Tuesday March 17th, 2026
So you might have heard about this thing where in 2021, a company called Krafton acquired/entered into a deal with Unknown Worlds, the developer of the game Subnautica. The contract included a $250M bonus if they hit revenue targets by 2025, $225M of that going to Unknown Worlds' upper management team.
The CEO of Krafton then apparently decided that they were gonna have to pay too much to Unknown Worlds, and started to hobble the release and get in the way of said revenue targets.
So far just garden variety C Suite douchebaggery.
As the smackdown from the lawsuits starts to unfold, it turns out that Krafton CEO Changham Kim says, well, yes, he did consult with ChatGPT on the Subnautica 2 mess, and also deleted some of those queries, but he had a good reason: He didn't want OpenAI finding out about it.
Okay, so he's not just trying to weasel out of a deal, he's not just... whatever... enough to turn to an LLM for legal advice, he also thinks that he can use a cloud hosted service, delete something, and that means that cloud service provider hasn't ingested that data.
The opinion is here, Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com summarizes as:
Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37.
Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.
Via.
Meanwhile, the other double-face-palm that's floating around the Inkernets these days is Kettering Adventist Healthcare v. Collier. The Volokh Conspiracy at Reason: "The Undersigned Cannot Recall a Comparable Instance of Such Brazen and Repeated Dishonesty" in 55 Years as a Judge.
Over on Bluesky, Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social has a bunch of highlights.
The complaint, in which...
After Kettering received multiple complaints from IRG staff about Collier’s unprofessional behavior and leadership style, Kettering suspended Collier on June 20, 2025.
So after getting canned, she tried to extort "8 figures" from Kettering, the complaint lays out ways in which she was likely planning this from within 2 weeks of getting hired in the first place.
Anyway, she gets smacked down, and turns to ChatGPT, which tells her that she should continue legal shenanigans. And not only does she turn to the sycophancy machine, her lawyer does too, and that's where shit gets real.
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. thread switches to the transcript, and ... yash @yashwinacanter.bsky.social
i know they’re talking about disbarring but it’s really funny to read/imagine this as like “they have fucked up so bad that we have no choice but to Excommunicate Them From Ohio”
Anyway, don't turn to LLMs for legal advice. If your lawyers turn to LLMs for legal advice, fire them.
Which brings us around to Designed to Cross: Why Nippon Life v. OpenAI Is a Product Liability Case.
Graciela Dela Torre settled a long-term disability claim with prejudice in January 2024. Feeling she had been misled by her attorney, she uploaded his correspondence to ChatGPT. The chatbot validated her distrust. She fired her lawyer, attempted to reopen the settled case, and filed dozens of motions that courts found served no legitimate legal purpose. In March 2026, Nippon Life Insurance Company of America sued OpenAI for $10.3 million.
The problem is, of course, that just like the few thousand dollar slaps on the wrist that we've seen for lawyers trying to justify making up bullshit with the aid of an LLM aren't effective, $10.3M is not gonna slow down OpenAI marketing ChatGPT as a tool to clog up the courts with bullshit.
Kirk.is: The AI Vampire is some commentary around Steve Yegge's The AI Vampire. Yegge lost me... well, before gas town, but Kirk's questions lead me to the thought that my work value is, yes, understanding code, and having a bunch of deep thinking about software systems, but it's also about being able to think critically about systems.
And one of the big challenges about both the modern world, and about LLM hype, is that I'm trying to figure out what that means in a world where the "thought leaders" are spewing bizarre-ass bullshit, where "momentum" is everything, and "influencer" appears to be way more remunerative than understanding.
Bonus: Aram J. French's Mandatory Roller Coaster comic: Vibe Construction.
Monday March 16th, 2026
"I can fix her" relationships as a service: OpenAI being warned against allowing X-rated chat as it may create a "sexy suicide coach".
Pivot to AI: OpenAI advisor: ‘adult mode’ risks becoming ‘sexy suicide coach’
A few production decisions I disagree with, I think an arrangement should leave a little space, and there are some interesting vocal decisions, but... Rick Astley's new single is totally listenable.
Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't.
Including The Ageless Device
A physical computing device designed to satisfy every element of the California Digital Age Assurance Act's regulatory scope while deliberately refusing to comply with its requirements. The device costs less than lunch and will be handed to children.
This feels kinda fascinating: Facebook ad for "Granola.ai" has a testimonial from Deedy, partner at Menlo Ventures: "Granola is one of the best made "AI" apps that I've used this year."
