sorry for interacting with the person @acab.dad is talking about here! i would encourage you to not reply to them or give them any attention in general.

lmao

"The Waymos will now learn. Humans still don’t learn" do you hear yourself?

people are saying the autonomous vehicles all stopped in sf last night and that's not true because i think we can all agree that, definitionally, it's not autonomous if losing its connection to the internet means it stops in the middle of a goddamn intersection

omg thank you

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

Bad day to be a Waymo (and even worse to be inside or stuck behind one). A widespread blackout left robotaxis stalled across the city, causing traffic chaos Saturday night. Read more: sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...

Anthony Joshua broke both of his jaws www.skysports.com/boxing/news/...

... i can't believe i'm asking this, but where's jill stein?

journalists reconstructed epstein's amazon order history page from emails. i opened the link, saw some toys for kids 6-24 months old, and realized actually no thanks my sympathy to journalists going through these materials due to professional obligations. i hope you're able to get the care you need

The police found my brother Bear’s body on Thursday. He was only 44. I am trying to get gas money for my other brother to travel for the funeral on Monday. If you have it in your heart, think $50 should be enough. Venmo: Emmy-Scott-2 Cashapp: $spochunk #MutualAid #ChristmasWishes #SettlerSaturday

I sponsor an orphan in Gaza. Please join me. www.taawon.org/en/noor

is it punching toxic influencer advent or something

the effortful project to make it seem like prompting chatbots is legitimately a skillful activity is so conspicuous, and not just because of embarrassing articles like these

have i shared this paper before? i can't find it searching my posts. apparently i started reading it a little while ago but either didn't finish or forgot. it's interesting IMO "Computer Center Sabotage, 1968-1971: Luddism, Black Studies, and the Diversion of Technological Progress" by Max Larson

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

Ahlam has been going to dialysis in Gaza this entire time- as you can imagine this is incredibly difficult and she needs to be somewhere better to get treatment. Even a little donation can help towards an evac fund ❤️

"can you shake an 8 ball?"

This is a sidenote but I always wonder what people mean when they say "know how to use AI [tools]." Like literally what does this mean? Do I know how to type a query into a chatbot? Yes? What other training do the people who say this want?

"AI is messing with our ability to rely on our learned intuition about the effort put into something" is an interesting take (and i think i agree to some extent) but still watching the video

lmaoooo

you could ask this of any film tbh

i have some thoughts & i'll probably share them eventually, but i do want to acknowledge that responding to criticism without doubling down, saying stuff like "AI is here to stay" or any of that shit that we've seen elsewhere, is categorically a different kind of response compared to other companies

I started counting all the publicly accused abusers onscreen and I ran out of fingers in five minutes

genuinely i think chefs should be serving people who work on AI slop fit for animals, and i hope the entire service worker community backs them up

i just realized the pale visitor from "i'm not a human" looks a bit like elon

totally. @anyaustin.bsky.social hits this perfect note of fascination with obscure things but also good at conveying something interesting about the thing he's interested in, that makes me captivated by something as weird as his study of the unemployment rate in various pokemon regions or something.

I’m dealing with very severe income & work loss, which impacts housing & more and need urgent support. TY so much.🤍🤍 tinyurl.com/gfm-care-support

i run a couple of reading groups. if you're interested in joining, there's some info here, a recap of what books we've read, and how to join. you'll get more info in welcome emails, but hopefully this helps disambiguate one group from another (or lets people know they can join *multiple* groups)

our friends in gaza don't ask for much they are just asking us not to let them die

this final four matchup feels right.

new american unit of measurement

i think it'd be fun if the government wiped everyone's debt every year and you got a spotify wrapped type of thing that told you about the classes you enrolled in that year or the projects you took on that enriched you as a person, or helped made your community better.

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why would guard rails be any more realistic of a goal if we lack the capacity to govern ourselves robustly enough to draw any line, anywhere, on where we allow LLMs and AI proposals?

that'll settle things

Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why

"we've got low unemployment and low inflation now." what

i say this with compassion for friends whose submissions got rejected, but this is very affirming of my disdain for CHI

@anyaustin.bsky.social got a bunch of people to guess how many trees are in skyrim and then donated $10,000 to Palestine Children's Relief Fund so that at least warrants watching him derive forestry sciences from first principles

AI-generated garbage is free but posting a couple of links a month will cost more than renting a VPS and running a shitty mastodon instance

lots of incredibly fucked stuff here.

In the extremely narrow case of Matt Yglesias I think an LLM should replace him. There'd be no substantive difference

devastating. this nice-seeming repairman from ohio who talks about home appliances on youtube posts a ton of AI-generated crap on his community page so it's impossible to watch his videos without later getting shown his community posts. even the post comments are full of people begging him to stop

First of all, it's none of their business why someone may need a wheelchair for one part of their trip & not another. And anyway, what is the "system" that's being gamed? Waiting in line isn't some noble pursuit that must be protected from people perpetuating a major line-skipping scam.

... i forgot about this

if you complain about people using accommodations not performing their disability to your arbitrary expectations, you should just get bumped to the next flight automatically

quant-brain guy comparing mean and median data is the funniest thing i read today.