Matthew Kirschenbaum

mkirschenbaum.bsky.social

18 October 2026 00:18

A point I will make next week is that I believe the salient fact of the Hugging Face incident is not any of the discourse about consciousness or agency, but that the internet and all adjacent infrastructure offer a common manipulable/executable substrate. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/o...

OGBobbyJoshson

jawalker.bsky.social

17 October 2026 23:34

No one hates his base more than he does.

e.w. niedermeyer

niedermeyer.online

17 October 2026 23:33

Oracle (owned/run by Larry Ellison) is 15% owner of TikTok USA, and now David Ellison's Skydance owns HBO, where "MUSK" is supposed to stream early next year, so this is very much not a good sign

e.w. niedermeyer

niedermeyer.online

17 October 2026 23:32

I started a TikTok account and just scrolled a default feed, and it included a very steady mix of Charlie Kirk and Clavicular and Christian influencer clips, so I know this "no politics rule" stuff is absolute bullshit

Radley Balko

radleybalko.bsky.social

17 October 2026 23:32

If ever there were a race to be settled with a duel . . .