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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: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️‍🌈
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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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how to turn the AI stuff off: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz

I’ve been wondering for a long time where they got the idea that he was going to send them (the very specific number of) $5000 checks as a “refund from DOGE.” It seemed like a mass hallucination. I’ve just seen screenshots. They send boomers/retirees texts about it. I should h…

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@ninametz.bsky.social

“A collection of AI-generated short films drawn from erotic magazine photo spreads published 50 years ago has made its debut on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival” The people in these images never agreed to this Via Variety

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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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“Are you smarter than an AI,” depends on what you mean. The AI does patterns faster than me but can’t tell me the meaning of those patterns for my life or their implications for others. The AI could predict the next possible action but it can’t tell me how to make the decision for myself.

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If you know faculty in higher-ed this month, consider venmoing them some money, taking them to the local liquor store, or funding whatever hobby they use to preserve their sanity. In this age of AI slop and administrative imposition of AI we're going to need it.

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I'm finishing up a manuscript on AI and the Promise of Happiness, and I need to find an editorial that past John foolishly did not bookmark. It was from the editor's desk of some pper and it basically said how they believed that journalists needed to learn to use AI? Any thoughts?

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