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

PS. If you actually feel like my joke hits as too real and want a quick consult on what you can add to your "we should care about culture" part of your talk I've actually done this a couple times for my fellow tech speakers.

Some Ozy once told me His works were gonna roll me And leave me with a sense of despair He was standing kinda dumb Two vast legs without a trunk Half a shattered visage left from his forehead

my name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, I need at least one approval on this PR before I can merge it

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Frame: food stamps are used by undeserving / Black people Negation: actually many people on food stamps are deserving / white Kirby: THEY ARE STARVING PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. They are using racist tropes to justify it bc many people will find that persuasive. Everyone deserves to eat

The problem is devs want to treat data as a property rights issue when personal data are actually observations of behavior to be used as evidence—primarily for social surveillance and control. It is rendering people in your community into relationships with power outside of their control or consent.

a reminder that we've been trying to regulate capitalism for 50 years and all we got for it was climate change, biosphere collapse, and billionairism. smashing capitalism does not mean eliminating markets, which have always existed. it means organizing society around care rather than profit

you mean to tell me there's a guy in Illinois running specifically on defending trans rights and his last name is "BLAHA"??? chat do you think he knows?

I'm constantly running into people who say things like "I don't mean to be political, but" because they've been brow beaten into believing that discussing politics as impolite which I think has benefitted the right wing and helped them normalize being foundationally terrible fucking people

"but what are you deploying if not new code?" red diffs 🪓🪚🔥

Like, not everyone will come out that first time, but a Lot will. And then you do another one. You get people used to the idea of being loud and visible (already happening), and then to being peacefully disruptive. You'd give them a permission and buy-in structure. If the organizers are serious.

Is it just me, or does that slop look like it mashed up trump with Biden?

I have frogs everywhere

Tragedy of the marketplace (oops no more functioning marketplace)

but i need people to realize that among other things the big gatherings act like town criers to get out headlines and events of the month, and job fairs where different groups talk about the roles they need

I had so much fun chatting with @spiderswarz.bsky.social about The Aroosi Arrangement, representation in romance and finally becoming scandalous in my 30s 😂 Check it out!

Learning just how many “good white folx” who consider themselves “progressive” or “liberal” are “escaping” the violence and control of conservative religious beliefs needs to be studied, because their approach is very different from white folx...

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture