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

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

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.

I know people want to like duck duck go, but despite Google’s AI overview and whatever it is they’re doing now, I get so many more very obviously AI written search results in DDG searches then I ever do with Google

I typically try not to draw attention to specific regime propaganda but the official white house account putting out what is effectively an adult swim break bumper anime clip short interspersed with AI generated Trump propaganda sure is some kind of future-historical record

After the freedom of speech civil libertarians turned out to be disastrously mistaken about everything to do with social media and the rise of fascism, I’m not sure that I care about anything they have to say about why the discussion of AI harms “is wrong”

AI-writing tropes make reading LLM synthesized text so freaking monotonous

As much as I am an AI skeptic and big tech hater for holistic sociotechnical anti-fascist reasons, I think I have to develop working use-knowledge of agentic coding for various professional reasons so I've been exploring local and open weights models and agent harnesses to see what's viable now.