This is supposedly the actual ordinance

https://bloomdocs.org/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/2026-10-14-Bloomington-city-council-Ord-2026-29-Artificial-Intelligence-Rollo.pdf

However it’s not published on their official government site (yet?), which only has up to ordinance 28 published (the anti_AG one is #29). I can’t find any indication this has actually passed (note that the doc linked above isn’t signed and has an empty space for date-of-passage). But maybe the site just isn’t updated.

https://webmail.bloomington.in.gov/council/legislation/Ordinance/2026

I guess the interesting parts are, the justification for the law

Under Indiana Code § 36-1-3 (The Home Rule Act), the Common Council has sovereign authority to regulate public safety hazard nuisances within its jurisdiction.

The definition of what’s banned, which, as other comments have pointed out, doesn’t actually exist

Superintelligence” shall be analogous to an Artificial General Intelligence (“AGI”) with capabilities of Agency (A), Generality (G) and Intelligence (I), wherein an AGI does possess super-human capability in all three aspects, of AGI, as an AGI wherein any such autonomous Agentic (A) system capable of self-modifying its core algorithms, executing code in environments outside its initial sandbox, or operating without continuous human oversight while Generally (G) performing any complex goal-oriented task that may affect municipal infrastructure, financial markets, or public safety, in combination with an extreme level of super-human Intelligence (I), and defined by the AI Industry standard terminology “Superintelligence” herein defined as “Any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest.”

And that it doesn’t say you can’t use it, it says you can’t “deploy” or “distribute” it

No person or corporation shall distribute or permit to be distributed nor deployed into the premises of any citizen or business in our City, any Superintelligence for any purpose. Deployment, for the purposes of this ordinance, shall include the remote execution, activation, or utilization of any unauthorized digital agent through a locally accessed interface, browser, API, or connected hardware within the City of Bloomington, regardless of the physical location of the server infrastructure hosting the system.

These empty, meaningless nonsense prompts like “make it fun” “think hard” “make it really good” and “be creative” are insane. Even “prompt engineers” aren’t this dumb. I honestly thought “make no mistakes” was just a joke but this guy is actually out here doing it.

“I designed my house.”

“Wow you’re an architect?”

“An architect drew up the plans. But I told them I wanted the kitchen in the back on the south wall. And then when I looked at the first draft I told them I wanted the ground floor a LOT more open, and they made it that way. So yeah, I’m pretty much an architect.”

As I said above, I don’t think there’s a solution. I know we’re doomed. I’m not suggesting anything. My initial point was only that it’s foolish and mean to cheer on the pop, because it doesn’t mean what a lot of people seem to think it means.

Saying “Can’t wait for this to pop!” to me reads like, “I can’t wait for millions of people to have their lives ruined while governments divert all our funds to billionaires as they fly off to their islands to watch the hunger games.” The only people who are going to be hurt when everything collapses is us.

Also fwiw the report does have a “What we can about this” section, outlining what they think needs to be done to contain the fallout before it swallows everyone. That’s kind of the real point of the document: “Here’s 50 pages on how this is about to destroy the life of every living person. Here’s how policy makers and business leaders can soften the blow.” But it’s all recommendations for government regulations, “no bail outs,” and sound economic advice for the bubble-blowers. So, none of that is going to happen.

I’m not sure how else to interpret “pls let today be the day” other than excited anticipation. Maybe I’m misinterpreting, and you’re right, and everyone is just saying “rip the bandaid off.” But across social media I frequently see “bubble pop when?!” type comments which I always read as something like, “Can’t wait for the bubble to pop so…” either, “this dumb tech goes away.” or “big tech gets what’s comin’ to them!” Neither of which will happen.

Also, I know I’m just repeating myself here, but I have a lot of anxiety over this and I think it’s going to be more like a beheading than a bandaid-rip. After all the dominoes fall, I’m not sure there will be anything left to salvage.

Again I really encourage you to check out the report I linked. It’s about 50 pages of actual reading but it’s worth it. Every paragraph is damning. We are completely screwed. I don’t think it will recover within our lifetime. GenX, Millennials, and probably even the older half of GenZ will never be able to retire.

