the plan if they get into office is to loot and extract until there’s nothing left

despite no benefit & multitude of harms, AI companies aggressively push GenAI everywhere & successful adoption depends on public perception of AI. how do prominent venues like NYT report on AI? who’s voices & perspectives are most frequently cited in NYT articles? www.saysmaybe.com/latest-work/...

students use AI to generate essays; educators use AI to grade it… AI that is built on the backbone of stolen data and packaged as a shiny EdTech tool that educational institutes have to pay a fortune for… folks, do you see who benefits from all of this?

I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

Google’s emissions grew 48% because of AI and they cannot meet environmental pledges. Microsoft too. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

11. early enough they're still raking

It's not "I suffered so you should too," it's "I suffered and no one else should ever have to."

technically today's conditions are safe, the green flag is up, but it's pretty choppy today (so hard to photograph) and I'm feeling a little fatigued so I'm not going to swim, bc the ocean is undefeated and I don't test it

1/3 of my goal!

Westerners will imagine and depict the end of the world in their literature and media, but never the end of capitalism.

We tested AI voice cloning services to see how easy it was to clone a voice without the owner’s consent. Results: 7 cloning services offer barely any technical barriers. Only one service - Respeecher - attempts to verify consent. From @janus.bsky.social for @proofnews.bsky.social:

Resistance is not denial, it's more intentional and active. I think it requires acknowledgement without endorsement, which is really hard.

9. nature looks like a lot of different things. seagulls were poking around the post storm seaweed and decided they don't want the washed up fish.

I am aware of the fact that meditation excercises *can*work anywhere, but the actual ocan is so much better than a guided meditation recording. it's the feeling of the breeze, the smell of the salt, the occasional mist from a big wave.

on the eighth trip, a yellow flag, no swimming for me

Honestly the difference is one of them potentially makes so much money, no way it will eventually be illegal Important lesson: the reason crime doesn’t pay is that if it did, it wouldn’t be a crime (Worth learning the economic reasons eg abolition started getting popular when it did)

to add a little more here, it is not that economic anxiety is fake, it is that it cannot be neatly disentangled from racial anxieties. for instance, if you are doing well but see black people doing better, you may feel anxious on account of your internalized idea of what the racial order should be.

seven. later than normal, but I made it and swam.

Bet every police precinct in the City of New York has shiny new A/C

I am all for reducing social media addictiveness, in ways that are grounded in sound evidence and understanding of the relevant technologies. I strongly expect the most effective solutions to “non- or less-addictive social media access” will involve personalization.

Balloons suck. I pulled this out of the ocean and deflated it and will bring it to the trash, but saw 2 more float by too far out to get them. Don't cause this.

six. it's too hot to go for walks *not* at the beach this week

correction: "those in management and leadership positions are coming with AI for Hollywood"

beach trip 5.

eighteen.

"OpenAI has expanded the number of staff on its global affairs team [aka lobbyists] from three at the start of 2023 to 35. The company aims to build that up to 50 by the end of 2024." www.ft.com/content/2bee... I really can't take any talk of self-regulation seriously

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Did you know: there are limited solutions for curbing Deepfake Porn? We must foster more informed friend groups, better platform processes, legal recourse & technical solutions to help those most harmed by this -- teen girls. New from me in @teenvogue.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to...

Reminder that clarence thomas absolutely would try to overturn Loving if he could, even in light of the fact that it would make his own marriage illegal. The mindset you would have to inhabit for it to make clear sense to you is a truly nasty one, so if it doesn't, take some solace in that, i guess.

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Tell me which accomplished and deserving WNBA player should have to stay home, and forgo perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent her country at the Olympics, to give an undeserving Caitlin Clark a roster spot this summer?

day 2

The state with the biggest slave port in the US that processed 40% of all enslaved Africans brought to the states?

One of my goals for this summer is to make it here at least 30 times.

Cities can be easy/fast to drive cars through or they can be safe/pleasant to be in but they absolutely cannot be both at the same time

Having just finished 4000 pages of debate around the adoption of the Constitution, I disagree. The Constitution was built for its time with a special option for every subsequent generation to update. The sin isn’t the limitation of the men who wrote it, but us for not deciding to change.

"What we found is that early in the journey, students prefer the AI instead of a human because it’s an impartial third party that’s not judging them" NOPE. it absolutely is not impartial and it IS judging them. they go on to give example questions, so the questions are saved & probably shared

The Lakers feeling the need to make a public push for a big name coach & sign him by this weekend to satiate a Lakers fandom watching yet another Celtics NBA Finals appearance vs. a team that beat beat the team that eliminated them from the playoffs is highkey sad…

In short: training “AI” on scraped artworks is morally different because: (1) Generative “AI” breaks information norms (art is shared for others to make art, not “AI”) (2) Generative “AI” creates distributive injustices (3) Generative “AI” is made using a colonialist business model

Now that it's been accepted to ACM FAccT'24, I've updated the preprint of my paper on why artists are right that AI art is a kind of theft. I hope this promotes more serious thought about the visions of generative AI developers and the impacts of these technologies. #philsky #philtech #AIethics #sts

more conference center rooms should have windows. and ocean views

In the latest app update, we added the ability to temporarily deactivate your account. This will hide your profile and posts but keep your handle reserved. Take a breather for as long as you need to! Read more about how account deactivation works on Bluesky: 🧵 /1

I'm so happy we were able to make live translation work at FAccT and have content including the current roundtable keynote in Portuguese!

$90 million dollars for CopCity while Atlanta is literally under a city-wide boil water advisory due to a water system that has been known to be failing and in need of complete overhaul for at Least 30 years.

I impatiently decided to start the area we want to be a butterfly garden without fully removing the grass over the weekend. I may regret this later, but I'm enjoying it so far.