ok I finally caught up on the Argentine credit swap deal and lol. lmao even www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

“You just gonna let her do this to me?????”

I took some clothes to tampere-talo for a clothes swap event tomorrow and noticed they have free admission to Moomin museum until 6pm today, so I popped in to check out the new moomin house exhibition and inhale some inspiration with my eyeballs.

how disgusting and unnecessary. begging men to be normal just once.

It says nothing good about anything that many people thought there was an actual chance that man would receive a "Peace Prize."

Not just any woman - a female captain. Curious why she isn’t being linked to her occupation?

“One of his clients is a job recruiting company that uses A.I. to sift through candidates. ‘Which is great, but you can now discriminate at a scale we’ve never seen before,’ Mr. Kvist said. ‘It’s a breeding ground for class-action lawsuits.’”

“Palantir was founded in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, with funding from Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA. The company considers itself a defender of Western democracies.” This is why, kids, you should never skip history class.

Just sayin

hopeful nyc #photography

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Whynot buy the Brooklyn Bridge while they're at it. If Orpo and Stubb really believe what the current US administration tells them, then the Finnish gov is gonna have a very rude crash into reality.

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Mielipide se on tietysti tämäkin. En vaan ymmärrä, miten kukaan suomalaisen koulujärjestelmän läpäissyt voi uskoa, että tämmöisiä mielipiteitä laukovat, suomalaista kulttuuria ihan pikkumaisuuttaan kostoksi tuhoavat olisivat jotenkin suomalaisen kulttuurin, elämäntavan ja suomalaisuuden puolella.

In Israeli prisons, hunger and torture are ever-present

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Kun tätä aihetta miettii, voi samalla eläytyä siihen mitä paljon kirvelee se, että häntä edelsi tummaihoinen mies, joka on nuorempi, älykkäämpi, uskottavampi ja jolle myönnettiin Nobel kautensa alussa. Trump tietää kuka hän itse on. Ja kuka ei ole. Tiedämmekö me?

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

Adventures in framing: Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

The Administration - raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill - is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built - is raising prices on materials with tariffs - all while AI is spiking electricity demand They are stopping supply while demand goes up It’s a crisis

actually we would be better off as a country if the obama administration had prosecuted the bush administration. ditto biden to trump. we're in a mess in large part because democrats were too chickenshit to do the right thing.

“Use ai to teach critical thinking because ai can’t think critically and is bad for critical thinking so it’s the perfect thing to think critically about!” ok, or hear me out, what if I used my course subject.

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to: (1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education (2) therefore, the goals of education must change. Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

On literacy and AI: "Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”" An important thread ⤵️

lol if you are a young pregnant American citizen in an ER you may not get the treatment you need and instead get sepsis because of forced birth Republican laws

Federal law prohibits ERs from treating people differently based on their ability to pay or citizenship status.

Fascism came wrapped in a flag and a cross but it also came wrapped in swastikas and it also came on the airwaves and the newspapers with paranoid delusions of Jewish conspiracies and it came wrapped in silver shirts with stories of demonic possession and that's just the 1930s.

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Ilmastonmuutospuskuri vois olla kans näppärä ja miksei myös vaikka talousnosturi

Jos velkajarru tulee, voidaanko saada myös työttömyysjarru, maahanmuuttokiihdytin, eläkesalpa ja hoitojonoleikkuri?

"Trust in politicians is clearly lower in Finland and Norway than in Sweden and Denmark," Norstat research lead Kaisa Parkatti said in a statement. Some great individual politicians understand the polycrisis we are in, but the top-down structure does not want to change. yle.fi/a/74-20173101

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June)

Perhaps you heard that Biden did Watergate II. Well, despite the enthusiasm of Fox News et al, that's not quite what happened. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

I have taken the freedom of speech that was in the Constitution and which you were probably using for peaceful protest Forgive me the courts said they were so agitating and so irritating

Ah now that DoD has gotten rid of all that woke DEI it can devote its resources and attention on its core function: searching for people who said something insensitive about a right-wing rally organizer www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

emerging artist Olafur Eliasson made drawings on his artist/sailor/dad's boat by suspending pens over paper greg.org/archive/2024...

The center-right can only go further to the right, and the far-right parties are dragging it there.

"A government doesn't announce they have become fascist; they announce anti-fascists are enemies of the state."

In all likelihood what’s happening all over the country is ICE getting a list of names and running a data broker search then scooping up every random Frank Miranda or Maria Lopez who might fit the details close enough. And that’s why they’re supposed to get fucking warrants.

the threat of sectarian violence has increased in the former united states as texan forces advanced upon the largest city in the contested illinois (potawatomi) Great lakes region they are currently on the outskirts of the city, the third largest in the former usa, with no resistance yet

“Milei wants to avoid a peso devaluation because it would fuel inflation just ahead of midterm elections on Oct. 26, in which half of the seats in Congress are up for grabs.”

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD