I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

First Luigi Mangione, now this - it's becoming harder and harder for me to not think that shooting (at) rich people does lead to good outcomes. people.com/hilton-donat...

Even if in the end it didn't work, one cannot but applaud this kind of direct action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A very well-argued "preventing data centers from being built is left-wing, actually".

by @himself.bsky.social "Europe and China entered the 2010s chasing the same horizon, an economy rewired around electricity, but by the mid-2020s the landscape already looks uneven, tilted by scale and speed: in China, electricity now makes up roughly 30–32% of final energy use and is rising fast,

I find this absolutely fascinating: an ex-Fidesz man wins a two-thirds parliamentary majority (meaning, he can pass whatever, including constitutional changes) and 2/3 of the European political scene proclaims that Democracy Has Been Saved! Would love to fast-forward two years...

So Auriemma is a sore loser...who would have thought?! 🤔

Tommy Lloyd: "Arizona basketball needs to become a locomotive, where everything surrounding it is pushing it forward."

Our Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (MLSA) will happen again as part of @ecmlpkdd.org! 📅 7 or 11 Sept 2026 📍 Naples, Italy 📝 Submissions due 5 June 2026 \w @hugoriosneto.bsky.social @azimmermdm.bsky.social & Maaike Van Roy dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/events/MLSA26/

Auf englisch nennt man das "bait and switch": "Antisemitismus" - also die pauschale Feindseligkeit gegenüber Juden - schreiben, wenn man "Antizionismus" - also die Ablehnung des israelischen kolonialen Projekts - meint.

A bad AIxcuse is better than none? “59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs bc it ‘is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.’ Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

10/10, no notes!

I will never forgive Trae Young for surpassing Kobe Bryant’s career high for assists in a game eight times: defector.com/i-will-never...

The horror Israel/US has unleashed on Iran is going to unfold over time, over generations x.com/arianajasmin...

This feels like something The Righteous Gemstones would have sold.

One of the things the Iran War is clarifying is that AI integration into the military will mean that your children will be sent to war in the Middle East to protect the data centers of the Gulf and Israel. Also, here’s a podcast episode where I talk AI, Anthropic & Iran with @devindra.bsky.social:

people opposing this are cowards

Dass die Linke bei meinen Wahl-o-mat-ergebnissen immer an erster Stelle ist - normal. Dass Die Partei inzwischen ziemlich verlässlich Nr. 2 ist, sagt viel über die anderen aus. Das Volt !!! für BW vor den Grünen liegt, sollte alles bzgl. dieser "grünen" Landespartei sagen.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

So the German chancellor (incidentally not on Bluesky but still on X) engages in geopolitical victim blaming, condemning the Iranian military for shooting back. Not the first time, I haven't voted for the ghoul, and I don't even live in Germany anymore but still fucking depressing!

"Die Befragung von mehr als 2.000 repräsentativ ausgewählten Ber­li­ne­r:in­nen hat gezeigt: Nur 46 Prozent können als solide De­mo­kra­t:in­nen bezeichnet werden. Sie lehnen Vorstellungen von einer Einparteienherrschaft, einer Diktatur oder einem Führer strikt ab."

"I'm not trying to predict where we are on a trajectory of historical collapse. I'm pointing out that launching an unprovoked war to overthrow a longstanding enemy under cover of negotiation to resolve a pretextual crisis is the sort of aggression typical of empires in, at a minimum, steep decline.

Saving the people of Iran from being massacred by their government in the streets by massacring elementary schoolgirls from the air.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

"Rejecting or resisting a commercial technology designed to attempt a mass wealth transfer and to erode public institutions is a valid political position." - @bcmerchant.bsky.social

"The UK and US are not “being invaded by the third world” despite what their respective fascists say. They are on track to become the very cliched image of the “third world” that they once looked down on – places with little global soft power and impoverished masses

Last night I wrote "How much money does the NBA make while the WNBPA Argues with itself?" wagesofwins.substack.com/p/how-much-m... Here is a quick thread...

"Twice in global history, the Western world has been seized by an era-defining fixation on longevity: the desire to resist ageing, forgo physical and mental decline, and perhaps even escape death.

"And yeah, the reincarnation of the Frontiersman archetype in the guise of the Delta Force operator or Green Beret, was very important to the public consciousness, to government approved narratives about what exactly we were doing in Iraq or in Syria. ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/interview-...

"And a younger generation of Black politicians rose to prominence in his wake—the likes of Barack Obama, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris—who didn’t come out of the civil rights movement and spent much of their lives in integrated schools and workplaces.

god give me the confidence of a mediocre white man to refute domain experts based simply on “it isn’t anything real cuz i said so” 10/

this is basically a rant about llms being described (accurately) as next token prediction but failing to provide a substantial argument/evidence why it is incorrect/misleading 5/

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

I'm so tired of the players bending over backwards to seem reasonable to some imaginary audience, when everyone with eyes can see that the league is screwing them over.

The men of the NBA get about 40% of total revenue. Women are asking for 27.5% of total revenue. This statement by the WNBA is simply not believable. They need to explain clearly how a share of revenue below anything the men of the NBA have ever received would result in huge losses.

this only makes sense if you either discount critical engagement or empirical evaluation as not engaging OR you have failed to familiarise yourself with the robust body of critical/audit work over the past number of years

The NBA keeps making the same offer over and over again to the WNBA players. The WNBA players keep asking for less. So far, this process has given the NBA $589 million. Who says doing nothing doesn't pay? wagesofwins.substack.com/p/how-much-m...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

Wir gedenken: Gökhan Gültekin Sedat Gürbüz Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Hamza Kurtović Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Ferhat Unvar Kaloyan Velkov Ermordet vor 6 Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, beim rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau. Wir gedenken Ibrahim Akkuş, verstorben an den Spätfolgen.

Tatsachenverdrehung im Stil der @taz.de: "Weil das Festival öffentlich finanziert wird, wächst der Druck, Neutralität zu wahren." Eben das war ja der Punkt von @tilojung.bsky.social: es ist eben nicht neutral, sich zu der Ukraine/dem Iran zu positionieren, aber nicht zu Gaza. taz.de/Debatte-um-W...

That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way

As glad as I am that a lot of ghouls and parasites are stumbling over the association with #Epstein (I'll believe that they've fallen once they stay down), it is extremely depressing that it took being close with a PEDOCRIMINAL, while they got away w/ruining lives in countless other ways.

Didn't realize just how many AI and crypto, MrBeast and digital-deaging commercials there were until my wife said, "You can't say 'fuck you' to EVERY ad"

"Der Bitcoin ist ein Spekulationsobjekt ohne Wertschöpfung und Cashflow, dessen innerer Wert genau null Komma null Euro beträgt – und dessen Preis allein davon abhängt, dass Käufer hoffen, in Zukunft zu höheren Preisen verkaufen zu können."

It's so important to repeat this time and again: crypto has absolutely no intrinsic value. It's like subprime mortgage derivatives but with even more strongly correlated risk. davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-crypto-...