After intense lobbying, Trump signed executive orders to fast-track data center construction and weaken state-level AI regulations.
AI firms are also pumping huge sums into our elections.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/number-...
SXSW started entirely as a label showcase where bands played. How far they've fallen.
Join us! (There is a discounted hotel room block associated with the conference - make plans by 4/30 for access to that!)
Right?
Like Facebook, but with a broader potential audience and no Zuck
Paper abstract: The ubiquity and ease of use of large language models makes it easy to overlook the interactional and interpretive processes at play. To understand the attraction of this technology we need to trace its sociotechnical roots. From divination and horoscopes and from ELIZA to present -day large language models, I document how people have been thinking with things, outsourcing judgement, and making sense of interactively presented non-sense. Following the lead of Lucy Suchman to “slow down discourses of the ‘smart’ machines ” , I consider the interactional foundations of our engagement with technologies of language. I make the case that the fluid output, fine-tuned overconfidence, and interactive design of these computational artefacts conspire to exploit our interpretive processes and interactional infrastructure, rendering them irresistible to lay people and researchers alike. This means that a deep understanding of processes of human interaction and sense -making will be a foundational resource for the growing arsenal of methods in critical AI literacy.
"fluid output, fine-tuned overconfidence, & interactive design of llms means that a deep understanding of processes of human interaction & sense-making will be a foundational resource for the growing arsenal of methods in critical AI literacy." @dingemansemark.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1945...
Read this thread plz
Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes.
it was, as you can imagine, not clean.
I WANT ONE
giving "it's like TV, except all ads!"
or maybe "it's like pizza, except made with cardboard and without the cheese! And with ads!"
Feel like this deserves to be in the timeline again
“Starting April 6, 2026, The American Prospect is removing all programmatic advertising from our website. We think you and your personal data deserve more respect than we were providing. We think it will provide you with a healthier and more beneficial experience.”
Sure wish the New Yorker could have hired an artist rather than using the slop factory to slop out some pseudo Sam Altman pics
I keep hoping I’m just getting April Fool’s jokes on my timeline late
Relevant bsky.app/profile/oliv...
I agree with this
“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”
Good question! You might be able to contact them through the main Luddite Club contact above? It was also published in the Oberlin Review oberlinreview.org/35718/opinio...
CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."
Reading this unpacking of the code slop is funny but also I feel this: "just scrolling, jaw agape, on my phone, seeing the absolute dogshit salad that was the product of enough wealth to meet some large proportion of all real human needs, globally."
Wait! Oscar Meyer just hired a hotdog welfare philosopher
Sausage contains remnants of pig and when people make funny pig voices while eating it it seems like maybe it's alive
i both love this title and hate that is a slander on orange juliuses which i remember to have been very tasty the last time i had one in 1985
Please tell me this is an April Fool's joke.( I told myself I wouldn't get on here today. I TOLD MYSELF)
I say this but also sent a text to my kid telling her she has an extra college math requirement so, you know. Hypocrite
Syril Karn lying down in despair (from Andor series) with the text “mood” over the top
I can’t be on here for April Fools Day. Either I’m going to read about something awful & just assume it’s true, or read something hopeful & have the rug pulled out from under me. My tender heart is already too bruised for pranks. I can barely handle the whimsy of a booger-flavored jellybean
