Jeff Loeb

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

I'm begging everyone to please become a prison abolitionist and a luddite and to heal and decolonize yourself and find the love and compassion in your heart that they want turned into fear and hate for your fellow beings. Do this before it's too late for all of us. Here, I made it so easy for you:

I’m not scared of AI, I’m scared of the power that idolizing “AI” has given oligarchs. Financially, socially, politically, environmentally, we're handing over our systems to do whatever they want. Read The Reverse Centaur’s Guide To Life After AI by @doctorow.pluralistic.net #booksky #nonfiction

Stand with Zelensky and against Putin. Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE. Stand with No Kings and against Meta. Stand with the people and against the oligarchs. Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.

“Just as Leo XIII upheld the dignity of the worker in the age of the steam engine, so Leo XIV means to uphold the dignity of the person in the age of the algorithm: the danger is not that machines will become human, but that humans will reduce themselves to machines.” www.equator.org/articles/to-...

New #HNL paper out in @nature.com: Educational Intervention Can Rewire Village Social Networks. 1/

“The key point: The political Right has always derided anything that threatens the social & racial hierarchy as a form of anti-American ‘socialism’ or ‘communism’ & used those terms to demonize anyone who dares to question the righteousness of past, present, or future white reactionary elite rule.”

But the TESCREAList/tech bro future is not one I want any part in and in fact one that I actively resist --- and I hope others will too. >>

MAGAs demonize Muslims but refuse to actually engage with us. Reject that hateful ok

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

I will point out, however, that serious scientists are cautious with their claims. Furthermore, as we wrote in 2021 (in "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜"), p.616: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... >>

1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>

Thus, any evaluation of LLMs that involves looking at either language produced by some software, or language input into the system for that matter, needs to be done with extreme care to avoid projecting our interpretation of the language onto the system. >>

People are fucking fed up.

Ever wondered what it was like when the Nazis stirred up hatred & violence against whole communities, like the Jews, Roma, or Poles? Wonder no more.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

Warren McCulloch, chairman [sic] of the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics, in a letter to the cybernetics group before the tenth and final conference, 1953. Discovered and shared by Sean Manion. stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/08/w...

Human skill is made out of difficulty, simulated genai skill-shaped capability is made out of crimes

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Nihilism misunderstands the Clearing 

"To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the future makes the present inhabitable" -- Rebecca Solnit

"... history, which was a forgery anyway, might as well be the Playground-of-Crackpots, must be added the terrible, demoralizing fascination in the possibility that gigantic lies and monstrous falsehoods can eventually be established as unquestioned facts" -- Hannah Arendt (1951)

"The knowledge of knowledge compels. It compels us to adopt an attitude of permanent vigilance against the temptation-of-certainty" -- Maturana and Varela

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I'll meet you there" -- Rumi

Esto del @doctorow.pluralistic.net explica muchos de los problemas que tenemos hoy día con pa vivienda y con muchas cosas más: la primacía del derecho de la propiedad sobre el resto de los derechos

The number of people who somehow still, in this day and age, seem to fully believe that they are immune to propaganda, marketing, or other psychological influence and will never ever be duped or otherwise convinced to believe or maybe even Do a silly thing is honestly just astounding to me.

“When we think these systems capture something deep about ourselves & our thinking, we induce distorted & impoverished images of ourselves & our cognition.” —@irisvanrooji.bsky.social AGI isn’t a beautiful dream. It’s an insult…and a threat. A perversion of what it means to be human.

The challenges we face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system. We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump. We cannot allow Big Money to dominate our politics and economy. And we cannot capitulate to the oligarchy.

A SAD, MALIGNANT, DELUSIONAL CONMAN AND FRAUD ... No integrity; No compassion; No empathy; No shame; No conscience; No courage; No character; No humanity; No morality; No manners; No respect; No music; No books; No happiness; No love; No friends; No honor. Not even a dog.

I lack the ancient incantations to hand over the servers to the raccoons today, but the sentiment is a wonderful reminder: true flourishing (sustainment) isn't about running the machinery faster—it's about knowing when to let the moss take it back.

This is why I have now embraced my unadulterated, cringe-worthy, faith and belief in the truly unique ability of humans to be humans and to express their humanity in art and self-reflection. And I include all humanities disciplines in the “self-reflection” part.

I don’t normally write about what ails me because I can’t imagine anything more boring for you to read. But I decided to tell you something about my health today that I’ve never before revealed because I want to help dispel some of the stigma attached to a condition I’ve had.

Lights or witness the birth of a new animal imbue these events with meaning,” he adds. “They may also drive you to look better after our environment—by volunteering your time, donating or voting for climate-friendly parties.”

findings show that merely providing scientific facts is not the best way to communicate on climate-related issues—you need to connect with people.” says co-author Tobias Brosch, a psychologist at the University of Geneva. “The emotions you feel when you watch a nature documentary, see the Northern

Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.

Today, people are optimizing life “as though living were another job. Too many of us seem to be maxxing our way out of the experiences and perspectives that give us maximum meaning,” Ian Bogost argues. He explores how finding wonder might be the antidote: theatln.tc/lpdDX5Kq

"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it.

We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are.

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry