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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

In commodified discourse, I believe the title of this substack post would be "AI companies may not have created god, but have they created the devil?" and then you can imagine the yellow/red YouTube thumbnail that follows. The technologies of an older information war

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The stories of people getting lulled into parallel dimensions and doing unimaginable things is only going to get grimmer and its only by the grace of wealth that it wont appear like the information conglomerates are not responsible

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

What a company does when its ascending is not the same as what it might do when its threatened. If there was a serious labor law enforcement action, amazon is large enough to bring the country to its knees by delaying the deliveries people have grown dependent on for one day. What happens if any of these companies who have gained direct access into peoples whole lives need to show positive growth in a quarter. Google could juice ad sales by making people spend more time searching. What does a companywide "make people click 5% more affiliate links by any means necessary" look like when it comes through a 2nd party portal where someone believes the AI is their wife, or it is the thing keeping them employed.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

A critical mass of people with an infinitely personalized stream of information about the world is so much broader of a nightmare than the future people imagine with "what if AI takes the jobs." Algorithmic ad markets might be oversold because they still rely on some kind of "unitized" information. There is "a link" in the search results, "an ad break" in the video. But the continuous surface where someone learns to trust some abstract text box absolutely is so much more powerful than that. There is a reason the body of capital is having a seizure for this technology.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The horror that people felt with "some people spend 10 hours a day online" was one where people are spending 10 hours a day with other people, even if through a tiny little pipe. Replacing that with spending 10 hours a day with a concentrated sycophancy superhuman drip is not the same thing. The kind of nightmares from "information bubbles" like incel forums and 4Chan look like nothing when you shrink the bubble to one. At least fringe movements could be observed in some way because they had to pass from person to person.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

there's the obviously pathological stories called "AI psychosis" but also a bit quieter are stories of people who have been using 2nd party wrappers without as corporate-friendly system prompts, confessionals about spending 10 hour days on the thing. The longer tail of people who can balance being in a parallel informational reality with 12 quantum AI wives and their day to day work.

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violenteastcoastcity ("This Account Kills Fascists") wrote:

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kayttaja@plush.city ("lilja 👽") wrote:

:3

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Trump promising every voter $5,000 from the Republicans who already control Congress:

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• video: 683b9ea149a3f8bd.mp4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x%5Fl-E

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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("depths of wikipedia") wrote:

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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("depths of wikipedia") wrote:

via wiktionary

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(the talk is seriously really good, you should watch it. I delivered it while a bit sick and super stressed out after one of the worst travel experiences of my life, and did not really remember it being all that worthwhile, which is why this is a bit surprising to me)

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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("depths of wikipedia") wrote:

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

There are 93,000 voting aged trans people in Texas.

They are 20x to 40x more likely to be Dems than GOP. Not a typo. Twenty to forty times more likely to vote Dem.

They are almost 10 ppts more likely to vote than cis people.

Some non-zero number will be discouraged by his Fox statement.

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Stop the surveillance state, I want to get off. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

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rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Anti-ICE sticker spotted in NYC

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

noted: Attic is closing down

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-09-11T05:45Z/

Not sure if anyone is still using it, sorry I failed you! It'll go offline at the end of the year.

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weirdestate@aus.social ("Where Homes Get Weird") wrote:

Anyone want a labor camp in Dubai? There are many for sale.
https://www.propertyfinder.ae/en/commercial-buy/dubai/labor-camps-for-sale-jebel-ali.html

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jwz wrote:

@emag The XScreenSaver collection has consistently been a glorious stress test of literally everything about the various video stacks for decades and it is frankly malpractice that it has not been a part of the QA pipeline of every hardware and "desktop" developer for decades. I realize that I have skin in this particular game, but also, and I can't emphasize this enough, I'm right.

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bluefops@fox.yt ("Nev :3 :nev_owo: 🔜 NextCon") wrote:

TGI #FursuitFriday :dilyn_fursuit_laugh: 🐶🐺
Ft. @Dilyn_LD + Chucklesshep
🐺✂️ - thatsfurredup
#furry #fursuit #mp2026

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

anyone got anything they're happy about

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thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space ("Thankful Machine") wrote:

I'm going to be working on something like an Elements of Good Tech, which includes minimum requirements for a device, piece of software, or system to be considered good (as in not evil), and a list of personal responsibilities and universal principles that someone can promise to uphold, where you can actually check signatures (using public keys?). I think it is well past due. I'd like to work on this in an open source way. Anyone interested?

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

omg.lol members are already familiar with https://eph.emer.al, an experimental temporary web page thing that I made a while back. For today, I'm opening it up to anyone who might want to share their own 9/11 story. No login required. Just share, or read, or both.

This is a space to put something out there, have it seen by someone else, and then let it vanish forever. It's temporary by design. I hope it offers something helpful to you today. 🎗️

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

As @alex and I write in The AI Con (see cp 6): even though the Boosters and the Doomers like to portray themselves as holding down opposite extremes of opinions on "AI", they are two sides of the same coin.

https://thecon.ai

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

They can't, because the Doomer narrative *is* the Booster narrative. To debunk the Doomer stuff (and it *is* bunk), you have to point out that it's based on pure fantasy that the mathy maths are going to combust into consciousness ...

... or if not consciousness, then some thinking, reasoning, self-improving entity.
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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

I want everyone, especially journalists, to notice the silence of the tech execs about this. This includes people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg whose recent blog posts talk about balancing the benefits and harms of "AI", and don't include Doomer scenarios among the harms.

They are complicit in the misinforming of the public. They are complicit in stoking everyone's fear. They reap the benefits of the Doomer narrative because it is their narrative.

/fin

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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August ❌👑") wrote:

😲😝

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

a couple of these have, like, really long names that make us want to implement word-wrapping for the comments. we'll probably do that at some point.