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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)

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Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist. Assistant Professor @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: [email protected] Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️‍🌈
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social

“Consent is really important,” Broussard tells WIRED. “We can connect that to the way that women, queer people, people of color, and minorities get exploited and abused online. Tech companies have never really been sensitive to issues of consent.” www.wired.com/story/the-ai...

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact wired.com
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  • WIRED argues the anti-slop backlash is producing real platform changes rather than just complaint threads, with tools and policies to flag AI content spreading.
  • Substack, YouTube and Pinterest have all added detection, labels or user controls, with Substack partnering with the detection firm Pangram.
  • Merriam-Webster and the Macquarie Dictionary named 'slop' word of the year, and one anti-slop Facebook group has nearly 250,000 members.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Don’t let Meta near your kids.

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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  • Meta is piloting StoryKit, an AI iPhone app that generates personalized children's stories with illustrations, narration, and original music.
  • Parents create a character by photographing a toy or person, pick a setting, and choose a lesson like kindness, courage, or empathy.
  • The pilot is running in select countries with App Store availability in Mexico but not the U.S., and Meta restricts the app to users over 18.
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@radiodeadair.com

We fucking told you so. We told you and told you and told you. "AI" as an industry has to earn $2 trillion in revenue per year from now to 2029 in order for investments merely to break even. That's simply impossible. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze | The Verge theverge.com
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  • Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are simultaneously deploying rate limits, paywalls, and price hikes in 2026, ending subsidized AI access.
  • Anthropic's June 15 print-mode repricing, OpenAI's guaranteed-capacity tier, and Google AI Ultra are concrete signals of the industry-wide monetization shift.
  • Labs spent years using investor capital to subsidize access and build user habits; the payback phase has now arrived across the industry.
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2508.01491

The Homogenizing Effect of Large Language Models on Human Expression and Thought arxiv.org
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  • A new arxiv synthesis argues that ubiquitous LLM use risks standardizing human language and reasoning across users and contexts.
  • The paper identifies two mechanisms: models mirror dominant patterns in their training data, and users converge on the same models across contexts.
  • Authors warn unchecked homogenization could flatten the cognitive landscapes that drive collective intelligence and adaptability.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social

“Sooner or later, elite schools are going to realize that an analog education carries more prestige than an AI-assisted one & will retool their curricula..to reflect that prejudice. This has .. already happened with screens in elementary and secondary education” hedgehogreview…

Artificial Negligence hedgehogreview.com View on Bluesky →
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@ericdharvey.com

how to turn the AI stuff off: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social

The Commerce Department eased its block on Anthropic's Mythos, but UC Berkeley Risk and Security Lab's Andrew W. Reddie argues Lutnick's letter leaves the hard question unanswered: in an age of cloud-hosted models, what even counts as an "export" when a capability crosses bord…

Commerce Eased Its Block on Anthropic's Mythos, But Major Questions Remain | TechPolicy.Press buff.ly View on Bluesky →
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social

A growing assumption in AI safety is that frontier systems will fail unpredictably rather than through coherent misalignment. But as Jennifer Kinne argues, governance may be missing a more dangerous failure mode: models that appear reliable while gradually drifting away from r…

The Blind Spot in AI Safety buff.ly View on Bluesky →
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We have entered the era of advertisers shitting on AI. I just saw a commercial for Legal Zoom where two folks are trying to set up their will and one of them suggests Legal Zoom, and the other says "we'll just have AI do it." Turns out the AI forgot their 401k, which the human at Legal Zoom caught.

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Forever angry that there are some useful non -AI tools that have rebranded as AI for sweet, sweet clout.

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I’m reminded in this moment of AI that early mapping programs used to tell people to drive through fucking buildings as the most optimal route to a destination. They fixed that real quick, but folks clearly learned fuck all from the event.

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Something that irks me is that if I convert a scanned text into ocr, which makes it searchable, this enables Adobe's AI slop to use its summarize feature on the text. This irks me because I make sure all my course texts are OCR'd for accessibility reasons.

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In Valen’s name, the fact that predictive text and autocorrect both try to correct “fucking” to “ducking” and choose to ignore fek”ihr, Grethor, and Khaless tells you everything you need to know about AI, even in its most simple form, as a disciplinary tool.

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