Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

Generative AI not *only* enables the most mediocre pieces of shit out there, but *also* makes it very hard to convince a kid that learning and actually giving a shit is worthwhile and will be rewarded. They can see with their own eyes that classmates can be illiterate but still get passing grades

its SO good i love it sm. from this comic, which kills me

I've been obsessed with Van Gogh since I was a teen after reading Theo's letters and this warms my heart ❤️.

Yes! Also, recommend @cfiesler.bsky.social's gentle introduction on how LLMs work youtube.com/playlist?lis...

seeing everyone with obvious ChatGPT writing in their talk scripts You guys ever seen the play Rhinoceros?

What could go wrong when you outsource your thinking to a billionaire's toy? Everything will be fine. Trust me bro.

It's striking how other than the clear rejection of consent, the *other* huge feature of generative AI is that it is allowed to fuck up in much bigger ways, for much longer, that would get a human fired.

I, a philosopher of disability with a disability, tend to tell my students in Disability Studies that any benefits disabled people get from "innovations" by tech bros is purely accidental and an epiphenomena of their capitalist intentions. They'd eliminate us all if they could.

King County Library System (@kcls.org) is asking for feedback on AI "to better serve our community". The survey only takes a few minutes. Money should go to services and librarians not predictive text machines owned by billionaires. kcls.email.bibliocommons.com/r/9391c6dcb7...

I grew up in that church. I knew they wouldn't do the right thing. Hopefully this stops all the crazy posts hyping the church.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Honestly, bitten by Uggi is the best marketing strategy I've ever seen.

My dad said he's got a doc friend using for transcription bc they're overworked and I had to explain that a) ai is often an indicator for where a system needs more actual humans & support b) og transcription that gets some words wrong is not the same as software that *makes up things nobody said*

Imagine telling young people starting their careers that they can now use AI to do the parts they COULD NEVER ACCOMPLISH ON YOUR OWN. Way to try to put them down. Condescending motherfucker.

Tacos, Tortas, Tamales, Tlacoyos, Tlayudas, and Tostadas.

Cake is an entrée. Period. Full stop.

I swear Covid has broken some of your abilities to feel empathy for anyone beyond yourselves and your own selfish desires, entirely.

Here we go. Using disabled people to launder the reputation of the perv glasses… like clockwork.

But that adds a whole new layer of complexity. When people demand that disabled people get jobs, they don’t tend to understand that it’s 28% pricier for us to live than you, and that figure goes up even higher if you account for extra expenses incurred trying to survive working.

"Even if it doesn't know it." Do you hear yourselves? Better headline: Delusional man gets sucked into the flattery machine because he doesn't have friends since Epstein died (allegedly). Also The Guardian uses the stochastic parrot so this makes total sense. No, they are not conscious, period.

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

If you think the Turing test proves consciousness, you’re neither brilliant nor enlightened. You’re just a white dude.

If you use AI to generate a book cover, I'm automatically assuming you used AI to write the book and I just won't read it. 🥰

April, it was fun! #booksky

Very good article addressing resource theft by AI/data center tech companies in Latin America. AI is colonialism with ML.

Andrea Suarez of We 💚 Seattle has been advocating for starvation as a way to "treat" addiction for years now. She's been even more aggressive about it recently. Cruelty & taking away basic survival resources only cause more harm.

masking is smart and more people should be doing it

It's Seattle indie bookstore day! The Edge of Space-Time had been on my TBR for a while and really excited about Against Technoableism. #booksky

…The thing about "Generative AI" is that it takes all those racialized, gendered, ableist assumptions about skills, intelligence, capability, & it feeds on them as data which then become outputs of "AI Detectors,"which in turn become what people think of as so-called "tell tale signs of AI writing"…

The people who respond to well researched articles about the dangers of AI (not talking about the sentient malignant AGI BS btw) with "It's not rotting my brain, I use it the right way" are the perfect example of AI rotting people's brains. The frustration is overwhelming sometimes.

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

> LLMs are labor intensive, are economically infeasible, and pollute the environment, and these properties may outweigh any proposed benefits. For example, poor quality air directly harms human cognition, and thus has compounding effects on educators' and pupils' ability to teach and learn.

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

They are insufferable. Humans testing themselves is the whole point of running the half-marathon. If it were just about speed, we have car races, and bikes, horses already - all faster than humans. But this is about surveillance and policing. Always is.

And such a ridiculous fact we have to remind people of. A computer does EXACTLY as you ORDER it to do. That's it. The idea of it "thinking" up a solution someone didn't have it do is just a dream by people who have no idea about computers.

In 3 days!

"this horse is getting so fast, it's going to become a train any day now"

"Gen AI" is not politically neutral, even & especially when using it against political opponents. This isn't some "tying a hand behind your back" situation, this is literally harming yourself and everyone else by giving legitimacy and credence to a deeply dangerous technisocial paradigm. So stop it.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I say again that every ceo of a company with a chatbot should be personally, individually liable for every piece of text it produces, as though it is something they themselves said

engineers decided you need to accept their "good" charity for you, which steals data you didn't consent to give and makes your life measurably worse, because they have more perspective & moral authority than you. hey wait why are you setting fire to their valuable capital? they worked hard on that!

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