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Companies globally accelerated adoption of generative AI, reshaping tasks and boosting organizational productivity even as labor-market statistics lagged and investors punished software, data, legal and education firms.
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The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
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February 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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This is just trickle down theory, part infinity.
Letting rich people do whatever they want creates benefits for the rest of us *only incidentally and always at the margins*. Their prime directive isn't to make things better; it's to make money. Those two things are becoming increasingly decoupled.
Letting rich people do whatever they want creates benefits for the rest of us *only incidentally and always at the margins*. Their prime directive isn't to make things better; it's to make money. Those two things are becoming increasingly decoupled.
"AI will cure cancer"
No bro, it is fully on cancer's side
No bro, it is fully on cancer's side
"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma
February 18, 2026 at 6:35 PM
This is just trickle down theory, part infinity.
Letting rich people do whatever they want creates benefits for the rest of us *only incidentally and always at the margins*. Their prime directive isn't to make things better; it's to make money. Those two things are becoming increasingly decoupled.
Letting rich people do whatever they want creates benefits for the rest of us *only incidentally and always at the margins*. Their prime directive isn't to make things better; it's to make money. Those two things are becoming increasingly decoupled.
Absolutely. And I've seen that too with students. I've been very impressed that most of our students seem very critical of AI already, but it's the ones at opposite ends of the spectrum (the over-reliers and the fearful ones) that I still worry about.
February 18, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Absolutely. And I've seen that too with students. I've been very impressed that most of our students seem very critical of AI already, but it's the ones at opposite ends of the spectrum (the over-reliers and the fearful ones) that I still worry about.
by Alison Hicks
Hmm, good question! Will have a think but nothing immediately comes to mind. It’s all just a bit ai literacy/plagiarism heavy at the moment.
February 18, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Hmm, good question! Will have a think but nothing immediately comes to mind. It’s all just a bit ai literacy/plagiarism heavy at the moment.
Exactly. Plus every student should develop their own informed views of AI and understand what they gain and lose when they choose to use it in all areas of their lives (school, work, personal). That's the AI literacy I think students need -- not prompt engineering and how to make the most of AI.
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Exactly. Plus every student should develop their own informed views of AI and understand what they gain and lose when they choose to use it in all areas of their lives (school, work, personal). That's the AI literacy I think students need -- not prompt engineering and how to make the most of AI.
I think it's a mix of short-term scumbags and creepy billionaire white nationalists with a "utopian" vision of creating an uneducated and passive underclass with no class consciousness to serve them. Plus all the idiot CEOs and college presidents who invested way too much in this shit.
If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.
February 18, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I think it's a mix of short-term scumbags and creepy billionaire white nationalists with a "utopian" vision of creating an uneducated and passive underclass with no class consciousness to serve them. Plus all the idiot CEOs and college presidents who invested way too much in this shit.
by Mor Naaman
Counterpoint: in the AI age there will be a high-premium on authenticated, human-inside services, for real estate and other industries.
As the housing market stalls, Zillow’s CEO sees AI as “an ingredient rather than a threat” that can both help the company protect its turf and reinvent how people search for homes. www.wired.com/story/backch...
Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI
As the housing market stalls, Zillow’s CEO sees AI as “an ingredient rather than a threat” that can both help the company protect its turf and reinvent how people search for homes.
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February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Counterpoint: in the AI age there will be a high-premium on authenticated, human-inside services, for real estate and other industries.
by Zen Faulkes
Maybe the last legitimately useful thing the computer industry delivered was somewhat decent video conferencing. Boring but useful.
But computing industry seems focused on exciting but useless. Cryptocurrency, NFTs, generative AI.
But computing industry seems focused on exciting but useless. Cryptocurrency, NFTs, generative AI.
February 18, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Maybe the last legitimately useful thing the computer industry delivered was somewhat decent video conferencing. Boring but useful.
But computing industry seems focused on exciting but useless. Cryptocurrency, NFTs, generative AI.
But computing industry seems focused on exciting but useless. Cryptocurrency, NFTs, generative AI.
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A technology I’m really excited about is lab grown meat, and the right is actually using its state power to prevent this technology from coming to fruition, but there has been far less hand-wringing about that than the organic consumer rejection of AI
February 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
A technology I’m really excited about is lab grown meat, and the right is actually using its state power to prevent this technology from coming to fruition, but there has been far less hand-wringing about that than the organic consumer rejection of AI
Reposted by Aleksandra Urman, Stephen D. Murphy
when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:
Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn't Offer Much Proof
A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.
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February 18, 2026 at 3:19 PM
when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:
Reposted by Meredith Farkas
Pretty incredible that the left, concerned as it is with workers, has not wholly and uncritically embraced generative AI, the tool promoted by its billionaire owners as replacing all workers
February 18, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Pretty incredible that the left, concerned as it is with workers, has not wholly and uncritically embraced generative AI, the tool promoted by its billionaire owners as replacing all workers
Reposted by Timnit Gebru
AI isn't just a tech project, it is explicitly a political project that is anti-working class (bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/0...) and pro-authoritarianism (www.slideshare.net/slideshow/em..., slides #12-22). No we do not owe it to anyone to be complicit in our own subjugation. No, thank you.
February 18, 2026 at 2:02 PM
AI isn't just a tech project, it is explicitly a political project that is anti-working class (bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/0...) and pro-authoritarianism (www.slideshare.net/slideshow/em..., slides #12-22). No we do not owe it to anyone to be complicit in our own subjugation. No, thank you.