VE, cybersocial occult investigator

It’s interesting how the fascists are trying to preemptively securitize any *ideas* that are a threat to their power base and work backwards from them to construct the claim of an actual violent extremist threat, in this case anti-tech, but also anti-{American, Christian, capi…

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com

The Mitch McConnell situation feels like the perfect opportunity for the tech-oligarch class to demonstrate their faith in their AI necromancy technology

The thing social media-driven social epistemologies, conspiracist make-believe, governance-by-propaganda, influencer alt-media, peer-on-peer surveillance, and AI-as-information-system all have in common is that they deny consensual participation in shared reality, which is inherently anti-democratic

As someone who started working on a citation management and information organizing software tool, seeing the widespread anti-software sentiment among researchers because they got baited into thinking Zotero has anything to do with AI (it doesn’t, it is literally 20 years old) is depressing.

I know AI has made life more interesting for computer people but it has cheapened so many other areas of human life and sociality in incredibly disappointing ways. Completely narrowed the window on human possibilities into one tiny path.

For all the talk about data-driven decision-making, data has always operated as a prop magic wand for people to suspend their disbelief for engaging in desire-driven decision-making, and AI has just shortened the engineering pipeline required to get to that end.

My only interest in the “is AI conscious?” debate is observing that cyberpunk and scifi stories apparently got it backwards how in our actual reality it was in the financial interests of the companies creating AI to convince everyone that it is conscious instead of suppressing or ignoring it

<obligatory preamble that I don’t think LLMs should exist but I Iive in a society where I have to use them professionally> I’ve found claude code to be pretty useful in an “inverted learning mode” where you design something and it tells you what needs to be implemented next and you write it yourself

jfc seeing tech guys responding to the OpenAI theft of Apple trade secrets by saying "Apple should be thanking them" is such a perfect example of the culture of no-consent in tech

You know, something I hadn't considered is that Google Search might now be run by people who _like_ to roleplay with bots and think this new product design is going great. There's a pretty widespread bot RP community across the web, especially concentrated in pro-AI techies, so it's plausible.

AI got people on here sephiroth posting like Tobias Fünke about how maybe using the master’s tools, this time, will work out