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We used to be a proper Connery
Sean Connery in Zardoz, he has a long bread that's falling on his right shoulder, he holds a gun in his right hands , wears an odd outfit, boots arriving mid tights, a kind of red merkin to hide his private parts, and a red bullet cases holder à la Pancho Villa as straps to hold this merkin up. He stands in what appears to be a flat pale white landscape with montains in the background
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Duh
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November 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Et voilà!
These two threads are quite cringe.
I know it's bad form to screen-cap, but not for bad faith chuds.
Bluesky post by Andy Masley (EA chud) asking for folks to go help him ration The Rolling Stone magazine on twitter because they ran a story about Datacenters water consumption in Oregon that he does not like
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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« [...] there is something fundamentally condescending and dishonest in believing that the solutions to [systemic injustice] can be conceptualized by people who largely have profited from such injustice »

Anti-Blackness and the Effective Altruist - academic.oup.com/book/45591/c...
The EA movement also is not just white in terms of physical representation. Normative Whiteness1 is cooked into the ideological foundation, because it focuses on maximizing the effectiveness of donors’ resources, which entrenches power in the hands of donors and further reinforces a power imbalance (Saunders-Hasting 2015). This contributes to donor-defined effectiveness and reduces the experiences, preferences, and views of EA recipients (Wisor 2011). The sheer homogeneity of donors, their approaches and strategies that are deemed to be most “effective,” merely reflects their own highly subjective definition of “good.” This is white benevolence and white paternalism at their finest. Systemic global injustice is rooted in historical and institutional contexts. As such, there is something fundamentally condescending and dishonest in believing that the solutions to it can be conceptualized by people who largely have profited from such injustice (Ross-Oliver 2021). Locating all the power and influence with donors also can lead to selecting causes and approaches that have the potential to produce immediate successes (Mills 2012). This diminishes involvement by recipient communities in decision-making and implementation (Gabriel 2017). In this, Whiteness is represented not only in the presumably majority of donors who are white, but also in the acceptance of the idea that the racial makeup of EA doesn’t matter.
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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What percentage of emission for greasy greedy pigs (metaphorical) like Bill Gates and his ilks.
What about redesigning them ?
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed It is never enough Janwillem van de Wetering
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Food for thought (ain't saying that's always easy to do...)

read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
In contemplating our interactions with emerging technologies, we might heed Weizenbaum's advice by considering the significant stakes of “small contexts,” such as when or whether to use a commercialized chatbot. Technologies that promise convenience at the expense of judgment may constitute what Zachary Loeb (2016) calls a “Faustian” bargain.13 How do we summon the courage necessary to avoid such bad tradeoffs? No doubt Weizenbaum would advise us to begin by opening our minds, research, and teaching to the most diverse and robust forms of reasoning. The challenges he identified more than fifty years ago remain with us today.
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Perhaps most incisively, Weizenbaum offers insights into the courage it takes to exercise judgment. Years after writing Computer Power, he returned to his belief that unthinking devotion to instrumental reason compromises that very capacity. When asked what the most important passage was in the book, he quoted this one: It is a widely held but a grievously mistaken belief that civil courage finds exercise only in the context of world-shaking events. To the contrary, its most arduous exercise is often in those small contexts in which the challenge is to overcome the fears induced by petty concerns over career, over our relationships to those who appear to have power over us, over whatever may disturb the tranquility of our mundane existence. (Weizenbaum 1976: 276; quoted in Weizenbaum and Wendt 2015: 160)
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Also

read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
In ways reminiscent of modern-day critiques of techno-solutionism, Weizenbaum also worried that problem-solvers who aimed to turn judgment into calculation were misconstruing “political confrontations” as “mere failures of communication” that could be “repaired by . . . the latest information-handling techniques.” In so doing, they were denying the “collision of . . . human interests and of disparate human values, [and] hence of human values themselves” (14). The implications of this are considerable. By denying that values collide, politics and judgment, which thrive on such collisions, are hollowed out.
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Artificial Intelligence as a genocidal fascist project

read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/....
As a German-born Jew who had witnessed the Nazi regime firsthand, Weizenbaum emphasized that the “common ground” between Nazi ideology and AI zealotry was “the degradation of the human and the fantasy of a perfect new man that must be created at all costs.” At the end of such visions, he warned, “man is no longer there. He disappears.” In drawing attention to these parallels, Weizenbaum combated the reductionism of the computer metaphor that still persists today.
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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As usual, tech companies have the last word.
It's the operators and the people at the receiving end who have to adapt.
The staff will have more work load and pressure to avoid incidents. The students will modify their behavior not to be flagged.
The tech itself cannot be modified. It's perfect.
"Staff should use the Omnilert app instead of relying on Omnilert text message notifications so everyone can view the alert in the same format, investigators recommended. And the school system should have biannual training sessions for executive staff and the Baltimore County Police Department on the school system's protocols for Omnilert alerts."
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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With better alt text
4 Conclusion and Discussion This paper investigates how GenAI affects the motivation of professional illustrators and its impact on the quality of the resulting work. We find that GenAI lifts the entire quality curve upwards, creating a direct positive effect on productivity. However, GenAI also accelerated the drop in marginal return to time spent, causing the quality curve to flatten earlier. This leads to a negative indirect effect on motivation. The pattern we observe—a steep initial rise in quality followed by a rapid flattening—appears to be a general principle of GenAI-assisted knowledge work. This pattern is a mathematical inevitability: If the time required to achieve true excellence remains fixed, faster initial progress will necessarily result in a more sharply diminishing rate of return. While we focus on artwork, this principle is evident in many fields, from writing academic papers to drafting business reports. Individuals can produce good enough outcomes with remarkable speed, only to labor extensively for the additional improvement that marks true quality. This frustrating gap between initial ease and final effort is the essence of the GenAI Paradox: better technology, worse motivation. Our findings have significant strategic implications for companies. The transformation of the quality curve suggests a hollowing out of the middle, forcing a choice between two distinct product-market strategies. Firms either aim for the highest echelon of quality or standardize their output at a “good enough” level. Intermediate levels of quality may become an inefficient choice.
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Sounds exactly like Pim Tool
On of 1000s of Tim Pool Civil War tweets
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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New EA logo just dropped
The 'ACKCHYUALLY' meme but with EHHRR ACKCHYUALLY' instead
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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This is from Armin Ronacher, a web developer who became Bluesky famous today.

