Drinking my favorite flavor of powerthirst while I listen to @bloodwork.show

I definitely haven't been working on this all morning rather than preparing a presentation. HoopIQ mode is a great feature as well. A lot of scrolling and trying to remember if some dude from the 60s was a good player or just a good coach.

The people living next to this data center also just got disenfranchised through redistricting.

Damn. The one time I head to Toronto for the evening. Why couldn't the Toronto Tempo and the River Run Centre have deconflicted based solely on my needs?

Recent #TorontoTempo signing Julie Allemand was stellar last year for the Sparks. She was in most of the top 2 player combos and led the team in individual net rating as well. Her ability to create was a huge factor as she was in the #WNBA top 10 in ASTs per 100 and the only player with an ATO > 3.

Looking to build off a rough season, the #DallasWings had a few combos that were net positives and Paige Bueckers was on the top 2. The key will be getting good shots in the minutes when she sits.

Griner moving on from the #WNBA #AtlantaDream may be a blessing in disguise for them. Her minutes last year represented the worst five "2 player combos" (high volume) and 7 of the worst 10. She was not represented in any of the top 25 2 player lineup combos for the dream.

Snooping around some #WNBA #IndianaFever lineup data from last year. And unsurprisingly CC and AB dominate the top 2 player combos, and if you include Mitchell, then 10 of the top 11 high volume combos have one of those 3 on the floor. The second unit drop off was significant.

Survey of 6,698 people across six EU countries: around 84% said they don't trust US tech companies with their personal data; 93% don't trust Chinese companies (Ellen O'Regan/Politico) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I scored 6% on the Tech Bro Assessment. Verdict: not a tech bro. Take the quiz: amiatechbro.com

Really good encapsulation of some of the long standing issues that lead to a scenario in which a girl's school was targeted/bombed. And because I just finished @add-hawk.bsky.social's latest book, maybe one of the worst examples of value collapse that I've seen. open.substack.com/pub/artifici...

"While in the West the feminized honeybee became the darling animal of ecocapitalists and the insect mascot of contemporary environmental politics, its metaphorical male counterparts, the Predator and Reaper *drones* have increasingly been deployed to perform their heroic duty of surveillance

Reflecting on this year’s #REAIM Summit, Zena Assaad argues that there is critical misalignment between international initiatives, Silicon Valley’s narratives around AI capabilities, and the realities of AI use in ongoing conflicts: www.justsecurity.org/132504/ai-hy...

Indeed, as we highlight here also opiniojuris.org/2023/12/19/i...

This article perfectly and maybe unknowingly captures a major fear of offloading tasks to algorithms. The human in the loop is meaningless if the volume/velocity of data + reduced # of humans ensure those humans don't have the capacity to intervene and review the targets. @elkeschwarz.bsky.social

The targeting priorities that Claude is serving up may be hallucinated but I'll god-damned if they aren't the clearest "eli5" target recommendations the DoW has ever seen. @seva.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Can someone ask Claude where the section on kidnapping and assassinating foreign heads of state is in their constitution?

Just so we're on the same page, given the OpenAI/Anthropic/DoW kerfuffle yesterday. If an AI-DSS being used to plan and coordinate strikes/other military actions in this war/regime change effort in Iran, the only possibility is that it is Claude and this will be the case for the foreseeable future.

My goodness.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... but dont worry, AI philosophers are on the case

The top 3 stories on the 60 minutes page are about AI Art, West Virginia coal miners, and white genocide...

The perfect bluesky exchange. Cross posted vid of Nazi: someone gets off an old school twitter banger and is immediately scolded

We should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This discourse is just so mind-numbing. The whole argument boils down to the fact that the right or neo-liberal centrists are pro big business and the left is not. The only evidence provided is that the left has substantive critiques of the technology. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

My "AI companies are not engaged in digital imperialism" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. @karenhao.bsky.social

This came up a bit at the REAIM summit last week as it relates to decision making in the military and the "accuracy" rates of AI vs Human. This thread captures some of the fundamental underlying flaws in that comparison. I would also add that the structure and type of error is crucial to "accuracy"

I think the old Elon meme has life again. His bootlickers found effective altruism.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... but dont worry, AI philosophers are on the case

The implications of the US's new AI policy are clear, turn your LLM into MechaHitler or lose govt contracts. Anthropic, Google, X, and OpenAI all recently "won" $200m DoD contracts. And I'm pretty sure Meta isn't taking a stand anytime soon, given that they refused to sign the EU's new AI agreement.

Cool cool cool

This article is mostly generic AI Arms Race propaganda. However, I thought this was a particularly funny gem. "Their bombs are bad and for killing people but our bombs are good and save lives." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

"I have no mouth and I must scream" "I'm sorry about that. That's my bad. I guess--when I sewed your mouth closed--I forgot to add a way for you to communicate your thoughts. Oh well. I promise I'll do better next time."

The scene where Jeremy Davies lets his friend die in Saving Private Ryan has just endorsed Cuomo

McConnell making a few contested jumpers is good but when your point guard literally can't complete a pass you need to make some changes

What does OpenAI and Sam Altman's "Gentle Singularity" look like in practice? Great rundown from @bcmerchant.bsky.social: • Fund raising from Saudi Arabia and UAE • Major partnerships with US military • Working with fossil fuel companies to hyperscale AI www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/this-is-th...

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

I don’t watch basketball but goddamn I love basketball posting. Sincerely. Best sports posts hands down.

Can't wait for the 30 for 30

This is pretty emblematic of how the Ground News blindspots go.

Me in the national security group chat

“And that’s why you should be willing to pony up $1200 for a bad boxed lunch and a soporific panel on AI in sports decision making in Boston every spring”

A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

VP of Universal Music Group at the first system of a down showcase

DNC Aiming To Reconnect With Working-Class Americans With New ‘Hamilton’-Inspired Lena Dunham Web Series

I like ground news a lot but the blind spot thing is hilarious. The right wing blind spots will be like some executive order and all the sources are high factuality while the left blind spots are Alex Jones quotes or some fake study paid for by the Koch brothers.

our nation has a Kennedy missing his brain and now a white man from Dallas is about to help LBJ win. welcome back, 1963