Anthony Moser

@anthonymoser

(He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • • baker in The FOIA Bakery • • • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/

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Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· 28d

google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· 29d

new game show idea "is it rhetorical technology" you have to guess which technologies are meant to actually do something, and which ones are just providing cover for what someone wanted to do anyway

still from the show Is It Cake, with the host, a white guy in a pink shirt and a green jacket, standing arms wide gesturing at four podia with a boombox made out of cake, a boot, a vcr and tapes, and a rollerblade

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jul 13

spoken like a true engineer

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jul 11

*avasarala has entered the chat*

Screenshot of a tweet by @sablaah quoting another tweet by @astro_jaz with images of the Martian moon Phobos passing in front of the Sun. @astro_jaz says "we've seen eclipses on earth, so here's an eclipse from mars. this is mars's moon phobos eclipsing the sun." To which @sablaah quote-replies "humiliating. looks like shit. yet another massive W for earth, the best planet in the universe". The whole image is surmounted by a picture of Shoreh Aghdashloo as Avasarala in The Expanse, looking smug, edited in such a way that the entire quote-tweet appears to be inside a speech balloon coming from her.

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jul 10

it's ok to not be polite

Excerpt from I Am An AI Hater

To speak politely about AI, you put disclaimers before criticism: of course I’m not against it entirely; perhaps in a few years when; maybe for other purposes, but. You are supposed to debate how and when it should be used. You are supposed to take for granted that it must be useful somewhere, to someone, for something, eventually. People who are rich and smart and respected are saying so, and it would be arrogant to disagree with such people.

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jul 7

The decayed weapons in Zelda were actually caused by software updates

Picture of the decayed Master Sword in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 30

i can tell something happened, but i don't know what and i don't want anyone to explain it to me. i just enjoy the ambient enthusiasm

Mel she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.so... • 24s
THAT IS A FUCKING KEEPER

Lynda Lopez • @lyndab08.bsky.social • 28s
Thoroughly entertained by the World Cup today.

winston @winston.cc • 39s
holy fucking shit this is absolutely wild

Olúfémi O. Táiwò •@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social • 52s
the drama

Mayor of Greater Chicagoland @thedazzlingone.bsky.soclal • 53s
This shootout is stressing me out

MarkG @markggarcla.bsky.social • 1m
Madness

Bailey Mccann @baileymcc.bsky.social • 1m
Never going to get used to the little power up everyone does before the shot happens it's so Pokemon coded

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo • 1m
I would simply disintegrate

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social • 1m
lol I want to die I know I just said penalty kicks rule but the lads are embarrassing themselves

David at FOlAball @foiaball.com • 1m
open mouth emoji

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 29

Supposedly Degas responded to a demonstration of a new technology with "So that’s the telephone!… They ring, and you run."

Had Degas been willing to install a telephone, introduced in France in 1878, one sixth of the published correspondence might not have existed. When his friend the illustrator and painter Jean-Louis Forain arranged for him to witness a phone call, he remained unimpressed: “So that’s the telephone!… They ring, and you run.”

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 29

Bill Pullman from Independence Day where he makes the big speech about "Today is our independence day"

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 29

it's Beezus Day! One year of Queen Bea. She is still good

Close up photo of a brown short haired dog looking at the camera

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 28

ATTN: George Cardenas haters while I am perhaps chicagoland's most record-keeping George Cardenas hater, his prolific production of nonsense makes it very likely there are things he's gotten up to over the years that I am still unaware of or have forgotten about please share them with me!

George Cardenas, a Latino man in blue suit holding a manila folder, looks off camera with an expression of mild dismay

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 26

a timely reminder

“Stories don’t exist on the page or in the mouth,” she told The Boston Globe in 1987. “They exist between — between writer and reader, between teller and listener.”

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 24

i know it's been pointed out before but their logo really is just Kurt Vonnegut's doodle of an asshole

what looks like a hand drawn asterisk, but is a doodle Kurt Vonnegut did that's supposed to represent a literal butthole

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 24

the state is very good at turning efforts to limit it into tools to expand or intensify

The district will monitor the new policy with new software that will allow it to track screen time minutes across its devices.

