Mastodawn

Dawn Ahukanna Dec 20

Related: 3.related Illusion of scaler speed ≠ dimensional velocity - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115751407204010708

Related: 4. Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation, the economics of attention - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/comfort-food-for-the-thinking-class-the-great-intellectual-stagnation/ via https://mato.social/@josemurilo/115751054614151022
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation

Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.) The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest exploration of how some counterintuitive thing is actually the opposite of what you'd expect, a David Brooks meditation on character and virtue, something by Michael Lewis about how

Westenberg.

Dawn Ahukanna Dec 21

Related: 5. Thread on “Cognitive Recall Atrophy - CRA” - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115756945829133248

Related: 3.1. This reply - https://toot.cat/@zygmyd/115752235523994274
“This is really fascinating. Every single person in a company that ships AI-emitted code, policy, product, and so on will be an outsider. The managerial experience of having first hand knowledge of exactly none of the work going on and still being accountable but for every employee.”

zygmyd (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] This is really fascinating. Every single person in a company that ships AI-emitted code, policy, product, and so on will be an outsider. The managerial experience of having first hand knowledge of exactly none of the work going on and still being accountable but for every employee.

Toot.Cat

https://techpolicy.social/@ericgoldman/115758771102887176

Dawn Ahukanna Dec 21

Related: 6-mindbending addiction amplification or why a qualified attorney would knowingly destroy an entire law firm and 3 other lawyers careers -

‘An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"’- https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/mississippi/msndce/1:2024cv00074/49169/79/0.pdf

- https://glammr.us/@TeamMidwest/115754711143502617
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 7a - “Instead of having a hot divorcee Saturday night instead I wrote about how after announcing my divorce on Instagram, AI impersonated me in a hidden metadata field. Fuck the techbro oligarchs. https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/“

I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me « Eira Tansey

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

Related: 7b - “But what I vehemently object to in this situation is the use of the first-person voice without my review or permission. The language used in the description makes it sound as if I wrote it (“In this post, I share my personal journey…”).”

I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me « Eira Tansey

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

Related: 7c - “Because I have fiercely protected my authorship throughout my life and what my name is attached to, any generative AI writing that purports to be in my voice without my informed consent is a profound violation of my authorial voice, agency, and frankly it feels like fraud or impersonation.”

I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me « Eira Tansey

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

Related: 7d - “As an archivist who has spent almost twenty years thinking about accuracy in information, it makes my skin crawl that there is a metadata field with the sole purpose of generating SEO-engagement purporting to be my voice that doesn’t disclose the authorship was actually non-consensual AI.”

I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me « Eira Tansey

Dawn Ahukanna Dec 24

Related:8-But something else responsible for a large & steadily increasing share of public knowledge production, also has no organic reality-detection capability=large language model(LLM). This is central to what we mean when we argue that LLMs destroy knowledge: that for every verifiably accurate account of the world, LLMs produce a Borgesian library of superficially plausible alternates–sufficiently plausible that effort & energy must be invested #tyrannyOfAesthetics
- https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/115771986742330648

Adam Greenfield (@[email protected])

But there’s something else in our lives which is responsible for a large and steadily increasing share of public knowledge production, and which also has no organic reality-detection capability, and that’s the large language model. This is central to what we mean when we argue that LLMs destroy knowledge: that for every verifiably accurate account of the world, LLMs produce a Borgesian library of superficially plausible alternates – sufficiently plausible that effort and energy must be invested

social.coop

Dawn Ahukanna Dec 26

Related:9-Don’t think & decide yourself, only follow instructions of others.
“In 1941 book, Escape from Freedom, German psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argued that the rise of fascism could partly be explained by people preferring to surrender freedom in exchange for reassuring certainty of subordination. AI-LLM (produces information but without necessarily deepening human understanding) offers new way to surrender burden to think & decide for yourself.”
- https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/115784707689297472
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

- https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/115783838519998286
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Dawn Ahukanna Dec 26

Related:10-outcome “too good to be human talent (or exceeds your novice knowledge or skill level), then it must be Oi👁️”

‘We are in time where actual artists being accused of AI work
-physical artist with amazing talent & imagination, booted from Cara
-film industry DP photographer defending posts on IG, has amazing sense of colour & composition.
Take a breath before accusing humans of being too good at what they do=how AI is dumbing users down.’

