Aslan French

@jcklpe.bsky.social

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elderly grad student at UT iSchool. Board President for Open Austin. #civictech holdout

Jetpack dude telling a bunch of literary snobs that they're jealous of his jetpack
A tweet saying "A shark could swim faster than me, but I could probably run faster than a shark. So in a triathlon, it would all come down to who is the better cyclist".
A meme comparing “the virgin AGI existential risk” with “the Chad Global Warming.” On the left, “the virgin AGI existential risk” is depicted as a weak, awkward robot with glowing red eyes. Text around it criticizes the idea of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as fake, based on faulty logic, zero evidence, thought experiments, and billionaire hype. It notes assumptions about “intelligence” as a linear quantity, anthropomorphic projections, and that it “blackmails you from the future using faulty logic.” Caption: programmer fantasy making coding seem like humanity’s salvation. On the right, “the Chad Global Warming” is personified as a muscular, flaming Earth with arms and legs. Text around it praises climate change as real, deadly, and scientifically verified. It is described as an incomprehensibly complex polycrisis exposing flaws in the economic system, resisted by billionaires who don’t want people to think about it. It resists simplification, doesn’t need “intelligence” to kill humanity, and represents divine retribution for greed and exploitation of the natural world. The meme contrasts AGI risk as imaginary and self-serving versus climate change as real, deadly, and ignored.