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RE: https://mastodon.social/@neurobashing/116244504220902407
This is basically the new version of Altman's "i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u" tweet.
These people are obsessed with conceptual drift between humans/machines.
Some of it amounts to the "well, streaming 4K video and doing Zoom calls is bad for the environment, too!!11" subgenre and then there's the more ~data driven~ version that tries to quantify prompts, etc, that will then say something like "I'm not considering the environmental impact of data centres at all in this analysis, only prompts" in the footer.
Anyway, it's all pretty abysmal, to be honest lol
There is so much aggressive trolling on LinkedIn—maybe my fault for even looking there for anything worthwhile to read lol—around AI's environmental impact.
So many people in the Mollick-verse (shall we call it) intervening with posts to "set the record straight" on AI and the environment to authorize AI use. It feels deeply pathological to me in a way that I can't quite put my finger on.
RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-RxD7ajxhRWiVXPoBBvml3w%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
This headline feels like it was written for a Carney fancam lol
Here's one example I could see: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/02/10/ai-recommendation-poisoning/
Recommendation poisoning/memory manipulation.
That helpful “Summarize with AI” button? It might be secretly manipulating what your AI recommends. Microsoft security researchers have discovered a growing trend of AI memory poisoning attacks used for promotional purposes, a technique we call AI Recommendation Poisoning.
One of the regrettable things about the delay inherent in academic publishing is that my "KULA" citational justice piece (https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.310) basically fell out of currency as soon as it was published potentially with all this MCP stuff(?) lol
I do still think there are tons of citational justice concerns with RAG and MCP, though. Could be something to explore further!
Screenshot is from this "Scholarly Kitchen" piece (https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/11/what-publishing-leaders-say-about-ai-when-theyre-not-on-panels/) from yesterday.
There are so many (now legacy) 00s/10s "indie" artists that are just absolutely tedious now. For example, a new James Blake album in 2011 would've been appointment listening for me, but now I can't even bother because I don't think he has anything to say.
Finding myself more and more sympathetic to Mark Fisher's thinking on cultural stagnation lol
I can't recall a year like this for music so far where I've been so ~unmoved~ by the release calendar this far into the year.
(Could also be that I'm just an unc now, I guess, too lol)
But seriously - my most anticipated album of 2026 so far doesn't come out until May and it's Broken Social Scene
Good reporting in "The Verge" by Josh Dzieza.
"Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to do their old jobs."