As we head full-steam towards the inevitable AI-bubble-burst and the subsequent economic collapse, I can't help noticing that we'll be coming up on almost exactly 100 years since the original Great Depression.

Great Depression II: AI Boogaloo?
#AIsucks #AIbubble #fuckAI

Excerpt from #ChronicleOfHigherEd

Here Come the Student #AIResisters

By Len Gutkin

" 'The use of #AI,' #PopeLeoXIV writes in an encyclical 'on safeguarding the human person in the time of #ArtificialIntelligence,' issued earlier this month, 'is never a purely technical matter: When it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status, and freedom.' The pope wants to 'disarm' the new technology — which, for him, means 'preventing it from dominating humanity.'

"One portion of humanity assaulted by AI is #undergraduates, some of whom have accordingly formed the vanguard of the pope’s call for disarmament. A recent essay in The New Critic, '#TheGreatZombification,' is an articulate cry of resistance. Written by Owen Yingling, a rising senior at the University of Chicago majoring in philosophy and business economics, the essay offers a student’s-eye view of the cognitive degradation wrought by rampant AI use. Yingling sees this as a catastrophe triggered in part by a kind of generational betrayal, as 'the old ... do not demand enough from us.' Last year, the Yale English professor Jonathan Kramnick predicted in our pages that 'as institutional leadership drifts toward anticipatory obedience, students will begin to reconstruct education around the living, embodied world of meaning and experience they feel has been stolen from them.' Yingling’s essay is a manifesto for that cause."

Full article [behind paywall, unfortunately]:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/here-come-the-student-ai-resisters?utm_campaign=che-eng-rg-twihe&utm_medium=em&utm_source=mkto&utm_content=26-05-30&mkt_tok=OTMxLUVLQS0yMTgAAAGiF8A1GmhjZDt1f4TQQA-i2cQGg9CtF0-W8ODvQjGNPQ-5n2OxxZMyJlsF2k1uWKQWvIvGednroINV6Bb71R7vgRkDmGumhbDRCT794fhwur5exC8

#AISucks #AntiAI #HigherEducation #AIResistance

«Could AI be a “worthy successor” to humanity?
We need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win.»

AI is also just an anti-humanistic religion of people who have too much money to behave arrogantly. The answer is always 42 either way!

👉 https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/489976/ai-successionism-transhumanism-posthumanism

#antihumanismus #religion #arrogance #ai #aisuccess #aisucks #richshit #aislop

#MustRead #AI #AISucks Been saying these very things for a while now.

https://open.substack.com/pub/owenmcgrann/p/the-dead-economy-theory

Man, #LinkedIn is such a latrine. #AI advocates all over, very obviously lying about it.

A ton of people whose bios might as well be, "The leopards will never eat *my* face," telling us all that these robo-leopards being developed are super-awesome, and are making their jobs sooo much easier.

#Tech #Technology #AISucks

I asked google.com what 7am CDT was in India Standard Time (IST).

Quick, what's 7 + 10.5 ?

#AIfail #AIsucks #IhateAI

"The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.

The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.

And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so."

From "Stochastic Parrots" blog post on #TimnitGibru by There Are A Lot of Cats (justalurkr) / May 26, 2026

https://justalurkr.tumblr.com/post/817697390903607296/text-of-tweet-under-the-cut-because-it-is

#AISafety #Google #aisucks #TechOligarchy #dontbeevil