This reminds me of Ted Cruz on January 6 saying that “the voters” have lots of concerns about the election results and so he’s just doing his job by responding to those concerns. Hm, where did Republican voters ever get that cockamamie idea from?

A majority party with any self respect would be cutting this crap off, but instead we have conservatives.

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

New grad students often adopt a stance of hypercriticism as a shortcut to seeming savvy. When I was one, Nick Salvatore told us he didn't like "shit-on-the-book seminars" so we would instead spend our time talking about what *worked* in various texts to see what we could learn from other authors.

“Who could’ve seen this coming?” is highly unpleasant when the answer is “most people who know anything about this big topic and they’ve been saying so for years.”

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Man it’s so fucking obvious when the times hates a politician.

I know, "low-info" voters and all that, but I still marvel at how people don't realize everything gets worse under Republicans. I get far more scam calls than I used to. All these little laws go from "grossly insufficient" to "wholly unenforced."

It’s a bit like how we didn’t ‘overfind’ more stars when telescopes were invented. Why has going after neurodivergent people become a national sport? www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

We talk a lot about how Our Era has demonstrably proven that big tech execs are not actually smart, contrary to what was once popular belief: we could be talking *more* about how Our Era has also demonstrated that fancy Wall Street execs are not actually smart.

I’m of the opinion that we can remove a lot of the qualifiers here “Demonstrated that big business execs are not actually smart”

The words coming out of Trump's mouth are 100% reactive, a reflection of what he believes will impress/pressure/deceive the people he's talking to. Again, the most useful comparison is an LLM trying to complete the prompt. He's doing autocomplete all the time, independent of truth or reality.

Did you know that tomorrow, March 10th marks the National Day of Rest for Black Women, a day created to center rest, reflection, and renewal? It's also the anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s passing, honoring her powerful legacy of courage, resistance, and liberation.

NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

I think most people are pretty okay if you own a house. maybe it's when you own all the houses that we start to raise some mild objections

everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true

Jesus Christ, man, have some self respect.

Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing. "But I don't think they make that much!" Halve that. Halve it again.

an important reminder that "hacking" rarely involves typing real fast as green text scrolls by and mostly involves asking people for their login info in increasingly sophisticated ways human psychology is a lot easier to manipulate than code, be very careful with anyone asking for credentials

This is nonsense. In 1976, studies showed that less than 40% of jobs in America paid enough to support a family of four on their own.

it's fucking absurd how much time we all spend having conversations that neither the employee nor the customer want to be having because some high level corporate freak thinks it will improve customer retention by 0.04%

Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt. Take the damn money and leave me alone.

Also when enthusiasts dismiss your work as easily replicable by the LLM they fancy. It’s been difficult enough to make a living as a writer/editor for years now, so my precarity fatigue is both real & jaded. Being told I should be excited about the engines coming to replace me is a dual insult.

on my end I’m personally very much both in both the “overall ethics and morals concerns” and “specific personal concern about hiring managers deciding that LLMs are Good Enough to even totally inadequately replace a ton of formerly rewarding jobs, to the detriment of us all”

The foundation of exploitation has always been my most fundamental objection. Even if the machine is suddenly flawlessly accurate, if it still requires extracting someone else's work without consent to do its thing I don't want it.

yes, it's people who have extracted value from ai vs. people who have only seen it extract value from them. i don't think people who have been exploited owe any grace to those evangelizing it to them, which is why i wish enthusiasts would leave the skeptics alone and stop acting like the underdogs

I agree that it’s silly to claim that LLMs Can’t Do Anything (obviously they can do many things). I also think it’s silly to claim LLMs Can Do Everything (obviously they can’t). regardless of how one feels about that, this is a very scary time to need a job and people are reacting accordingly

My criticism isn't that machines are better at trivia than I am (if a machine weren't better at trivia I'd say it was a piss poor machine). My objection is the subtext that being, notionally*, better at trivia = has any level of context.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

What is the point of the internet if it's not human-accesible & focused on human activity? "Making money" via all-automated interactions just proves markets are stupid & VCs need fewer resources b/c the fundamental theory of capitalism is wrong & The Market is not efficiently allocating resources.

But wait! Will there be an unrecognised heiress? An unrequited love triangle? Will the second character we ever meet still be presenting us with a mystery today, all these years later?

If Jared Polis caves to extortion and pardons an unrepentant insurrectionists, he should be impeached and removed. But everyone involved would probably be better off in Colorado Dems brandished the threat, and Polis backed down. www.offmessage.net/p/impeach-ja...

that's odd, what you've said seems pretty solid to me. I also think that the increasing depth / integration of them worries me more, rather than making me more reassured. We'll just end up with more insidious impacts over time, many of which will be hard to attribute to over-reliance on this

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

This is what peak male performance looks like

Protest, go on strike, share your experiences, support each other or just take care of yourself so you have strength to carry on. ❤️

Thank you to all the people who are good at talking about random things for hours.

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

nothing going on in there

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now. PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

These people are, to be blunt, substantially less intelligent than they believe they are.

Cannot fucking believe we're throwing it all away for that fucking guy.

"Crime News" and copaganda shows have done so much to keep people in a constant state of fear for decades and it sucks man. We don't trust ANYONE anymore and that makes us all miserable.

As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.

You know what annoys me the most? Five grand. “Excuse me, can you look the other way while we kill the most powerful pedophile in the world?” is worth maybe two month’s rent.

who's underwriting the cargo

* ICE cannot reduce crime in Hispanic neighborhoods, because Hispanic people can't trust ICE. Because ICE is there to hurt them * Reducing ICE budget would decrease crime, as Hispanic people actually could call for help 🙂🙃 * Cops do ~10X more harm to Black people, than ICE does to Hispanic people