Is AI as a phrase becoming poisoned enough that it's getting quoted? https://www.facebook.com/perma...E7rHBHqBVb5mQl&id=61579723227585
Stanford Law School: Designed to Cross: Why Nippon Life v. OpenAI Is a Product Liability Case
Graciela Dela Torre settled a long-term disability claim with prejudice in January 2024. Feeling she had been misled by her attorney, she uploaded his correspondence to ChatGPT. The chatbot validated her distrust. She fired her lawyer, attempted to reopen the settled case, and filed dozens of motions that courts found served no legitimate legal purpose. In March 2026, Nippon Life Insurance Company of America sued OpenAI for $10.3 million.
Mark Dominus linked to the actual complaint.
Unfortunately, I don't think $10.3M is nearly enough, unless it opens up the floodgates against OpenAI's malfeasance.
heard "be the elephant you want to see in the room" earlier and gosh if that hasn't stuck with me
maxine 🇵🇸 @maxine@hachyderm.io
LLM users respect a chatbot more than potential contributors is the worst part of all this. Everyone was capable of writing basic docs all along. They just didn’t want to for a fellow human.
I don’t know what exactly is it when you treat people as things and things as people, but it sure is fucking gross.
Oh, hey, it turns out that removing all skill and turning your pipeline over to commodity generation that anyone who wants that kind of slop can do themselves might have consequences: Futurism": BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI.
Now, three years after its AI pivot, the writing is on the wall. The company reported a net loss of $57.3 million in 2025 in an earnings report released on Thursday. In an official statement, the company glumly hinted at the possibility of going under sooner rather than later, writing that “there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”
Add this to your morning's comics: The Joy Of Tech: Support Group for AI Chatbots. Fediverse link.
Ars Technica: Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories. As David Gerard points out it's kind of a rehash of the old (March 2024) using Unicode tags for prompt injection.
This one almost needs its own post. AI changes how you think: Cornell Chronicle: AI assistants can sway writers’ attitudes, even when they’re watching for bias
“Previous misinformation research has shown that warning people before they’re exposed to misinformation, or debriefing them afterward, can provide ‘immunity’ against believing it,” said Sterling Williams-Ceci ’21, a doctoral candidate in information science. “So we were surprised because neither of those interventions actually reduced the extent to which people’s attitudes shifted toward the AI’s bias in this context.”
Science Advances: Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues
In two large-scale preregistered experiments (N = 2582), we exposed participants writing about important societal issues to an AI writing assistant that provided biased autocomplete suggestions. When using the AI assistant, the attitudes participants expressed in a posttask survey converged toward the AI’s position. However, a majority of participants were unaware of the AI suggestions’ bias and their influence. Further, the influence of the AI writing assistant was stronger than the influence of similar suggestions presented as static text, showing that the influence is not fully explained by these suggestions, increasing accessibility of the biased information. Last, warning participants about assistants’ bias before or after exposure does not mitigate the attitude-shift effect.
It is fascinating watching singers try to transpose, and shift mode, instead.
Sunday March 15th, 2026
Still an Emacs user. Beware the IDEs.
I would happily trade some Midwest weather here in March.
(A screen capture of the National Weather Service forecast for Petaluma California, showing 85 (Fahrenheit ) today, 85 tomorrow, 88 Tuesday, and 87 Wednesday and Thursday.)
Just went to Katherine Rhinehart's talk on auto oriented Petaluma development, and I appreciate the historical interest, but I have trouble seeing those buildings as anything but a monument to lead pollution and the smell of unburned hydrocarbons.
Saturday March 14th, 2026
"New Urbanism" is doing things like they were done in the 1800s.
Friday March 13th, 2026
To Damon Connolly:
I am writing to express my displeasure at your "aye" vote on "AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services."
As the details leak out about how nakedly this bill was legislative value capture by Meta, it feels very clear that the negative impacts here were both something that your staffers should have caught, and that you should have taken a principled stand against.
Especially when large companies are spending billions of dollars to install similar legislation in several states at once, this is the sort of thing we call on our electeds to notice and to call out.,
I'm disappointed.
As I'm debugging why some combination of TypeScript and Mithril got broken (not that I'm *cough* pointing any fingers at AI users who've been in this code), I'm really wondering who this abstraction is supposed to serve.
I've been liking that GhosTTY is a terminal without all of the bullshit that accompanies other MacOS terminals, but I can't figure out how to turn off font shaping, and that's super annoying.
Edit: Aha!
font-feature = -liga font-feature = -calt
Boy howdy, one of the criteria for my next jobs is definitely "must not use Gusto for payroll and benefits".
