[AI Skeptics] Why We Fear AI coda, chatting with Hagen Blix, and other things Hello! There are a lot of updates this week: chat with Hagen Blix on Thursday stickers (in production) local stuff (including a conference) Read on for more...

AI Skeptics Reading Group update:

- chatting with @hagenblix.bsky.social on Thursday
- stickers (in production)
- some local stuff (including a conference on Sunday)

A new book has come out, first of its kind, that describes a revolutionary group I was in, in the 70s.

It’s time to exhale, but this won’t be easy.

"move fast and break things" is n@zi shit

"move fast and break things" isn't something that most people want, they want their programs to be stable and unbroken

we should aspire to socialize incompetence rather than denigrating it

sure it's a tool of social control and surveillance owned and operated by fascists, but it writes work emails for me. on balance who's to say it's good or bad

Watch how swiftly fake quotes get attributed to “S. Drimmer” now.

Thing is, this is exactly what ChatGPT was designed to do. Namely, jackhammer the grounds of truth beneath our feet. Whether the product is “good” or not is irrelevant. Its purpose is to remove people from acts of discernment.

with the amount of results it was reportedly producing however, i wondered how could he possibly verify that it was not just making shit up?

there was a guy at our WSU symposium who supposedly was using some kind of customized language model for historical research and he swore up and down that it had great results (aside from deskilling lol)

in finagling the magnetometer into the bottle i managed to pull a wire out of part of the board connected to the CLK pin on the SD card so i tanked my data for this past bout of high speed solar wind stream

A brief history of techno-negativity From the techne pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer firebombers of the Information Age, here's a look at the long—and fruitful—legacy of refusing the machine.

From the techné pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer to the loom-breaking Luddites to the firebombers of the Information Age, here's a look at the long—and fruitful—legacy of refusing the machine.

By @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social, for BITM:

Conference 2026 The People’s Political Economy of Computing Conference

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like donald trump, ai is a fascist tool that is occasionally very funny but never on purpose

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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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Palantir is its own agnotology machine. Do not engage with their discourse, which throws spaghetti at the wall of media: every strand introduces a new kind of doubt. You try to consume & debate it but in the end all you are is tangled in spaghetti and covered with marinara.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

(and he's a missionary)

i don't think this guy is a real linguist aschmann.net/AmEng/

far right politics are the natural (and probably intended) outcome of networked information technology

that was a really nice video intro to meshtastic (off grid mesh network communication) from an intl perspective

Pas d’antenne 5G, pas d’internet : communiquer sous les radars avec les réseaux mesh | Tracks | ARTE YouTube video by TRACKS - ARTE

Très intéressant. Je n'avais absolument aucune idée que ces réseaux Mesh existaient.

And no they do not tell us anything about human language acquisition, processing, or production. Go away psycholinguists who say this (I am a psycholinguist). Some neural network models are informative. LLMs are not because they were never designed to be.

equidistant from the car and the garage door, i'm hoping at least there will be less interference than having it inside

an arduino, magnetometer, and other electronics inside a used water bottle and covered by a plastic bin

with this weekend's geomagnetic activity i am trying to see if i get more accurate readings on the DIY magnetometer by putting it outside in the driveway

grateful for people who actually can stomach dealing with the MDP today

and if you don't have those things at home, go to a library...

look up places in an atlas, read a map to get somewhere rather than use GPS, look up historical facts in a book...

this could just be my eccentricity but i think it's good to practice not just looking s** up online once in a while