Benjamin

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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

this guy's smart and he found it useful, what does that mean for the rest of us?

well it's still blood soaked machinery you rent from fascists so it's not affecting my analysis really

i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat

but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

Screenshot of an internal server error from the network tab of the browser.

Literally hit with an internal server error when trying to do a basic replacement of my primary card info with another card THEY HAVE ON FILE.

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I visit GoDaddy just once per year to manage some domains, and every time the experience is just worse.

The site loads more slowly than ever, I am bombarded with "AI Opportunities" and design prompts, and I cant even update my payment info because the site gets an unknown error.

There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

I could write for days, months, years.

I could read decades of sci-fi from the most annoying Golden Age authors.

I could peruse the most cringe things on TikTok.

And still, I could never come up with the deeply embarrassing things Sam Altman says on any given Tuesday

Painting of Link with a million little gadgets and weapons from across the games. I worked harder on this in a 5 week period than any other thing I’ve ever painted. I think I almost died working on this lol

Happy Zelda 40th anniversary!

"Bedford Borough Council holds no authority over the Council of Nicaea and was not responsible for the creation of the moon 4.53billion years ago."

Acting ethically in an imperfect world Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.

@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:

tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...

A few further comments, 🧵>>

This article by @tante.cc is wonderful and will improve your day significantly.

The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.

www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

I am in love with these drawings.

more sketchbook

De forklarer aldri *hvordan* KI kan føre til bedre klimaløsninger. Her gjentar NRK ren propaganda fra de som vil blåse opp KI-bobla.

Heldigvis har @ketanjoshi.co nettopp skrevet en rapport som avslører bløffen og som viser den åpenbare sannheten: Generativ KI er en klimaversting.

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA

NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....

Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!

ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Nettsiden til Nasjonalarkivet med teksten: «Få hjelp av kunstig intelligens» og et felt for å stille spørsmål.

Nasjonalarkivet har forkastet hele forsiden av nettsiden sin til fordel for et KI-tekstfelt?

Har dette kanskje gått litt for langt nå?

Hva er dette søppelet for noe!

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Forsiden er ubrukelig dersom du nekter å bli forfulgt av overvåkningselskaper på internet.

Graphic showing Peter Thiel - chair of Palantir Technologies - and some of the powerful figures in his network including Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Peter Mandelson, Steve Bannon

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

The nazis raided and burned the first gender clinic. The Reagan revolution closed down most of the gender clinics in the US and left coverage uninsurable for decades. We've been here before. We'll get through just as we always have. With strength and resilience in community. They can't eradicate us.

The only surprise is they admit it

‪Don't love the wording of this - it feels a bit like saying ChatGPT is down, forcing news writers to take a long coffee break.

It is a sign of things to come, though, if we don't change course: power and reliance on fewer and fewer superwealthy companies, that can squeeze you for all you have.

Siemens Energy Bets $1 Billion That A.I. Power Demand Will Last

Siemens is pumping $1 billion into manufacturing fossil fuel infrastructure on the bet that power demand from ultra-inefficient text, image and video generation based off plagiarised internet content will grow massively in the future

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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...

this is pretty wild. good argument for lockdown mode if your threat model is one where you might have your phone seized by the Feds: www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...