home automation is a cool idea ruined by spy camera and servant surveillance enthusiasts.
October 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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It is Luddite, in the true meaning of the term.
The luddites were a distributed, organized revolutionary movement targeting the use of automation by capitalists to exploit and displace skilled workers.
They weren’t just grumpy about technology
The luddites were a distributed, organized revolutionary movement targeting the use of automation by capitalists to exploit and displace skilled workers.
They weren’t just grumpy about technology
It feels Luddite to say this, but probably the boldest thing a news org can do is have a really draconian policy about AI as a signal to the public. Not anti-tech, but rather to apply journalistic skepticism about the tool itself. Social contract: We won't use this unless it makes the news better.
October 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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And that pushing questions of judgment off to automation is bad:
Weizenbaum 1976 - archive.org/details/comp...
See also Benjamin 2019 - aas.princeton.edu/publications...
Weizenbaum 1976 - archive.org/details/comp...
See also Benjamin 2019 - aas.princeton.edu/publications...
October 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Unironically most western socialists have no faith in socialism, because Marx's view was that the contradictions of capitalism would collapse with automation.
But once the "Full automation" part of "fully automated luxury gay space communism" happens, suddenly they're not such fierce believers.
But once the "Full automation" part of "fully automated luxury gay space communism" happens, suddenly they're not such fierce believers.
At least when Marx and others were coming up with materialist analysis, they had a notion that the future would involve ever increasing technology, and tried to come up with a world that made sense for humans. Socialism was the acceptance of this fact.
October 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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“Today, AI advocates do not merely assume automation is necessary; they aggressively proselytize their faith, thereby paving the way for techno-fascism.” — @olivia.science
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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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But hey, what do I know? I'm just a subject matter expert on machine learning and automation. The trustworthy guys are the ones that want to sell you a subscription and keep asking you to surrender your decision making.
October 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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The software-driven approach pioneered by a new Kentucky distillery runs counter to the low-tech methods of whiskey's old guard. Its mix of data and automation might help pave a way forward.
The Bourbon Industry Is in Turmoil. Could Tech Provide the Shot It Needs?
The software-driven approach pioneered by a new Kentucky distillery runs counter to the low-tech methods of whiskey's old guard. Its mix of data and automation might help pave a way forward.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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exactly this
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„automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect“
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„automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect“
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Very tempted to take this call and just spout an endless stream of nonsense business jargon
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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I am not the only one to have noticed that not only were the trade-offs on automation here always shaky, the ratio is shifting faster and faster as stuff that worked just weeks or months ago suddenly starts to fail in catastrophic ways for no discernible reason
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October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The richest 1% now own a third of all U.S. wealth. For everyone else, debt, automation, and high costs have made progress feel impossible. “The Prosperity Illusion” asks: who still gets ahead—and why?
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October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Google integrated AI into the PAA feature recently as with most Google features. The quality of what gets plucked has plummeted. The important aspect of this is that the software Google uses can easily take a good source and twist it. Automation makes deception so much easier.
October 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The richest 1% now own a third of all U.S. wealth. For everyone else, debt, automation, and high costs have made progress feel impossible. “The Prosperity Illusion” asks: who still gets ahead—and why?
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-prospe...
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October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Check out our windows 95 themed automation game about making powerpoint factories on steam #gamdev #indiegame
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October 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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And how pissed off/distrusting he is of all the automation and over-computerization in the Excelsior.
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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My machine auto rebooted last night. As I reset my work space Chrome told me about new automation features. I took a screenshot with the windows tool. Which informed it had new automation features. Illustrator stopped me twice to tell me about automation features.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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there are of course some decent and moral engineering minds actually trying to build useful automation in the trenches, but it's remarkable how all the greasy little shits the tech sector and press elevate into positions of management really are a bunch of unremarkable, opportunistic sociopaths
October 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Biodiesel automation with GregTech Logistics only (atrocious)
October 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The Troublemaker.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The world leader in the purchase and use of industrial automation robots? China and its not even close.
October 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Automation will lead to more layoffs. In theory, if production costs are reduced, it can lead to cheaper prices for consumers.
As we know, this will never happen. Corporations and billionaires need to be taxed accordingly and fairly. They should be the ignition for Universal Basic Income.
As we know, this will never happen. Corporations and billionaires need to be taxed accordingly and fairly. They should be the ignition for Universal Basic Income.
October 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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