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Selfish AI | GarfieldTech

garfieldtech.com · Feb 02

This will be a bit more ranty than my usual articles. Fair warning. But I need to put this out there.

Shared by @johjakob and 126 others.
Melissa :verified_trans:​ (@codecat) · Feb 02
🔁 @Crell:

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

#AI #LLM #Programming

kianryan ☑️🐙🏳️‍🌈 (@kianryan) · Feb 02
🔁 @Crell:

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

#AI #LLM #Programming

Geoff Berner (@Geoffberner) · Feb 03
🔁 @blogdiva:

🔥🔥🔥

❝ Far too little is said about the fact training AI models is not an entirely digital process. It is backed by an army of over-worked, low-paid, sweatshop-level workers manually labeling data to feed into the machine. Because why wouldn't we outsource painful grunt work to some person in a poor country we don't care about?…

…I don't mind change. I do mind unethical behavior. I do mind being forced into unethical behavior in order to survive. ❞
garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

thank you @Crell

Ron Jeffries (@RonJeffries) · Feb 02
🔁 @Crell:

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

#AI #LLM #Programming

katherine (@kayserifserif) · Feb 02
🔁 @Crell:

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

#AI #LLM #Programming

Virginie (@Maker) · Feb 02
🔁 @gedankenstuecke:

«If you have already shrugged and said "it is what it is," fuck you. It is exactly that attitude, that lack of care for ethics, that lack of interest in the global implications of our work, that is literally dooming our species»

Selfish AI | GarfieldTech
garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

elfenlaid (@elfenlaid) · Feb 02
🔁 @gedankenstuecke:

«If you have already shrugged and said "it is what it is," fuck you. It is exactly that attitude, that lack of care for ethics, that lack of interest in the global implications of our work, that is literally dooming our species»

Selfish AI | GarfieldTech
garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

fluffy 💜 (@fluffy) · Feb 02
🔁 @Crell:

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

#AI #LLM #Programming

Craig Wright 🐵 (@crw) · Feb 02
🔁 @Crell:

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

#AI #LLM #Programming

Copilot everywhere? Not for long. Microsoft dialing it back on Windows 11

windowscentral.com · Jan 30

People familiar with Microsoft's plans say that the company moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.

Shared by @DaveMasonDotMe and 37 others.
Dr Pen (@DrPen) · Feb 03
🔁 @ai6yr:

Windows Central: You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

#windows #AI #copilot

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

arstechnica.com · Feb 02

“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”...

Shared by @carrieberry and 22 others.
Carrie🇨🇦 (@carrieberry) · Feb 03
🔁 @ScienceDesk:

In the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products including gasoline because of their toxic effects on human health. Now, scientists at the University of Utah have released the findings of a study looking at 100 years' worth of human hair samples, and found that the regulatory action worked. Here's more from @arstechnica.

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#Science #Environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency

Artemis (@Artemis201) · Feb 03
🔁 @ScienceDesk:

In the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products including gasoline because of their toxic effects on human health. Now, scientists at the University of Utah have released the findings of a study looking at 100 years' worth of human hair samples, and found that the regulatory action worked. Here's more from @arstechnica.

flip.it/sslA6i

#Science #Environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency

ItsDoctorNotMrs 🇨🇦 (@northernlights) · Feb 03
🔁 @ScienceDesk:

In the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products including gasoline because of their toxic effects on human health. Now, scientists at the University of Utah have released the findings of a study looking at 100 years' worth of human hair samples, and found that the regulatory action worked. Here's more from @arstechnica.

flip.it/sslA6i

#Science #Environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency

Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike

crimethinc.com · Feb 01

Participants in the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement.

Shared by @Bobsee and 19 others.
Cabbidges (@TheDailyBurble) · Feb 02
🔁 @igd_news:

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crow

It's Going Down (@igd_news) · Feb 02

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crow

Workers Rights Channel (@workersrights) · Feb 02
🔁 @strike:

On January 23, 2026, a general strike against the ICE occupation paralyzed the Twin Cities. Seven days later, a second strike took place, on ...

Participants in the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement.
Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike

Bobsee (@Bobsee) · Feb 03
🔁 @igd_news:

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crow

joriki (@joriki) · Feb 02
🔁 @igd_news:

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crow

Andres (@Andres4NY) · Feb 02
🔁 @igd_news:

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crow

nullagent (@nullagent) · Feb 02
🔁 @igd_news:

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crow

Neil E. Hodges (@tk) · Feb 02
🔁 @strike:

On January 23, 2026, a general strike against the ICE occupation paralyzed the Twin Cities. Seven days later, a second strike took place, on ...

Participants in the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement.
Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike

Rita, antifascist 🏴🦯🦯🦯 (@OldSquida2) · Feb 01
🔁 @IllWill:

New piece from folks in the Twin Cities reflecting on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and 30, and how liberal appeasement and authoritarian vanguardism have functioned as obstacles to the growth of the movement.
crimethinc.com/2026generalstri

Worth reading

Science at the Edge of the World

fightforthehuman.com · Feb 01

I decided to change my own mind about evolution in my freshman year of college, which is common: college is often the time and place where non-evolutionists grapple with whether we will become evolutionists. I am comfortable telling people that I used to not believe in evolution – enthusiastic,...

Shared by @RuthMalan and 11 others.
Cat Hicks (@grimalkina) · Feb 02
🔁 @trenner:

“Why care about belonging? Because it is fundamentally useful. It lets us predict a huge slice of the variance in developer productivity. Why care about psychological affordances around teams? Because it is useful. It lets us predict where we will find more effective teams and design for them.”