On a Slack channel I'm on, someone today described a horrorshow of a nightmare of Juju, Charms, Kubernetes, and ... to host some static sites, and it was another harsh reminder of how we've added layers of wankery and egoboo and abstraction over bullshit that doesn't need to be abstracted. So I'm super primed to stand up and cheer for this:
The Slow Death of the Power User
This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. Congratulations to everyone involved. You’ve built a generation that can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated app and calls it innovation.
And this isn't about computing and development so much as it is the use of the system, and I think we can go back further than phones and tablets for computing, right to Steve Jobs' desire that the Mac be a "toaster" level of computing, but, yes, all of this.
I have been watching the age verification laws push through, and wondering who's the force behind it. This moderated Reddit post, visible on Archive.org, with data on Github, points the finger strongly at Meta.
Foiled in today's Timdle by the Glee series finale. I have never felt so straight.
I am fascinated by Target's full-court press to suddenly proclaim that bigotry is back "in", and the willingness of so many press outlets to republish their press release as though it wasn't just stenography.
Morning walk to work brightened.
Not even cross-eyed geese like looking at their bills.
Thursday March 12th, 2026
AI absolutist notes of the morning:
Libre Solutions Network: We will come to regret our every use of AI.
I suppose if you are being pressured to use AI at work, one thing you could do is send HR articles/studies on AI psychosis & ask "does [company name] accept liability for any mental harm that may occur from AI use?"
Before you touch any of the AI tools they want you to use, ask them to put in writing that the company is aware of the concerns about mental harm from AI use but is asking you to use it anyway. Ask to put a note in your employee file saying that you objected to using it.
Mario Munuz Fediverse thread about how the stories about the future of AI make no sense, but lemme see if I can figure out a story that does make sense: Investors were initially sold on the notion of a singularity sort of event that would lead to a single vendor owning the space. That's no longer a story that works (at least for people like me), but the remnants and sunk costs are enough that that's how everyone is approaching future spending.
Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman
https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032012809433723158
There you go, there it is. Yup.
tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org quote tooted this with:
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town
iso 3166-2 joke
When USians talk about the Fatherland, they mean Pennsylvania; when they talk about the Motherland, that's Massachusetts.
"If the flow of illegal weapons from the United States into Mexico were stopped, these groups wouldn't have access to this type of high-powered weaponry to carry out their criminal activities," President Claudia Sheinabum said at her daily news conference, citing a statistic from the U.S. Department of Justice that 75% of guns used by criminal groups in Mexico were smuggled from the United States.
The key words "🥺", "👉🏻👈🏻", "😖", ":3", and "><" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
Taggart @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
"If you want to improve the model's output, you can write skill files with more specific instructions!"
"Oh wow so like a file that tells the computer to do exactly what you want?"
"Yep!"
"You're never gonna believe this."
And while I'm bitching about Keynote and Zoom, dear Google Drive, yes, I just uploaded this video and you have not yet built a degraded version to show people, but have you considered that I might want to share it?
Who the fuck designs this software?
Similar to my complaint about Keynote, why the fuck would Zoom think that when I share my second screen what I really want is for the main interface to fragment and move all my controls around?
JP @jplebreton@mastodon.social
the school bombing is so vividly colossally evil it's hard to even talk about, but i think when we look back on this period in history it'll be clear that the iconic use case for LLMs in policy was to enable fascists to cancel a random museum in North Carolina's $350k HVAC replacement grant on the basis that it was "DEI".
@jplebreton I'm always drawn back to the 2021 story of a white supremacist "AI" company that fleeced Utah taxpayers with a technology that straight-up did not exist in any form.
Venture Beat from 2021: Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI
Predates the craze for LLMs by a bit, but I think about this pretty much every time I am reminded that Evolv and other such scams exist. Dime a dozen, I'm sure.
Related to this note about "punch up, not down", and systems sabotage: When you finally reach a human, be really nice to them about filing a complaint about how the AI agent wasted your time. The customer rep is on your side on this, and likely loves having more ammo to tell to the dipshits managing them that customers fucking hate interacting with time wasting processes.
There's two types of people on a group chat: Those who, when the request is to keep this group for event announcements only, shut the fuck up; and those who start new discussion threads talking about what they did or like.
Yes, Keynote, the thing I want you to do in "Play" mode is *definitely* take over *both* screens and block me from alt-tab. There's no reason at all I'd want to access, say, other applications or notes on my laptop screen while playing the presentation on the projector.
Fuckers.
Wednesday March 11th, 2026
LA Ten Four: Fishing With Flashing Lights: New Report Shows Pretextual Stops Still Racially Biased
Recent data shows Black and Latino drivers continue to be disproportionately affected by the practice. Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson revealed that he himself has been pulled over four times, and had even missed a meeting that week because of it.
