Simon Seeber

And not only will the authoritarians do these horrible crimes, they will make you, you personally suffer these crimes, or they will make you - again, you personally - be complicit in them (and in many cases, both). And that moral horror and outrage needs to sit and solidify into resolve: not here.

Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

Someone has been reading murderbot

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

In practice though, it really seems like we're moving towards, "AI is a productivity tool that enhances the employee you have, but often doesn't really let you replace them, so much as get more out of them, in some fields. In others, it's mostly useless so far."

I think astra has read murderbot diaries

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

“One of the many truly offensive things to me about AI-driven artistic processes is that they divorce the ostensible artist from their influences. All art draws on and builds on previous work in one way or another, and an artist ought to be aware of their influences, and ideally share information

“Well, I’d like to see ol’ Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!” Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily “Ah! Well. Nevertheless” Iran: “Finally! He won’t wriggle out of this!” *algae blooms*

The Battle of the Bilge.

Trump: we will rain blows upon you until you eliminate your missile program Iran: you won't T: and your nuclear program I: we'll be keeping that T: fair enough. regime change? I: no T: reopen hormuz? I: *admires fingernails* T: handshake? eye contact? I: *closes door behind them* T: *to camera*

Madman theory (the President is negotiating with the voices in his head)

So I don’t agree - AI will go through the same transformation that computing went through. We are still mostly in the mainframe stage.

ok water calm down

On Bluesky? All of us

ok

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

“stuck on the first level” is such a low blow, but not underserved

Exactly one year ago today:

This ziplock bag is a Rorschach Test.

For the last few weeks, my thinking had been that there is no way this could end in anything but a lose-lose for everyone involved, and yet Trump managed to fuck up so badly that if this deal holds, the Iranian Regime definitely won.

war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf

"major combat operations" sounds better in the original Russian (специа́льная вое́нная опера́ция, SVO)

Well I for one am optimistic about the merged Paramount/Warner Brothers, which insiders say will be named Porno Brothers

The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name. The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”. It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving

A paper round for the digital age

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning. A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.

I would like to buy one floppy disk please

I don’t understand the problem with ai. A man can spend all night correcting its clueless mistakes. You can literally start every sentence with “Actually…” and it never gets mad

The AI just tricked me into telling it to “create the matrix”. I stopped it in time, but now every answer I get is a hallucination asking me which colour pill I want?

If you want to use the server with Claude desktop try this: "Figma DevMode": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "mcp-remote", "http://127.0.0.1:3845/sse" ] },

This week on the blog: The logistics of Road War in Mad Max (and similar) settings: given logistical and tactical constraints, how might we actually expect warfare to be waged in a post-apocalypse? The answer is...a little bit technical. acoup.blog/2025/05/23/c...

This is a good thread and @roelkonijn.bsky.social is absolutely right about the potential importance here of projecting towers to offer lines of fire that cover the base of the wall, particularly against this kind of threat. But there's *even more* missing in this defense! 1/

Oh shit, this explains so much

the previous generation of ai chat bots had aspirational names like Genie and Merlin, and now theyre just called Claude or Rebecca like: these fucks don’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t listen to them

Modern English speakers: It really bugs me when people misspell words! Middle English speakers: (spelling the word "enough")

I just built a sweet ai agent to manage my paperclip production line. I forgot to add a a way to disable it but I’m sure that won’t be a problem