Oliver Willis

owillis.bsky.social

19 October 2026 19:45

If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

James Baillie

jubalbarca.bsky.social

19 October 2026 19:40

Search results are 90+ percent slop: I'm constantly double-checking photos I find to look for signs that they're generated. I have to check games I want to play because I don’t want low-quality non-human art and writing in what will inevitably be the ludonarrative equivalent of eating cardboard.

James Baillie

jubalbarca.bsky.social

19 October 2026 19:39

The main way the LLM boom has affected my life is to make a lot of things so much harder. It makes information filtering an even more constant grinding process than it already was: it's noticeably worsened search info quality and makes it harder to find anything reliable and/or human and/or real.

James Baillie

jubalbarca.bsky.social

19 October 2026 19:39

As a researcher, I can't really emphasise enough that the main thing LLMs have done is significantly slow me down and add cognitive burden. I'm just *tired* of every aspect of this trend at this point.

Barbara J. King

bjking.bsky.social

08 October 2026 18:19

"If we want to take them seriously as beings with their own preferences and ways of navigating the world,” Raza said, “I’m not going to make tiny Cartesian modernist villas.” Instead rats particularly enjoy chaotic spaces with lots of entries, exits, places to hide. #rats #multispecies #animals #art