left wing intellectuals on having kids: wow look at all these little joys, i am gonna make a special scrap book of why the family matters...omg is this conservativism? right wing intellectuals on having kids: look we have to start getting teens pregnant if we're gonna outbreed all the undesireables

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

I'd rqther operate on my own prostate than have that thing touch me.

Listening to Trashfuture sort of through one ear and for a second thinking that I was actually hearing copy about the Charlie Kirk Memorial Slurp Coffee was unnerving. Thank G it was just a jokes.

So.. Philosophy, kind of?

I zone out whenever someone talks about space. as far as im concerned it's none of my business what happens out there

Yes! One Battle after Another is amazing! And I might have a small crush on Benicio del Toro now

In principle, it is possible for a weather vane to act in my name

Im a big adherent of the spinozist method of argument, that "if you think about this a bit for yourself you will see that I am right."

I was thinking about assisted suicide (what some might call medical murder) and if assisted suicide is all okay, then are actually in a position to in anyway interfere with someones decision to kill themselves? Like, if your partner or family member pops into the bathroom to /

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to let Facebook and Instagram users set a chronological feed by default, a first test of the EU’s Digital Services Act in civil court. Tech Policy Press spoke with Bits of Freedom’s Rejo Zenger on the ruling’s significance.

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

Watching philosophers jumping on the AI-bigotry nonsense is exactly one of the reasons why I wish for moral philosophers to stay out of political philosophy.

Will The Guardian, for the love of God, please stop using the term "crack down."? "Police cracks down on drug smugglers" "Ice cracks down on immigrants." "Trump cracks down on student protesters". Use real words that tell us what happens, please.

I feel like one might be able to trace one-to-one correlation between the increasingly fancy things Tooze is invited to and his increasing toothlessness and wonkiness on things like Palestine, silicon valley and Trump.

Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege - Joseph Fasano #stopgenocide

When every day we’re reading about chatbot suicides, AI psychosis, and people obsessed with their LLM girlfriends, introducing direct credit card transactions seems rife with danger. Kinda like intentional exploitation. It’s a pig butchering scam built into the API.

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

"Think of treating ChatGPT like a super-competent personal assistant. now, think about how being *that* stupid and gullible would feel. It jars the mind, right?"

Silvia Alonso-Pérez presents a look at the physics behind the theremin, the early electronic musical instrument that converts hand gestures into the eerie tones heard in the soundtracks of classic sci-fi films like The Day the Earth Stood Still. #electronicmusic #physics #acoustics #scifi

Fine, fuck off then.

I am doubtful the EU leadership will properly understand that the US is, not only completely untrustworthy, but actually hostile until it is too late

Notice, #earlymodern #skystorians, the logo at the middle of the photo? The VOC (Dutch East India Company). All the more reason to reckon with the legacies of these companies and how they integrate (or don't) with shifting ideas of globalisation, integration, capitalism, and national identity.

“It is a crystalline expression of this political movement: cadres of desperately wack suck-ups, cynical and credulous in roughly equal measure, expressing their belief that the solution to every social and political problem is more assertive bossing, and volunteering to stay late to help.”

The belief that tech is stagnating mostly comes breakthrough innovations in green and sustainable tech getting no coverage but the media instead being laser focused on guys using AI to make 10 second clips showing what it would look like if Wes Anderson directed Blade

Really funny to lose free speech so that the 4 existing media companies can buy apps named PLONK and sZent

I'm going to start demanding that everyone refer to me as a "gravity skeptic" instead of "a fucking idiot who refuses to believe he'll fall when he jumps out of a plane"

the fun thing about every Republican president is looking at how terrible things are and remembering you're still in the period BEFORE most of the Consequences happen

They are serious! No one is allowed to disparage Horst Wessel

the government and the people who control AI are erasing history and research in real time to distort reality www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

For people who don’t understand the background to recent events, I would recommend Phil’s summary of the Forde shenanigans as the best, most concise and most accurate tribunemag.co.uk/2022/07/labo...

on the one hand this reads as nakedly authoritarian and all that. on the other hand it reads as a drunk guy stumbling through a public park yelling that this land is his plantation, damn it, and his rules

Goonies never say die!

Huh.

Or better: Does the absence of public transport and walkable cities in most of the US mark the moment its citizens notice how far their country has fallen behind?

Couple responses saying they don't understand the jargon in this post. Sorry! Basically: Justin Sun bought a huge amount of the cryptocurrency created by World Liberty Finanical, a Trump family project. That cryptocurrency was recently just made available for trading, meaning those tokens Sun

When one of @bennjordan.bsky.social 's videos ended up on a Hasan Piker stream, he knew he'd get messages. He didn't expect Google AI would make something up about his politics

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

"Google Translate can now render your college administrator’s opaque prose into plain (if terrifying) English."

Watcg as NZ veteran disability payments rise 150% from factory accidents

Millions died from the plague in the 14th century. It reappears episodically in California & recently caused infection. Plague was introduced to the US in the early 20th century by rat-infested steamships from Asia, the first case was in San Francisco. It's not going away & will infect again👇

i just did a workshop with kids about making comics. emphasized that ANYONE can make comics. you don't have to be a "good" artist. you find a story that matches your art style and you do it and it's awesome. and a kid who NEVER PARTICIPATES got out from under a desk and PARTICIPATED and had a blast.