References Catalyst California: Stop the Stops: Ending Racially Biased and Ineffective LAPD Traffic Stops
Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show.
The person familiar with the breach said the intrusion was carried out by a foreign hacker who did not appear to realize they had penetrated a law enforcement server. The hacker expressed disgust at the presence of child abuse images on the device and left a message threatening to turn its owner over to the FBI, the person said.
Via that genehack guy from that dead bird site @extremely.website who noted:
This remake of The Cuckoo’s Egg kinda sucks.
Hit ⌘-space to bring up Spotlight, mistyped "squicktime", and... I'm not sure whether to be bummed or relieved that it gave me no results.
We've been singing with various local community song circle groups for a while, Marv Zauderer's group down in Marin, Janice Hardy's group here in Petaluma with Janice Hardy (I've been collecting those songs here).
I mentioned that Marv's hosting Riomas was super powerful, and we came home and immediately pre-ordered Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation by Riomas.
We've seen this movement blossom with the media coverage of the singing resistance in Minneapolis, there's gonna be a lot of song at the next No Kings rally, and seems like in a lot of other places.
Anyway, as awesome as it is to have all of this modern music flowing through song leaders, it's useful to keep track of the history: Elaine Kolb's 1981 Let's Get Together has been published, with her agreement, on Archive.org.
Trying to figure out how I feel about this one: Ian Betteridge: Zen fascists will control you..., on how narratives of "the garden"/Eden/unsullied state, and "star people"/being special are mechanisms of control.
And I suspect that a lot of what I'm struggling with in it directly relates to my Waldorf schooling and some of the value and unease I've discovered in "Human Potential Movement" adjacent things.
David Zipper in Bloomberg CityLab: The US Is Counting Traffic Deaths Wrong, pointing out that by normalizing to deaths per mile we're missing the sprawl that deaths per capita captures.
Although I think even deaths per mile captures some of our fixation on oversized vehicles.
Thread of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com live-skeeting about , in which DOJ Attorney Used Fabricated Quotes in Court Filing
“Because of the seriousness of these issues,” senior leaders from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina must appear at a show cause hearing next week for why the civil litigator responsible shouldn’t be sanctioned and why the entire office shouldn’t be held jointly responsible, US Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers said in a March 2 order.
Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com
Judge: there are errors in multiple documents. I think the evidence contradicts your statement that this was not done intentionally. Candidly, I need you to give me a full explanation.
Market uptake: Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com
Less than 3% of Microsoft Office's business users pay for Copilot.
AI features Microsoft was so certain of that 2 years ago it pressured OEMs to add a Copilot key to PC keyboards, has no meaningful traction. Frickin NFTs outsold Copilot.
Big Tech CEOs exist in a state of constant and acute hubris.
Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com
In the 40s, doctors began performing lobotomies with off the shelf ice picks. But those would sometimes break off in the patient's head so the orbitoclast was developed, a surgical grade ice pick.
In the 2020s the oribitoclast has been replaced by a newer, more effective tool called generative AI.
Grammarly introduced "Expert Review", in which they co-opted the good names of prominent people as editorial styles:
Note: References to experts in Expert Review are for informational purposes only and do not indicate any affiliation with Grammarly or endorsement by those individuals or entities.
Leading to many of those experts saying "eeew, gross".
Casey Newton: Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it (Via).
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com
A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me
jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
Laura Hazard Owen at Nieman Lab: A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts” (Via)
Maureen Ryan: An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants (Via Chuck Wendig)
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
Addendum: PRF Law: Class Action Alleges That Grammarly Misappropriated the Names of Journalists and Authors Through its “Expert Review” That Lets Users Get Feedback on Writing From Experts. Go get 'em, Peter Romer-Friedman!
Business Insider: Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation
As mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca observed:
“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” does not sound to me like “compensation”.
Via a bunch of places, Senator Chris Murphy (Connecticut) BlueSky thread on an Iran briefing.
Details seep out in case against horny bishop who frequented Tijuana mega-brothel
Emanuel Shaleta from Saint Peter’s Chaldean in East County allegedly stole at least $270,000 from his church, which he claimed he gave away to the needy.
I'mma nominate the hardworking women at the Hong Kong Gentleman’s Club in Tijuana’s Zona Norte red-light district as "the needy". Via
Volpeon @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
I unironically think people would be more careful about the output of LLMs if the go-to icon were 🎲 rather than ✨ .
