Prof. Catherine Flick

three sources coming to the same conclusion :) :) :)

Anyway, at 100 $/hr, $1 trillion buys 10 billion hours of labor. An army of 1 million really smart people could work for 10,000 hours per person. That's one million people working full time for five years at a $200k/yr salary. Imagine what 1,000,000 well-paid nerds could've produced in 5 years!

I love it when I get to do my annual Naked Wines order. As the daughter of a wine expert, I have gained Wine Snobbery as a feat.

What is WRONG with these people?

what exactly DOES happen to materials from a major studio that’s closed? where do physical hard drives, documents, etc go? who maintains all this pointless secrecy? if you know or have stories, get in touch: nathan@aftermath.site, nathangrayson.666 (signal), aftermathdotsite@proton.me (proton mail)

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

I wonder how the kid who posted 15 years ago about their first job at Theranos is doing now

If you're looking for art to accompany a press release, this is what I do. I have a PhD in astronomy and space illustration/animation is my specialty. This piece, on green white dwarfs, is one of my most recent commissions. Please don't use AI. Use an artist. Thank you. #sciart #scicomm #blender

Psst, if you're checking out Steam Next Fest but you don't want to wade through all the slop, here's a handy browser extension: github.com/seeeeew/aiwa...

Broke: Abolish ICE Woke: Abolish MBA www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

*grabs his knees tightly to his body and rocks back and forward* The writing is the thinking, the thinking is the work. The writing is the thinking, the thinking is the work…

Charlie Kirk’s greatest gift to the world was convincing a generation of mediocre frat boy chuds that they were intellectual heavyweights.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

See how easy that is? I'm looking at you @societyofauthors.bsky.social

This was super powerful to see live and I'm so glad Jo decided to post it. One of my favourite talks that we accepted for @emfcamp.bsky.social this year.

🚨🚨I told you so klaxon 🚨🚨

Yep. Entirely unsurprised. Y'all know I get on my horse about it, but this article shows exactly why. And no, there is no "one place" where it's fine for x purpose but not for y purpose. You cannot trust this technology to do any of the crap AI boosters says it does, and you never should. >>

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

"Shocking," said no one, ever. Especially us, @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net who warned in 2021 this would happen: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

I did a panel the other day where we talked about the cost of compute as being a massively limiting factor, but for lots of AI purchasers that cost is still being masked by VC/investor money so the vulnerabilities are high but hidden wch leads to scepticism

If you're crawling back to X and posting ridiculous sob story "wah wah I had to because of whatever" posts then you probably didn't leave for the right reasons in the first place. It's a moral stand, it's supposed to be uncomfortable and difficult.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

oh, if you can get even the jankiest game built and shipped you are, on average, the best programmer in any team of enterprise developers, I would bet any amount of money you want to bet

One thing a lot of gamedevs dont understand wrt the pressures of ai profusion in software is exactly how atrocious the median enterprise developer is.

Less good.

Not surprising, but pretty disappointing. Nobody wants slop games, I guess they'll have to find that out the hard way.

If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...

come on tech bro utilitarians, you got this

the thrill of managing to get your kids onto swimming lessons at the same time as each other

So uh, American people. You ok? Can we talk in private

Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I gave Braid an A+ back in my press days. I spent 100s of hours working on The Witness at PlayStation, fighting for it, getting it into conferences, and being Jon's personal wrangler. I even coined "Metroidbrainia" after it. I will not be buying Order of the Sinking Star, and neither should you.

This op-ed really nails it. Universities going all in on generative AI are pulling us backwards on student mental health. Is that the university mission? Is that what a public good looks like? ncnewsline.com/2026/10/08/w...

Again he’s really losing it with the AI stuff now

We, @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net said this was coming in 2021: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead