Sam (Afterthoughts)

Sam (Afterthoughts)

@afterthoughts.bsky.social

Video essayist. Fiction Writer. ❌ AI slop. Climbing rocks and living in 🚗 with best friend 🐶 (she/her)

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Gotta get better at posting updates here. Working on a lil Youtube video discovery project. Community-submitted set of channels, filter videos based on tag/duration/etc, share recommendations with friends. Been a lot of fun to work on. Sick of seeing AI slop in my sidebar.

Gotta get better at posting updates here. Working on a lil Youtube video discovery project. Community-submitted set of channels, filter videos based on tag/duration/etc, share recommendations with friends. Been a lot of fun to work on. Sick of seeing AI slop in my sidebar.

That is so crazy, I wonder by what mechanism? Maybe we should take some of the money accrued by the companies/people who profit from AI and distribute it around? Just spitballing

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

"We compare our first drafts to [history's] finished products, and then call ours a failure. We ignore all the invisible work that is happening to move the needle. That type of thinking ignores the long game... the recruitment potential, the clarity that comes from people showing up consistently."

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The best art I ever made started in a DM with Sam where I said "I have this weird idea and I think it's probably impossible." And she said "That sounds amazing, but yes probably impossible." This video started the same way, with the roles reversed. It's probably the best art she's ever made. Watch.

Sam (Afterthoughts)@afterthoughts.bsky.social

I hope I will be glad I made this? It's hard to tell. youtu.be/MiI-6riOCyQ?...

LLMs are a legitimately interesting technology, and I wish I *could* be interested in them instead of what is societally required of me (unwavering condemnation) because no-fucking-body in the government, tech c-suite, or grifterverse can be trusted to oversee the development or use of this tech.

This is what's so frustrating about tech bros. They talk about product rollouts in the "spherical cows in a frictionless vacuum" way that a 101 class gets comfy with Newtonian physics. If our tech is deployed with NO pre-existing societal conditions or incentive structures... it'll work great!

AI suggestions want me to be a robot in a business suit. It might not be "professional" but... I want to talk like myself? I want to use my own jargon? I want to *be an individual?* Is that ok?? What if, instead of making tools to homogenize speech, we make room for many modes of expression?

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It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more.

Ok so. I do not understand why these people can't get over preferred pronouns. It's just not difficult? It's really not hard? It's wild to watch what is effectively a mass adult temper tantrum fuel a regressive political movement.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Yes Barney Frank is bravely coming out as having the exact same opinion as all of his friends and colleagues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Like you could conceivably have a discussion about the effects of immigration policies or raising the minimum wage or letting tech oligarchs own all of your thoughts, but the anti- preferred pronouns argument has been, for 10 years, "I don't want to 😡 you can't make me."

And sure, you can not want to, and I definitely can't make you, but if THIS is your reason for supporting an anti-worker anti-planet anti-human political movement that would sacrifice you and your children for a stock buyback, then either... 1. no it isn't? or 2. you are a child.

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Youtube friends! Need someone to edit your audio? If your VO sounds like you're recording from the bottom of a swimming pool or eating a handful of pop rocks, let's chat! Down to send before/after audio samples. Flexible rates :D

Youtube friends! Need someone to edit your audio? If your VO sounds like you're recording from the bottom of a swimming pool or eating a handful of pop rocks, let's chat! Down to send before/after audio samples. Flexible rates :D

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🌠 New Video! 🌠 Join me for a very close reading of Cowboy Bebop's strange and evocative 6th episode. I delve into what the story believes about death and purpose, and arrive at some reflection on how it is that art and artists can become immortal. 3, 2, 1... youtu.be/4XR2f3odioY