VE, cybersocial occult investigator

Not really. I’m going to do my own weird thing despite what others are and have done, like I always do

It will be interesting to see what an autotheory book grounded in media forms other than queer and feminist theory, literary critical theory, and postmodern french philosophy looks like, because those sure are not my information universe.

I picked up a performance studies reader and a reader on the concept of concepts today. I’ve also been listening to a popular autotheory book, of which the subject matter isn’t particularly my jam, but I’m finding it informative of the forms of the genre.

I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Lawsuits when.

He’s also actively confusing the users of the site, and the creators of the site and its protocol, and their differing intentions and commitments

My personal social media folklore is that, against the common and expert wisdom that (content moderation aside) social media affordances have the same affects for everybody, I contend they very much do not and that certain contents and forms of community have much more purchase in digital spaces.

What do you mean, their platforms have been absolutely stellar for community building by such groups as qanoners, anti-vaxxers, aggrieved gamers, alt-righters, white supremacists, neo-nazi mass shooters, child sex grooming/cutting/proana cults and many other fine and upstanding communities.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

People should have (and some correctly did at the time) interpreted Dorsey’s statement that Musk was the right person to “extend the light of consciousness” as a reference to their weird sci-fi tinged brand of fascism.

It’s remarkable to see the guy who was partially responsible for creating one social media site and had a large hand in the creation of another social media site have an utterly folkloric understanding of the function of those specific social media platforms

“Gone to the other ideology” sure is a tell about this guy

As I like to point out, you can also thoughtlessly generate code without looking at it *without* using an LLM and people used to do this all the time and still do now with the assistance of LLMs

Fucked up a perfectly good transformer-based translation engine, look at him, he's got anxiety

Type of guy who cosplays his software having feelings in order to avoid feeling personally responsible for how it was used to murder children is an increasingly common kind of guy in the software industry

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

Inshallah he later loses it in the mud…

One thing we should be taking away from the fascist crisis is that careful research on the real world is extremely fucking important. Bare minimum that work needs to be funded & expanded for us to have the information & tools necessary to cast off this regime & create a livable world from its ashes.

The invention of a social unreality

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

www.wsj.com/business/med...

If you have skills but don’t have a sense of responsibility for the outcome of those skills, you aren’t a master; you’re somebody else’s tool

As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like “eradicating peoples jobs is bad, actually” and “a necessary part of having skills is taking responsibility for the outcomes of those skills”

Actually this analogy holds up via a thermodynamic approach to information theory in the cybernetic control of social information systems, hence why content moderation requires an endless stream of human decision-making from outside of the system to continue to function.

Conspiracy theory baking or other similar forms of cultic groupthink formation from endlessly improvising on and saying “yes” to ideas, is what you are doing by bouncing ideas around with a chatbot

Does that make content moderators Maxwell’s Demon?

“We regret to inform you that we nuked Omelas. There wasn’t any strategic goal to it, but fuck that one kid in particular, and the AI said it was ok.”

“We regret to inform you that we nuked Omelas. There wasn’t any strategic goal to it, but fuck that one kid in particular, and the AI said it was ok.”