We now know that LLM-based so-called genAI systems are ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis-harassment-surveillance-radioactive waste machines.
To continue to role them out is to enable their harms. Beware the enablers.
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Some background on where I'm coming from: thoughtless, unnecessary AI use is reconfiguring and diminishing the collective idea of what being human even is. Here's an excerpt from my latest book, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY on that.
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Beware Silicon Valley's determination to make people who know things about writing, history, and society, or people who care about the human condition, are nothing. Their disparagement covers their ignorance, incompetence, and FEAR that maybe people in tech aren't gods (which obvs they aren't).
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For anyone who would like to join in my Campbell and Forgan obsession, you want:
Without Lawful Authority
With Intent to Deceive / A Brother for Hugh
Let the Tiger Die
Now or Never
A Knife for the Juggler
Concrete Crime
Ideally read With Intent to Deceive before Let the Tiger Die.
I just checked on AO3 and you know how many Campbell & Forgan fics there are?
None. NONE. Massively gay-coded recurring spy/model train maker/freelance psychopath couple in a once-successful spy franchise, and not one lousy fanfic!
Exclusive: Far-right provocateur Nick Fuentes has been kicked off most social networks because of his extreme bigotry.
Since the start of 2025, roughly 11,000 donors have sent Fuentes nearly $900,000 in superchats, a Post analysis found.
Last week I joined a spicy panel asking whether/how AVs fit into NYC. Here's a summary.
Me: "It’s just too inefficient to have individuals inside a big box of a car. I don’t care how it’s operated. That’s just not how what you scale to make New York City a faster, more-efficient and safer place."
plato alienated conservatives with progressive issue positions on gender and race
Today!
“The narrative of AI destroying jobs is not going to help America. First of all it’s false. Of course with every technology…jobs of the past are changed.” - Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia
When Block is laying off 40% and Snapchat 16% claiming it’s due to AI, it’s hard to call that narrative false.
I work with libraries and across the board libraries are having their budgets cut while being asked to be an even greater resource for struggling communities. I would love to see a city, especially NYC, go all in on support rather than cutting already tight budgets. It's such a missed opportunity.
The robot running a bit faster than humans isn’t impressive. They don’t have biological constraints. They don’t need water or rest. This is so silly.
I will absolutrly criticize people for attending. It’s a grotesque spectacle nobody who cares about press freedom should dignify with their presence.
Reminder that $PLTR makes up about 1% of the NASDAQ 100 index.
If you have a 401K or other stock holdings, taking you cash out of the NASDAQ not only defunds gutter-racist creepy surveillance firm, it helps lessen your direct harm from the coming AI bubble burst.
It’s just your ego. You thinking you’re some kind of special person unlike an actual bigot. It is not real pain when you fall out like your leg got chopped off when someone says you did something racist. Try being Black.
NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.
This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.
Cincinnati Tesla Takedown — April 18, 2026 #cincinnati #teslatakedown @teslatakedown.com @tesla-takedown.bsky.social
If you read one article today, READ THIS. Roberts is the source from which all flows.
Child: I know your name. Mamdani.
Obama: What’s his first name?
Child: Mayor.
Gritty in black and white, inside an upside down star/circle wearing a chain with the say-10 records logo
Go flyers
Why wouldn't you want to fund this, and stop people from dying painful, premature deaths?
Uhaul parked fully blocking a 2 way curb protected bikeland on Blaisdell
If it fits, I sits… moving day edition.
Protected bikelanes are not for making moving day easier.
Blocking a bikelane like this is illegal bc it pushes people on bikes/motorized wheelchairs into the street with drivers, where they are more likely to be hurt or killed.
Don’t do this.
Yo that's what's up Obama feels it's safe to put his power behind Mamdani now. But don't pretend nobody was checking for how he was unwilling to for a super long time, likely because he needed to skirt around association with someone that radical before he had a solid place.
Mic drop from nebula height.
Took our then 4 and <1 year old to Norway and Denmark a few years ago and it was eye opening. Coming back to US felt like entering a place where society actively hated you. The US is basically the equivalent of the anti-homeless infrastructure but also to parents and kids. It sucks.
those damn pesky women putting up information about predatory men for no good reason, how dare they
GOP Rep. Cory Mills avoided an arrest for an assault after one of Donald Trump's staunch allies in the Department of Justice intervened, according to a new report.
If politicians don't want criticism they shouldn't seek office. They shouldn't want to be there to be adored. That's not the point of them at all. It's to serve the people with constant accountability to them. That looks like always hearing their objections to you. It's just the deal.
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
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