why do I find it so wildly offensive and paternalistic when I see folks suggest that LLM use can help 'disadvantaged' people to 'write better' or 'save time'? because it is such a sad underestimation of people's abilities, a surrender to a thoughtless monoglot ideology, a celebration of ignorance

In the 1980s, the UK media responded to an increase in visibility/support of gay people with a relentless, well-funded, Right-Wing campaign against gay rights, and when support went down, allowing Thatcher to bring in Section 28, the media turned around and blamed gay people for demanding too much.

I simply do not understand the idea that rejecting A.I. content generators is somehow anti-intellectual when all the evidence points toward them rapidly de-skilling anyone who uses them

Whenever I see talk about the NDIS I go back to the original Productivity Commission report and I note a pretty obvious issue in the entire construction of the scheme

Can we means test defence spending?

The problem with the NDIS - and there is a problem - is the same one Australia always faces. If you let small businesses exploit the public purse, they'll exploit it mercilessly (remember pink batts or any one of a 100 such programs). The key is in the system design, not the auditing of it.

PS: Megyn, weren't you barfing up podcast rage bait yourself just a month ago? Have you suddenly found yourself surplus to #MAGA requirements? Nice to see you on the Road to Damascus, but pulllease ...

The purpose of a system is what it does.

A new law in Kansas has left a large number of trans people suddenly without a valid ID to use at the polls. The state has one of the narrowest voter ID laws in the U.S., and this recent legislation cancelled many trans Kansans’ licenses.

It's been nearly five hours since the president of the United States posted a graphic snuff video of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer and there's no mention of it on the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN websites.

Unfortunately as all of my takes are either good, or relevant, I cannot partake in today’s group posting event.

Trump and his administration do not care about women’s lives. Posting a video of a woman being graphically murdered is yet another form of objectification and dehumanization. The purpose of it was to shock and offend, in order to encourage racism against immigrant men. It is a form of terror.

Right,. aside from the emails between them, and the photographs of them together, and the address books with her info in them, the sworn statements of witnesses, and the affidavit from Epstein's assistant that he introduced her to Trump, there is not a shred of evidence supporting the allegations.

I'd say it's interesting that Trump focuses on a murder committed by one Haitian immigrant the day after a white architect admitted to serial killing at least 8 women, but it's actually not interesting, it's just racist.

This is not an exaggeration. The president’s posts are again literally indistinguishable from people who fetishize snuff films of gruesome death and torture. bsky.app/profile/inva...

These would be deplorable, inhumane conditions for any prison. The majority of these people have never been accused of a crime, much less convicted of one. Most, at worst, entered the country illegally seeking a better life. Some, not even that.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

Paywalled story in Bloomberg: “Almost half of the US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed or canceled. One big reason is the shortage of electrical equipment, such as transformers, switchgear and batteries.” (largely imported from China) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

lol c'mon man, the protestors sure weren't shooting *each other* Where else could a high-velocity projectile be coming from? The only people holding weapons of that type were the feds. I should know. I was there, standing across the street, watching the feds shoot indiscriminately into the crowd

I don't want to import apartheidists and frankly the next Dem President should send them all back. They are not actually refugees in danger of political prosecution. Our reputation for sheltering refugees is already shattered anyway, we don't need to pretend it's principled to keep them here.

This death camp never closed down despite a concerted effort by many forces to convince you it did.

"Mr. Prime Minister, I'd like you to meet someone who epitomizes the American dream: he picked his much hotter and younger partner from an Epstein plane when she was a teenager, refused to marry her after they had a kid, and set ICE on her when she went to another man." bsky.app/profile/head...

If you thought the Trump admin might want to put some distance between them and the subject of this NY Times profile...here he is with Vance in Hungary yesterday

Every day that passes without Trump being removed from office is another day that Republicans in Washington are choosing to abdicate their moral and constitutional duty to the Republic.

This is driven by a huge drop in 13-17 year olds getting knocked up with no recourse so just take that into consideration

Kids in solitary confinement - no windows/natural light/fresh air/outdoor area/recreation/rehabilitation/education/ family visits, sometimes for months. "The NT not only brought back spit hoods, they brought back restraint chairs" for 10 yr olds. But sure. "We're tough on crime. Yee Haw!" #auspol

Reminder that people lost their jobs for saying Trump and his administration were racist

Quite a lot of "I am serious person not like journalists" who salivate at getting mentioned in media and display their utter ignorance of how they are being used (or who when scratched actually show they don't care, they just love reading their name in the newspapers they like to pretend they hate).

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Am old enough to remember when being charged with 5 murders would have been enough to get "serial killer" headlines.

I wrote today about the plethora of stooges surrounding Trump. Two attributes they have in common are shamelessness and cowardice. Today's NY Times instabook chapter, in which high level stooges dump on Trump (and each other) "anonymously," proves the point. They were all silent when it mattered.

"Cut the NDIS, but not for people I know" Jimmy taking the Nancy Reagan approach. #auspol

I get why people have qualms about this guy, and a lot of them are legitimate, but it is actually pretty important that someone like a Brad Lander can talk this way now and that it is actually totally popular.

Just as there were people who resisted the introduction of inside toilets, seatbelts, women’s votes, lead free toys etc Tice & his party are similarly reluctant to embrace what most people can clearly see is needed. Unimaginative, regressive, fact averse idiots. Let’s never let them run our country.

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

He literally said *yesterday* that he was considering a “joint venture” to help Iran charge people for using the Strait. He said the day before that he didn’t care if they made a little money off of it. Someone give pawpaw his dementia meds.

I think the number one, two, and three reasons for Israel's public relations crisis is that it's doing this to four separate countries simultaneously

In other developments in this Realty TV Show, "Bridge" Colby insists he didn't threaten to off Pope Bob.

They’ve remained on the beat defector.com/free-press-d...

I am a little bit more charitable than Layla in terms of how I think these people justify their own positions---I think they're lying to themselves, as much as anything else---but the practical result is the same, and nobody else is obliged to entertain their delusions.

I’m not even religious, but even I’m offended when this shit gets called a ‘church’. Call it what it is: a weirdo doomsday cult. Waco in polo shirts.

Every single president says they support two states and then vetoes recognizing the second state, demands other states don't recognize it, begs other countries not to limit aid to Israel, begs them not to sanction settlements

Wow, great news: the CDC has a study proving COVID vaccines slashed hospitalizations by 55%. Bad news: RFK Jr.’s team killed it before publication because facts were inconvenient. They are literally hiding data that could save your life. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/208886/...

Palestinians do not, and have never, systematically oppressed Israelis. The institutional oppression in Occupied Palestine flows one way and only one way. So no, your equivalence fails because Israeli violence isn't against Palestinian oppression. Israeli violence IS the oppression.

This is so well done. 👌

The violence of apartheid and genocide is not, in fact, understandable, except through the lens of dehumanization

Does he even hear himself?

i know i put this in legalese but to be clearer: militaries have an obligation to avoid both (1) targeting civilians and (2) conducting attacks whose impact is excessive in relation to the military advantage. failure = war crimes, and this devastation almost certainly falls into that category.

there is no chance this massive assault on a civilian population meets the standards of the law of armed conflict, no matter how israel justifies its effort to target hizbollah. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...