Simone Linke
@simonelinke.com
Translator / linguist / writer.
Usually an appreciator of clouds, but giving this blue sky a chance...
Usually an appreciator of clouds, but giving this blue sky a chance...
Researchers from Stanford claim humans actually have two brains – which is cool because the same university can now ruin two brains for the price of one with all the GenAI shit they're forcing upon students and the academic community. 🙄
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
med.stanford.edu
September 21, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Researchers from Stanford claim humans actually have two brains – which is cool because the same university can now ruin two brains for the price of one with all the GenAI shit they're forcing upon students and the academic community. 🙄
The 2036 Paralympics field will be quite crowded, I guess.
River that is home to 500 crocodiles chosen to host 2032 Olympic rowing and canoe events
River that is home to 500 crocodiles chosen to host 2032 Olympic rowing and canoe events
A river that is home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles is given the OK to host Olympic and Paralympic rowing and canoeing events at the 2032 Brisbane Games.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 17, 2026 at 12:23 PM
The 2036 Paralympics field will be quite crowded, I guess.
(1/2) The web is now full of people who claim they can sniff out "AI" writing but then list issues that have been present in human writing for ages. In writers circles some now even say they're changing their style b/c they don't want to be accused of writing with "AI". This sh*t is exhaaausting!
April 28, 2026 at 12:32 PM
(1/2) The web is now full of people who claim they can sniff out "AI" writing but then list issues that have been present in human writing for ages. In writers circles some now even say they're changing their style b/c they don't want to be accused of writing with "AI". This sh*t is exhaaausting!
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Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
April 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
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A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
www.thewesternedge.media
April 13, 2026 at 5:27 PM
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
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NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
www.404media.co
March 24, 2026 at 1:10 PM
NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:
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This whole thing is such a baffling product decision www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...
A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts”
Grammarly's AI-powered "Expert Review" promises "writing feedback by subject-matter experts," and if you write about journalism, there's a good chance that includes you.
www.niemanlab.org
March 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM
This whole thing is such a baffling product decision www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...
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With Ring’s recent partnership with Flock, which will further facilitate the sharing of video footage with police, and its new Search Party feature, the message is clear: Ring always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers as a law enforcement tool.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
With Ring’s recent partnership with Flock, which will further facilitate the sharing of video footage with police, and its new Search Party feature, the message is clear: Ring always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers as a law enforcement tool.
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fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:35 PM
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
We're ~3 years into this #GenAI circus and I still see many colleagues praise these systems as if their cost-benefit ratio were anything but utterly unacceptable. In case anybody needs a primer, here's a good one (ignore the baiting title for the YT algorithm): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We're ~3 years into this #GenAI circus and I still see many colleagues praise these systems as if their cost-benefit ratio were anything but utterly unacceptable. In case anybody needs a primer, here's a good one (ignore the baiting title for the YT algorithm): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
In case you need another reason to dump Google products wherever possible, here you go.
#fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome
#fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome
September 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In case you need another reason to dump Google products wherever possible, here you go.
#fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome
#fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome
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Fantastic news out of Tucson!
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
Tucson City Council rejects Project Blue data center amid intense community pressure - AZ Luminaria
The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits. After weeks of escalating...
azluminaria.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Fantastic news out of Tucson!
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
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Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
www.404media.co
July 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
FFS! It's not enough to exploit & displace vulnerable people via toxic, resource-hungry tech systems – now these systems even speak for those whose voices we actually need to hear?! And the clowns behind this justify it with FOMO and saying it's just like going on a date?! Wtf?
#AI #EmpireOfAI #fail
#AI #EmpireOfAI #fail
July 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
FFS! It's not enough to exploit & displace vulnerable people via toxic, resource-hungry tech systems – now these systems even speak for those whose voices we actually need to hear?! And the clowns behind this justify it with FOMO and saying it's just like going on a date?! Wtf?
#AI #EmpireOfAI #fail
#AI #EmpireOfAI #fail
Oops!... They did it again...
"GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments."
www.computerworld.com/article/3985...
#GenAI #XL8 #AI
"GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments."
www.computerworld.com/article/3985...
#GenAI #XL8 #AI
ChatGPT gave wildly inaccurate translations — to try and make users happy
Three recent incidents are reminders that generative AI tools remain troublesome and unreliable. IT buyer beware.
www.computerworld.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Oops!... They did it again...
"GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments."
www.computerworld.com/article/3985...
#GenAI #XL8 #AI
"GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments."
www.computerworld.com/article/3985...
#GenAI #XL8 #AI
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I love being able to explain academic things like statistics, and the history of computer science, to journalists. In this article, I got to do both. 😍 Meanwhile @emilymbender.bsky.social does a brilliant job at explaining why it doesn’t make sense to have machines as the “translator” for human art.
This is a comprehensive article by Anne Li, with quotes from @emilymbender.bsky.social Asmelash Teka @mmitchell.bsky.social and many more.
themarkup.org/artificial-i...
themarkup.org/artificial-i...
Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing – The Markup
Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced
themarkup.org
April 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I love being able to explain academic things like statistics, and the history of computer science, to journalists. In this article, I got to do both. 😍 Meanwhile @emilymbender.bsky.social does a brilliant job at explaining why it doesn’t make sense to have machines as the “translator” for human art.