I’m not suggesting we “let it get bigger.” My point is that it’s naive and cruel to be excited about it. There’s no solution to this. The ship is sinking. We’re all doomed. But guess what? The people everyone is giddy about punishing have access to the life boats. We’re cheering for the ship we’re on to sink, and we’re the ones going down with it. It’s absurd.

Again: The tech isn’t going away. The billionaires aren’t going away. Your job, your savings, your retirement, your future… those are the things that are getting obliterated. There’s nothing to celebrate here.

The schadenfreude is a lot less schadenfreude’ey when you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face. The Bad Guys aren’t going to suffer here. They never do. The people naively excited for this are the ones that are going to get hurt the most.

Read the report I linked. This is going to be the worst financial crisis in history, and it’s going to take the entire world down with it. Are you over 12 years old? Do you have a job? Do you have a 401k or a pension? No one is disconnected from the U.S. markets.

I’m so tired of financially illiterate people cheering about the markets crashing or vilifying “shareholders” without realizing that that is YOU. Unless you’re a subsistence farmer in rural China or live in a commune, you are dependent upon - probably directly invested in - the markets and going to lose everything.

“I hope my apartment building burns down because I don’t like the people who live in the penthouse. Even though they have a helicopter on the roof and will just fly away, leaving everyone else, including me, inside to burn.”

AI is the entire world’s economy. No one is walking away from this unscathed, except the extremely wealthy who built the bubble or like, the bottom 1% economically who have already have nothing. The rest of us will be joining them. I’m not sure why so many people are excited for this, unless you like eating cat food and think retirement is overrated.

https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications/report-brace-for-impact-protecting-people-and-the-economy-when-the-ai-bubble-burst

This is a 88 page report on what a bubble actually is (Spoiler: It doesn’t mean AI or “big tech” or billionaires stop existing or suffer any consequences). Please read it and stop ignorantly cheering on large scale human suffering. Or just look at the section titled “NEGATIVE WEALTH EFFECTS AND IMPACTS ON WORKING FAMILIES.” At the very least, read the summary, that alone should be enough to keep everyone awake at night.

I wish more people recognized this. Way too many people are salivating at the bubble pop because they think that means AI goes away. AI isn’t going away. What evaporates with the bubble is your money, your retirement, your job. A bubble-pop is an economic event, not a material one. The entire western economy is currently propped up by AI/tech industry’s incestuous spending. When it crashes out, everyone except the billionaires who caused it will suffer.

Not sure if there’s any difference in Floorp. I think you need to have enhanced tracking set to strict or custom though. I have my ETP set to custom with the settings shown here, and the summary is shown automatically. (I don’t need to click anything, it’s just there when the page loads.)

It’s a Firefox feature. It blocks external calls to social media that might track you, then adds a summary below. I’m not sure how it works. I have the “AI kill switch” thing enabled and still get the summaries, so I assume it’s not using AI. At least not locally. My guess is some proxy server requests the content, summarizes it (probably with AI), then adds it to the page.

I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style.

Does this guy really think his post doesn’t sound obviously written by AI?

IMO the end-game business goal is to own the means of production for basic human actions. AI Bros love to shout how it enables everyone to do everything, but they leave off the part where they get to skim off the top because all of those activities cost tokens. You can create any image or movie you want! (But you need to pay us for the compute.) You can create you own apps! (If you have the budget for it this month.) The linked blog also fails to mention the cost factor. Sorry bro, I don’t want my OS to be powered by a subscription model.

A world where creativity and intelligence are metered utilities is the most dystopian thing I can imagine. And I really feel like that’s the world they’re trying to create.

I’m always suspicious of screenshots of posts that cut out the date and author. If anyone is curious, this is real, source is here, archived here if it gets deleted.

For bonus points, while searching I also came across this one from last year. Different scenario but similar outcome, where it wiped a guy’s drive for a routine project clean up

https://www.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/

The person behind all these *craft projects has (or claims to have) made millions from his AI image / video creation services and scam-enabling deepfake voice cloner. The projects are linked to and funded by his commercial endeavors. He’s also extremely exuberant about real developers and creators losing their jobs, and suffers from massive AI psychosis. Unfortunately I don’t think he or this project is going anywhere.

I don’t think any of it will ever actually work, but he’s very good at making outlandish comments and drumming up hype, so we’re going to keep hearing about it anyway.