Apparently in February, all the rage is Moltbook - “AIs imitating a social network” versus “AIs actually having a social network”. You definitely can see exactly what you want in this perfectly bent mirror:
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You may wanna throw in a glorifying adjective to make this look more salient than standard newspeak. Like 'performance' or 'edge', or simply 'high'. In fact, yeah, 'high' would actually do just fine. Statistical High Inscription Technologies, also excellent for an outstanding and memorable acronym.
Oh the things we do for shopper safety:
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Considering our experience so far with any entity processing our data, what truth value can we ascribe to statements like "By default, AI systems could access information only within a limited context window, typically restricted to the current conversation," when dropping our mind to that chatbox?
Found where in 2021 Harari shared his belief that the way we'll go is "re-engineering our bodies and brains."
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Just so that I remember (and to balance the voices with inhumane amplification): this is a choice, not destiny, and there are reasons not to make this choice.
This is not a test. This is not an idea. This is not a fictional story. This is madness on all levels. Why do we need this?
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The very large single point of failure of AWS makes its point clear:
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/21/t...
Implementing digital solutions harms most those already in a vulnerable state; as tools of power they more easily overlook the powerless; the greater the stratification, the easier for those in power to dismiss the poorest as calculating error: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
This feels kinda huge; may not be but has the potential of the beginning of the end of an era: www.airbnb.co.uk/help/article...
A novel item in the social prosthetics aisle: speed dating facilitated by observing pre-dialogue simulations of digital twins
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If leaving a service feels like leaving a cult, you should be leaving a cult.
Something mesmerizingly both in and out of sync in the tandem of these two items on the bsky feed:
What OpenAI is performing with its Sora case, is what Shoshana Zuboff examplified as "Google declarations": claiming one's right to ignore rights of others because, you know, progress, and so much power that I gotta be a superman or something, defs a positive guy!
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The "Now ChatGPT can start the conversation" Pulse feature is a curious experiment in relocating agency from the moment of action to when you calibrate your opaque proactive AI-guardian (or have it automagically read your mind), who will then shepherd you through day. openai.com/index/introd...
Finally, a voice of reason from the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: "To stop bad actors developing AGI that could kill us all, we need good actors to develop AGI that could also kill us all."
alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/a...
At this era of celebrating the artificial - sensuality as a philosophy of life, with the senses being "the primary mechanism for creating and storing meaning, not the intellect" @citymystic.bsky.social. My fav sense - our language: not digits for objects, but our sounds of the world, for the world.
It's dreadfully amazing what realities can be built when we stop asking questions about things someone chooses to present as inevitabilities.
A rare example (from Nepal) of a gov losing in an attempt to control information ecosystem. We've probably not heard of the many many successes.
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When a government proposes a mass surveillance system (for a good cause, of course, tho ineffectively addressing the root problem), and exempts itself from its requirements due to the new security vulnerabilities created (but feels comfy about imposing them on its citizens), whom is it serving?
While it exists in its own gated community, the tech industry has the leverage to rule our lives and minds on the sheer power of its economies of paranoia. Thanks for the sacrifice @citymystic.bsky.social
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LLMs display signs of subliminal learning, possibly inherent to neural networks - any synthetic examples generated by a misaligned model are contaminated, even if they are cleaned and look benign. I guess it would work the same subLLMinal way with kindness but hey futurism.com/ai-models-su...
Urgently need a psychology today questionnaire to test how cooked a brain you need to be to be this enlightened:
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With great economic power typically comes great political power, with the option to influence/create whole ideologies for us all. Not a fan of seeing things from business plan perspective, but hope to see one on returns of the AI investments not from a cooked brain
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Offloading decisionmaking onto "computer says no" systems in rental businesses is, well, inhumane, but arguing that this will bring "greater transparency, precision and speed" is outright funny @futurism.com
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We're building multifunctional products simultaneously aimed at driving user & investor engagement and, well, both of them crazy: futurism.com/tech-industr... by @futurism.com
What to think of AI creators warning the public that the AI they're creating may be used to create fraud, but hey there's another piece of technology they created that would create conditions to counter that: edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/t...
Amazon Ring is an example of companies changing their already maligned practices to more directly profit from the rising tide of techno-authoritarianism - authoritarianism aided by surveillance tech: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... by @eff.org
The junta using digital (governance) tools in Myanmar against its people is not so different how same or similar tools and methods are being used in more democratic countries. It's a spectrum thing.
www.techpolicy.press/myanmars-dig... via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
Our tendency to imagine a mind behind a text that looks like something a person could have said leads us to... and well this is how they're sold. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
