “HEY REMEMBER THIS SHIT? HUH? YOU REMEMBER THE POP CULTURE YOU CONSUMED THAT ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN NOT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FUCKING SUCKED. REMEMBER THAT?? brought to you by a company causing your electric bill to increase 287%”
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.