There must be whole quant teams dedicated right now to identifying biases in frontier LLM releases quickly so that you can bet against the people who will be using LLMs to trade with on the stock market.

Almost as bad as AI sycophancy & the ridiculous ritual of using prompts to curtail it is the massive stream of guidance on how to use your AI tooling the best way that amounts to a string of thinly veiled adverts for different AI agent products with no real theory explaining how to do things better

Apparently the word “allegedly” now also means “according to video footage that we can see with our eyes”

Truly great writing going on at LGB Christians* *transphobic org fronting as a gay Christian group, whose page I'm not going to share but you can google them if you really want

The second Conservative candidate whose far-right posts I exposed has now been suspended. The party failed to respond when Byline Times first reported their posts last month

oh wow they are just like people

It's been proven that telling an AI it's an expert in any domain makes it less accurate (see: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18507). Marc Andreesen is a fucking idiot, not an engineer.

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

It's not just the BBC and ITV News that's covering this attack in this way. Every news outlet that's reporting on this - which is most of them - are framing it as an attack on a former synagogue, not on a soon-to-be mosque. Hierarchy of racism, right there.

Sabotage requires people with the right access to have sufficient disgust for the regime to decide they have had enough and sufficient courage to do something about it.

In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it?

Long story long, the folks making the decision to replace worker expertise with automated expertise are just kicking the complexity cost down the road as they have for the past 50ish years. Sub in your chosen industry for my factory, any workers instead of maintenance, I think it remains true.

The "promise" of ai is the company gets to eliminate all the complexity of expertise without actually paying for it (or more accurately, pay an Ai company less than expert employee wages cost). "All that robot tech did was change a number, tighten some screws, and reset it. Anybody could do that."

Yes literally exactly this. Spaghettifying much more rapidly than we can rationalise and consolidate things.

They've got that middle class thing of thinking that because there exists racism among the white working class as it does amongst white people of all classes, they can avoid facing up to class anger by substituting national/racial supremacy and it's just not occurred to them people can see both.

I still get the impression that many (most?) Labour supporters don’t understand how badly Labour’s anti-immigration policies come across, or how many of us are personally angry about them.

The not-so-hidden gender diversity of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott via @wearequeeraf.com www.wearequeeraf.com/the-not-so-h...

I would really like to do trans organising of some kind where I didn't need to be the one going "Actually here is an alternative perspective to Doom and Despair" which ends up just becoming my job because people love to just feed each others misery in these digital organising spaces

Understanding the abstraction and the coupling is pertinent when one is trying to assure a system. It's also important to acknowledge that it can be advantageous for certain groups to use certain abstractions because it's easy to bury the harms or inflate benefits.

The examples I'm using is that for any given abstraction all systems of systems/components sit on a spectrum of how coupled they are with the physical world. Low coupled systems, in abstractions we typically see relevant in corporate settings, have traditionally been the IT systems.

A lot of people keep saying "we don't have genuine AI", and I think there's a big and dangerous misunderstanding here in terms of what AI is doing and being used for in industry.

"This shocking Good Law Project podcast looks at the way US tech company Palantir ended up at the heart of the NHS, specifically, the covert influencer marketing campaign that was run to 'smear' Good Law Project... A terrifying and important listen."

Pro life, pro cancer, simple as.

Decades of public health messaging have failed to make smoking look as uncool as this picture does singlehandedly.

I just think they would have been trained to restrain people without having to kick them in the head, repeatedly (before we bring anything else into it. And WHY are we bringing anything else into it?)

Drugs are pretty expensive and mostly a luxury of the rich it turns out

People will believe anything to avoid thinking that it could happen to them. The three main causes of bankruptcy are: job loss, illness, and divorce.

I refuse to take the fertility decline seriously until the borders are open and they start welcoming migrants. Until then just seems like white supremacist panic

People who let cops do this have no problem with criminality or violence, they have a problem with the wrong people being allowed to do it.

Ofc Starmer who is a cop would be ok with this, lest we forget who oversaw the Jean Charles De Menezes stuff

A poster for today - Bread & Roses, free to download and share. www.patreon.com/posts/first-...

there are even cool uniforms (whether gi or rashguard). and plenty of vets and cops, so you will have more Graham Platner friends than you can shake a white belt at

unironically: i think these guys should just do Brazilian jujitsu. mad at the world, vaguely insecure about your masculinity, need a hug? turns out we have an App for That

You never have to defend politicians. You really do not. When you feel the urge bubbling up, drink water and keep it moving.

Politician X was "handed a terrible situation." Comrades, THEY KNEW THIS WHEN THEY RAN. It's actually their JOB to figure out how to address the terrible situation.

Anyways, happy May Day. Remember that not a single right has ever been given, they must always be fought for

Happy May Day! Our office is closed today; we’ll see you in the streets!

If there's one thing I've learnt being in the art world it's that cis people will never read transness into any work of art, even to the point of denying explicit themes and detransing the creator. It's like an unconscious violent revulsion to relating to our transness.

This is a really disturbing and deeply wrong approach to human rights.

The FBI sent a plane to Cuba to rescue a child, after learning, as Kash Patel posted, "the alleged kidnapper parent [hoped] to transition the child." Yet DOJ's own docs show, claims of a 10-year-old forced into "gender reassignment surgery" may be based on one possibly overheard statement. My story:

Also. What is a “restrictive diet”? It’s anything where you _cannot_ eat with your neighbors, whether due to medical reasons or choice or some combination. And yeah that gets reallllly fuzzy. Not eating stuff bc I don’t like it never messed with my head. Keto messes with my head (while saving it).

My point is not that people with medical conditions that require a restrictive diet shouldn’t do it! My point is that any kind of restrictive diet has an extra psychological component that is often unaddressed, giving yourself an eating disorder is bad, and Americans are already weird about food.

I don’t know if it’s human or American; I suspect it’s both. And yeah. My condition is proven to improve with dietary interventions )just not the ones the quacks push), and almost all the non-quacks are like “it truly helps, but the social aspects of food help more, so don’t overdo it.”

A “diet spotter” is something I made up, mind. But like you shouldn’t attempt a max bench press without a spotter, I don’t think you should attempt any kind of restrictive diet without someone. If you’ve _asked_ them, they’re more likely to say something and you’re more likely to listen.

I really believe that food is a shortcut to people’s psyches and restrictive dieting — even when medically proven and genuinely necessary — makes humans crazy. There’s a reason so many quacks start with diet. I think this is it. (For the “genuinely necessary” crowd, I recommend “diet spotters.”)

'But how "subversive" is May Day? It just happens to be the most American holiday we have. It was brought into being in 1886 by the Chicago workers, in their struggle for the eight-hour day. Remember their slogan: "Eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, eight hours of recreation!"' --Howard Fast

You know when I was talking about the antisemitism of some on the left making Jewish people responsible for Israel? This is the kind of thing I was talking about.

This story is fucking wild and damning, and yet the most insane part is that they were trying to go after her for documenting racist abuse THAT WAS DIRECTED AT HER PERSONALLY

Genuinely shocking. @zackpolanski.bsky.social was right, and #MetPolice should be held to account.