Israel is every bit as much a murderous terrorist state as Russia. In many respects, it is even worse.

OK, let's imagine that the Iranians rise up and overthrow the regime. The chances of a pro-Israel regime taking its place are pretty much nil. Will Israel just continue to bomb Iran until Iranians pick someone who suits Israel?

Finally, a reasonable solution.

A wide range of new #deregulation initiatives will be revealed during next week’s EU summit 🚨 EU level deregulation combined with a strong clampdown on member state rule-making would mean ‘double deregulation’, bringing social & environmental progress to a halt ⚠️ corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Good stuff!

This vote seals a toxic alliance between centre-right and far-right forces, after weeks of backroom deals to kill the last remaining safeguards in a bill that will harm millions. Human dignity, freedom, equality: this vote betrays the very values the EU claims to uphold.

CEOs are about the only people AI really can replace right now. And to be honest, AI probably can't be anymore inhuman than the average Fortune 500 CEO.

"Often it seems like Amodei’s principal job is the same as Altman’s: raising money for expensive-to-operate-and-thus-far-unprofitable systems, largely through hype."

As a man, I believe that men should be banned from positions of power that could allow them to initiate wars. As an experiment, ban them from the highest public offices altogether for at least twenty years. In twenty years' time, we'll be living in a much better world.

Finally, a Jihad I can get behind!

Idiots.

Saying the quiet part out loud with that second sentence.

The European Parliament is about to vote. 📢 Let's make our voices heard. Read on for what you can do - and help us share this post ❤️

There is a sure way to avoid suffering for future generations: not to create them.

The "polite" new face of misogyny spreading online

Never ever ever forget that LLMs don’t give actual answers, they just spit out imitations of what an answer might look like. Very good imitations at that, to the point where sometimes the answer is right. But it’ll always be a tribute act rather than the original artist. An answer lookalike.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

I'm pretty sure the effect of "AI" was actually negative.

"How dare they scrape our work, which we created by scraping everyone else's work?!"

AI psychosis is real. Grown-ass people have convinced themselves that Tamagotchis are alive, have desires and feelings.

As long as the wealthy exist, they are the ones who write the laws, so it's either the wealthy or a democracy.

The guy's not very bright, is he? Training a top-tier LLM model uses as much energy as several thousand people use in their lifetimes, and it's not as if they exist purely to be "trained" to be "intelligent". Ultimately, LLMs have zero intelligence despite all the energy used.

More "coalition of the willing"-style differentiation will always mean more power to the largest member states. If smaller member states don't like that, they'll have to push for stronger supranational institutions and more majority voting - either in an EU27 or a "core EU" framework.

Data labeling is notoriously brutal and underpaid work. Workers sometimes earn as little as a few dollars a day, work under algorithmic management, and, because they’re sometimes trying to train AI what not to do or show, they are often shown graphic, violent, or sexual content for hours at a time.

The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country too corrupt to have functioning regulators. karlbode.com/the-problem-... bsky.app/profile/karl...

The hypocrisy is astonishing.

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

Preferably out of existence.

They simply can't help themselves. It's utterly pathological.

AI can draft your work emails (awkwardly), answer your customer queries (badly), and make something that sounds like music. But its abilities are finite—and as Sohini Desai explains, we should be skeptical of the promises CEOs are making.

Just a typical crypto use case.

I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot. I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.

A friendly reminder that LLMs do not think, know, or understand anything. All they ever do is predict the next word in a sequence based on statistical probabilities, which often leads them to generating nonsense.

The evilness of what Israel is doing never ceases to impress in the worst way possible.

The question is obviously not if Europe can delete all US tech immediately. The question is how fast we can decouple from dependencies with the greatest risks.

Progressive Norwegian intellectuals adjacent.

Or, for that matter, the Olympic games...

Germany’s far-right AfD thrives on contradiction, weaponizing it as a strategy to disrupt its critics. This piece examines how the party mixes Nazi-inspired racial fear, hypersexualized racism, and attacks on the disabled to provoke outrage and inflame supporters. By Dagmar Herzog

A must-read academic article from 2020 for anyone looking to understand what is going on in the US. bsky.app/profile/sbjo... anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Bitcoin is still about $69,000 too high ft.trib.al/HQvLkPh | opinion

Never thought I'd see the day Ferdinand and Isabella were lumped in with the "woke mob," but I guess that's what they get for recalling him to Spain to face trial for his many and extremely-well-documented crimes.

Bartolome de las Casas is arguably a founder member of the woke mob. However, this appears to be making a claim that Ferdinand and Isabella were also woke, which, uh…

"When we identify conscious experience with seemingly human qualities like intelligence and language, we become more likely to see consciousness where it doesn’t exist, and to miss seeing it where it does." www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog... bsky.app/profile/noem...

Without a framework of “Artificial Integrity,” AI search platforms risk collapsing the information commons that made the web possible. www.noemamag.com/the-ai-power... bsky.app/profile/noem...

🚨 Top UN human rights experts have signed a letter to EU institutions denouncing human rights risks in the EU Deportation Regulation. This is a damning condemnation of a draconian measure that sees and treats migrants as a threat. ✉️ Read the full letter on spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...

We needed this news SO MUCH ❤️ The Spanish government has announced today a broad regularisation programme which could benefit around 500.000 people. At a time when a hostile environment against migrants is spreading on both sides of the Atlantic, this move shows both humanity and common sense.

"...it turns out that by reinforcing the idea that social problems should be seen through the lens of individual behaviour, researchers have inadvertently provided ammunition for powerful business interests that oppose the old-fashioned (but effective) policy tools of tax and legislation..."

Let's be clear-eyed here. The US government wasn't mad at TikTok because it was shaping public narratives, censoring specific views and collecting data on its users. They were mad because they wanted 🇺🇸 to have that tool instead of 🇨🇳. And now with the forced sale, they have it.