If you squint, you can see the Thousand-Year Reich genocidal nonsense.

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Earendil is a public benefit corporation founded by Armin Ronacher and Colin Daymond Hanna. Our purpose is embedded in our founding charter: Craft software and open protocols We believe in craft and we believe in open. Software shapes how information is understood and increasingly, how reality is perceived. That comes with responsibility. Strengthen human agency In a world hurtling towards AI, we believe humans are the best agents. Al is possibly the most powerful tool humanity has ever seen, but we wield the hammer, the hammer does not wield us. Bridge division and ignorance Humanity is a community. We choose to look to our commonalities rather than our differences. We look to ground ourselves in truth and share truth with one another. Cultivate lasting joy and understanding Our products seek to bring people lasting joy and greater mutual understanding.
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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• 83. WDr. Pokemon 1a8@turnerjoy.bsky.social • 6h One of the main uses for Al moderation is to prevent known CSAM ("child porn") from being posted and not making humans have to view it and other terrible things constantly
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Obligatory
Skinner Out Of Touch Meme - Is AI harmful? - No it's the people on Bluesky, they're furious AI haters
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I'm not like him
'I'm Not Like Him': Who Is Adolf Hitler Uunona, Namibian Politician Set For Re- election? Curated By : Oindrila Mukherjee News18.com Last Updated: November 26, 2025, 00:15 IST Namibian politician Adolf Hitler Uunona has firmly rejected any connection to the character or actions of Germany's Adolf Hitler, one of the most notorious dictators in history What's in a name, you'd say. A politician from Namibia would likely disagree with you. Set for re-election, Namibian politician Adolf Hitler Uunona - a striking yet highly controversial name - has firmly rejected any connection to the character or actions of German dictator Adolf Hitler, one of the Namibian politician Adolf Hitler Uunona said his father chose the name without knowing its historical significance. (Image: @FearedBuck/X) most notorious personalities in history.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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« ... users should trust OpenAl, if [it] ensures the technology is "governed by humanity." »
"You have an incredible amount of power at this moment," Chang said. "Why should we trust you?" "You shouldn't," Altman said. "I think at this moment in time, people should basically spend as much time asking as many questions as they would like. [...] No one person should be trusted here." Altman amended his statement to say users should trust OpenAl, but only if the organization continues to fight for regulatory measures and ensures the technology is "governed by humanity."
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Hardly surprising, the proof is not ion the pudding but in his name: (see french def of 'cave' on Wiktionary below)

1. (Slang) A person who can be easily duped; _a fool, a simpleton_.
2. (Informal) A person whose _behavior or words demonstrate a lack of intelligence_.
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cave#:~:text=anglais%C2%A0%3A%20cave%20(%C2%AB%C2%A0grotte%C2%A0%C2%BB)-,nom%20commun%202,-%5Bmodifier%20le%20wikicode Wiktionary screenshot → Nom commun 2 (modifier le wikicode ] cave \kav\ masculin 1. (Argot) Personne que l'on peut duper facilement ; sot, niais. 2. (Familier) Personne dont le comportement ou les propos dénotent un manque d'intelligence. 3. (Argot) Personne qui ne fait pas partie du milieu des truands.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Hum
photograph of a silver metal butt plug
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of AI friends.
Nathan fielder laughing with his friends who are totally real and just off camera
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The "A new paper from Anthropic..." lead is the AI journalistic hype equivalent as "Florida man..."
A new paper from Anthropic, released on Friday, suggests that Al can be "quite evil" when it's trained to cheat.
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Broke: Vaccines cause autism.
Woke: Tylenol and also circumcision causes autism.
Bespoke: Schools causes autism.
Bloke: NYT doing propaganda against neurodivergent people and people with disabilities.
The numbers on autism are so shocking that they are worth repeating. In the early 1980s, one in 2,500 children had an autism diagnosis. That figure is now one in 31.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Oh, It's just like this Far Side comic but with a horse instead of a duck.
Far Side cartoon featuring a guy sitting behind a desk, looking scared. In an office building across the road, level with the guy’s window, is a duck watching him. Caption reads: “Anatidaephobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I mean, they will find every mistake to poke hole in the counter-narative, can't blame them,
Now giving them credit? nah :)

It's still doesn't look good, see Hao's posts
Karen Hao: Next steps: My Chilean collaborator has contacted the gov agency to clarify the numbers in their doc. If they confirm the unit error, the correct comparison would be: The original proposed data center could have used ~104.5% of the water consumed by the city's ~88k residents. Karen Hao: The math breakdown: Google's enviro impact report stated the proposed data center in 2019 could use 169 L/s of potable water, or 5,329,584,000 L/yr. With a unit adjustment, Cerrillos' residential consumption was 5,097,946,720 L in 2019. 5,329,584,000 ÷ 5,097,946,720 = ~1.045 Nov 18 _KarenHao 142
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM