If you wanna support journalists, support the people who make it happen!

I guess I should add that it's GOOD these guys are trying to retcon with the NYT's help, even if you shouldn't believe that it's driven by any real honest introspection. It means the delicate alliances that propped up this deadly kakistocracy are fracturing and they know shame is returning.

This is an *amazing* statement, very worth the watch.

It behooves us to assume that Schumer is not just cowardly, he simply does not want to abolish lCE because he thinks they're good and necessary

I just learned that linkedin is down. Here's what this taught me about b2b sales

there's an interesting and very thorough analysis of this paper on mastodon, by @jenniferplusplus.com: hachyderm.io/@jenniferplu...

hey @medialawprof.bsky.social did you recently join or move to a new account on mastodon? If not, then it seems like someone is impersonating you there

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we're not doing "people who criticise genAI don't understand it and are ignoring its utility" any more. get better material

someone wants you angry. ask yourself if that's in your best interest

The Bad Batch. The rest of the show is all over the place, but the last 6 episodes are absolute, all time, prestige television

* CAVEATS: I remain unconvinced the juice is worth the squeeze. Even where it *works* there's no decoupling it from the irresponsible stewardship of every major player in the space. And I'm still not convinced there's a product in there if you remove unethically sourced training corpus.

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Semifinal, Match 1 of 2 a. Pretty Obvious

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: these positions are not the good sign you think they are. These people are there to make sure the COMPANY is not harmed, not the community. If the person is well intentioned, they are forced to toe the company line or pushed out altogether.

Because I've been thinking with Jenny Odell's Saving Time for the past year, I believe that time poverty is a big reason why people don't want to do anything that looks remotely like revisiting something is supposed to be already done. Which includes maintenance and fixing bugs.

I did this at a previous job. 3/10 stars nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/p...

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Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

That Facebook line, tho 🤌

Everyone on this list voted to the right of Ted Cruz.

If youve never heard of the ProtoMen, I cant really describe it. All you need to know is their most incredible work is about MegaMan. It fuckin rules. Act One began almost a decade ago! youtu.be/zwP3RnIAJpo?...

Lmao launching one (1) GPU into space is not a proof of concept of building a data center in space. This is vanity littering as market propaganda.

To every person who doesn’t see the big picture regarding AI, this is something you need to see and consider. Ask yourself: “If AI isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things and is unrelated to the rise of fascism, why are fascists so preoccupied with its proliferation, adoption, and use?”

All out of ideas? Buy Time Warner. Buying Time Warner never fails. You definitely won't regret spending 30 or 40 billion on Time Warner

In case you missed it, Politico's unionized journalists won a key arbitration ruling against management efforts to rush undercooked, error-prone AI systems into journalism without being transparent or competent about it:

A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community. From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (Even with hard mode, 6 is such a low number. Do people just not rewatch movies? Idgi)

ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: hehe yeah bro ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot

damn really makes you reflect on the numerous other times the US government and its proxies have said "terrorists" were using "human shields"

I've been telling people this for a couple of years at this point. It's literally how LLMs work, they are literally mean-reversion machines. Anyone who's told you they were using an LLM to get original ideas did not understand how they work.

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In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

Fascinating stuff (and yeah, obligatory note that AI is a stupid label, this isn't an LLM etc) But once again, this is also about substituting mere prediction for explanation. Understanding is overhead to capital, predictions are all it cares about. Capital is trying to get rid of science

The thing is this isn't about believing LLMs have become humans, but rather the belief that humans are essentially LLMs. The viewpoint driving this is that a human brain is just moving around probability distributions on strings, arguing about LLM consciousness is a distraction

As an adult, the most frustrating thing about the home alone movies is that Kevin sets up all of his booby traps in like 2 hours

I'm helping to organize a toy drive and it's very difficult to find a good way to create a registry without relying on Amazon or Target. What are others using? I am trying out Walmart [which is not great either but very few good options].

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any educators with constructive ideas about how parents can push back against this kind of effort in schools?

This is something @hypervisible.blacksky.app has said several times: these nefarious an abusive uses of generative AI are not aberrations. They are the purpose of these systems — any other use cases are tangential.

One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)

Everyday Americans don't have identities, got it

The reality is that your judgment has to be rooted in your values. That's what's going to determine what you reward and what you punish. And if you're not clear on your values, then they will emerge clearly through your actual actions. In short, Link is banned, Jesse Singal is not. So now we know.

Why is it always progressives who have to vote blue no matter who? Why is it never Democrats who have to be worth voting for? I mean, I know why

Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution. These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.

as crises converge and intensify around us, we should focus our advocacy and collective organizing on solutions & technologies that solve the most problems at once. e micromobility tops that list in US cities and towns. we CAN take streets back for people & families

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT Hiding replies without my consent is *dangerous to me* I use the mute function extremely carefully for a reason I need to know if people are being violent at me so I can take action to protect myself I need to be able to choose for myself who hidden @pfrazee.com