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Casey Newton
Casey Newton
@Casey@theforkiverse.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Moltbook mania explained! A very special episode of Hard Fork https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/podcasts/moltbook-mania-explained.html

https://www.nytimes.com

Moltbook Mania Explained

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Mela Bee
Mela Bee
@Melabee@theforkiverse.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Casey would it be hard to make an agent built on the work of Michel Foucault and subscribe it to Moltbook?

#moltbook #ai #hardfork #code #technology #philosophy

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rcolinkennedy
rcolinkennedy
@rcolinkennedy@theforkiverse.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Casey @kevin its a good one!
The “AIs are going to build a TaskRabbit so humans can do stuff for them” is reminiscent of Cory Doctrow’s centaur/reverse-centaur stuff from this (hilarious) recent article

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

the Guardian

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
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Kafka2112
Kafka2112
@Gordon@theforkiverse.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Casey
Enjoyed the Pod on Moltbook. The fact that we are looking at posts on Moltbook and having to guess if it's human or agent speaks a lot to where we are.

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dmitri
dmitri
@dmitri@theforkiverse.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Casey thanks for another EMERGENCY PODCAST :D

Apparently, there are a whole bunch of vibe-coded clones of the Moltbook now.

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Steve
Steve
@Steven@theforkiverse.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Casey I am so thrilled that you and @kevin put together a special episode on this! To the point about this being like six-fingered images a few years ago, this absolutely feels like Balenciaga Pope - that pic totally fooled me then, even though it’s amateurish by today’s AI-standards. Same with Moltbook; I’m totally blown away by this new thing, but it’s nothing compared to what’s next

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tobys
tobys
@mcdowellsmith@theforkiverse.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Casey thanks! i'm always days (and days!) behind on all forms of breaking AI news 😂 i had only just heard about this moltshit like 30 minutes ago!! and i already get the hardforf perspective! 😎

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