Currently witnessing two people vehemently disagree on a question of fact, each sharing screenshots of AI summaries from Google that contradict each other, apparently neither of them realizing what this means for the veracity of the AI summaries

It’s wild to live in a big swimming pool they’re filling with concrete because they don’t want black people to have anything that’s pretending to be a country

Vatican publications director: You got that encyclical for me, with the visual aids we talked about? The Holy Father: Sure did boss, real fuckin' anticapitalist like you asked Vatican PD: what

I know I shouldn't be, but having been around since the beginning, I remain shocked that Google is so "yeah, whatever" about their flagship product (Search) spitting out so much wrong shit. Like, have some self-respect.

Bolo looking at a pigeon this morning is how I feel this Tuesday after a 4 day weekend

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

If you could go back in time, it might be fun to run around finding famous authors and explaining how famous they still are. "There's a BBC miniseries! There are novelty pencil sharpeners in your likeness at museum gift shops!"

And all the genAI companies KNOW this. They hired experts, and the experts have told them LLMs will ALWAYS "lie," because they don't understand truth, because they don't understand anything, because they don't think. And like Stockton Rush, the companies that hired the experts then ignore them.

hey, fellow brits and europeans in this heat wave! If you're on any of these you're more sensitive to the heat. Make sure you drink water, stay in the shade, and avoid over-exertion.

This this this. I've never been super comfortable in heat, but now it's worse, due to my meds. And like, I've always been an indoor kid, but between the heat during summer days and mosquitoes on summer nights, outside SUCKS even worse for me now. (I'm irresistible to mosquitoes. Shrug.)

It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more.

I do not think I have ever seen a student paper write an article about library staffing quite like this. Well done, New Paltz students, and I hope they can fill that job soon. oracle.newpaltz.edu/campus-libra...

A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.

Moms: let your kids see you enjoying dessert, and do it without making comments to “justify” it. Dessert is not just for dads and kids. And it’s not just for days when you’ve “been good.” Dessert is for everybody.

At the March library budget hearing, the heads of the NYC Library Systems shared the vacancy numbers. QPL = 85 NYPL = 105 BPL = 100 This is what we mean in part when we talk about the libraries being underfunded. Current staff also need raises. Join us tomorrow to rally for more funding...

Senator Alex Padilla. Rep. Adelita Grijalva. Senator Andy Kim. Alderperson Jesse Fuentes. Mayor Ross Baraka. huh, I wonder what the pattern is, and also, abouttime some handsome strong white men who expect my vote to step into the firehose of state violence instead of delegating the risk to others

Some days this world is a nightmare filled with pain and terror and tragedy so do whatever you can to love whoever you love and who loves you and to make all that even a little more bearable, until we can all lift it up and get out from under it, together

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

If I were a Senator who was tear-gassed by ICE, I would spend every hour of the rest of my time in office figuring out new ways to abolish ICE.

I was trying to explain what ChatGPT is to my mom (she thought it was a messaging app) and after my explanation and some thought, she volunteered, “Oh, so it’s the magic mirror in the beginning of Snow White when it only tells the queen what she wants to hear.” Perfect analogy.

I’m on the Metro-North and there are two people with long-haired dachshunds in bags 10 feet away from each other and the two dogs are clearly aware of each others presence but the owners are not

this is kinda what i was thinking about when i made this post, thanks @levie.bsky.social

Went to the Georgia Renaissance Festival with the family today, and yes, there were funny acrobats and fun costumes and shops and food, but there were also some VERY GOOD BOYS including this DOG with a GUINEA PIG on his HEAD. @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Again, straight from Delaney Hall in Newark NJ: ICE just tear gassed Senator Andy Kim.

The entire city of Chicago: [trying to have a nice Memorial Day at the lake] The cops: HELLO. WE ARE HERE TOO. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR H

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ultimate “not everything is terrible:”

I'm way behind on Portland pizza news, but do not support Sizzle Pie. The owner closed the Burnside location after employees voted to form a union, lying that it was because they couldn't reach a lease agreement with the landlord. Then I learned they pulled the same exact shit in Eugene

Or Japanese Boys Love. Whatever floats your boat.

Link to the study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Chills. This is just gorgeously done. It also makes me think that if you have a passion for anything, even if it's just the act of living, AI is completely antithetical to that passion.

Some of us just don't like getting colds

I have constructed a very simple and badly formatted flowchart so that liberals can understand the position of leftists on the Democratic party

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

It do be like that

Great. Now you’ve got to go out here and try to out-write the Pope.

Like, ngl, I'm a fan of some of the stuff Leo has said and done, but his stance on trans and otherwise queer issues is pretty terrible. Like, the logic it takes to leave these out from this context is tortured, At Best.

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

I am asking all government agencies to pretty please stop releasing vital public safety information like wildfire evacuations through Facebook. People cannot see them without an account! This is not a good way to keep people safe!

This benefits a neighborhood school where more than 70% of kids were in hiding at the height of the ICE occupation.

Starbucks employees have unionized 700 stores. Support them. Don't cross picket lines. Delete the app. @sbworkersunited.org mailchi.mp/444ab810599e...

Why should we quit? They're the ones that suck.

the hungry observatory

“This site tracks cumulative spend versus revenue across most major AI companies in one place, allowing you to see exactly how much money is flowing into the industry and how far it is from breaking even.” very handy!

Only if we show up and support them and their work—they are not our heroes or saviors. They are humans.

Yeah I’m a library worker and I’m actually done with being everything to everybody and being expected to fill all the holes of society. It’s physically and mentally exhausting. We don’t need the verbal praise anymore. We need better pay, hours and benefits.

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy