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Writer, editor, digital programmer, sometimes movie critic. CMS@MIT, CRC@NYU. Editorial/programming: @TEDTalks, @io9, @slant_magazine, @livemint, @SundayGuardian. NYC/Kolkata.
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The thing that most demoralizes me is how little any AI company even tries to pretend they are legit and how people at every level have completely bought THE oldest scam line in the books of “ok maybe it sucks but you don’t want to be the *only one* who didn’t buy when it’s good maybe someday!”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just finished watching this and it made me feel vaguely ill and possibly more stressed than the creators intended.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

These idiots are going to get multibillion dollar contracts to sell software that doesn’t work to the biggest military in history

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Think the peer pressure point is key and ties into the coordinated effort to kill off existing small businesses & make it almost impossible for entrepreneurs to survive - AI doesn’t have to function well in a practical sense - it’s a command and control mechanism

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Maybe in relative terms but the global research system can’t adjust fast enough to a shock of this magnitude. It’s going to be no one’s century. So much research will simply not get done and so many people will either leave or never enter in the first place

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

However much power/wealth these idiots get, they're pathologically incapable of truly enjoying it. Million-dollar food budget? Still gotta eat USDA-stamped brown lumps everyday. Cosmic joke that joyless fucks with no taste are the personality types that generally amass enough $ to get nice things.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Genuinely I used to work on similar stuff (not SpaceX). If anybody who isn't SpaceX blew up remotely this much stuff, their contract would be pulled and we ALL knew that. It won't be too long before human fucking beings are aboard, you CANNOT be having explosions at this stage

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

On a Tony Gilroy kick this month and a real highlight was his playful Soderbergh riff DUPLICITY. In which he casually, in 2009, sums up the pathology that’s metastasized so horrifically in 2025. youtu.be/JpUnqFMyBLE?...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"Our product creates such little value that it is simply not viable in the marketplace, not even as a niche product. Therefore, we must be allowed to unilaterally extract value from the work of others and convert that value into our profits."

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

submitted 8 days ago • 81 comments

the social consequences of people replacing human connection with a hallucinated connection with a chatbot are going to be genuinely horrendous

submitted 10 days ago • 126 comments

I can't imagine looking at this and feeling anything other than nausea and despair. It's an ad for voluntarily surrendering your humanity in exchange for a low-intensity jerkoff machine.

submitted 10 days ago • 138 comments

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 229 comments

Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.

submitted 13 days ago • 74 comments

RIP George Wendt <3

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

AI will have sex for you, eat dessert for you, play board games for you, sit by the open window and enjoy the first cool breeze of fall for you, visit your elderly parents to free up more time for you to stare at the wall and contemplate your own death

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

I want to be clear that despite all the “my bad” language, this writer appears to not at all actually understand what they did wrong. “I didn’t double check” is not the sin, YOU GOOFUS. If you can’t take the time to write a list of books people can read, pick another job, for crying out loud.

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

Reluctant credit where it's due type situation, short of there being some kind of horrible catch in this story. I actually feel a microscopic bit better about the world knowing these little guys will keep gibbering in it.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments