what do you mean the stranger things documentary shows them writing the script on a computer with 3 chat gpt tabs open

Week 2

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet. The exposure was initially discovered by YouTuber and technologist @bennjordan.bsky.social. We talk about it. Listen now: youtu.be/tSd0nXolnIs?...

The EPA will no longer consider how many lives are saved when setting pollution limits, the New York Times reports. Instead, it will consider the cost to businesses of complying with clean air regulations.

(Looking around at the melting planet and rising fascism around the world) the problem is we don’t appeal to elected moderates in the United States enough

"This direct move to a tenure-track role bypassed traditional post-doctoral fellowships or adjunct positions, aligning with the expansion of interdisciplinary programs addressing technology ethics and computing's societal impacts at the time." (Interesting and unnecessary causal assumption here.)

ICE at Midway Target and seem to possible be leaving. Lots of community members here

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

temporarily embarrassed god-emperors

I’ve been doing a methodological deep dive into the way Reddit communities discuss AI art and something happening now is the pro-AI subreddit is generating pictures of robots smashing pencils as little animals say “thank you for saving our habitat!”

Today we commit to making New York affordable not just for artists, but for making art. We are proud to name Rafael Espinal as Commissioner of MOME as we stand with union workers and usher in a new golden age of NYC creativity.

Abolish ICE

Ad for an AI video generator over on Insta was basically just “you can make little girls dance sexy” but you can’t call that out because now everyone has to pretend making deepfaked videos of gyrating children grabbing their crotches in a bare midriff is a thing that normal people do

“This is a vile lie. All I did was say what you quoted, but you should have rewritten it to try and diffuse the utter stupidity of what I said.” Tim Sweeney is the poster chump for how AI disintegrates the brain.

Waymo would not say how many of its SF Bay Area robotaxis stalled out and contributed to or caused gridlock during the massive PG&E blackouts recently because their lawyer claimed that...is considered a trade secret www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/w... <-- by SF Chronicle's Rachel Swan

I hope Discord quickly comes with a statement that they listened to the feedback and drop this terrible plan, or else we'll all be moving away from the platform (though I think I will anyway)

when it's definitely going the way you thought it would

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

I remain proud of my slide game.

Every slide by @kendraserra.bsky.social is 🔥 This was their hot take about Stop Killing Games

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

This is so real, they tried it this morning in Bloomington. They stopped a man, people started honking horns, they split up to fuck with everyone else, which brought more attention and more noise, people got out of their cars and started filming, they left. They're cowards.

Fetishize inconvenience

This morning, Ms. Rachel and I visited District 2 Pre-K Center, where we sang and read with the wonderful students and educators. We also discussed universal childcare - and how we're making it happen for NYC!

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

I am leisurely making my way through Ursula Le Guin’s “Always Coming Home” and I came across a poem I just have to share. The ending especially slaps.

Between Fortnite and Roblox , we should probably be worried the dudes making the biggest games for children right now both seem unbothered with child exploitation 🧐🧐

The double whammy of Discord moving towards an IPO and sending out a survey to see what sort of AI garbage they could get away with sends a pretty clear message about where they want to go.

Ah, capitalism, the bubble making machine that will end us all.

I just love Alariko's art so much.

This survey was very easy to answer, I recommend you fill it out and let Discord know how you feel about AI.

the AI features discord are proposing in this survey are insane. tell 'em how you feel. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

crescent county will never use AI 💜 a game by humans, for humans

As someone who has reported on deepfakes for years now, I’ve had a few moments while reporting on Grok where I feel sick to my stomach thinking about the continued escalation of sexual abuse with this technology and where it’s going. We’re not ready for this. And it didn’t have to be this way.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This is explicitly the case with Tim Sweeney and Epic and you can just kinda assume with any other publicly traded company/company looking for investment that investors all just want the AI bubble inflated

So how we feelin' about that Epic ecosystem nowadays? We all feel confident that Fortnite is a good spot for kids to hang out?

We live in a world where men like Tim Sweeney can advocate for protecting consent-free, child-inclusive porn generators under free speech without paying an economic cost for it, but a teacher talking about how they spent their weekend on their private Facebook can be blacklisted from her profession.

Of all platforms I shared my Art vs Artist video, Twitter been the only place where some people were actually disappointed I was black! I screenshoted that one because it's so hilarious to me! If you are a popular animator and make cute things, you can't be black? So Twitter 😂😭

I did flipbooks for all of the Animorphs covers I did, but they appeared in black and white and very small, so I am posting them here so you can see them large and in color. No AI here--just Elastic Reality and painting. You can buy a signed print of this cover here: www.etsy.com/listing/798775628

the world you live in in 20 years is built today

“Technology is moving too fast” is such a bad excuse. I’ve been discussing issues in LLMs & image gen since 2018/19. Twitter/X is 20 years old! Scholars, think tanks & even industry have been warning about these issues for *years*. It’s not “too fast,” it’s that you haven’t been listening!

❓Did you know that you can donate your own better images of AI to our library? If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽 blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...

From 30 years of being an adult leftist: there is no amount of polite respectability that will keep centrists from saying you’re being rude to them by existing and no amount of overt Nazi shit from the right that will make centrists agree to even moderate concessions to the left.

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.