KT L☀️ Anderson
@kelsonanderson.bsky.social
Antifascist. Fierce Informer. Librarian. Pluviophile. Library Freedom Project. Metamodernism. Privacy. Evaluating Sources. Luddite. Screaming into the void. Powered by indignation & coffee. she/her
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The only way to cleanse this world of this unfathomably wretched beast is with fire
About 3 in 10 young teens. say they use AI chatbots (like ChatGPT) daily
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/
December 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The only way to cleanse this world of this unfathomably wretched beast is with fire
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AI boosters: this technology will create a utopia where everyone has the time and resources to do as they please!
AI in reality:
AI in reality:
A new investigation has revealed that grocery delivery service Instacart is using a covert, AI-powered dynamic pricing scheme to charge customers different prices for the same items — potentially costing households over $1,000 more a year.
Instacart Reportedly Using Secret AI-Powered Dynamic Pricing to Jack Up Prices
In an experiment, investigators found that the same grocery basket at a Seattle store cost between $114 and $124.
truthout.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
AI boosters: this technology will create a utopia where everyone has the time and resources to do as they please!
AI in reality:
AI in reality:
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The democrats sold out every American
John Thune says Republicans have decided to vote on the Crapo-Cassidy health care bill as an alternative to Democrats’ bill to extend ACA funds.
He criticizes the expiring ACA funds as “Biden Covid bonuses.”
He criticizes the expiring ACA funds as “Biden Covid bonuses.”
December 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The democrats sold out every American
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They sure do love lying.
ICE(ERO) just told me it has no body camera footage from operation midway blitz in Chicago in response to my FOIA request.
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
They sure do love lying.
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It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation
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This is the most Starship Troopers coded shit. Paul Verhoeven is like, "shit I should have gone further"
jesus christ
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is the most Starship Troopers coded shit. Paul Verhoeven is like, "shit I should have gone further"
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This is true.
It's not just fascism.
It's also ugly.
It's not just fascism.
It's also ugly.
At least Starship Troopers had to develop a visual style. I'm mad to have to deal with the fascism, but I'm also insulted that aesthetically it's facsimile fascism
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is true.
It's not just fascism.
It's also ugly.
It's not just fascism.
It's also ugly.
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Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
December 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
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I cannot stress enough how the AI thing is just blockchain again. It has some uses, yes, but they're not actually general purpose ones. The bubble is going to burst and it's going to be so bad and like all cons, it's going to leave a few people rich and the rest FUCKED OVER.
A great deal of AI hype is coming from con artists who understand exactly how much easier it’s going to be to use the same cons over and over once they achieve their dream of a world in which nobody understands how anything 1) works or 2) has ever worked.
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I cannot stress enough how the AI thing is just blockchain again. It has some uses, yes, but they're not actually general purpose ones. The bubble is going to burst and it's going to be so bad and like all cons, it's going to leave a few people rich and the rest FUCKED OVER.
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404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
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Nick Fuentes being on Piers Morgan is objectively bad, and that includes whether he “looked bad” or not.
His entire brand is made off trolling offensively to gain the attention of others and it works enormously well.
Giving him bigger and more mainstream places to do that just helps him.
His entire brand is made off trolling offensively to gain the attention of others and it works enormously well.
Giving him bigger and more mainstream places to do that just helps him.
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Nick Fuentes being on Piers Morgan is objectively bad, and that includes whether he “looked bad” or not.
His entire brand is made off trolling offensively to gain the attention of others and it works enormously well.
Giving him bigger and more mainstream places to do that just helps him.
His entire brand is made off trolling offensively to gain the attention of others and it works enormously well.
Giving him bigger and more mainstream places to do that just helps him.
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it's that fuckering time of year again, so time to put up the old fuckering lights
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
it's that fuckering time of year again, so time to put up the old fuckering lights
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This is why I’m on my soapbox everyday at work and being loud about AI and academic integrity
“LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).”
“LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).”
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is why I’m on my soapbox everyday at work and being loud about AI and academic integrity
“LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).”
“LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).”
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Free advice: if you find Quentin Tarantino bashing you in the press… repeat after me.
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Free advice: if you find Quentin Tarantino bashing you in the press… repeat after me.
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
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We do. This was something @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & I discussed at the UIC UF event last week. (Forthcoming pod.)
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We do. This was something @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & I discussed at the UIC UF event last week. (Forthcoming pod.)
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
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The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology.” It also will establish “a cash reward system” for info leading to the arrest of leaders in “these purported terrorist orgs”
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology.” It also will establish “a cash reward system” for info leading to the arrest of leaders in “these purported terrorist orgs”
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"human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own" great piece by @benjaminjriley.bsky.social www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own" great piece by @benjaminjriley.bsky.social www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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in @ali-alkhatib.com’s AI skeptics reading group this week with @alexhanna.bsky.social, we talked about the importance of punching up, rather than down.
shaming boosters as ‘losers’ is all fun & good, but to build coalitions, we can look to what Cathy O’Neil models in The Shame Machine:
shaming boosters as ‘losers’ is all fun & good, but to build coalitions, we can look to what Cathy O’Neil models in The Shame Machine:
![THE SHAME MACHINE page 13: “[we’ll] succeed in redirecting shame from its current victims, who are disproportionately poor and powerless, to people who are taking advantage of the rest of us and poisoning our lives and culture. By turning downward punches into upward ones, we protect the social good. That should be shane’s eternal role, its raison d’etre.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3iwqcrermcupesyasievy6vv/bafkreibzxwxau77cob677427d27zknq7iroove6rpdmz4h7obxetxalzka@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
in @ali-alkhatib.com’s AI skeptics reading group this week with @alexhanna.bsky.social, we talked about the importance of punching up, rather than down.
shaming boosters as ‘losers’ is all fun & good, but to build coalitions, we can look to what Cathy O’Neil models in The Shame Machine:
shaming boosters as ‘losers’ is all fun & good, but to build coalitions, we can look to what Cathy O’Neil models in The Shame Machine:
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Such blatant petty white nationalism on display. There’s no level too small for them to engage in this discursive terrorism.
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
National parks cut free entry for MLK Day, add Trump's birthday
NPS changed its free admission days in 2026, removing MLK Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday.
www.usatoday.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Such blatant petty white nationalism on display. There’s no level too small for them to engage in this discursive terrorism.
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
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Just a reminder that Aaron Swartz was threatened with 50 years of jail time for downloading public domain documents and meanwhile AI companies bulk download copyrighted works
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just a reminder that Aaron Swartz was threatened with 50 years of jail time for downloading public domain documents and meanwhile AI companies bulk download copyrighted works
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Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
AI dialogues shifted political support by 2 to 3 points in trials, eclipsing standard ads. Roughly one-third of this effect persisted for a month. However, models optimized for persuasion proved more factually error-prone.
#MLSky
#MLSky
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds
Conversations with AI can sway people’s political views. Concerningly, a chatbot’s facts are not always accurate, especially when it supports right-wing positions.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
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New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away
Microsoft confirms start date for new Teams update — no more hiding places.
www.forbes.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
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$20 billion could end homelessness in the US
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
$20 billion could end homelessness in the US
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes