History doesn't repeat, it rhymes like a Vogon poem.

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

i just think if you're biggest critique of AI is about copyright you're telling on yourself. AI surveillance could end human liberty as we know it AI decision making threatens permanently bake systemic racism & patriarchy into every aspect of society "you stole my song" is just... idgaf man

how many cents per gallon is one Iranian schoolgirl's life worth, just curious?

Here's a screen shot I took from my device last night as proof of Operation Epic Furry.

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

Bet you a nickel someone told ChatGPT to write a press release about it and misspelled the prompt.

Doctor Strangelove now reads like a subdued masterpiece of the subtle mimetic.

From last year theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

I just grabbed a copy of this at @oddmartmn.bsky.social !

TESS confirms what we saw with Kepler and K2 - on average, ***every single small red star has a planet around it***! And a short-period one at that (<30 days). And you know what the galaxy is mostly made of? Small red stars. PLANETS. PLANETS EVERYWHERE!!! Happy weekend pondering that, everyone.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

For no reason, just posting this here as a reminder that art doesn’t need to be owned by a corporation and sold and conglomerated for billions. Support indie art. It is (almost literally) the only art that remains🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

“I sing nature, The evening stars, the tears of the morning, The sunsets on the horizon far away, The sky that speaks to the heart of future existence!” —R.W. Chambers, 1895 ⚜️ From “The Street of The Four Winds” 👑 In “The King in Yellow” 📚 #booksky 💀 #horror 🌌 #poetry

"he told me he was afraid he would lose his job if he didn't do this." The banality of evil right there. Someone engaged in the torture and experimentation on another human being doing so because they don't want to lose their job.

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

Tune in to: How Do Social Media Feeds Actually Work? a panel discussion w/ Knight Institute Sr. Policy Fellow @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, and C4D's Laura Edelson (@whiskeyocelot.bsky.social) and @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social. Thurs. Feb. 26, 1-2 pm. Streaming: www.youtube.com/@Cybersecuri...

It's amazing to think that just two years ago we thought he was running for President to stay out of prison for simply organising a coup attempt.

Oh, they "expected something like this to happen," just not to them. If you don't want "inhumane" things to happen to your family, maybe don't vote for the people promising to do inhumane things to anybody. www.postandcourier.com/columbia/new...

Just a reminder that the Stop Insider Trading Act is a farce that provides members of Congress with loopholes so that they can continue to enrich themselves. To get serious about banning congressional stock trading, pass the Restore Trust in Congress Act.

Oh this is absolutely going on top of my precariously teetering emotional support #TBR pile. #booksky #horror #weird

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

It learned it all from the horrible people building it.

People saying OpenAI reporting a user it banned for posts about gun violence would be mass surveillance are fucking idiots. The tech industry *is* mass surveillance. There is no genAI or ChatGPT without mass data collection on everyone. Don’t like mass surveillance? Stop using fucking chatbots.

Also the people talking about pronouns too much are transphobes Everyone else is just using them

I'm here to read #weird #horror #books

@tenebrouspress.bsky.social didn't have to go so hard on their packaging but I'm damn glad they did for my copy of @kristalstittle.bsky.social book KAYAK! LOOK!

The name of my lab equipment dev station #engineering #software #code #Python

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

I scrolled past @theonion.com, reading the title and preview far too many times to determine if it was real, fake, real fake, or satire.

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

What bop you got stuck in your head? 🎼"Oh Marceline! Why are you so mean?" 🎶 🎼"I'm not mean. I'm a thousand years old and I lost track of my moral code." 🎵 #AdventureTime

ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.

@brandenburgdm.bsky.social The Dogmen Fudge Incident is a blood, chocolate, vomit, and gore soaked boss-level fight of a story. Howling good time! #booksky #horror

Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer to autocracy or may already be there.

A federal tool to identify noncitizens on voter rolls keeps making mistakes. “This is not ready for prime time,” a county clerk in Missouri said. “And I’m not going to risk the security and the constitutional rights of my voters for bad data.”

Literally

Trans people for the past decade: This isn't actually about sports or ensuing there's appropriate screening before someone starts medically transitioning. The goal is to effectively criminalize the existence of all trans people. Very Reasonable Journalists: You're crazy

"When pretending to have moral limits becomes inconvenient to white supremacy, moral limits are thrown out."

The plot to enslave America:

The basic problem is that the spinning Earth is 1. not a particularly accurate clock 2. the most important clock, ever

“Karen was incarcerated for a total of six weeks – even though she had been travelling with a valid visa. “So why did ICE detain her... ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.”

“Academic research shows that investigative reporting, NGO advocacy, and scholarly scrutiny pushed Chinese authorities from denial to dismantling parts of their mass detention system for Uyghurs.”

“What the truth can do is shine a light to a better future.”

If you see this, post a princess. Princess Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind