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OTD in 2021 European Court of Human Rights found Russia guilty of ethnic cleansing of Georgian civilians in 2008 war & widespread, deliberate -Killing of civilians -Torture -Burnings -Evictions i.e. “crimes against humanity". Imagine EU leaders knowing this & still appeasing us

Thanks for making this video @taylorlorenz.bsky.social lets hope people listen and not accuse you of "calling everything you disagree with eugenics" and such as they did me and @xriskology.bsky.social 🙄 I don't know how much evidence people need.

I want the world to listen. What russia is doing now by attacking Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure in the middle of winter is an attempt to break us, to make us give up and to erase us as a nation. But no. We stand. It’s cold. It’s dark. We are not heroes. We stand.

The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Il mondo si sta piano piano dimenticando dell'Ucraina. A Kyiv, la gente continua a morire, questa volta anche di freddo. Il gelo come arma di sterminio: la strategia russa contro la popolazione ucraina di Claudia Bettiol www.valigiablu.it/kyiv-al-gelo... via @valigiablu.it

I have met toddlers more capable of emotional regulation

“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…” - says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman

“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.” — @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Just saw a content-theft account reposted by someone here. A tip: if their bio says something like, “if you own the original, DM me,” you can tell they are happy to steal, mislead, and profit off other people’s work (and don’t want to be called out about it in public). Personally, I block on sight.

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.

21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google https://addyosmani.com/b... #lessonslearned

Tomorrow we are going to have USA and Iran each telling the other to stop shooting citizens who protest.

Billionaire ideology is so funny. There are guys alive right now who had $2 billion in 2010, and have like $50 billion today, who somehow think that the entire economy will collapse if we tax them $1 billion out of the $50 billion.

I ran “train the trainer” on warehouse tech. And driver tech. It would horrify the average person, and you’d never cut off a truck again because causing them to brake can lose them wages. As can yawning. Also the 1619 project linked this tech to how plantation slavery worked. Horrid. All of it.

The new year brought some unexpected news: I've been impacted by a restructure at Broadcom. Now open to new opportunities as a Senior/Staff Java Developer (remote from Madrid). Happy to connect if there’s a potential fit. 👉🏼 www.linkedin.com/in/ivanlopez... #OpenToWork #Java #RemoteJobs

7 months ago today HRW reported Russian army is committing war crimes in Kherson, deliberately hunting civilians with drones in "human safaris". Is it possible that only caring about certain war crimes is a bad idea?

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

The hard part about running a dictatorship is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday.

Video games, rap music, rock and roll, and horror movies have been demonized by the media for YEARS. But ChatGPT gives a how to guide on making CSAM and committing suicide and it’s crickets

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

I think Africa's top museums should acquire all treasures from the Louvre, its clear European institutes like this just aren't up to safeguarding European art www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

It’s absolutely true that AI is reducing jobs, but not like you think. AI is not *doing* those jobs instead of people, AI speculation is redirecting *investment* away from job-creating businesses to capital-intensive businesses.

Il vittimismo dei filoputiniani che gridano alla censura in TV e sui giornali (e si rivelano come i veri censori come è successo a Napoli, ANPI vergognosa)| @fabioavallone.bsky.social @valigiablu.it

American social media platforms are banned in Russia. Have you noticed Donald isn't sanctioning anyone over that?

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

just great

For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.

I live here, by the way: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

I love the Theranos woman because she (correctly) deduced that you only need two things to get billions of dollars in investment money from silicon valley venture capitalists: - one (1) turtleneck - lies

This morning. Again.

Speak for yourself, I'm not running out of ideas. In fact, just last week I came up with the idea of buying like sixteen identical TV remotes, so I can lose a bunch around the house and still not run out.

Stealworkers

Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told it's not appropriate to be political. But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.

As someone who was personally censored by the Comics Code, and who witnessed that censorship happening to others on a regular basis during my time in the Marvel Comics Bullpen, I look forward to diving in.

Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam

Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone.

: drags out the drum labeled "venture capital is a financial project to appropriate and privatize communal savings vehicles under the guise of 'institutional investment' while socializing and devolving risk and has been since ~1976" and bangs it was gesturing aggressively at this thread :

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

OTD in 1994 the First Chechen War began. After incompetent initial assault that failed, Russian army turned to barbarism & crimes against humanity. It stopped when we signed a peace deal we would later violate. None of this should sound familiar to you

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

I talked about this when the new Virtua Fighter was announced but Sega is literally the reason why Nvidia exists as a company today and that’s not hyperbole.

Health officials in Gaza report 366 Palestinians have been killed and 938 injured by Israeli forces since the October 10 ceasefire.

“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”