As sometimes happens after a BlueSky post, there's a remnant that's too long to include.
This one is from a person named April Daniels. She wrote,
When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.
I have no doubt that this technology is very useful in important ways. I also have no doubt that many of the proposed applications right now are entirely, hilariously, horrifyingly inappropriate.
This happened with asbestos, too. My grandpa brought some home for his kids to play with, like clay.
And the AI industry is seriously trying to push Congress into making it entirely illegal to regulate them so they can push this stuff out as fast as possible and make it as hard as possible to remove from our lives.
It's like they KNOW it's radioactive asbestos, and want to get ahead of the cleanup.
Some of the responses were:
Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.bsky.social
Radium emanation bath salts to cure arthritis, rheumatism, and fatigue, that was a thing. I can’t remember what they were called, but they had x-rays machines in shoe shops that they used to ensure the shoes were fitting properly, but kids played with them to see the bones in their feet
Chicago Tafia Welsh Society
There were radioactive breakfast cereal toys stuffed with literal Polonium, aka the stuff the Russians use to poison their enemies:
Christian Mutig @ductos.bsky.social
a digression, but my favorite examples of this are from old comics where you'd see Donald's nephews or Bob Hope or Little Audrey or whoever going "I love this chunk of uranium I found! Its so much fun to hug and listen to it tick! I think I'll put it in my mouth for safe keeping!"
Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social
The original “now with AI!”:
Sharon Z
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