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And surveillance!

Years ago as a taxonomist I worked with data scientists developing a local LLM/ML solution for our business. Soon after, ChatGPT came out with Gen AI 'for everything' to the public 'for free.' It was the beginning of the end.

they're happily dragging a genuinely powerful and valuable discipline and collection of tools into the mud to break things and make money. and they either understand ML enough to know it and they don't care, or they're ignorant (and probably don't care or can't see it).

I'll take this a step further: most of the AI proponents I see - especially with social platforms - don't understand the methods, theories, debates, and philosophies of machine learning either (aka - the three raccoons raccoons tech companies are shoving into a trenchcoat and calling AI).

in other words: AI works best when it... is developed the way ML is meant to be developed, lol. which could be achieved with much more focused, less expensive, and more accurate ML solutions.

solve-anything AI is built on tools and methods that are inherently NOT meant to be solve-anything. it's built at a scale and speed that makes the needed expert curation, review, and context understanding impossible.

I just nearly cried, because this is the point. So many years I spent preparing quietly for good, sound ML projects, because they take that kind of time to do right. It’s why when someone says anything about AI the first thing I do is demand they be more precise — if they can.

NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Most people will experience mental and bodily differences at some point in their lives and likely care for a person with a disability, making it one of the most relatable subjects a museum can engage with.

marching into a new week like…

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

Oh, the billionaires have discovered that they can't continue to layoff, squeeze and rip us off? That their business depends on us buying their shit?

If you don’t occasionally treat yourself to a day of exploring used bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, cafés, and bakeries, then what’s the point of anything really?

Trump wants records on trans children, RFK Jr wants records of ppl with autism. Does anyone know how these things played out in history last time?

Reminds me of each generation in SF, Berkeley, and Austin bemoaning the loss of earlier, cooler eras.

🚨HUGE NEWS: A whistleblower reveals that the Trump administration planned to falsely mark 2.7 million Americans as dead in the Social Security database. Donald Trump views Social Security as a weapon against his enemies, not an earned benefit.

Get your art, writing, and music out there, no matter what it takes. If it finds even one person who needs it, then the struggle is worth it.

We need a word to express the emotion you feel as an American trying to learn about some regime-related atrocity, or some economic or health threat, & you are immediately blasted with a corporate media paywall.

You know the experience when you're lifting a giant pile of laundry out of the dryer & you keep dropping socks, & each time you try to pick them up other socks drop out? That's what it's like trying to have an iterative conversation with AI.

I’m so tired of podcasters , influencers, Internet trolls. Couple these with washed up reality TV stars, ex news TV hosts running the government.

I trust Trump about as far as I could throw him. Congress needs to BAN any kind of corrupt slush fund like this from EVER existing. A wink and a nod won't cut it—we need to ban it by LAW.

"the conditions we attach to welfare aren’t just bureaucratic inconveniences. They are active harms. They create stress, anxiety, and psychological damage that persists even when the financial support is adequate."

9. In December, Kushner's plan to build a Trump tower in Belgrade collapsed amid a corruption scandal and mass protests.

1. For the SECOND TIME IN SIX MONTHS, a foreign real estate development led by Jared Kushner has been derailed by a GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION SCANDAL and mass protests. Follow along for all the gory details. 🧵 popular.info/p/kushners-a...

Agents prioritize task completion rather than whether they should act. This is a consequence of how they are trained. My student @victorojewale.bsky.social has been investigating this and just wrote a (prize winning) paper arguing why (and how) we need a notion of "informed abstention". Link below.

Duh. Things we were saying years ago.

In order to sell that to the public, that fund has to pay universal dividends like in Alaska. Aipledgeforhumanity.org

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

HUGE GOOD NEWS

On this day May 30, 2024 Donald John Trump was found guilty by a jury of his peers of 34 Felonies. At that point, he should have been ineligible to hold any political position in the entire country. And yet….here we are!

Can't unsee this!

Full clip in all its glory. This is exactly how I’d interact with a Muppet version of myself.

Every day is the perfect day to support your local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library.

There's a word for people who obsess on these kinds of things.

Keep a song in your heart. Keep kindness in your thoughts and actions. Keep calm and carry a cartoonishly large mallet. But most of all, keep making art and keep being weird.

Books and reading #121 Wise words from the great American broadcaster Walter Kronkite. #bookstagram #readersofinstagram

As opposed to Republicans whose girlfriends are 12 year olds, I guess.

“… the decline actually ended years ago, and the latest numbers from the American Booksellers Association show independent stores expanding at a pace not seen this century.” www.reddit.com/r/books/s/BT...

These extreme heat events highlight why we can’t afford to rely on power grids. Every building should have a cooling system compatible with a local power collection and storage system; wind, solar, geothermal. Battery is about the only storage option now, but more available soon hopefully.

thedemocraticcoalition You MAGA idiots elected a conman, not once but twice, and now look at you. You can’t afford gas, farms are going bankrupt, masked men are shooting Americans in the streets - all while his friends and family make billions stealing your tax dollars.

Went to the library to pick up one hold. Came back with two novels, two graphic novels, and two movies. I ❤️ libraries. #booksky

Hermann Hesse on how to hear the wisdom of the inner voice: www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/29/h...

How to live fully — Ursula K. Le Guin’s remedy for our resistance to change www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/24/l...

I just learned that Richard O'Brien posted his original ROCKY HORROR demos on Bandcamp, and it just sounds like a legendary lost folk punk album. Like if you told me this was actually Neutral Milk Hotel or @evangreer.bsky.social, I'd probably believe you. richardobrien.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...