Angelos Arnis 🏴

@guyshrubsole.bsky.social

2 Jan

I keep seeing a repeat discourse regarding AI, the "revealed preference" argument. Someone says "AI is liberating because I use it to automate boring work and build something quickly". They generalize from personal experience therefore this tech is revolutionizing everything for everyone else too.

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Guy Shrubsole

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comLula wins fourth term as Brazil president after historic upset over far-right Flávio BolsonaroLeftist incumbent Lula stages unprecedented comeback weeks after narrowly losing first round of election to Bolsonaro

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Sir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴‍☠️

@sirnorman.bsky.social

This is how we used to deal with Fascists. The right-wing don't have a monopoly on nostalgia. This is my history.

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social

The discourse in Bsky can be summed into this: everyone shouting together alone This era has completely obliterated online discourse. Everyone is burned out.

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Meredith Whittaker

28 Oct 2023

PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data. You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly. More on this feature here: https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/

signal.orgBlur tools for SignalRight now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...

Giving a talk at Critical Sustainabilities (Helsinki in conference) and the subject I’m talking about is libidinal technologies. Out of serendipity today I bumped into this book at the antique bookstore. Of course I had to.

It has been a fun week especially for us working in cybersecurity 😅

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀

@thomasfuchs.at

“oh no AI is a big security risk, you should buy more AI tokens to make your software more secure” say AI companies who desperately need to sell more tokens to keep up their inflated valuations

wsj.comAI Hacks Are Coming Thick and Fast and Overwhelming the InternetCriminals are turning to next-generation, AI-powered hacking tools as a serious internet flaw has given birth to “Black October.”

Hacking used to be cool now we have the buffoons releasing statements and doing damage to actual infrastructure of millions if not more for investment baiting . www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-h...

wired.com‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on FireThe PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.

Laughs in Astro www.wired.com/story/this-i...

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Sonja Drimmer

@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

Some thoughts about AI, book bans, information, and access in anticipation of a conversation I'm looking forward to having with students. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2026/...

sonjadrimmer.comAI Is a Book Ban — Sonja DrimmerWhen access to books is actually a book ban. The student-run Amnesty International Club at Williams College has invited me to participate in a conversation with them this weekend about technology, AI...

@annaciaunica.bsky.social

You can never be a [creative person] and use AI ethically. You either use AI or you don't. Know your choices and dabble with them. You don't need to sign any papers to make you feel good.

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Anna Ciaunica PhD

New essai out in @Montreal_Review I discuss why consciousness is not a thing but rather a journey that living systems do (but not Al) Check it out 🙏😎👇🏼 Thank you for having me ! www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/wha...

youtube.comSoftware developers are not okayYouTube video by Baldur Bjarnason

This video by @baldurbjarnason.com is extremely aligned with the thoughts I have on the current designer identity. The problem isn't just that AI might take our jobs but that the work itself is becoming less meaningful, even for people who embrace the technology www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsEpW03gxKg

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The loss is collective. We're losing communities, shared references, and cultures of practice that helped designers develop judgment, think critically, and imagine alternatives. What remains is increasingly reduced to just personal 'resilience'. That's what worries me most.

I don't think the answer is to romanticize the past or reject every new tool. We need to recognize what's being lost, and to rethink the conditions under which design could flourish again. It is a question of desire, but the burnout doesn't let us get there. (I see the same thing applies to devs)

youtube.comSoftware developers are not okayYouTube video by Baldur Bjarnason

collectivefutures.blogIdentity lossUX is pronounced dead every day. You probably read the headlines. And of course you don't believe them, but have you noticed something is currently... off, regardless?

I've been framing this as a question of identity loss. Design is a way of making sense of the world, questioning assumptions, and deciding what was worth making. We've steadily stripped those things away, and we now see fancier screens on inferior products. collectivefutures.blog/identity-loss/

@patrickgaley.bsky.social

And we're surprised that designers feel alienated from their own work. We keep framing this as a problem of adaptation: learn new tools, acquire new skills, become more efficient, be a leader. But what if the problem isn't in fast adaptation? What if the work itself is being hollowed out?

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Patrick Galey

We're suing the EU under the Aarhus Convention for its failure to disclose vital environmental and efficiency data around the bloc's data centre build out Investigators spent a year trying to access the information, now we're challenging the non-disclosure www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...

lighthousereports.comWhy we made a legal filing to the Aarhus Convention Compliance CommitteeOfficials are holding key environmental impact figures for all AI data centres across Europe. They won’t let the public see them.

