The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment | LocalScribe Blog

Why public hostility toward AI may feel visceral, including mismatch, disgust, danger avoidance, mortality salience, and design consistency.

LocalScribe
🚀 Hold the presses! Shocking revelations about ancient B-52 star-gazing contraptions, because we all need to know how planes navigated before GPS was a thing. 🤔 Please, tell us more about how pilots secretly became expert astrologers, it's not like we have modern technology that does it all now... 🌟
https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html #ancientnavigation #B52history #pilotstories #astrologicalinsights #aviationhistory #technologydebate #HackerNews #ngated
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets...

Steve Wozniak doubts AI can match human intelligence

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expresses doubts about AI ability to match human intelligence, citing its lack of empathy, intent, and true understanding despite polished outputs.

Daily Times
🎨🤔 Breaking News: Humans continue centuries-old debate over... screen colors! 🌚🌞 Because clearly, the future of technology hinges on whether your screen looks like a vampire's lair or a toddler's coloring book. 🤦‍♂️
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/ #screencolors #technologydebate #designdiscussion #humanperspective #colorpreferences #HackerNews #ngated
Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?

In people with normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision), visual performance tends to be better with light mode, whereas some people with cataract and related disorders may perform better with dark mode. On the flip side, long-term reading in light mode may be associated with myopia.

Nielsen Norman Group
🤡 Ah, the classic game of "Blame the human, praise the machine!" 🤖 Who knew that in the brave new world of self-driving cars, your new best friend could also be your worst scapegoat? 🚗💥
https://electrek.co/2025/11/08/schrodingers-fsd-when-things-go-well-teslas-driving-when-they-dont-you-are/ #BlameTheHuman #PraiseTheMachine #SelfDrivingCars #TechnologyDebate #AutoSafety #HackerNews #ngated
When Tesla’s FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn’t, you get blamed.

When FSD is on, a human driver must remain attentive. When things go well, Tesla takes the credit. When things go bad, it blames you.

Electrek

🤖 질문: Singularity chắc chắn thì sao Stokeslinuxcontinues concentrated vào người dùng? 🤔comme Tesla bán xe thì sao? Có thể do thu thập dữ liệu? #AI #Singularity #Tesla #DuLieu #TechnologyDebate

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1o6i5te/if_the_singularity_is_certain_why_tend_to_the/

The Value Of Our Fear

PM Mark Carney is using Canadians' fear of Trump's expansionism to quietly sell us out to his true allies: US finance & tech oligarchs.

Africa: The AI Wars Have Begun With Apple Vs the BBC - - It's Like Having Kent Brockman in Your Pocket: [Daily Maverick] I can't think of a more glaring example of how AI should not be used than what Apple is doing here with BBC headlines, summaries, and notifications. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THKS5B #AIWars #AppleVsBBC #ArtificialIntelligence #TechnologyDebate #MediaEthics
Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism | Future Histories Podcast

Over the last decade platform-cooperativism has grown from an idea into a movement. How far can it take us? 

Future Histories Podcast
S02E11 - James Muldoon on Platform Socialism

Platforms are ubiquitous. However, they arguably can only realise their full potential when they are no longer subjected to the imperatives of the profit motive. For this we need: Platform Socialism. Collaborative Podcast Transcription: If you would like t...