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Lol they're not your friends, Kash. And you can't use federal resources—including the FBI's $62M private jet—to go on a taxpayer-funded Olympic getaway & locker room bender. Adding it to the evidence file for our investigation, @raskin.house.gov.

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

Part of the problem with Gavin Newsom is that he's a stupid asshole who listens to stupid asshole right-wing podcasts and invites those stupid asshole right-wingers on his podcast and all of this stupid asshole influence leads him to believe and say stupid asshole right-wing talking points.

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"This shameful attack on the St. John's faculty union betrays the university's history and most deeply-held Catholic values. It's outrageous that religious leaders are joining in the assaults on higher education that are happening nationwide." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

one of many reasons that the organized critique and refusal movement is overwhelmingly led by women (yes including women computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and engineers)

The AAUP committee on AI In Academic Professions, is 63% women, 69% STEM fields. The occasional, often dismissive, insinuation that Critical AI is a purely Humanities movement could not be further from the truth.

Everyone loves not having to have a license to develop and release code but the argument for stronger controls on who gets to do surgery on the core infrastructures of our digital society is getting stronger by the day.

This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)

Sports coverage is getting terrible. I was watching the Olympics on Peacock and they would skip entire slalom runs to squeeze in commercials. I paid them to watch the Olympics, not commercials. Everything is about money.

MLB's streaming TV and Radio units have pulled that same-commercial sh*t for years. What kills me is the ridiculous promo redundancy. As if there's not enough baseball content to add a few more to the on-air rotation. Amazing.

And it’s always the same four words over and over six month season! “Oppo taco,” fuck off. And also, can you guess who said this? Yeah, it’s Piazza. It’s always Mike Piazza.

MLB radio subscription going from $3.99 to $5.99 and if I could bet on baseball, I’d put $100 on it still cutting off the broadcasts horrifically to play the same five ads over and over again.

It is insane to me that musical instruments often go for so little, when they are not just art but art that creates art. That 130 year old German violin costs way less than a new one! Sometimes we appreciate the wrong stuff 😔 #AntiquesRoadshow

People make a lot of mistakes! Social trends come and go! This isn't like that. The real, deep fear isn't that trans boys will be unhappy. It's that these young people will be happier and better off if they're allowed to be free. That's the real terror lurking under the gender critical bed.

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

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Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

NEW: In a closed-door Vatican meeting last November, Pope Leo XIV told Spain’s bishops that the greatest threat to the nation was the far right. This comes as Leo was already confronting the Trump–Vance White House over migrants and war — and as parts of the right have revived nostalgia for Franco.

Right, this is how right-wing media capture plays out at the nyt. The direction is set from the top: -An unprincipled race provocateur is treated gently. -Trans ppl, as an entire class, are treated w contempt.

Passed out last night right as antiques roadshow was airing and am sad I missed the live threads of what’s happening. Also roadshow is just kinda wholesome.

I only wanna hear your Leftist position if you're also the baby eating bishop of bath and wells and/or ate a baby yourself! otherwise how would you evaluate the baby eater 9000?

"I know the machine eats babies! But what if one day the same machine is used to help humans? I think it would be cool if in a few years we reclaim the BABY-NOMMER-9000 and use it for emails only! And with only 1 baby (that we communally own) fed into it per month. So it CAN be reclaimed, ok?"

surely we can teach the children how to ethically use this product designed for unethical use by unethical people

In retrospect this had a way larger effect on me then I ever could have imagined.

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Flavor Flav spitting some truth.

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I gots to bring my Bobsled + Skeleton team too

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But also the original computer was created to copy human behaviour, so it's not surprising it has this very confusing property of seemingly to some being literally human. This is what lends it so easily to serious sexism too, Pygmalion displacement, etc. olivia.science/turing

I think a lot is down to intent. Table leg being deeply scratched makes you think of an intimate object not a medical emergency. Same for statue leg. But with certain machines... olivia.science/before

was watching some youtube video; guy cutting a tree stump with a chainsaw was like "chainsaws don't *want* to make rip cuts, they want to cross cut" and i have to admit i almost rolled my eyes before realizing that it's mostly just in the AI space that this anthropomorphism has become such an issue.

Hungary and Slovakia were threatening Ukraine to try and force them to repair a pipeline on Ukraine's territory that Russia damaged. Ukraine responded by blowing up a critical pumping station for the pipeline on Russia's territory.

u mean to tell me the guy who looks like a mad men character is a racist???

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

I could use some comfort reads recommendations, if anyone's got some

He’s doing the work

it's almost as if caring about your city and effectively communicating with municipal authorities leads to a desired outcome for everyone!!!

Bro is gonna be mayor for 9 terms

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

“Hellebuyck looks like he could deflect blaster shots like a Jedi in Star Wars” is pulitzer-level sports writing

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

this is always my goal I am mentally rehearsing my order the minute that server heads my way so I can show them I am the most prepared person at this table

I do think a big part of what’s wrong with this website right now is that most of the population of the United States is unable to touch grass

“who to yell at” is a dying service! thank you very local journalism