One thing I think a lot of the "A.I." discourse misses is that while the technology is fundamentally incapable of doing most of what the companies are pitching to the public, as long as you don't mind the harms caused by constant errors it is well suited as surveillance tech

Seizing people’s ill gotten gains is entirely consistent with abolition and I do think it’s a bigger deterrent than the threat of prison. It also arguably accords more with justice as the scale & breadth of corruption-for-thievery taking place is almost unfathomable.

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

If you think it's hot where you are, it's 127 degrees Fahrenheit in Iran

A trend that has been trending through every presidency of my lifetime. It’s notable that the lines crossed under Biden. This is the Neoliberal Era in one chart. It’s what happens when conservatives dominate our institutions with centrists as opposition. It’s what happens when spending is speech.

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

Wow, Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell in the same month, going to go make a deposit in the karma bank

apparently Mitch McConnell died slowly, painfully, and alone and I love all of that for him. may everyone else in his party be lucky enough to have that experience too

I met Patrick Byrne at a NAMM show many years ago, when he was running Overstock.com and scouting for deals. He was aggressive and arrogant, with creepy "sweaty coke-head" vibes. He was also an asshole when I followed up later. I am taking a small ounce of joy from this one lol

This is just to say I have unplugged the senator At the end of the hall Whom you spoke with for 20 minutes Forgive me He was dead on admission And we needed the room for another patient

Really don’t care for the framing of “it was actually a citizen that was killed not some nobody” and like idk maybe it’s bad whenever a state kills anyone regardless of what paperwork they had?

One of my favorite effects of the establishment media’s indifference & apologia for blatant corruption is that Trump and co are now able to use the whipsaw motion of the stock market as a perpetual money making machine: war on/war off ad infinitum all the way to the bank

One of my favorite effects of the establishment media’s indifference & apologia for blatant corruption is that Trump and co are now able to use the whipsaw motion of the stock market as a perpetual money making machine: war on/war off ad infinitum all the way to the bank

Graham Platner Clarifies He Covered Penis With Tattoo After Learning About Its Troubling History

Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert! As of July 5th, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has now crossed 1.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean. ' The Nino 3.4 SST is now 3.46 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean:

Great moments in U.S. History.

when the telephone screamed if you logged on it was trying to warn us

new metaphor just dropped

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

Become ungovernable

Remember, Gillibrand's son worked his internship at A16Z — the same firm that hired a man as a partner solely on the basis that he strangled one of Senator Gillibrand's constituents to death.

We beat back the worst of their nazi fantasies. They tried to change the narrative w/ "quick victory" in Iran, only shedded more and more of their base over gas prices and achieved a humiliating and worthless defeat. They are going to lose. Dont afraid. Stay fighting. We got each other, we got this

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

If politicians really want to “save childhood,” they can start by ensuring every child has three meals a day, a safe place to sleep, and safe access to education. Banning social media does nothing to help kids who don’t have basic resources.

This whole thread up & down is important and insightful. I want to add one linguistic point here:

The Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) just set a new record daily high for the 16th day in a row. The current Nino 3.4 SST is higher than any day of any year on record, with the exception of a few days late in 2015 at the start of the last super El Nino. Stay tuned!

“Ok but if I cured cancer or had some world changing idea don’t I deserve to be rich” Your “personal” ideas result from the world you live in, collective labor and accumulated social knowledge. Any idea you have can only be implemented through the labor and ideas of others.

BTW if you're wondering if orbital data centers are possible: each GPU rack of four H100 server boards requires a radiator the size of a pickleball court. An actual AI data center will require thousands of them. If Musk moved Colossus to space, it'd need radiators the size of Disneyland (1.4m m^2).

What's going on with SpaceX is simple AI was running out of money so they have gouged you for $1.5tn which will go straight back into Nvidia, SpaceX, Arm... Until they run out of money again and they have to gouge again They are setting up a crash that will make 2008 look tiny

Can’t believe you only have to kill 700,000 Africans to make a trillion dollars

Feeling this one hard today pyramids-tx.bandcamp.com/track/in-per...

Life imitates (what we thought was) wildly exaggerated satire From the prescient genius of @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

if we want to talk about progressive electoral successes I’d like to hear more about Analilia Mejia in NJ, who won calling to abolish ICE, has been on their asses about Delaney Hall, and supporting detainees + their fams, than white guys “saving” the party that keeps tying its own shoelaces together

I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.

The Republicans are going to kill us all, and the Democrats are going to get us all killed.

"Be stupid" is an easier motto to live by than "Don't be evil." patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

One person can’t make a difference unless you accelerate their body close to the speed of light and aim it at something.

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k

Bumping this one, as I am really proud of this record. extropy.bandcamp.com/album/the-en...

Still pissed that Alanis Morissette ruined an entire generation's understanding of irony

Fuck Gavin Newsom Any piece of shit defending this guy can also fuck off

Of $2.5 billion of fire relief funds, $0 went to fire victims. $75 million went to the military. $14 million went to pay cops to tear gas civilians who were protesting against ICE. www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors