Yeah this is a great analogy if you want your product to be viewed as a cumbersome novelty filled with features barely anyone uses.

RFK Jr is doing a modern-day Tuskegee study, where by he uses taxpayer money to intentionality infect African children with Hepatitis B and deny them treatment. You know, just to see what happens newrepublic.com/post/205330/...

I’m sorry the decorum argument was dead ten fucking years ago when the entire republican party hitched themselves to mister “grab them by the pussy” come on

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

One of the reasons I was on board with Mamdani from very early on was that he seemed to me, more than any other candidate, to be prepared to offer a roadmap for popular and institutional resistance to Trumpism on the municipal level. Today is validating my optimism.

Honored that our article, "The Myth of AGI", was one of Tech Policy Press's Top 30 read pieces of the year. In some great company here, especially with @eryk.bsky.social's "Anatomy of an AI Coup". www.techpolicy.press/top-30-most-... (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

It never ceases to amaze me how many people who (correctly) ardently support universal healthcare then turn around and oppose universal right to free counsel. IT'S LITERALLY THE SAME PRINCIPLE.

Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

Meanwhile Disney is *paying* OpenAI $1B to use their data. This must be late- (end?) stage capitalism, right??

I mean, it’s 100% possible that they used her voice as a model and then AI’d it.

OpenAI has generously given Disney the opportunity to lose a billion dollars while selling out every artist that's ever lived

One of the reasons these scams persist is because victims feel guilty about falling for them, so I don't want to hear any "lol this is so obvious" stuff. These emails are written in perfect english and something approximating my voice. As far as I know it hasn't worked yet but no shame if it did!

the senate fast tracking a trump judge by unanimous consent — saying ok without even calling a vote — and then approving them with lots of dem “ayes” on the night of this resistance-fueled special election result feels like a perfect encapsulation of the democratic party right now

people think “no ceiling” means “lets the rich keep getting richer” because it’s an idea taken from a venture capitalist by a party that has shown no stomach for reining in the worst excesses of 21st century capitalism. It’s not that people don’t know what it means. It’s that they do.

Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936 Right: 1936 electoral map

"The ICLR 2026 team permitted authors and reviewers to use AI tools to polish text, generate experiment codes or analyse results, but mandated disclosure of such uses." Great example of how policies that allow *any* use of AI in writing and reviewing readily give way to wholesale fabrication.

An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign

Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."

When no humans have jobs, who exactly is going to, you know, pay money for goods and services?

Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut: If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order?? >>

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”

The “there we go” is such a great re-framing of the responsibility back on Chris. Like “there we go. We are successfully communicating with each and with your audience again”

one genuine issue is that like, there's a sort of generalized cynicism that gets turned into "look everybody sucks so i'm going to support the demon at home"

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

YEESSSS!!! So excited for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social to be my mayor!!

Guys! Katie Wilson has pulled ahead in the race for Seattle’s mayor! They’re still counting votes and she’s only ahead by a hair (less than 100 votes!) but the trend lines are looking good!!

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

If Wilson’s post election night gain is even half her gain from the primary, we will win.

it's awesome to see cuomo using the same line with mamdani as harrell is with katie wilson in seattle-- that they're "too inexperienced" for the job. what a winning message for multiple generations of young people who've been fed that same line by the same sclerotic dinosaurs for DECADES

Republicans: “DON’T GET LOST IN THE FACTS”

"The AI Con reminds us that the fight over AI is not only about technology. It’s also about language, labor, and the stories we choose to tell about the future, which we can humanize rather than surrender to the myriad ways mass automation dehumanizes." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

I say, "No worries!" an awful lot for someone living in the collapse of the United States.

Seriously, why are you insulting people's intelligence like this. There is very obviously a massive excluded middle between "bland Ivy League corporate automaton" and "still has large Nazi tattoo." There's nothing wrong with having found him appealing. He was! But it's over and this is silly

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is (one reason) why we like DEI! Because people who aren’t white straight cis men are less likely to be nazis!!!

It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"

Please share! We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI. www.responsiblenlp.org

Come for the criticism of Trump, stay for the brutal takedown of Cuomo.

Okay this is a good headline

it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day

People think when I say “They will come back to attacking Black women for easy wins “ I only mean the right But uh look at the left They’ve “curated” Black women right out of conversations And are now doing weirdo shit like calling us “influencers “ to make sure we have white overseers

Earle-Sears has exclusively focused on anti-trans messaging in her political ad spend and it has resulted in her losing by 12 points. This anti-trans stuff is not popular, people want to hear about actual problems. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

And it’s not a coincidence both came to prominence through the liberal media by offering “necessary correctives” to imagined liberal bubbles.

That can't be good

I so appreciate the framing here (in contrast to academic freedom arguments, which feel esoteric): By forcing educators to say there are two genders, the federal government (via university admins, school boards, etc) are requiring educators to lie to students. It’s lies!

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To be clear, saying you're going to "avoid politics" is an INCREDIBLY political statement, especially in an age of fascism.