Pluralistic: AI psychosis and the warped mirror (18 Sep 2025)

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AI psychosis and the warped mirror: When you stare into the LLM…
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Object permanence: No such thing as shareholder supremacy; Intel's DRM'ed CPU; THIS COMPUTER IS NEVER OBSOLETE.
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Conspiratorialism's causal chain: A four-part begat.
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Object permanence: Legal threats over HDCP leaks; Print your own TSA luggage keys; "A Natural History of Empty Lots."
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No such thing as selective censorship resistance: Age verification, or getting rid of Big Tech (pick one).
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Object permanence: Ashley Madison passwords; Vivienne Westwood's tank; Victorious dancing baby; WIPO vs Creative Commons; Leap Manifesto; Tivo no-save; Blu-Ray cracked; MEC sold to private equity; Step Aside, Pops!
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Wallet voting: On the uses and abuses of consumerism.
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Object permanence: Microsoft copyright crackdown against Russian dissidents; Corbyn wins Labour leadership; Bill Gates' monopolism; TiVo won't record DRM shows; HDCP leaks; Puking sink; Mr Gotcha v covid.
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Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox: Not what the machine does, but who it does it to.
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Object permanence: Themepunks; Data is a liability; Alexa for landlords; Qanon is the Protocols of the Elders of Zio.
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Hate the player AND the game: But above all, hate the crooked ump.
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Object permanence: Library Tor nodes vs the DHS; Egg-board psyops; Fury Road amputation cosplay; NYPD's dirtiest cop.
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Trump steals $400b from American workers: You get a noncompete, and you get a noncompete, and you get a noncompete!
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Object permanence: Spying baby-monitors; FBI tests spy-gear at Burning Man; Little Brother optioned by Paramount; Best-paid CEOs have worst-paid workers.
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Fingerspitzengefühl: IP vs process knowledge.
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Object permanence: Buddhist hell theme-park; ORG launches; Yahoo spies for Beijing; Secret plan for border laptop-searches; BBC Creative Archive launches; Penn and Teller BBS; Immortan Trump; IP.
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Stock buybacks are stock swindles: Raising the value of a stock without raising the value of the company.
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Object permanence: Marshmellow longtermism; Physicists are not epidemiologists; CO asphyxiation accounts for half of Hurricane Laura deaths.
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