And if you think it’s ok to fill people with 20-30% factually wrong information and suggest it could be used to help people, for example, do their taxes, you should be forced to explain yourself instead of being lauded as a genius.

An LLM cannot be accurate and therefore cannot be used to help people with tasks and information they don’t already know.

You know, when you look at all the cases the Trump admin has lost in its attacks on higher ed, and the Title VI cases over protest that schools have won, and what a poor job he’s doing with Iran, you could be forgiven for wondering why any university felt they “had to” make a deal with these clowns

The hyuck/gee whiz school of AI journalism

Ok can we stop for a second and talk about how insanely beautiful the wild pea flower is?

today is tridi 13 Prairial in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating the pea

Platner sucks ass but wow are the blue no matter who folks ever circling the wagons for Susan Collins now.

was firing dejoy a top priority for biden? no. but its indicative of democrats simply not using their power, once elected, to do the shit that people asked them to. the party is too secure in its whole "whoops guess we cant do things" approach, and the people who reflexively defend them enable it.

@erikaswyler.bsky.social Happy Birthday!!!

just wanted to read a kids’ menu online and look at all this fucking shit lmao

did we ever learn more about the ezra klein throuple

Homogenising/uniformising the population is a fascist distinctive feature, and an AI trendmark. "While accuracy of AI in grading [] was “not uniformly high”, it did manage to match the broad grading bands [] routinely undervaluing work awarded top marks by humans, or overvaluing [] the lowest."

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The dumbest people to ever do it are today’s vaunted tech leadership.

I guess I'll keep shouting this message from the rooftops until it sticks. Lumping disparate technologies under the ✨"AI"✨ label only inhibits clear discussion and reasoning about what each does. >>

I think we should be clear that the US *should* pay reparations to Iran. If this happens (which is not likely!) it would be a positive outcome deserving our praise.

Today is my birthday…

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Two views of the same sunset

Archipelago

Vignette

Moon shot

Tomorrow is my birthday. (Half way to 90.) You know what to get me. 🤞

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

When UBC took floors from the library to host senior administration we were told all the removed books would be easily and quickly available from storage. Then the robot arm that was supposed to pick them broke down and a replacement part could not be found for years.

EXCLUSIVE: I just revealed that Rep. @tomsuozzi.bsky.social lives at C Street. That’s the DC townhouse run by The Family, the secretive Christian group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast. Suozzi pays $800/month. He's kept it secret for years. There’s more…

"He is concerned" — yeah, that's me.

look how they massacred my boy

(*this month's task, evidently...) I wonder if there's a friendly volcanologist 🌋 out there (ideally someone conversant with tuff) who wouldn't mind glancing at the manuscript (8k words or so) to make sure there aren't any glaring errors

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

weird cuz he seems quite likable and cool

"He is concerned" — yeah, that's me.

Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

the vibe part of vibecession is just the knowledge that we aren’t in it together any more. the seventies were tough, sure, but we understood we were collectively undergoing a trauma, together. now we fail individually while the glittering party goes on.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Monday May 25: "Nuts" by Benjamin Harnett. "'Would you like to hear the story of my job at the White House, when there was a White House?' he asked."

What if taxing the rich works?

This is the sign Ozymandias' people put up when it seemed travellers weren't too impressed by the statue

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

anthropic is in a way more dangerous than openai because they've duped people into believing they're actually the Good Guys and the others provide perfect foils for that assertion b/c they're so comedically villainous. But anthropic is not and will never be anything remotely like good

The sky says trans rights are human rights

It's a machine that makes you stupid, but it's also a machine that makes you *insufferable* www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Low clouds.

Toni and Ollie with long shadows.

Recent sky situations