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What is wrong with these people?!

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Just watched the 60 Minutes segment. Basically it debunks the fundamental claim used by Trump admin that the detainees it sent there are “terrorists” and corroborates torture using clips from El Salvadorean influencers Bukele uses internally. Would be a shock to low information voters, probably

Anyway, just returning to editing a chapter for which I read 16 books, even more chapters and articles, and around 400 files from archives in London, Birmingham, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Trivandrum. I think people sometimes really do not know or understand what we do in the field.

I think it's a bad thing to lump all types of machine learning under "AI".

Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice... Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No? It's only bad when the GOP does it? It's okay when it happens to Black people?

this is so stressful for just like, normies trying to figure out which Zoom meeting transcription service to use without destroying the rainforest. limited-use tools we had before LLMs took over are now tagged as AI and it makes being an ethical consumer so much harder!

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

Apparently Fernando Pereira is donating to OpenReview (with a public announcement) because he cares about "open science" or "open research". News to me! He's the Google VP who wrote an anonymous "privileged and confidential" letter, sent to HR instructing us to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

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ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, Flock’s Condor cameras track people, not vehicles. The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way. LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...

“When we ignore the digital harm, the only moment that becomes visible is when the victim finally breaks,” Alexander said. not just digital. this is a standard DARVO tactic. evil forces abuse in secret then wait til the victim strikes out, to punish them. yeah, i said it: evil.

#BREAKING: Instacart says it will halt a practice that used AI to adjust the cost of groceries for different shoppers after a study found some customers were paying as much as 23% more for the same items.

how funny and peculiar that people like spending less money and not more money, and do not like the news that they may have been spending more money for no real discernible reason to the point that a big company actually took some kind of action

Yup, I got my kids, my niece and nephew one set of arts and crafts gifts for each one that they get to open leading up to Christmas. Then Legos as their second set of gifts. They made clay dinosaurs yesterday and animal hand puppets today. They are planning some sort of puppet show now 😊

She is closer than any Asian American woman has ever been to the White House! To a non-trivial portion of her community, that makes her a hero. If shutting up and letting her husband trash her in public is the price... Well, she would not be the first GOP lady to make that choice.

These rebranding attempts are getting more ridiculous.

Such a great idea! Also, wild that most girls/women's clothes don't have pockets Even my 3 yo gets giddy when she wears clothes with pockets "Look Mama! I have pockets!"

Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

for privacy 404 media is blurring videos shared to the story but there was a clip we had of a flock condor camera following a man so closely we could see exactly what he was looking at on his phone a must read scoop:

My most annoying/useful habit is: 1) Asking all of my Tesla owning friends if they know how to open the door in an emergency. They don't 2) Showing them a video of thermal runaway on a Tesla sized battery 3) Teaching them about laminated glass 4) Then showing them the secret way to open the door

Because whiteness is a something some people of color seek to cover themselves in.

Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-workers-leave-silicon-valley/

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Agree! I think we should use more specific terms too like GenAI, Machine Learning, NLP, etc.

1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not. Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc All different from GenAi!

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

If you are such a person, please call a lawyer first though. Don’t do this on your own.

My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

Embarrassed that we are from the same state in India I wouldn't be surprised if she believes in the Indian caste system and what her husband does is another version of it here in the U.S.

"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth... "It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*. Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️ In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.

Omg lmao

Your time would be better served ruminating on what we are saying, admitting AI is a profound mistake, and figuring out how to atone for it going forward in your "work." Your Plagiarism Button has made our jobs infinitely harder and we are disgusted with everything your industry has foisted on us.

BREAKING: Israel’s Cabinet approves proposal for 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank. This is Israel breaking the ceasefire, violating international law, & forcibly & violently stealing land—all while having killed more than 1000 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank over last 2 years. 1/2

ICYMI — thousands protested ICE in MINNEAPOLIS…

i can't believe the number of people in my life who are enthusiastically using Chat GPT for therapy, to analyze text conversations with partners, get advice on disputes with neighbors etc. it's just autocomplete! it doesn't "know" anything and can't give you advice! please please don't do this