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Iran school bombing AI blame story

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

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Erin Kissane Dan Hon David Colarusso

“And then please consider reading in full Kevin Baker’s work on Maven and the kill chain from back in MARCH. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...”

“It’s a good complement to this week’s reading on the kill chain.”

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Erin Kissane: Please consider setting aside a few minutes to actually read this, start to finish, rather than letting posts about headlines guide your sense of what happened.
Erin Kissane: And then please consider reading in full Kevin Baker’s work on Maven and the kill chain from back in MARCH. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
Dan Hon: Please consider setting aside a few minutes to actually read this, start to finish, rather than letting posts about headlines guide your sense of what happened.
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4 experts · 14 posts · 14d ago
Erin Kissane Tim Carmody VE, cybersocial occult investigator Amy Hoy
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Erin Kissane: I feel like devs who find LLMs transformative in a good way would have a better time and get further with people if they took seriously the possibility that software engineering (which always invol…
Erin Kissane: Should that have gone to drafts for future consideration? 1000%, but tomorrow is too wild for me to be online so whatever.
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3 experts · 8 posts · 10d ago
Erin Kissane Anthony Moser tweety fish
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
tweety fish: have you checked out neoreaction a basilisk? I avoided it when it came out, even though it seemed good, because UGH to all of it, but perhaps I can/should avoid it no longer
Anthony Moser: to the extent that it comes up at all, "those people are in a weird ai sex cult" is sufficient imo and is primarily useful if someone is like "but all these Serious People are Very Concerned, shoul…
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2 experts · 15 posts · 14d ago
Erin Kissane hipstersmoothie.com
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
hipstersmoothie.com: Take architecture. we would all agree that there are beautiful buildings. those require detailed, skillful engineering, most don’t have the capacity to appreciate If we created a program that could…
hipstersmoothie.com: There were a whole lotta blacksmiths. Automation took away their craft too, are their works any less impressive? Is forging my own knives not a meaningful pursuit?
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2 experts · 4 posts · 18d ago
Erin Kissane tweety fish
Erin Kissane: Yeah like were those suspensions for lists called "ai genocide loving pedophiles and nazis" or something? Because I have news about some of the lists I'm apparently on and I don't even generally sp…
tweety fish: There is a certain species of blocklist that seems to exist in the hope that at some point the people on it will check clearsky and see the name of it and man, what a way to spend your time
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2 experts · 2 posts · 19d ago
Erin Kissane Dan Hon
Dan Hon: "humanity will survive this rapid transition" is great for the species sure, we've been through bottlenecks before, but not so great at the individual level
Erin Kissane: I agree but also I’m (no surprise) afraid it’s not *just* the algorithms, but the architecture of online spaces. So broadly defined AI but also maybe the whole flowering of the platform-centric soc…
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