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  Went to the campus screening of Ghost in the Machine today, many familiar names; I did not know going in that hometown hero Shazeda had so many lines (are they called lines in a documentary?). I can recommend it, especially for a more gen-ed / undergrad audience; the director seems supportive of educational use and reuse and it is structured in a dozen or so bite sized chapters. Haven't seen the AI apocalypse optimist one to compare against, would probably rather spend my money on Mario tb...

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  https://www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai taking shots at the gray lady: > You might think Mr. R not so different, superficially, from Ms. L. He’s also a long-tenured technology columnist at a respected mainstream publication. And yet he has eagerly, even gleefully, turned flack for the machines. He has delegated much of his professional life to them as well, and seems proud of it: > > > Most recently, [Mr. R] tells me, he created a team of Claude agents to help edit his book, led...

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  [Internet Comment Etiquette: "Relationships with AI"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnC2pV5pBtM) ... hadn't thought about Glenn Beck in a decade, that last interview was pretty wtf. Not sure what the etiquette is for how long they should be dead before you talk to the AI-geist on youtube, but George Washington somehow feels weirder than Kirk did; idk.

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  https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-computer-science-fetish/ > The fetishism of the computer scientist therefore refers less to specific expertise than to whatever we imagine a credentialed expert can bestow: an external voice that says, "ask, and you shall receive.” The computer scientist becomes a mirror where those who work with the social, practical impacts of the tech hope to see our understanding affirmed. The people who offer that validation — who position themselves against t...