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The post you’re reading right now is being automatically saved to an archive I keep of all my Bluesky posts. The only things stopping me or anyone else from saving and analyzing all of your posts, likes, and replies are disinterest, hardware capacity and respect for your right to be unobserved.

use. We have to assume OpenAI and Anthropic are wantonly flaunting their own privacy policies, of course, but we can’t make the mistake of treating that as being THAT much different from what already existed. What’s changed is that capabilities that were once only available to glassy-eyed true

believer ideologically capitalist para-state operators are now being used by the impulsive, deluded, narcissistic ruling class overlords. A mad king with a wizard’s staff is only going to destroy his own power faster and more spectacularly than a regular mad king.

There’s a calculated risk to be taken with these technologies. Can we extract collective capacity from them faster than they can be used to consolidate control? I think yes, but not if we’re distracted by arguments about whether or not they should exist at all. We aren’t in a position to act on