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It’s like if you had an industry that writes poetry that robs, harasses, and manipulates people, and everyone just lets you do it because it’s poetry.

I feel like digital humanities was this great 15 year moment of techno-optimism that created solid resources and showed how old media connected to new media. Whereas AI is going to introduce a period of techno-cannibalism designed to devour digital humanities labor and anyone else in its proximity.

I kind of wonder if we also need the software equivalent of building codes and similar regulations. Architects and civil engineers are not typically setting out to build exploitative death traps as a design goal.

Perhaps a controversial take but if you think about parallels between the discussion on open models for AI and gun safety we seem to be charging towards an American perspective on AI safety. Everyone gets to carry a gun and somehow everyone is “safer“. Not sure that’s how it worked out for the US.

If your response to the data center backlash is "oh no, those poor hyperscalers! People are using inexact data in their arguments against OpenAI and Grok. Everyone should just let them proceed with their buildouts and focus instead on PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY," then you're either a grifter or a mark.

The culture that has arisen/emerged/become dominant around generative AI as a social technology is more or less, “I can do whatever I want because AI, and have no responsibilities to other people”

From the article it sounds like a company that is using AI to scrape social media for trending topics and fabricate “news stories” about them with the goal of replacing the dearth of local news organizations

AI isn’t exactly the logical cause of this, but it certainly lowers the bar of effort it takes to attempt to troll people to death

This whole ethos that if digital technology empowers you to do something you are ipso facto justified in having done it, consequences or harms to other people be damned, is so deeply tied to the rise of the culture of fascism

This should be illegal and this kind of thing is going to get people killed

The epistemic crisis will be experienced as a series of short form videos of natiral disasters viewing on your phone until you are/aren't in one and a procedurally generated lie makes it impossible for people observing from afar to trust if the peril is real or hallucinated.

You sound insane if you say "the people doxxing the lawyers making out in the park are why we live in a fascist hellscape now" but like it is kind of true

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I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

In a bluesky bank account all of your transactions would be public and someone you don’t know would put you on a list misconstruing you as supporting terrorist financing

Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance

Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/

The provocation for this talk was: "How can IR be a force for societal good?". I chose to begin by reflecting on one of IR's inconvenient truths: Our work is often motivated by grand ambitions about information access but IR has been a testing ground for user surveillance and attention farming. 5/

The problem with everything becoming fandom is that people want the media they consume to be a marker of having a superior moral identity, and this trend appears across the full political spectrum, though with different manifestations reflecting the neuroses of each political clade