Spooky season has arrived! 🔪🎃 Share something spooky, scary, or creepy to kick off the month 🖤

Andboo Haunton 😷🎃@andrewhinton.bsky.social

Spooky season has arrived! 🔪🎃 Share something spooky, scary, or creepy to kick off the month 🖤

I recently went on Linkedin (I know, it's my fault) and the first post I saw there was something among the lines of "Isn't it funny how the critics of AI have quieted down...", implying that said critics run out of arguments... Raised my blood pressure BITCH YOU ARE JUST IN A GLASS JAR

Excuse my sharp critique

Thinking of a new talk framed around climate catastrophe but zooms out to a much bigger question. The way we live and produce can’t continue indefinitely, yet so much of our technological response is about making the existing system more efficient rather than imagining a genuinely different one.

That connects to the idea of hauntology: we’re stuck between an idealized past, a fragmented present and a future that never seems to arrive. Climate crisis makes that condition impossible to ignore because the old promises of growth and technological progress are colliding with material limits.

So I want to explore the deeper question of desire. What would we actually need to WANT differently for another future to become possible?

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Erin Casali

@folletto.bsky.social

“Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t” — Paul Ford Honestly, hilarious — and true.

I could be resting and sleeping right now but here I am forming hypotheses for imaginary books at 2am.

Angelos Arnis 🏴@arn.is

The political question of technology is ultimately a question of desire.

The political question of technology is ultimately a question of desire.

Trump doing more for climate change than YOU! (this is sarcarm)

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

President Trump’s war on Iran, now in its seventh month, has led to a plunge in the consumption of oil and gas around the world as fighting disrupts production and transportation. https://wapo.st/4ycPvNA

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collectivefutures.blogThe strange lives of an irresponsible machineFrom an autonomous car killing a pedestrian to the ideology surrounding artificial general intelligence, the same pattern keeps appearing: the machine becomes the explanation, and responsibility disap...

When anthropomorphized, the machine becomes the actor. And that is perhaps the main point of evading liability. It goes rogue. It decides. It escaped! The language about AI is all about perception. [If you like what you read, please subscribe! It's free!] collectivefutures.blog/the-strange-...

They're all about free speech until the free speech starts to hurt

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com

Trump administration to defend its ban of major news outlets in court https://aje.news/mqt64r

But the boring questions are often the politically important ones. Who owns the compute? Who approved the deployment? Who gets paid to label the data? Who authorized the system to access someone else's infrastructure? Who benefits? Who bears the cost? What alternatives were available?

Machines do not go rogue. People make decisions, and then we describe the consequences as if the machine made them. Once the machine becomes the explanation, the people who made the decisions disappear. Systems have no alibi. People do. And responsibility always has a name.

The interface itself reinforces this story. AI systems reply in the first person. They apologize. They describe intentions and they appear to make decisions as if they were acting independently. They are designed to look like an actor. And then this becomes also "evidence" that it has become one..

On top of it of course stis a larger ideology TESCREAL, techno-optimism basically bundles of cyberlibertarianism mixed with fascism. Workers, energy, water, infrastructure... become “context” for the spectacular question: What happens if the machine becomes superintelligent?

AI is either "inevitable" - so we have to build it because someone else will... ... or it is so dangerous that only the people who understand it can safely build it. These sound like opposite arguments but they both arrive at the same end goal, putting the "machine" at the center.

This person in the screenshot read the ‘There Is No Antimemetics Division’ book and understood shit.

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@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Or more likely asked AI for a summary

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Tressie McMillan Cottom

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Pavel

@spavel.bsky.social

Software developers think "if AI automates coding, I will be able to spend less time on producing widgets, and more time on strategy and architecture." Bosses think "if AI automates coding, I can get my devs to produce 100x more widgets."

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

Historically, automation tech has commonly made more work for people: the issue is WHICH people. Whether as an excuse for owners to increase the requirements for expectations in a given day, lessen the labor expected of men while raising the expectations for women, etc. "AI" isn't exceptional.

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‮Jeff Eaton

@eaton.fyi

19 Sept

This is a terrible time for systems thinkers, in part because nobody wants to listen to systems thinkers about stuff they’ve been saying for years, so now systems thinkers have to watch deeply incurious people reinvent systems thinking from first principles

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

18 Sept

If you needed more reasons to love squirrels

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

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Timnit Gebru

16 Sept

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

@doctorow.pluralistic.net

12 Sept

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: LLMs are real, AI is fake; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g... #Pluralistic

4 Sept

Share a timeless movie movement

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