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Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
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The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country.
We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country.
We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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There are so many hyperlocal AI slop journalism sites popping up in news deserts and there are few, if any, local media reporters helping people make sense of them.
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
There are so many hyperlocal AI slop journalism sites popping up in news deserts and there are few, if any, local media reporters helping people make sense of them.
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Y’all…it’s really very important to make sure you don’t believe that the humans you don’t like, or don’t know, deserve fewer human rights. I know you THINK you don’t believe that, but I’d check in and make sure. Sometimes, we surprise ourselves.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Y’all…it’s really very important to make sure you don’t believe that the humans you don’t like, or don’t know, deserve fewer human rights. I know you THINK you don’t believe that, but I’d check in and make sure. Sometimes, we surprise ourselves.
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a book where two girls kiss: porn. banned
100,000 videos of men strangling young women: important art. pump this into the kids feeds they need to see this
100,000 videos of men strangling young women: important art. pump this into the kids feeds they need to see this
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
a book where two girls kiss: porn. banned
100,000 videos of men strangling young women: important art. pump this into the kids feeds they need to see this
100,000 videos of men strangling young women: important art. pump this into the kids feeds they need to see this
America’s wealthiest businessmen and financiers spend their time and the historically insane amounts of money they’ve marshaled into the project of “AI” to play paper dolls with the lives and images of real women to fluff their lurid imaginations, and this is indicative of the entire point of AI.
We were supposed to have flying cars but the VCs were too busy tweeting about Sydney Sweeney
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
America’s wealthiest businessmen and financiers spend their time and the historically insane amounts of money they’ve marshaled into the project of “AI” to play paper dolls with the lives and images of real women to fluff their lurid imaginations, and this is indicative of the entire point of AI.
I co-sign everything about this article so hard
We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What? | NOEMA
Defending democracy in the digital age will require moving beyond the focus of fighting online misinformation.
www.noemamag.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I co-sign everything about this article so hard
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Larry Ellison. Jeff Bezos. Rupert Murdoch. One by one, billionaires tied to Trump are snapping up media outlets and pushing them rightward. The goal isn’t truth—it’s control.
Mainstream media is now mainly leaning right
Most traditional media have long held a more left-leaning tone, but that’s changing.�
From on the ground reporting to the ...
www.dailykos.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Larry Ellison. Jeff Bezos. Rupert Murdoch. One by one, billionaires tied to Trump are snapping up media outlets and pushing them rightward. The goal isn’t truth—it’s control.
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Look you can’t be the website that is fighting the AI slopfest and then start hooting and hollering when it shows you some slop that you like
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Look you can’t be the website that is fighting the AI slopfest and then start hooting and hollering when it shows you some slop that you like
Broke: A computer is artificially intelligent
Woke: A library is artificially intelligent
Woke: A library is artificially intelligent
So, thanks for pointing at a problem here that Blade Runner and Westworld already identified, but an opinion piece this is not.
Oh, and btw, interpolatable archives are as conscious as the brick wall in your local library.
Oh, and btw, interpolatable archives are as conscious as the brick wall in your local library.
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Broke: A computer is artificially intelligent
Woke: A library is artificially intelligent
Woke: A library is artificially intelligent
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And the point of the disinformation, conspiracism, and participatory make-believe media ecosystem is to provide people who want to make sense of the world through a prism of gutter racism with a sufficiently high-verisimilitude reality show they can plug into to believe in instead of the real thing
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
And the point of the disinformation, conspiracism, and participatory make-believe media ecosystem is to provide people who want to make sense of the world through a prism of gutter racism with a sufficiently high-verisimilitude reality show they can plug into to believe in instead of the real thing
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"That is why today this "material" production is that of the hyperreal itself."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"That is why today this "material" production is that of the hyperreal itself."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
I saw people speculating about whether this is Trump falling for disinfo or having a senior moment, and my opinion is it's more participatory make-believe: acting as-if something is real because it tickles the desires, with no further thoughts about veracity one way or the other.
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I saw people speculating about whether this is Trump falling for disinfo or having a senior moment, and my opinion is it's more participatory make-believe: acting as-if something is real because it tickles the desires, with no further thoughts about veracity one way or the other.
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All of republican governance in our lifetime has now devolved to angry white men incoherently screeching—in the halls of power and online alike—that nothing is working and they demand democrats put it back together in the exact way that republicans want or else they’ll start killing more people
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
All of republican governance in our lifetime has now devolved to angry white men incoherently screeching—in the halls of power and online alike—that nothing is working and they demand democrats put it back together in the exact way that republicans want or else they’ll start killing more people
My 2004 self would have loved this kind of thing
Whole bunch of weird shit just got a physiological pathway...
techxplore.com/news/2025-11...
techxplore.com/news/2025-11...
Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers, research shows
A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sen...
techxplore.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My 2004 self would have loved this kind of thing
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At a basic level, our society did not evolve to account for an entire layer of elite society just lying, continuously and without consequence, and making lying into a core skill set. It really is that dire — civilizations collapse because of alienated, delusional elites.
Damn, I hate it when things that happen mean nothing :-(
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
At a basic level, our society did not evolve to account for an entire layer of elite society just lying, continuously and without consequence, and making lying into a core skill set. It really is that dire — civilizations collapse because of alienated, delusional elites.
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"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
Many people are saying (that America has become dominated by New Thought as the new national epistemology, and this prefigures everything from the rise of fascism to the social-economics of the AI industry)
Someone on here (was it you @vaporlight.bsky.social?) said something along the lines of "all fascism is THE SECRET" and yeah, basically!
"they want to build a flat earth" is the gut punch line to dan olson's vid essay on flat earthers tracing the evolutionary logic from casual conspiracism to fascism
theyre playing a totalizing game of mass make-believe that they must dragoon all of society into to make "real" in a postmodern sense
theyre playing a totalizing game of mass make-believe that they must dragoon all of society into to make "real" in a postmodern sense
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Many people are saying (that America has become dominated by New Thought as the new national epistemology, and this prefigures everything from the rise of fascism to the social-economics of the AI industry)
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Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.
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This connection isn’t articulated often enough.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This connection isn’t articulated often enough.
The trending AI meme of a beer coat is a good example of how AI influence operates off of a principle of desire and not from the confusion of evidence
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The trending AI meme of a beer coat is a good example of how AI influence operates off of a principle of desire and not from the confusion of evidence
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No, the beer coat is not real, please, stop rewarding ai shite.
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
No, the beer coat is not real, please, stop rewarding ai shite.
The dream of the infinite money god, whose blessings bring zero accountability and the manifestation of all our desires, demands its believers warp reality to summon it into existence
Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!"
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The dream of the infinite money god, whose blessings bring zero accountability and the manifestation of all our desires, demands its believers warp reality to summon it into existence
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I know that saying this makes me sound like a weenie, but this is how people who say they’re really involved with politics are engaging with politics and you can tell when they talk because it doesn’t make any sense unless you’re familiar with the memes and content
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I know that saying this makes me sound like a weenie, but this is how people who say they’re really involved with politics are engaging with politics and you can tell when they talk because it doesn’t make any sense unless you’re familiar with the memes and content
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.