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@tumbalaria
Savage
Criticizing the everything machine
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/06/applied-counterescatology/#step-right-up
"Gish Gallop" is the debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish, who was notorious for this tactic):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI.
Here's a recent example: last week, I had a pre-interview call with a radio producer who wanted me to come on a 13-minute segment to discusses "whether there's a problem with AI governance?"
I asked what the show meant by that: was it whether regulation of AI in commercial or public sector decision-making needed more oversight? Was it that the siting and provisioning of data-centers needed more democratic accountability? Was it that workers deserved more of a say in AI's impact on labor markets? Was it that customers and/or audiences should be able to opt out of AI customer service and AI slop? Was it about whether we needed some kind of system to prevent "runaway AI," in the event that we teach so many words to the word-guessing program that it wakes up, becomes God, and turns us all into paperclips?
"Oh," the producer said, "all of that."
In 13 minutes.
You see the problem, right? The AI industry has made so many claims about its past, present and future that it's almost impossible to have a reasonable critical conversation about it:
https://bsky.app/profile/petermiles.eurosky.social/post/3mnffjqczjs2t
Shortly after I did the radio show, a newspaper editor who'd heard my segment got in touch to ask me if I'd write an 800-word op-ed about the subject, and also, could I address claims that "AI is the next Industrial Revolution?"
In 800 words:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/04/ai-is-the-greatest-money-wasting-scheme-humanity-has-ever-i/
numb hands
The fact that one of these moves is significantly more difficult for me than the other two at least tells me which nerve is probably the most fucked up
I love this man too much
So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon
#This is the representation I’ve been looking for
Jézus ereje. 😄
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You can fight ICE by annoying them
Mess up their food/drink orders- Lose their tickets/reservations
Overtighten lug nuts, strip spark plugs
Give them incorrect but real-sounding information
Record them with your phones
Disrupt them with loud noises (car alarms, music, banging metal) and bright lights (flashlights, headlights)
Shame them
(fuck yeah)
The fascists want complacency.
Do not give it to them.
(fuck them white supremacists )
It is your right to make "Mistakes"
It’s important to note that this is a poster on a glass window. It’s very important to note that the (fuck yeah) and the (fuck them white supremacists) have been written in with a pen by someone on said poster.
Anyways fuck fascists and white supremacists
Az elején csak uncsi Norvégia, semmi extra :)
De aztán voltak kerek kavicsok:
Este 9re a nap is kisütött.
Voltak bárányok is:
Aztán közelebb is:
Itt már nagyon vártam a parkolót, de azért nem rossz ez, na:
9.5 km, 565 m emelkedés, plusz a kitérők. 5 óra volt.
Már majdnem felháborodtam az uncsi Norvégián, de aztán inkább csak ámultam tovább.
csak házak és emberek
Israel is burning children alive in tents. Israel had not stopped killing Palestinians and stealing even more land.
Israel is killing thousands of civilians in Lebanon. Israel wants the US to keep killing civilians and school children in Iran.
Until Israelis stop being the worst humanity has to offer I don't care how unsafe they feel in the world.
I can't even count how many headlines like this one I've had to read with my own eyes.
This one is from today.
Israelis can't stop killing babies. I don't think they feel unsafe enough
He was 7 months old.
Look, look, this is happening right now! Look, an attack on a residential building! Look how the flames are consuming the bodies of martyrs and children! My God, this is hell, I swear! And you're still watching and remaining silent?
can we please turn pride into a protest to support lgbt+ ghanaians genuinely. like they are not forgotten or invisible no matter what the bill does.
Community groups say some fear they could lose homes, jobs and access to healthcare if the new law is ratified by President John Dramani Mah
Ghana's Parliament just passed its anti-LGBT+ bill – rushing it through before a foreign-funded anti-rights conference. But the President ca