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…
Who's Who of AI
VE, cybersocial occult investigator
Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Taoist bricoleur. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
What they're sharing
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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nytimes.com
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Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site nature.com
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The Filipino virtual assistants running LinkedIn engagement networks - Rest of World restofworld.org
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arxiv.org
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dell.com
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gizmodo.com
Articles & links
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And at a time when information literacy is dwindling, mis and dis information abound, and libraries and librarians are shrinking. I want a goddamn link, not some plagiarism machine's interpretation of the link. techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...
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$9-billion taxpayer transfer to a $5 trillion company for US spy agencies to go all in on AI. NYT doesn't include a single critical word from a privacy or civil liberties expert. Just a don't-worry-about-it assurance at the end. Also: Anthropic is not our friend. www.nytimes.c…
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Hallucinated references seem to be way more common in social science papers than others - but why? My latest for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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LinkedIn has always been trash. But now it's almost entirely slop. Corporate executives are paying Filipinos to use AI to ghostwrite posts which these same people then reply to with congratulatory comments. This is the doom loop future internet that oligarchs want everywhere.
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The Illusion of Competence: Self-Perceived Digital Literacy and AI Readiness arxiv.org/abs/2605.26010 Study (preprint): There is an "'AI Paradox' wherein students significantly overestimate their critical awareness of deepfakes and algorithmic biases compared to their operatio…
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Dell goes full #Palantir as OEM operating system on Dell-Hardware! US Military Defense company Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), Ontology and Foundry will be on Dell Servers, that you buy, supporting and optimizing their "AI kill chain"... www.dell.com/en-us/b…
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Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers gizmodo.com/power-prices...
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- PJM wholesale electricity prices jumped 76% year-over-year in Q1 2026, reaching $136.53/MWh, with data center load directly cited as the driver.
- A U.S. market authority used 'significant and irreversible' to describe AI grid impact for the first time in official reporting.
- A concurrent Gallup poll found 71% of Americans oppose local data center construction, with nearly half strongly opposed.
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Recent commentary
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.
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
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.
I wonder how I can get everyone who likes AI and everyone who dislikes AI to all block me simultaneously so I can finally be free of this website. Also is this a collectively exhaustive set or am I leaving anyone out
This is an unpopular lens with pretty much everybody but I think there are good analytical reasons *not* to differentiate between LLMs and other types of machine learning when critiquing AI as a social assemblage and political project.
The utter decimation of US science institutions and funding and the top-down push (by the Trump administration’s allies in tech) toward “AI science” are a circle
Tonight's local LLM experiment is if gemma 4 can help me optimize my terminal configuration
Still getting lots of random blocks from accounts that primarily do things like repost anti-AI content 🙃