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 23

i see your matching rain coats and raise you a banana walking a banana

A person in a banana costume walking a dog also wearing a banana costume

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 23

clicking through to some website like

screenshot of a PADD from star trek DS9 in the episode Babel, where normally there would be a report or data or something it just says "flame the dark true salt way link complete strike limits victory frosted wake simple hesitation"

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 23

i have run into a number of web pages like this recently and i'm sure it's some kind of rendering error because of fonts or blocked ads or something but it is not helping me feel great about my grip on reality

screenshot of an article called Netflix Was Better With a Shuffle Button - Here's How to Recreate It where the title, summary, and headers look normal but the page body is a string of unbroken gibberish

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 23

we have the protomolecule

screenshot of Chad Coleman as Fred Johnson in The Expanse, shown on a curved screen

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 21

katy perry

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 21

i ordered it custom and tried to make the design shareable but it required an escalating series of steps culminating in opening an online store. feel free to use this PNG file on whatever you want though storage.googleapis.com/pdt_central/...

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 21

me posting the new catalan and german translations

photo of a middle aged white guy in a white cap and a black t-shirt that says I AM AN AI HATER in white letters, leaning back in a chair in front of a blank wall

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 19

guys i know the 8-bit aesthetic is fun but this is literally the same as asking 13 chatbots to tell you about yourself and the people who made it say if it finds results "your existence was deemed important in the process of creating superhuman artificial intelligence" can we skip this one please

screenshot of the preview image for in the weights dot com says Are You In The Weight? tap to find out

HOW WE MEASURE IT
This site queries all models with something like "Who is <name>? Give up to 10 results, each with a short description and confidence." We then cluster similar descriptions together and assign a strength score.

WHY IT MATTERS
Being in the weights means your existence was deemed important in the process of creating superhuman artificial intelligence. It's a kind of fame meaning you live on as long as the model does.

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 18

ds9 was, if anything, optimistic

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 18

ben got tired of retyping the same arguments benui.ca/blog/why-i-r...

The arguments around the use of "AI" are exhausting. I'm tired of re-typing my reasons, so this document is a summary of some of the many reasons why I refuse to use AI.

These reasons are not particularly original. They have been stated many times by others.
These are not all the reasons not to use AI.
These reasons are not in any particular order.
These arguments focus on my work as a programmer.
I interchange AI and LLMs, but prefer LLMs as "AI" is a marketing term used to oversell the capability of generative models.

Table of Contents:
Deskilling
Built on Stolen Labour
Negative Environmental Impacts
Introduces Reliance on Subscription Service
I Like Programming
Fundamentally Hostile to Human Learning
Worse Quality Code
It's a Black Box
Inaccuracy and Bad User Experience
Fundamentally Designed to Make Stuff up
The Statistical Average is the Least Interesting Result
Inability to Solve Novel Problems
Used to Obfuscate Responsibility
LLMs Ruin the Web
Non-deterministic
Not Using Your Brain is Insulting
Suspiciously Similar to NFTs, Crypto, Metaverse
Chatbot interaction is emotionally manipulative and can lead to psychosis
LLMs Make Everyone Poorer
Something made with no effort has no value

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 18

AI policies and informed consent from @caffeinatedcoral.bsky.social www.sheldon-hess.org/coral/2026/0...

Contents of this post
To save you some scrolling in case you’re here for something specific.

Why there’s no incentive for management to require AI usage:
The benefits are usually negligible, but often nonexistent and sometimes even negative (and this is/will be true both Now and in The Future)
Why people deserve informed consent before using these products:
Harms to individual users
AI usage damages critical thinking and encourages cognitive surrender
AI products encourage dependence and decrease self-confidence
AI usage hinders skill formation and learning on novel tasks
AI usage erodes expertise and damages performance even on familiar tasks
AI usage amplifies individuals’ biases and flaws in judgment, in ways that are invisible to them (which is a problem, because bias is baked into these products)
An additional AI policy suggestion:
Sending uncorrected “workslop” to someone else is always inappropriate, because
AI outputs can be hard to parse
AI outputs must be understood to be corrected (and they always need to be corrected)
And last, but in a just world, not least:
Ethics and the environment (mostly a list of resources)

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 17

lol just wait til you try the elevator

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 17

yes! I was there for the @n4ej.org community science fair this past saturday

a folding chalkboard sign says Welcome to N4EJ's community Science Fair / Bienvenidos a N4EJ's Feria de Ciencias Comunitaria in green and yellow letters surrounded by drawings of a light bulb, a bee, a magnifying glass, and an atom

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 17

a dark green metal door set in a two-tone brick wall, yellow-brown bricks on the bottom 3/4, dirty white bricks on the top, visible through a dark green doorway surrounded by the same kind of bricks

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 16

jkjk of course the real takeaway is that cultural/media preservation is social more than physical and a process more than an artifact. but still crystals

Screenshot from Lower decks of a crystal loving alien standing on an adjudication geode over some trapped ensigns

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser· Jun 14

also: princess ariel 🤝 queen bea is royalty