Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

NEW: A large swath of civil society is warning Meta against rolling out a face recognition service that will predictably be used by sexual predators.

Hard to overstate what a disaster this would be for public interest journalism

I recognize the privilege of having grants/awards to provide some summer salary (most of us in academia are on 9-month contracts). But it shouldn’t be this hard to align budgets, accounts, and transfers so you actually get paid. Plus, always crossing-fingers that it actually happens.

'The theory behind augmentation has a major flaw: Evolution capped how much information can flow from the brain to the body, associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison Kip Ludwig told The Verge. “In reality, we’re limited by our own physiology...Evolution did a great job.”'

Congress is not a serious constitutional body. Fight me

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela. It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe But it never goes to help Americans

In an opinion published today in Massachusetts v. Meta, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled against Meta’s overbroad Section 230 arguments, allowing the Commonwealth’s claim—that Meta designed its platform to be addictive and then publicly denied doing so—to proceed.

Since folks are sharing their disgust with the apparent gutting of the U.S. Forest Service, I just want to remind everyone that its mascot is Smokey Bear, not Smokey the Bear. #Pedantic

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

Apple's lack of iOS documentation on what happens within its operating system creates real issues when the threat moves to the hardest zone to defend against — a compromised device. Their Platform Security documentation should consider this threat model too. help.apple.com/pdf/security...

this timeline man

It’s almost like they lack PhD level understanding of what social science is

Aaron Swartz, who died by suicide after being aggressively prosecuted for downloading copyrighted material from JSTOR, said this of Sam Altman, who went on to become one of the most powerful people in the world as CEO of a company that only exists because of unrestrained IP theft.

From Ronan Farrow and and Andrew Marantz's New Yorker profile: "The senior executive at Microsoft said, of Altman, 'I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.' " www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Trump Once Again Zeroes Out IMLS Budget for 2027. It’s Time to Take Action. For the sixth time, the Trump-Vance administration aims to dismantle and defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services. What to know & what to do right now: bookriot.com/2027-imls-bu...

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

Suno will happily generate AI covers of Beyoncé and the Dead Kennedys (and anything else) with just a little effort. Music industry just isn’t ready for this. Big dive from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social Gift link! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

::staring blankly at the 25th amendment::

This is real It’s being done in our name Congressional Republicans are okay with this

One thing I love is the percentage of “journalism” devoted to pretending this kind of gutter racism is some benign, rational other thing that only the white people midwestern diners and staffers at right wing think tanks can truly understand bsky.app/profile/pale...

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

This is powerful, if true. More of this. Refuse. Stand on principle.

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

I’ll leave it to people smarter than I to figure out what to do with the fact that bell hooks had a book Communion, and another called Appalachian Elegy.

We’re going to keep doing this, huh.

When you "write" a business book about AI -- as a dialgue with an LLM -- and spend 2 1/2 pages for superficial chatting about AI Ethics, you end up with these kinds of platitudes.

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

Ah yes, nothing captures the spirit of “service” in academia quite like this: you do your reviews on time, you do them well, you take the responsibility seriously. And your reward is… more work: “emergency reviews” to cover for the folks who ghosted their commitments to their community.

OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.

This would probably be a more effective argument if Trump hadn't advocated and rolled out a policy by which people could become citizens FOR PAY.

"This is bad for kids. But for MAGA, an authoritarian movement that depends on people struggling to understand others’ points of view, it has an undeniable appeal."

Have you noticed that these days when time travellers grab you by the shoulders and ask what year it is, when you reply "2024" they no longer say "Thank God. I'm not too late"?

this feels like “incognito mode” in that masking features only protect some info from some people & I’m not sure everyone intuits that

Love ya, Guardian, but why would anyone give a fuck what Rob Schneider says?

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

“It is not that AI is taking our jobs per se, but that AI is being prioritized over many of our jobs.”

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Nope Nope #NoKings #Michigan

Tell me you think CPAC attendees are stupid without telling me you think CPAC attendees are stupid

Jane Fonda: Becca Goode, the wife of Renee Goode, has asked me to read a statement, which I am honored to do.

because of ethics in game journalism

Springsteen: Well, this past winter federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis. They picked the wrong city. Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America. And this reactionary nightmare and these invasions of American cities will not stand.

Amazon’s new suite of surveillance tools now also includes these monstrosities.

I honestly think the world would be just fine if they shut down. There have been and will be ways to share and access content without their algorithmic advertising platforms.

I'm really struggling with how an idea can be described as "pioneering" and "canonical" when, as far as I can tell, it was only uploaded as a non-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv 7 weeks earlier, with zero citations.

Again, literally about the only thing the US Privacy Act of 1974 is empowered to prevent.