do you ever think about how despicably racist and colonialist it is that every AI company actually relies on non-white people to do the service they sell remotely/unseen and then the white billionaire owner calls that skill "artificial" intelligence

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

is this a solution?

Just so we're know, the award winning paper at an ai conference last year was about how detrimental ai journal submissions were to the field.

If you Google "child farm death" you will get like 3 brand new stories from like 3 different states every single week because as I said, EVERY THREE DAYS A CHILD DIES WORKING AN AMERICAN FARM www.marshfieldnewsherald.com/story/news/2...

"About every three days, a child dies in an agriculture-related incident, and each day, at least 33 children are seriously injured"

New batch! #ammonites #crochet #art #softart #autismart #finnishartist

Jujutsu Kaisen's limited sequel Modulo wrapped up this week, a story about an alien race fleeing religious persecution and trying to find a home in Japan. It grapples with cultural clashes, refugee crises, and political backlash.

Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but

So much of the AI industry is a backlash against human workers. Altman is describing how jobs are supposed to function. You lend out your capacity, either mental or physical, to an employer for a certain amount of hours and they compensate you for it.

Social media connecting conservative politicians the masses has been a kind of performative bigotry for the base who can't understand subtext. And it's a win-win as all reactions to such posts serve to boost their visibility on social media companies who are willing to platform hateful rhetoric.

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

As you use AI to simplify easy yet mundane tasks, like writing emails, you get increasingly dependent on it. You get lazy, less skilled, use your brain less, and (you may not want to hear this) get stupider as a result. Don’t let them take away your ability to think. Stop using it. Now.

Go home everyone, this is the best one

You're not the hero in this indie game... #videogames #indiegames

The "we" doesn't include you and me.

Butlerian Jihad now. You can support human workers, and artists, by buying our 'Destroy AI' merch from the Aftermath store: aftermath-shop.fourthwall.com/

It’s incredibly revealing. It says, pretty explicitly, “My evidence that I have the necessary expertise or thoughtfulness to do this work is that I believe myself to be smart.” That’s the whole techbro ethos in a nutshell.

"There were no books," has to be the quote of the century... or of the day... because every day feels like a century.

Timeline cleanse: let's talk about peens. The peen (or pein) on a hammer is the non-flat face. The ball-peen is the most common.

Why are geometricians such softies? Because they can’t say no to acute triangle.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

i know that the only way to win an election in America anymore is to promise your average voter that they will never have to spend money ever in their lives but the moral cravenness of complaining about the price of diesel while we are obliterating Palestinians and Iranians makes me want to throw up

I'm tired of living through times that could fuel entire academic careers.

i assume dem leadership knows this, but i don’t think they’ll be able to count on fetterman for anything if they take the senate back; he’s becoming more and more juvenile and unable to control himself.

1. My kid reading 2. Cows chomping 3. A beautifully written sentence

You really need to watch this whole clip. It's amazing.

🤯 ”When estrogen fluctuates wildly postpartum or during perimenopause, ADHD symptoms often get dramatically worse. Studies show that up to 70% of women report a significant worsening of ADHD symptoms during perimenopause, yet almost none of them were told this would happen” #ADHD #AuDHD

The men obsessed with not being cucks, everyone

I like to think they're all lying about their shoe size to him because none of them want to admit to having small feet.

Fellow job seekers, how are you balancing the need to, you know, pay your mortgage, with not doing work that makes the world worse?

I’m a trans man, a poet, translator, and fiber artist. I wrote a new literary translation of the book of Ruth you can get here: www.lulu.com/shop/atkinso... And I sell handspun yarn (like made on a spinning wheel) here: journeyman-fiber-arts.myshopify.com

Politicians and pundits trying to aura farm as centrists when they're really crawling into bed with bigots.

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad: "The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

Every time u have to make a doctor appointment for anything I am reminded of how broken US healthcare is. We really should stop tolerating this. It’s so terrible! And why?

Man. The world fucking is on fire. So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people. Live whats left of your only life. If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul. Fuck the haters.

There's an emerging undercurrent in AI skepticism as the EO mandating its use in K-12 education is rolled out and mothers are pushing back on untested tech ed taking over our children's learning.

My grandfather didn't have a birth certificate until he wanted to go to an Ayrshire convention abroad and needed a passport... Upon receiving his birth certificate, he learned that the name he'd used for over six decades wasn't his name at all, but his parents weren't speaking when he was born.

also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

In Bluesky news:

i actually think "books should be difficult and somewhat painful to read and you are Bettering Yourself through Struggle" is a worse attitude for mass literacy than "I have specific preferences and like reading a lot of fun stories" tbh

As an American who moved to Europe and benefits from a strong social safety net along with high taxes, the problem is not the taxes, it’s that in the U.S. families get nothing in return. I’m happily paying high taxes bc I get healthcare, public transit, a child benefit, etc, in return.

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

I am so serious when I say that there is a direct line to be drawn between Evangelism having no meaningful concept of the future save death and American conservatives having zero awareness of or interest in the future consequences of their actions

I miss complaining about things that just sucked a regular amount instead of a profound psychological injury amount.

Diaper pantries and food banks are running on fumes these days. Signing up for a recurring gift of $25/month can make a genuine, substantial difference on the ground.