RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116801119514947623

Crossing my timeline today is Prof Bender’s thread on the challenges of using LLMs and this post on the inevitability of loops. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/ 🤔

“Perhaps every successful company has a religious aspect at its core — like, maybe, Apple’s is design quality and user-centricism, Microsoft’s is market share with no regard for technical or design elegance, Google’s is market share with high regard for technical elegance, and Meta’s is strip-mining the world’s social graph for profit.” @gruber skewers big tech in
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/anthropic-safety-superpower with a cynical spin on what Simon Sinek called a “just cause” in The Infinite Game.

“In "The Utopia of Rules," the late David Graeber described how neoliberal deregulation produced exactly the kind of state that we were warned we'd get under communism. Thanks to monopolies, all the stores were the same and they all sold the same goods. Thanks to the dismantling of labor protection and unions, no one had enough money to get by. Thanks to elite impunity, we were ruled by monsters who committed crimes in the open and thrived as a result. Thanks to unchecked greed, we paid everything we had for healthcare, only to be denied treatment when we needed it. Thanks to the dismantling of the welfare state, more and more of us had to wait in long lines to fill out absurdly long forms in triplicate. Thanks to the intrinsic instability of such a terrible system, more and more of us ended up in prison, and protest became more and more illegal” — https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/

“The one form of systemic violence our society will not tolerate is trillionaire-on-billionaire violence.”
— https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/#nostalgia-is-a-toxic-impulse

Not sure if this is true but it’s a good quote.