Gold like this is why I will never stop recommending @grimalkina to software developers. Mind-opening stuff about how to foster a learning culture in yourself and others.

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

Juan Nunez-Iglesias (@jni) · Feb 02
🔁 @grimalkina:

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

mhoye (@mhoye) · Feb 02
🔁 @grimalkina:

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

Andy Jackson (@anj) · Feb 01
🔁 @grimalkina:

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

Hazel Weakly (@hazelweakly) · Feb 01
🔁 @grimalkina:

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

May Likes Toronto (@mayintoronto) · Feb 01
🔁 @grimalkina:

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

Ruth — of systems & design (@RuthMalan) · Feb 02
🔁 @trenner:

“Why care about belonging? Because it is fundamentally useful. It lets us predict a huge slice of the variance in developer productivity. Why care about psychological affordances around teams? Because it is useful. It lets us predict where we will find more effective teams and design for them.”

Gold like this is why I will never stop recommending @grimalkina to software developers. Mind-opening stuff about how to foster a learning culture in yourself and others.

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

zool (@ultrazool) · Feb 02
🔁 @trenner:

“Why care about belonging? Because it is fundamentally useful. It lets us predict a huge slice of the variance in developer productivity. Why care about psychological affordances around teams? Because it is useful. It lets us predict where we will find more effective teams and design for them.”

Gold like this is why I will never stop recommending @grimalkina to software developers. Mind-opening stuff about how to foster a learning culture in yourself and others.

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

Dan Sugalski (@wordshaper) · Feb 02
🔁 @trenner:

“Why care about belonging? Because it is fundamentally useful. It lets us predict a huge slice of the variance in developer productivity. Why care about psychological affordances around teams? Because it is useful. It lets us predict where we will find more effective teams and design for them.”

Gold like this is why I will never stop recommending @grimalkina to software developers. Mind-opening stuff about how to foster a learning culture in yourself and others.

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: (@dch) · Feb 02
🔁 @grimalkina:

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

fightforthehuman.com/science-a

Docusign’s CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts

theverge.com · Feb 02

Docusign’s Allan Thygesen says his company’s pivot to AI is a necessity in the world of contract management.

Shared by @icymi_law and 6 others.
ICYMI (Law) (@icymi_law) · Feb 02
🔁 @SuffolkLITLab:

TL;DR: Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen discusses the risks of relying on AI for contract management, highlighting the complexities involved in automating legal processes. With the company employing 7,000 people, he sheds light on the crucial human oversight needed in this technology-driven arena. theverge.com/podcast/871205/do #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

Here's how Epstein broke the internet

garbageday.email · Feb 03

His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

Shared by @dgoldsmith and 6 others.
SilenceisGolden (@silentLurker) · Feb 03
🔁 @Nshrubs:

Here's how Epstein broke the internet
His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy
garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-

(@Itchy) · Feb 03
🔁 @dangillmor:

Epstein, Bannon, 4chan, Trump, Russia -- a cauldron of boiling evil.

garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-

Worth reading

Phantom Fluency

terrygodier.com · Feb 02

Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful. You're not bad at remembering podcasts. Podcasts are bad at being remembered.

Shared by @davebauerart and 5 others.
Dave bauer (@davebauerart) · Feb 03
🔁 @tg:

New essay:

Phantom Fluency

Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful. You're not bad at remembering podcasts. Podcasts are bad at being remembered.

terrygodier.com/phantom-fluency

tg (@tg) · Feb 03
🔁 @PlinyTheOlder:

new web essay by @tg wondering about all the limitations of podcasts — can’t search them, almost impossible to remember what you learned from one, let alone track it down after you listened to it — and how the structure of podcast apps contributes to these problems.

“writing is dead speech that admits that it’s dead. a podcast is dead speech that sounds alive.”

if you have the opportunity to scroll through this, I would recommend it.

terrygodier.com/phantom-fluency

bill (pliny the older) (@PlinyTheOlder) · Feb 03

new web essay by @tg wondering about all the limitations of podcasts — can’t search them, almost impossible to remember what you learned from one, let alone track it down after you listened to it — and how the structure of podcast apps contributes to these problems.

“writing is dead speech that admits that it’s dead. a podcast is dead speech that sounds alive.”

if you have the opportunity to scroll through this, I would recommend it.

terrygodier.com/phantom-fluency

Jon Henshaw (@jon) · Feb 02
🔁 @assaf:

“Writing is dead speech that admits it's dead. A podcast is dead speech that sounds alive.”
terrygodier.com/phantom-fluency

Mario Munoz (@pythonbynight) · Feb 02
🔁 @tg:

New essay:

Phantom Fluency

Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful. You're not bad at remembering podcasts. Podcasts are bad at being remembered.

terrygodier.com/phantom-fluency

Worth reading

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror

theguardian.com · Feb 02

The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series

Shared by @troy_s and 12 others.
Wen (@Wen) · Feb 02
🔁 @LordWoolamaloo:

"What matters now is that On This Day… 1776 is genuinely very horrible to watch, and everybody involved should be ashamed."

theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/

Aside from the amorality of Aronofsky using AI (badly, by many reports), Stuart Heritage in the Guardian points out something more obvious: the series is just dreadful viewing.

#DarrenAronofksy #AI #AISlop #film

The Guardian MEWS 📰 (@guardian) · Feb 02

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror
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#DarrenAronofskyMEWS #FilmMEWS #Ai(artificialIntelligence)MEWS #ComputingMEWS #CultureMEWS #TechnologyMEWS #MEWS
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The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online seriesIf you happen to find yourself stumbling through Time magaz...

theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/

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