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well well well if it isn’t the the thing I wrote about four years ago coming up again redstarcaucus.org/failed-techn...

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...

Update on the use of AI text in Chaosium Community Content programs @drivethrurpg.com. TL/DR: Don't use it in our programs. AI is not art. It is theft from you and every writer who has gone before you, repackaged dishonestly and shamelessly as original. www.chaosium.com/blogupdate-o...

(It's the delta that worries me in the code I see. Engineers with a quarter century of experience churning out code by the bucketful that's quite a bit worse than what they used to write. So either they aren't reviewing their own code like they used to or their skills have degraded.)

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months in protest. This week, she was arrested for disorderly conduct

We have canceled the pilot program. Every single person on this committee (all except me were pro AI when we started) has decided ChatGPT offers nothing of substance and now wants to set up a chatroom associated with our writing center manned by writing tutors instead

This week on the blog - more discussion of Hearts of Iron IV and this week's topic is a heavy one, assessing how the decision not to acknowledge or address war crimes and crimes against humanity causes the game to blunder into being a 'clean Wehrmacht' myth simulator. acoup.blog/2026/10/16/t...

Amazon doesn't mind if prices go up, so long as Amazon's price remains competitive. So Amazon imposes a requirement on its suppliers called "most favored nation," which requires sellers to offer their best price on Amazon: pluralistic.net/2026/02/25/m...

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

The same people warning about “sharia law” are the ones demanding live streamed executions, book bans, baring journalists from the White House, eroding women’s rights, rounding up people in our streets, and legislating the Bible in schools, all in the name of “Christianity.”

One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

1202 alarm. 😢 We're, we're, Go on that, Flight.

RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

"Software developers are not okay" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft... The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech. Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...

Not really sure I'd trust anything this courier might bring me, to be honest....

Some morning musings on AI. We need to stop talking about this as technology issue. It's an ethics & law enforcement issue. Thread:

“Refusing AI is like refusing one of Sauron’s delightful Rings of Power! Think of all the power!!”

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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.”

AI "can be problematic" when it "misrepresents". Not unconditionally? Some misrepresentation is OK, as a treat? FFS bsky.app/profile/natu...

Our resplendent new edition of Credo: The Game of Duelling Dogmas is on @boardgamegeek.com. If you like the game, please do give it a rating there, or even a review!

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

The game of duelling dogmas! In Credo you need to wheel, deal, and politic your way to ensure the beliefs of your faction are accepted into the Creed—the universally agreed statement of faith of the whole Christian Church. Write your creed today: www.chaosium.com/credo-the-bo...

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“Why do BMW and Audi owners often seem to drive like idiots? Is it the car that makes them behave aggressively behind the wheel, or are specific types of people drawn to such cars as well being more likely to break traffic regulations? Research at the University of Helsinki provides some answers.”

So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

Using "AI" can reduce accuracy while simultaneously reducing admission of ignorance. It's only a preprint, with a somewhat artificial scenario. But lends some weight to intuitions some of us have. @valeriocapraro seems to be the author. www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-advice-re...

I keep seeing feminists posting links to @playboy.com. I'm not falling for that, getting me to click on them and then having to utter the immortal phrase "I read it for the articles".

…that means that YOU CANNOT PROMPT ENGINEERING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THESE SYSTEMS. They are GOING to output bullshit, because they are Bullshit Engines.

zuck sucks and I think it would be a really nice thing for the internet if this company completely collapsed

Academic freedom is *for academics* *publishing in the field they are established in* so that a university can say "if you have a problem with Professor Lizard's ideas, take it up with <field X>, they accept him as a member in good standing so it's their problem!".

Much current activity on Bluesky meets the criteria of the OSS organizational sabotage manual, so why mess with success?

modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

It's not much, but it's honest work (all I could cobble together in time on returning home).