Dawn Ahukanna Dec 28

Related:11 - “answer shaped objects” or responses don’t always contain valid answers, “quelle surprise”?

“It has been unpleasant realising just how many people consider “answer-shaped objects” and “answers” to be the same thing.” - https://eigenmagic.net/@abstractcode/115795215226319814

Colin (@[email protected])

@[email protected] It has been unpleasant realising just how many people consider answer-shaped objects and answers to be the same thing.

eigenmagic.net

Dawn Ahukanna Jan 4

Related 12 - “A beautiful design that people can’t read isn’t beautiful; it’s broken.” Talking about Design architect of “Liquid Glass” - https://medium.com/macoclock/apple-just-fired-the-designer-who-made-ios-26-unreadable-heres-what-truly-happened-f6606bbc5ddd#

“Did any designers at Apple push back on the new design for the Mac in Tahoe?
…
Ugh. It's almost like they forgot all UI principles that have been in place since like the 80s.
…
This ‘Minimalism’ is cancer.” - https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/115840528587021524

Apple Just Fired the Designer Who Made iOS 26 Unreadable. Here’s What Truly Happened.

Now he’s going to Meta, Stephen Lemay is taking over, and Apple employees are publicly celebrating. Here’s the full story.

Medium

Dawn Ahukanna Jan 11

Related 13-a fast, confident response from word calculator machine-Large Language Model (LLM), no intelligence involved, artificial or otherwise, that produces answer objects with veracity between 0-99% (accuracy, reliability & consistency) is anti-intelligence

1. Human cognition is not expressing a bunch of calculated grammatically correct words - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115873119314743574
2. See 11 - Answer-shaped objects don’t only contain 100% accurate responses - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115798550660399251

See https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115909848315197076 and https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115909954386205523

Dawn Ahukanna Jan 11

Do not use your established learned behavior + affordances or real-time eye & hand proprioception. Just somehow guess where to place your mouse to enlarge a window on a computer.

And https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115878704605344299

Norbert Heger (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Struggling to resize windows on macOS Tahoe? Here’s why. https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

wien.rocks

Dawn Ahukanna Jan 17

“Language is _primarily a tool for
communication_(expression or external using cognitive thoughts & actions, like drawing, speaking) rather than thought
https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/linguistics/2024-fedorenko.pdf

Something the LLM charlatans fail to understand. LLM can string words together based on massive data sets & sophisticated stats, but they cannot think, reason, do science, or replace human thinking in any way...”

kim_harding ✅ (@[email protected])

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/linguistics/2024-fedorenko.pdf Something the LLM charlatans fail to understand. LLM can string words together based on massive data sets and sophisticated stats, but they cannot think, reason, do science, or replace human thinking in any way...

mastodon.scot

Dawn Ahukanna Jan 17

“so yeah for my entire life, the left lens in my glasses has had whatever prescription would keep my eyes moving together. literally, it was just a cosmetic lazy-eye-prevention thing because if the brain doesn’t use the eye anyway, so what? just stop the bastard thing from drifting off by itself.”

So called modern ophthalmology medical practice is symptomatic cosmetic fix, rather addressing the “root cause” = “LGTM PR update”.

Steph (winter version) (@[email protected])

Content warning: a bit on prescriptions

Hachyderm.io

Dawn Ahukanna Jan 17

‘LinkedIn post celebrating how a Product Owner “no longer needs developers” because AI can now generate, deploy and adjust code.
It’s a good example of where thinking goes wrong. AI can lower the cost of producing code.
It does not lower the cost of owning a product.
Products still need operation, support, incident handling, knowledge redundancy, security decisions & continuous learning from real users.’
“A prototype is not a product”
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Dawn Ahukanna 3d ago

“Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them”

Ron Dyck (@[email protected])

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

CoSocial

Dawn Ahukanna 21h ago

“What are client organizations rewarding as ‘quality’ in bid competition if they grade a document you send and award best points for AI generated appearance of answers written by someone who publicly declares they aren’t knowledgeable in the offered service?

They are better than beginner in setting context for generation and splitting the work in agentic way, but the end result is still at least contractually obligating.”