Those LLMs are absolutely more real to them than we are

Apparently we’re being bigots against autocomplete algorithms.

People smoking cigarettes in front of children will never not be disgusting to me.

Watch out for white women today.

This all day, all week, all month, all year! Did we forget the Haitian immigrants who were targeted in Ohio in 2024? If you’re organizing to protect immigrants doesn’t not include Black immigrants than you are not doing it right.

Or a printer that doesn't jam. Seriously, these guys down in Silicon Valley are pushing all this AI nonsense on us, but the company who finally gets paper to feed properly will be a legend for centuries.

“I don’t wanna hear from people who didn’t vote for Democrats” That’s funny, because I don’t want to hear from people who were willing to throw trans people and Palestinians under the bus to win an election (and still are), but all y’all do is gloat as if selling your soul was a virtue.

Signed.

Cops be breaking down your door because you gave your partner an orgasm. Of course, this really makes you wonder about the people who thought it up.

🇹🇷🇵🇸 #BREAKING | Following the Global Sumud Flotilla interceptions, More than 45 Turkish civilian ships are heading directly toward Gaza. This comes as a response to Israel intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla convoy.

Where's Unifor and CUPE?

With the whole #ElbowsUp movement, I'd really like to see Canadian organizations stop using the linguistic diaper stain known as American English.

"When it comes to the AI technology industry, we refuse their frames, reject their addictive and brittle technology, and demand that the sanctity of the university both as an institution and a set of values be restored." zenodo.org/records/1706...

1) This is some pretty remarkable shade thrown at the big AI companies by a startup that's hiring away their researchers 2) That those researchers are giving up millions to do this indicates a rising level of discomfort with OpenAI/Meta/Google/etc's moral standing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

I'm putting this out there now. I'm not accepting any austerity measures when the AI bubble bursts. The stupid fucks who thought a plagiarism-fueled magic 8 ball was the future of the economy can cover the cost of the fuckup this time. I will start fires before I endure service cuts.

NYT: 'The war in Gaza needs to end for the people of Gaza, more than 60,000 of whom — roughly 3 percent of the population — have been killed.' The civilians rely on our direct donations to survive. Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her family. And to others. ❤️ tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

If you can be nothing else, be kind.

"In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?" I believe it's called Zionism.

Also there's no such thing as the "Department of War." It's still called the Department of Defense, just like it's still the Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

This reinforces one of my thoughts about Machine Learning. A good algorithm should work with a modicum of data. If you need to scrape all the written works in the English language to make a language model, your algorithm sucks, and you're a lazy developer.

Im finding it increasingly difficult to survive in this age of tech where all the worst people are influencing us to build all the wrong things. Even when I try to focus on my little part of the web, I see where all of that bad weaves it's awful little threads into it. Depressing!

To expand: this is about bad faith arguments. Bad faith means they say what they think is useful to get what they want. They don't care if it's true. Your goal isn't to convince them, it's to help other people understand *what they're really trying to do*

Any legal eagles wanna weigh in on this? It doesn't seem right to me, but my education in law is restricted to high school law classes.

"But do you condemn Hamas?" The IDF has killed more children in the past year than the total number of casualties of any age attributed to Hamas over all time, and it's not even close. So the real question is, "Do you condemn the IDF?"

For the uninitiated, the “This user is suspected of being part of a terrorist organization called antifa” text on posts is a joke/meme that people are adding manually. Bluesky moderation does not add text to the bottom of posts like that.

I've never heard the term "scholasticide" before, but it's perfect. It's important to note that Europeans did this to Africa too.

If academics & researchers in AI (like myself) don’t want the coming AI winter to destroy our field, we need to be accountable for how we allowed another hype cycle on our watch. We have the expertise to stop it. We need to speak truth to power in our own institutions! zenodo.org/records/1706...

No. This is what Silicon Valley is trying to make AI mean. The reality is, that AI is a many faceted field, including research into cognitive science, and software capable of learning. It’s very important that we not let Silicon Valley control the narrative.

Kneecap was never actually banned from Canada and the Liberal MP who announced it has GONE ROGUE?????? What the fuck!!!! This is unhinged!!!!

In case you wanted the dumbest take on social media for the whole year, here it is.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

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The puppeteer's union has rejected my slogan "We Need More Hand Jobs!"

#Copilot is also another reason to hate VSCode.

THEY SAY: NOBODY SHOULD BE KILLED FOR THEIR POLITICAL BELIEFS... THEN THEY SAY: EVERY CHILD IN GAZA IS A POTENTIAL TERRORIST. WHAT KIND OF DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THESE??

Turns out that I'm not the only Ruby on Rails developer who's troubled by DHH's far right views. If you'd like to see Rails cut ties with him, you're not alone. github.com/Plan-Vert/op...

Landlord claims space under porch counts as second bedroom

Spain now join Italy, Turkey & Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean, within striking distance of the Sumud Flotilla..... #AllEyesOnSumudFlotilla #Z1oTerr0r1sm #VivaEspana 🇪🇸

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

Good article. The stuff he's talking about from 2020 reminds me of when Microsoft created Windows 95. The media and corporations were eating up all the hype, while every computer expert I knew was talking about it being crap.

anti-anti-fascist feels like it should have a one-word synonym