kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech 1 day ago:
Plot twist:
So-called “filler” is precise and meaningful.
It conveys an extra layer of messaging, describing attributes of the speaker and how they feel about the literal message they’re communicating — including their relationship to the listener.
It’s not my fault you’re, like, too simple-minded to get it, dude.
- Comment on AIPAC Wants Democrats to Back Israel. Instead, They’re Turning on AIPAC. 1 day ago:
“Polarizing”? Isn’t there a poll that something like 85% of Dems support a total arms ban?
- Comment on AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S. 6 days ago:
But have you considered that people also consume water? Checkmate, Luddites.
- Comment on Are you telling me they don't? 3 weeks ago:
That’s a great point. You’re right, I do love grinding my ass on your lap. It’s not just lap-dancing, it’s lap-salvation.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s incredible how we went from everyone laughing at the YNGMI crypto bros to the entire economy being built on top of YNGMI AI bros.
- Comment on Yup 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work 5 weeks ago:
Guys I’m starting to think that maybe capitalism and democracy are not 100% compatible
D:
- Comment on The Ethics of Generative AI 1 month ago:
All artwork for the series was hand-drawn by Anna Rettberg (x.com/aerettberg) without generative AI.
For context:
Demetri Spanos (PhD) is a 25+ year veteran of AI development. He wanted to speak out about the negative turn that his field has taken, but he didn’t have an audience so he turned to…
Casey Muratori, an accomplished software developer with a considerable media presence, who makes a good fit for Demetri in this case because while Casey himself is an AI skeptic, much of Casey’s audience are young professional devs who are probably using AI (whether enthusiastically or reluctantly) in the workplace.
The title of the video should be read as “the ethical questions and proposed frameworks that have appeared throughout the past 30 years of AI research”, not “an affirmative argument for the question of whether the current crop of AI software is ethical”.
(Spoiler: Demetri makes strong arguments that the industry entered unethical territory more than 15 years ago)
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- Comment on Shoplifting rife, police overwhelmed, an angry public – the trail leads back to one person: Theresa May | Dal Babu 1 month ago:
Written by a cop lmao
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve seen that name a bunch but never bothered figuring out who that is. Does this mean I put it off for long enough that I no longer need to?
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
Corrections are the piece that the public sees, but liability has more to do with being able to prove in court that you took reasonable steps to make sure you were providing accurate information.
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
News outlets are liable for what they publish. LLM vendors should be as well.
- Comment on Shame. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Claude Code's Source—The Internet Is Keeping It Forever 2 months ago:
Anthropic, without an ounce of self-awareness: “Hey, just cuz you used AI to change it doesn’t mean you can copy our stuff and use it to compete against us!”
- Comment on Minimum wage rises to £12.71 an hour as firms warn of impact 2 months ago:
They would rather see zero.
Dan, thank you for this question. It’s really at the heart of the work that I’m trying to do now, which I call thanatocracy. So, it was John Locke who said political power is making laws punishable by death.
And I think anyone who’s studied Marx or studied other political economists will see that the human surplus arises from reducing the value of the workers to zero, as close to slavery as you can get. So, that’s the matter of value theory and political economy. But I think it rings true for most everybody that the boss is trying to reduce wages, the workers trying to increase them.
And the boss, unless he reaches some opposition, will go down to zero. You know, as long as labor is plentiful, as long as a new generation is created, or as long as immigration is possible, slavery is the tendency of capitalism. When I say slavery, I mean reducing the value of the human life to zero, to nothing.
From The Dig: Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh, Feb 17, 2026 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…/id1043245989?i=10…
- Comment on pretty average movie tbh 2 months ago:
Part of the trilogy: Mean Girls, Median Girls, Mode Girls
- Comment on Bradford Pear Trees 2 months ago:
Annyone
We are ruinning language for the sake of engagement.
- Comment on Metaverse inventor Neal Stephenson says VR goggles are dead 2 months ago:
Went from believing “yes” is inevitable to believing “no” is inevitable instead of learning the lesson that most of this is just random
- Comment on Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it 2 months ago:
In context, it sounds like he’s “disappointed a lot” by people choosing to use AI, which is a crucial distinction. His objection is one of kind, not of degree.
AI’s generated text is “too dry and too perfect, and I want something from a human being, and I’m disappointed a lot.”
- Comment on US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries 2 months ago:
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 2 months ago:
The vulnerability is coming from inside the house
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 2 months ago:
Yeah, items are licensed according to where they’re sold, not made. “More oversight” makes no sense.
- Comment on [Video] Muslim woman hit by car ramming in Abbey Wood, south London 2 months ago:
Mark NSFW please
- Comment on OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43 2 months ago:
I just know that when 404 Media reported on the ManyVids founder publicly slipping into AI psychosis, they mentioned that ManyVids was often described as being the only platform to give workers a fair deal.
- Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 2 months ago:
Middle ages:
Peasants share common land and tools — it’s not so much that they collectively “own” it, but that “ownership” is not a concept that applies, because the land is an obligation and not a product.
Then come the enclosure acts, which take all of the land that the commoners have spent their lives contributing to, and give it to the wealthy.
And then come some of the bloodiest revolts in history. And coinciding with this, you have the Luddites objecting to the wealthy replacing their common workspaces with factories that maim and kill people.
The Luddites attack the factories, and destroy the machines. And the British eventually defeat them, using an occupying army larger than the initial wave they send to fight Napoleon.
Digital age:
Peasants share common online spaces — it’s not so much that they “own” them, but that they share a mutual obligation to each other to maintain these spaces.
Then come the tech oligarchs with their AI, and…
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 2 months ago:
Enclosure never ended, they just keep finding new “commons”
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 months ago:
Something about this post makes me think you would enjoy playing Endless Sky
- Comment on You can now walk the whole way around England | BBC News [3:38] 2 months ago:
2689-mile coastline
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 2 months ago:
Oh hey, it’s vibe reporting again.
Notice how it’s not “fired because of AI”, but “fired amid AI push”. They really wanna sell readers a particular story, but they know there’s a journalistic line they can’t cross (yet), so they put two pieces of information next to each other and encourage you to fill in the gaps.
This technique is everywhere.
