I'm getting super suspicious of Dan Lyke / comment 0
I'm getting super suspicious of anything that posits "AI" as actually intelligent. Anyone know anything about stoptheracetoreplace(dot)org or futureoflife(dot)org?
Oh, wait... David Gerard got there already: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/0...o-astroturf-fake-anti-ai-groups/
If you have to explain your interface Dan Lyke / comment 0
If you have to explain your interface too deeply, it's a shitty interface.
Nostalgia is an attack surface Dan Lyke / comment 0
Started reading Conor Dougherty's Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America last night, and thinking about how preservationists often fight to increase homelessness, and reminded of "tradition is peer pressure from dead people", and...
@scruss Nostalgia is an attack surface.
Irenes (many) @ireneista@irenes.space
we read this academic paper a while back which mentioned in passing that it's apparently well-known (if you're in the right field of study...) that fascists and authoritarians always have a very backwards-looking idea of culture, they define their aesthetics in ways which only allow nostalgia and never new ideas, predictably and repeatedly
and once we had that idea, we've started seeing it everywhere ><
Remembering today Dan Lyke / comment 0
Remembering today, that pause when the US was attacked, and for a brief moment we all rallied around the flag. And then Bush did what the terrorists wantedand the US killed half a million Iraqis and we all hid our flags in shame.
Give me a wrench maybe it needs to be Dan Lyke / comment 0
"Give me a wrench, maybe it needs to be scared." is my new answer to misbehaving machines.