The current fad for putting AI in everything reminds me of the 19th-century fad for adding electricity to everything, without thinking about why. Electric girdles! Electric garters! Electric hairpins! Electric tea cups!
I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan
June 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Eating it like radium
August 17, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Eating it like radium
Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
June 9, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
Prague is a whole mood. I couldn't get over this radium-blue Beaux Arts pole clock in Old Town. It felt like I could have taken this same picture 120 years ago
November 27, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Prague is a whole mood. I couldn't get over this radium-blue Beaux Arts pole clock in Old Town. It felt like I could have taken this same picture 120 years ago
GenAI getting added to everything is really giving those "radium" vibes
May 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
GenAI getting added to everything is really giving those "radium" vibes
The original “now with AI!”
April 26, 2026 at 3:21 PM
The original “now with AI!”
Uranium glass ain't nothin'. They had...
![Ad with picture of a radium suppository and text that goes
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Doesn't that sound great?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ajqj7bn2gcmmaramw342hxcu/bafkreiahtdptqzorx3qd2b7ww4crmytk2lzk5pca67vzvudqfzljmzayc4)
April 26, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Uranium glass ain't nothin'. They had...
And radium. Radium toothpaste! Radium water! Radium face cream! Radium suppositories!
June 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
And radium. Radium toothpaste! Radium water! Radium face cream! Radium suppositories!
I actually like when my websites crash and go down. It reminds me of Something Awful because that IDIOT Lowtax knew nothing about forum maintenance so he hired radium and paid him to work full time on backend stuff for SA and radium scammed him by doing LITERALLY NOTHING for years
April 21, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I actually like when my websites crash and go down. It reminds me of Something Awful because that IDIOT Lowtax knew nothing about forum maintenance so he hired radium and paid him to work full time on backend stuff for SA and radium scammed him by doing LITERALLY NOTHING for years
Lead, asbestos, and radium all work!
My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos.
- Seemingly magical properties
- Developed and experimented with to make endless products
- Poisoned countless communities in it's creation
- Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now
- Seemingly magical properties
- Developed and experimented with to make endless products
- Poisoned countless communities in it's creation
- Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now
Trying out a new metaphor:
"A.i." = cocaine.
Cocaine is inevitable!
Cocaine can enhance your creativity!
Cocaine can make us all faster and more efficient!
If your kid doesn't learn how to use cocaine, they'll get left behind!
"A.i." = cocaine.
Cocaine is inevitable!
Cocaine can enhance your creativity!
Cocaine can make us all faster and more efficient!
If your kid doesn't learn how to use cocaine, they'll get left behind!
May 4, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Lead, asbestos, and radium all work!
Radium, DDT, asbestos, laserdisk...
Any history of technology people know if there are other technologies that were touted as "here to stay" in the manner of generative AI that...didn't stay?
i guess worth looking into whether people were similarly convinced about other technologies in the past
February 9, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Radium, DDT, asbestos, laserdisk...
Some lovely Radium cigarettes for that healthy satisfying glow.
April 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Some lovely Radium cigarettes for that healthy satisfying glow.
The Ethical Use of Radium
Asbestos in the Classroom: A
Guide For Teachers
Asbestos in the Classroom: A
Guide For Teachers
All sorts of guides and references on the ‘ethical use of AI’ are popping up here in Brazil.
Just to make our lives difficult!!!
Why on earth do we have to read a thousand and one references on the ethical use of a tool that is, by its very nature, unethical?
Just to make our lives difficult!!!
Why on earth do we have to read a thousand and one references on the ethical use of a tool that is, by its very nature, unethical?
March 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
The Ethical Use of Radium
Asbestos in the Classroom: A
Guide For Teachers
Asbestos in the Classroom: A
Guide For Teachers
Bust comm for Radium!
May 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Bust comm for Radium!
Or radium containing tonics.
One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Or radium containing tonics.
Lead, radium, asbestos, single use plastics, gen A.I.
September 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Lead, radium, asbestos, single use plastics, gen A.I.
Radium is the hot new technology and it’s inevitable, all of you luddites refusing to put radium in your skin cream and toothpaste and water are going to be left behind
May 27, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Radium is the hot new technology and it’s inevitable, all of you luddites refusing to put radium in your skin cream and toothpaste and water are going to be left behind
so i guess radium is food now
March 23, 2026 at 12:53 AM
so i guess radium is food now
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
October 30, 2024 at 3:32 PM
L'IA est le radium du XXIè siècle
Je découvre aussi que j'avais pas vu passer avant :
- les sous-vêtements radioactifs
- la laine radioactive
- le dentifrice au radium
- des médicaments contre la tuberculose ou encore les hémorroïdes au radium
Une belle époque !
- les sous-vêtements radioactifs
- la laine radioactive
- le dentifrice au radium
- des médicaments contre la tuberculose ou encore les hémorroïdes au radium
Une belle époque !
September 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
L'IA est le radium du XXIè siècle
They were ever so excited about Radium there for a bit, too…
September 22, 2026 at 7:14 AM
They were ever so excited about Radium there for a bit, too…