That Pesky AI Backlash Keeps Growing

The all-new Pixelfed mobile apps are here, and after some time evaluating the iOS experience, I am pleased to say it is worlds better than the previous app and genuinely a pleasure to use. This leads us nicely into further discussion of Instagram (and YouTube) competition in the form of Haven, a hot new up-and-coming anti-AI social media platform which is in the middle of an already-funded Kickstarter and attracting much buzz. My questions: will it federate? Who’s behind it? And how will it protect artists from AI slop? Let’s dive in. 📢 Hosted by Jared White 💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon 🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider) 📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded 🎶 Theme music by Ben Elson

The “Internet of Things” has gone terribly, terribly wrong. A string of horrendous cyberattacks, most recently refrigeration units in grocery stores across Europe, has left us with few alternatives. It's time to reconsider the playbook of Everything Everywhere All at Once being connected to Internet-accessible networks. Perhaps we take a page from Battlestar Galactica? Also…a sneak preview of my upcoming thoughts on the unholy Trumpian marriage of NAR + TESCREAL. Now that's a mouthful! 📢 Hosted by Jared White 💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon 🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider) 📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded 🎶 Theme music by Ben Elson

Cory Dransfeldt has returned to the show for a rousing discussion on the zomg AI agents gone ROGUE! 😱 doomer narrative, withholding your data from Big Tech as you "become worthless", the public outcry against AI data centers and ALPRs like Flock, unaccountable techbros scared of future AI overlords, and the fascist dotfiles of Omarchy. What is the (Rails) World coming to? Let's dive in and "become worthless" together. 📢 Hosted by Jared White 💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon 🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider) 📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded 🎶 Theme music by Ben Elson

Do the “AIs” really think or understand? Are we on the verge of machine consciousness? You know how I feel about all that (lol), but more important than such discourse on X (not real life, also lol) is who is actually pushing back against the Associated Press Stylebook’s warnings against using anthropomorphizing language (Emily M. Bender will surely be pleased!). Discover more about this shady bunch, what we can do to stop them…and why humans treating LLMs et al. as entities capable of experiencing real things and existing in the real world is a dangerous fantasy. 📢 Hosted by Jared White 💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon 🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider) 📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded 🎶 Theme music by Ben Elson

I'm back from vacation—a road trip through Northern California and Southern Oregon with my brother—and I return with a clearer perspective on the things which matter to me. Yes, to this show! And also, yes to building solidarity and connective tissue within the hand-coding community. We are facing the possibility of an extinction-level event, a future where it is literally impossible to participate in the software community without being required to use agentic coding practices. How can we fight this? How can we stand firm against the onslaught of fashtech? Let's get the dialog going. The solutions are bigger than any one of us, and as the saying goes, we're stronger when we work together. 📢 Hosted by Jared White 💬 Chat with me! Human Web Collective Discord / Signal / Mastodon 🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider) 📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded 🎶 Theme music by Ben Elson