Tuesday March 10th, 2026
Fuck me, The BEAM Chronicles has me on pins and needles waiting for the next episode... promised Monday.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @rysiek@mstdn.social
GenAI: really putting "break things" into "move fast and break things"
Liam Proven @lproven@vivaldi.net
RT @ghidraninja
Simple age check for Linux:
Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.
If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip addr they deserve to be restricted from their computer 😇
Hearing comparisons of using LLMs for coding to the same sort of revolution that word processors brought to skilled typists.
And wow does that say a lot about what those people think software is.
Monday March 9th, 2026
Bellingcat: Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran
The footage, released by Mehr News and geolocated by Bellingcat, also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
NPR: Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran.
doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Dafuq is this? Department of War: DOW Identifies An Army Believed to Be Casualty — March 4, 2026
The Department of War announced the believed to be death of an Army Reserve Soldier who was supporting Operation Epic Fury.
Via Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz
Jesus wept it's literally this old twitter gag
With an image quote of a tweet by Jackson @tree_bro:
*knocks on door* Mrs Smith? I'm from Army. Your son got owned in Iraq. He showed great valor in the face of epic fail. Semper fi or whatever.
From Tara Calishain, Make Biking Great Again: Conservatives Should Embrace The Right Wing Values Of Cycling.
The article brings up all of the usual reasons, government fiscal responsibility, benefits for business, removal of external costs...
Not that that actually holds any sway with the current "Right Wing" whiners who are all about centralized economic control, debt spending, and externalizing the costs of their lifestyle on to other people, but...
I appreciate the attempts at crossing the political divide.
Can someone familiar with solar systems give me any evidence that a slightly north-facing (4°) panel would give better performance (perhaps evenings or mornings) at 38.23N?
I think I'm being fed bullshit, but citable evidence would be really nice to have to smack this down.
wingolog: international lisp conference -- day two has this very interesting snippet:
The "debate" had an interlude, in which Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 was not what it was in the mid-90s or in 2000. In 1980, good programmers spent a lot of time thinking, and then produced spare code that they thought should work. Code ran close to the metal, even Scheme -- it was understandable all the way down. Like a resistor, where you could read the bands and know the power rating and the tolerance and the resistance and V=IR and that's all there was to know. 6.001 had been conceived to teach engineers how to take small parts that they understood entirely and use simple techniques to compose them into larger things that do what you want.
But programming now isn't so much like that, said Sussman. Nowadays you muck around with incomprehensible or nonexistent man pages for software you don't know who wrote. You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts. This is a fundamentally different job, and it needed a different course.
Cam Pedersen: Noids, an update on Craig Reynold's "Boids" idea based on what's been learned about starling behavior in the intervening 4 decades, and by doing it with a neural net.
On how the author of WigglyPaint is processing an older version of that code base being republished on a gazillion linkbait sites.
Via.
Yeah, I'm pulling this one back.
Sunday March 8th, 2026
Charlene had run across some African singing she really liked, so last night we tried to find a bit of it before we went to sleep. Looks like everything "Ubuntu Choir" on YouTube is AI generated. Along with all of the videos on Facebook. The slop really is taking over.
Eventually we figured out that "gwijo" was a useful search term, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time for that to get slipped.
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
are the "adults in the room" in the room with us right now?
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia@scholar.social linked to Zenodo: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Related to the rejection of expertise is the rejection of imagining a better future and the rejection of self-determination free from industry forces …. Not only AI enthusiasts, but even some scholars whose expertise concentrates on identifying and critically interrogating ideologies and sociotechnical relationships — such as historians and gender scholars — unfortunately fall prey to the teleological belief that AI is an unstoppable force. They embrace it because alternative responses seem too difficult, incompatible with industry developments, or non-existent. Instead of falling for this, we should “refuse [AI] adoption in schools and colleges, and reject the narrative of its inevitability.” …. Such rejection is possible and has historical precedent, to name just a few successful examples: Amsterdammers kicked out cars, rejecting that cycling through the Dutch capital should be deadly. Organised workers died for the eight-hour workday, the weekend and other workers’ rights, and governments banned chlorofluorocarbons from fridges to mitigate ozone depletion in the atmosphere. And we know that even the tide itself famously turns back. People can undo things; and we will …. Besides, there will be no future to embrace if we deskill our students and selves, and allow the technology industry’s immense contributions to climate crisis and environmental destruction to continue unimpeded ….
Citations ellipsized out for readability.
Went down to Marv's Big Sing https://www.singwithmarv.com with Riomas (formerly Shireen Amini, https://shireenamini.com ), and Rio's transformation has been accompanied by a shift from "good song leader" to "that was powerful and I feel compelled to learn those songs in order to share them".