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Librarianshipwreck

@libshipwreck

PhD, former librarian, pessimistic utopian. History of tech, disasters, & doom-saying. Wrote my dissertation on Y2K (currently turning that into a book).

The Library Katılım Şubat 2013
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“The problem is not to use technology but to realize that one is used by it.” - Paul Virilio. Like many educators, I keep encountering AI generated work from students. Here’s what I wish they knew before they submitted such work… librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/an-…
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I think the bigger problem with AI (keeping with the Lord of the Rings comparison) isn’t Bilbo but Boromir. People know it’s dangerous, they even suspect it is really the enemy’s tool…but they are certain that it’ll be okay if *they* use it. Throw it into Mt. Doom.
toe, lover@carobunga

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Though you can expect to see the “67% of people are optimistic about AI” result drawn on as a way of pushing back on recent surveys showing high levels of AI opposition. But, to say it again, the 67% is based on a survey of AI users. Which contextualizes their optimism.
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This survey may be useful for telling you what Claude users think of AI, and maybe you could jump from that to make broader assumptions about other AI users, but this doesn’t really tell us much about broader attitudes towards AI.
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I’m sorry, but inviting AI users to share their opinions on AI is going to provide you with significantly skewed results. There are some interesting things in here, but it needs to be emphasized these are the views of AI users. And it isn’t a shock AI users are largely pro-AI.
Anthropic@AnthropicAI

We invited Claude users to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do. Nearly 81,000 people responded in one week—the largest qualitative study of its kind. Read more: anthropic.com/features/81k-i…

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Obviously, the realities of computers/the internet in the 90s are more complicated than this sort of nostalgic pining, but it really feels like a lot of 90s tech nostalgia is about wanting to have your computer and feel hopeful about it too.
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More than anything 90s tech nostalgia seems like a desire to still have a relationship to computers/the internet, but a different relationship. One where they were technologies you used deliberately, instead of technologies people feel they are being used by.
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Prediction: AI is going to be a big theme in the 2028 presidential election (and the primaries leading up to it). And voters are probably not going to be looking for the pro-AI candidate, but the “will you protect us from AI?” candidate. Expect “SV supports you” to be an attack.
David Shor@davidshor

Even among Trump voters, helping workers who lose jobs to AI beats giving tech companies incentives to keep innovating 50% to 24%. Overall it's 58-20.

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It’s a great book, and I don’t want to spoil it (go read it!), but a big part of the story is various people struggling to find meaning once they’ve been rendered unemployed due to technological advances.
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Quick note: I am a firm believer in the first rule of the Internet “don’t read the comments,” and the first rule of social media “don’t read the replies.” I have notifications silenced and I only see replies from accounts I follow. Sorry, but life’s too short to argue with bots.
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To be clear, I’m not saying the Metaverse was ever actually about making most people’s lives any better…but it is notable that when it was launched (not long ago) tech companies were still trying to play on people’s hopes.
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On the one hand, it was easy to see the Metaverse launch as more of a PR stunt than a demo of actually existing tech. On the other hand, in contrast to AI pitches, the Metaverse was pitched as “this will make your life better” not pitched as “this’ll make you unemployed or dead”
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