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Dammit Bagby

@dammitbagby.bsky.social

156 Followers 245 Following

Music (Liz + the Baguettes, The Unswept), art, writing, running, occasional despair

The “About Us” section of a LinkedIn job post, reading “Familiar Machines & Magic is building the Physical AI platform for human connection, beginning with Familiars—physically embodied AI systems designed to form long-term, emotionally intelligent relationships with people. Our mission is to create artificial life to build a more caring world.”
Excerpt of book: “I believe all of us want the same things—we’re all together, the industrial workers and the women and the Negro race and the Asiatic colonies, and even a few of the Respectables. It’s all the same revolt, in all the classes that have waited and taken advice. I think people want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We’re tired of hearing the politicians and priests and cautious reformers (and the husbands!) coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plan for a Utopia already made, just give us a bit more time and we’ll produce it; trust us; we’re wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years
screenshot of Gemini assuming the famous quote should have been “most seriously diseased” I send no compliments to Gemini’s mother
Screencap of an email in which Google has just informed iOS users that Gemini will now be thrust upon them, cautioning that it “may produce inaccurate information” and”should be used for informational purposes only”
AI-generated flyer for a Parkinson’s fundraiser in which multiple words are hallucinated or misspelled (Poundalion, Parainson)
A senior Siberian cat with tabby markings, reclining next to a fresh ear of corn, having successfully yelled at the fridge enough to secure its release
A tile with an old photo of Liz Bagby playing the guitar in a Chicago studio
Geriatric tabby cat asleep with her face in a woman’s hand
Ad captioned “From festive party looks to cozy luxury” above an image of a German newspaper celebrating Hitler’s election
LinkedIn post for a job offering $100–150 an hour for seasoned poets to train AI on understanding poetic structure, literary nuance, and emotional expression.
a summary of someone else’s book, rather sycophantic and missing several crucial commas
Senior tabby cat living her best life on a green velvet loveseat
Newsletter article header reads “Harnessing AI for Social-Emotional Learning”