Despite writing comics and science fiction, I am not concerned about "A.i." becoming sentient and destroying humanity. This technology remains a variation of fancy autocomplete; it's not becoming sentient. But I AM concerned about the morality and ethics of the people who control it.

Inside you there are two wolves...

Go here instead, run by Boston children's hospital vaccinefinder.org

somehow it's "hoarding" when I keep my old tech as long as possible and resent forced obsolescence but not "hoarding" when billionaires and tech companies suck up all the money and burn though the planet in search of endless growth

You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

it’s also a thing where people can be convinced. the right got some people worked up about trans women in sports but possible to get people a lot more worked up about individual/parental rights, genital inspectors, etc

It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

As somebody who spent last Thanksgiving in covid jail, not a bad time to mask up at the grocery store

We always see a surge of infectious disease, including COVID, RSV, etc etc around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unless you want to gift your fam with a few weeks sick this year, mask up as you travel!

Time to get your public comments in on the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule that would strip protections for countless wetlands and streams. Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives: www.tu.org/conservation...

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

“Ah, but this time we weren’t evil, unlike all those other times in recent memory” is, not surprisingly, not a very convincing argument

it is absolutely the tech companies fault that people now assume they’re doing something evil and sneaky even when they actually aren’t (regarding the latest Google kerfuffle) like, no kidding that people have zero willingness to cut big tech the benefit of the doubt anymore

This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth. theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."

You can make art. The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head. Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway. Just make art.

That is what I keep saying, as someone who is attracted to women— no, it’s not terrible to see an older teenager and think she’s attractive. It’s terrible to *realize she’s a teenager* and *keep looking*

yeah I know the felching bit stood out for a lot of people but my jaw dropped at "sat on prior knowledge of a catch-and-kill scheme on behalf of a guy whose now measlesmaxxing the U.S. population"

evergreen

listen at best you're training the wildlife to be aggressive towards humans because they're looking for food from people which is NOT what you want for anybody's sake, human or otherwise. DO NOT EVER FEED WILD ANIMALS I don't care how cute it feels it is actually harming them and potentially others

With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…

A hs student who voluteers at the Museum of the Earth has also been tmraising money to help out PRI. Donations have been coming in with the press push, I think they'll make it but keep sharing and donate what you can: www.weny.com/news/local/h...

They are so funny. Our neighbors are being stuffed into unmarked vans, and they’re all like let’s vote against a term we probably can’t define instead.

If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.

It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand

Update: The U.S. Coast Guard reversed course, saying the swastika and noose were indeed hate symbols that are prohibited. This came hours after The Post reported that the service was about to enact a new policy that downgraded those symbols.

This is actually antisemitism, by the way.

I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.

primary them all

This is my drug.

This thread from top to bottom! 🔥🦛 Hippos, zebras, and "experts in subjects about which they clearly knew nothing" make for a wild ride.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

Terrific

What PISSES ME OFF relentlessly about all this is the gaslighting: tech industry: "AI will make everything faster/easier" Reality: AI creates an incredible amount of work for me trying to uninstall, escape, move to whole new platforms/tech to get away from it

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Sobering thread. LLMs are helping deluded people organize, expand, and spread their delusions. These are monstrously destructive products that no healthy society should condone, much less enable, subsidize, and partner with.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

Epstein survivors have been fighting since 1996. THEY are the reason anything has come to light.

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"

the grift continues

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...