she was able to keep her name private while appearing in publicly available films for 16 years, and then a chatbot doxxed her. if you value your privacy whatsoever, you should be at minimum in favor of heavily regulating this stalker-enabling technology

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions thread 1/

It's also worth remembering that this narrative is Nazi in a way that actually pre-dates the Holocaust. Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI

We need to interrogate : why do we have an « aesthetics of being right » at all.

Lots of fascinating-looking stuff in the replies; sharing to read later (or add to Mount To Be Read)

once again we are blaming people who are like 23 for capitalism sucking the life and fun out of everything

It used to be a lot more fun to be an absurdist

Breast milk made by trans women is "not milk" "and "not breast milk" in an ontological mystical way whereby despite being composed of largely the same molecules as breast milk induced in cis women who aren't the natal parent, it doesn't have the Holy Spirit of milk present in it that the baby needs.

it wasn't in his "lightcone"

I am NOT insulting this woman's physical appearance but I AM saying there is not one ounce of light or humanity behind her eyes

Monas stepdaughter, Hilde, says in this interview that even she knew because her father had told her, and Epstein had a habit of telling everyone. So Mona knew about the conviction, any other story is beyond improbable.

Libertarians asking for a bitcoin bailout after years of screaming bitcoin is freedom from government : extremely on Brand

Orson Welles was a quality hater. no one could hate like Orson Welles. he hated with depth and force

Dumas' FATHER was born to a French count and an enslaved African women in Haiti. The Père was then brought to France, was educated, served in the military, etc. "The Black Count" is a fantastic book about him. His son is the author Alexander Dumas, and he based Count of Monte Cristo on his Dad.🇭🇹

France is dumping Teams. Universities should list that in their employment benefits.

Cela me rappelle ce magnifique article sur Durkheim et ses fameuses heures de peines www.persee.fr/doc/arss_033...

Quand on me parle de tel chercheur (masculin non neutre) du passé qui lisait tout, je me demande toujours qui lui faisait ses repas.

Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.

Lauding men for believing they can “judge truthfulness” of an AI more than women, and suggesting this is a Skill gap women have let open up is the dumbest set of words I’ve seen in a hotly contested month.

OH SO WHEN *SOMEONE ELSE* DOES IT

I spent the whole day to read 'What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?' titled paper by @olivia.science. I sincerely think that it is the best paper I've ever read. Worth of time and highly recommended!

Roman avi statue guys have so thoroughly convinced themselves that posting is war that they're utterly baffled by real courage. "Wait, it means you might be in DANGER?"

my HS was near silicon valley and my principal was super tech happy. sophomore year he started a program to have all the teachers use electronic “smart” whiteboards. they never worked and the teachers had no idea how to debug them and we def covered less material than we would’ve with a chalkboard

One of the reasons why Elon Musk and other folks on the right want to shut down Wikipedia (or "compete" with it). It's a good platform for regular folks to accumulate data, even keep track of all of this administration's atrocities in real time. Great work

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

If you're looking for more sold advice than science fiction on avoiding surveillance in the face of an adversarial nation, check out Evacide's work at EFF.

Something to consider: 1. rarehistoricalphotos.com/doctors-smok... 2. Academic Collaborations and Public Health: Lessons from Dutch Universities' Tobacco Industry Partnerships for Fossil Fuel Ties doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/n 🧵

cannot be overstated how much conservative ideology is almost identical to the worldview of a rapist

We’ve literally lost habeas corpus. An English common law right that has only been suspended 3 times since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215.

I uh, un-recommend Best Bus

The duck dynasty guys dressed like a grenade went off but they came from a filthy rich family We keep falling for aesthetics

I’ve got the dreaded iOS glass update and : this is terrible : I cannot recommend enough not getting the update.

Weird how apparently the fact that everybody who says "if you're explaining, you're losing" ends up having to explain why doesn't count

"A tattoo on a woman is like putting a bumper sticker on a classic car." If you've never seen an illuminated manuscript, just say so. If you've never gently touched vellum in an act of worship, you can just say that! I was down at the scriptorium and nobody knew your sorry ass!

Amazing how people still think you discover the truth by finding the midpoint between two yelling groups of people.

"To sustain the latest iteration of the AI con, the industry relies on anthropomorphic sleight of hand – claiming that models “think,” “reason,” and “learn” to suggest cognitive abilities they demonstrably lack and may never develop." (spoilers: they won't)

if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

Saying “be peaceful! Trump is just looking for an excuse to use violence!” is such a disgusting way to spit on the bodies of those who have already been killed and maimed by ICE.

Woke up this morning thinking about this axis to try to graph the political reactions to Trump...

I need people who don’t live in the Twin Cities to stop telling people not to join massive Signal groups right now. People are doing it. They’re going to keep doing it. Give them good advice about it. The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public

Paraphrasing this excellent rebuttal of the denialism/Luddite/FOMO peer pressure tactic: It is not my job to help tech companies "prove" how useful their systems are. It is my job to use what I know as a librarian to help people make better decisions about this technology.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer and led a team that included multiple federal agencies. All this training didn't stop him from shooting Renee Nicole Good. His training *facilitated* the shooting. No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.

Titre alternatif : Seule la gauche essaye encore vaguement d’être sur l’arc républicain

He should go to Caracas and prove it

Ce qui est dingue, c’est non seulement qu’elle soit assez bête pour dire ça, mais qu’il y ait en plus un journaliste (?) qui se soit dit « ça c’est une citation de feu, je vais la mettre en avant »

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...