Consider signing this open letter. We must fight against the auto-destruction of the university as an institution where skills essential to democracy are being learned and practiced: reading, interpreting, writing, formulating research questions that go beyond the normative rationality of LLMs

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

No one will ever care about robot running just like no one really cares about computers playing chess against each other.

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Who is this supposed to impress, exactly

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Come on man. Be less obvious.

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

In the UK today the de facto position is that you can be subsidized by the taxpayer, through charitable tax relief, to campaign for the pathologisation and elimination of a group nominally protected by the Equality Act, but not for its protection.

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Irish government: YES THIS IS GOOD WE WANT THIS

in general, & across the world, the political gender divide really opens up around 2016 wonder if something happened then?

Joanne closed her helpline for single parents right around when she announced she'd be donating heavily to anti-trans causes. They closed because of lack of funding. She's a billionaire. She doesn't care about "single mums". www.gingerbread.org.uk/our-work/new...

UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip. Full statement: https://unicef.link/4cVCyP9

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

So unnecessary & too easy to pull the “I’m *just* being honest…” to dismiss the issues for people in rural areas rather than confronting the #FFFG govt in power who ultimately bear responsibility for the mess. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose 🤦🏾‍♀️ #spéirghorm #IrishPol

this is very much not a new phenomenon, nor does it have much of anything to do with 'modern dating'

The rise in treatment resistant fungal infections in humans and the use of fungicides in industrial agriculture are linked, which is discussed in the article below:

what is the charge. what crime has been done

“The right wing is on the decline. People are realizing that they have no vision or solutions, just hatred and empty slogans. All they’ve brought to the world is war, inflation, inequality, and social division.”

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

Sparing you a click, LLMs always make everything up, based on statistical correlations not of knowledge but of amount, order and proximity of words in stolen text they ingest for training. It’s literally what they are designed to do. It just sometimes happens to be correct.

Amazing we can find 2million for a one off private ticket only event but can’t fund catering 2 million would provide catering on all routes missing it for 1 year

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rice. The US is increasingly sending deportees to countries where they have no connections. Shannon Airport is frequently used as a refuelling stop by aircraft involved in these operations, as reported by @gillianbrockell.com

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News outlets are quoting the pope as saying that debating the president “is not in my interest at all,” but watching Leo’s remarks, I think he actually said “is not my interest at all,” which puts even finer a point on it. “Not IN my interest” = harms me. “Not my interest” = not my goal or desire.

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

I started following politics closely in the early 2000s and every day since, I see how much of it is a relentless quest for reasons why the left - 15-20% of the electorate - are not only wrong but dangerous, hateful and extreme. Doesn’t matter what the excuse is this week, it’s always true.

Hezboolah. Publicly committing the US to forbidding Israel from bombing Lebanon is a big deal though - and goes beyond the ceasefire agreement text published yesterday.

Hey Kaja you know what else is illegal under international law? Genocide. Yet you've constantly supported Israel carrying out genocide against Palestinians. Despite knowing it's happening. Are EU navies going to go to Gaza to break the starvation of children there?

‼️ Iran FM: Hormuz is OPEN

Is anyone saying there was a problem w the vetting? The problem was that the vetting was ignored, either by the PM or someone acting on his behalf, with or without his knowledge? How does years of special panels help with that? It’s just more dishonesty on top of an already huge pile of dishonesty.

There is now zero pretence that public enquiries aren’t just a method of kicking inconvenient problems into the long grass. Like, it’s genuinely a soft form of corruption.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Every single person who says "Ireland for the Irish" adds a silent invisible asterisk that leads to a footnote that says "Except Irish travellers"

Observe Keir Starmer performing the criminal barrister’s old trick: claiming he wasn’t told, while stopping short of saying he didn’t know.

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This is key. I often think the main difference between left and right organizing is that it's easier to organize money than people and easier to organize people with money.

I wonder if some leftists and liberals will pay attention to this. I've seen folks overly praise Rightwing organizing as if it is not subject to the same social forces and interpersonal dynamics as Left organizing. In fact it is: we often just don't have the same visibility into their groups.

You know what would be great, and sane? If the government had got in this much trouble for covering up a report by its own defence chiefs on the catastrophic impacts of climate change for the UK. What will matter more in 20 years' time?

that “never mind the manosphere” headline was so bad, so i actually read the article to see if they matched up and i think it was misleading, actually. the headline *should* have been “can you believe we paid this cunt to write this shit?”

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

If we are taking the government's own claims at face value, Starmer apparently found out about this on Tuesday but did not tell his own Foreign Secretary, who only then found out about it 48 hours later from a media inquiry. This is not a serious government.

have there been similarly culturally pervasive “everyone needs to start using this tech right now” pushes over such a relatively brief time frame as we’re currently seeing with LLMs? (This is a very genuine question)

To single out Eileen Flynn, a woman who has contributed so much to representing the marginalised and has managed to build her own political base against substantial odds, as the supposed exemplar of incompetence in the Seanad (of all places) is clearly motivated by racism and misogyny.

As a former corporate lawyer who shoe horned my way into a big firm in Sydney by taking a job as a PA, asking to work on discovery, proving myself worthy of the firm paying for cross qualification to work there - AI has totally shut that route down. AI needs mitigating before embracing

Automation and AI taking away the "easy" and "entry level" parts of work is bad for us all. It removes access and training pathways, learning opportunities, and the parts of the job that are easier... So we're spending more % of our time doing harder work - which isn't sustainable.

Interesting thread. If AI removes the grunt work for junior lawyers (eg, due diligence for corporate lawyers and discovery for litigators) then it will affect social mobility, as well as other things. It is how you learn to be a lawyer in those areas.