"The gun had been purchased by Reynolds, but was given to the Kollmans in exchange for a PS5." America.

I was trying to be nice. I think I need more practice.

This is a good thread. I used to tell people that we need more nuance in these discussions. But honestly I don't ever expect that to happen. It's not that people don't understand nuance. It's that they don't wanna be responsible for figuring it out.

Damn. They even ran Rob off the internet. The nicest and most uncontroversial person you can imagine. Literally all he does is read comic books and explain them to people. But he followed the wrong person on twitter and now we get the "taking a break" video. Makes me sad. youtu.be/xJcxuqCxfqw?...

I'm trying to find where i predicted that they would eventually surface ads in ai chatbots. Anyway that's still gonna happen, but it turns out they're starting with shopping. www.modernretail.co/technology/s...

Carrying my Birth Certificate with me at all times now. It didn’t have to be this way.

I'm finding a new therapist, and I just got off an intake call. I don't know if it's a millennial or gen z thing. I know professional norms are gonna shift with generations. But please don't tell me you think I'm gonna "crush it" at therapy. I know what you meant. But still.

They didn't let him stay. There was a heated political battle, and he won with the help of Satya Nadella from Microsoft. Microsoft had invested a shit ton in OpenAI and they bet big on Altman. So they had to back him. The opposition was ousted.

This is an easy one. The answer is no. Sam Altman cannot be trusted. He does not control our future though. We are giving it to him. That's a different thing. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I single-handedly run all the same technology that Bluesky, the ~40 person, $136M company does. My @blackskyweb.xyz team does full-stack content-moderation, ships products core to our mission + partners with orgs so we can be a long-term sustainable business If you rely on us pls pay a subscription

Whew. This point cannot be overstated. We have a society that was made susceptible to giving away their agency to AI. Because all of the human institutions that we are supposed to be able to trust have failed us repeatedly. At least the robot doesn't treat you like you're stupid.

All right, live whatevering of Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. Arguing for the bad guys is US Solitictor General John (voice is an immutable characteristic so let's show some respect) Sauer. For the plaintiffs it's ACLU legal director Cecillia Wang.

OH: the fastest way to show to your board that your company is really using AI? Sign up for a Claude enterprise plan and pay 5X the cost!

White people fantasies are wild.

Oh shit.

Imagine you bought a new TV and paid $600. Then, you find out a week later that your friend in Hartford paid $300 for the same model. You'd feel like you got scammed. Now imagine you were only allowed to buy from the $600 store, just because of where you lived.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

Okay. Nobody asked for this. But Let me just say that the writing for Magneto in Marvel comics over the years is some of the most fascinating explorations of white people's psyche that we are able to directly observe.

Nice.

I don't think transphobia is more broadly accepted than racism, I think racism in western countries just basically runs on autopilot right now and doesn't need to be pushed by celebrity authors in the way transphobia does.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

I hear this. And I don't mean to sound argumentative. But I feel like it useful to give people real information about these companies executives. The layoffs are not about AI. They are about the stock market. AI is just today's excuse. The last excuse was the pandemic.

when companies come crawling back from the ai bubble burst and need Premium Grade Artist Labor again

Ryan Coogler joins Jordan Peele as the only Black filmmakers to ever win Best Original Screenplay at the #Oscars

"Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world."

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Yikes. I continue to believe it's unfortunate that this technology was developed in the age of scammery. Because that ends up being what it's used for, even though that doesn't have to be the case. This tech is a direct reflection of this moment in history.

Iran right now.

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

America stop killing Black and brown people. Challenge impossible.

This is a good thread. The context is relevant for professionals who work in tech. But I think there are some interesting things here for anybody who's trying to wrap their heads around "videcoding" and what the actual impact is. Not sure everything here resonates with me. But good analysis.

My wife and I went globally viral for about 3 weeks after we told the story of delivering our daughter in our bed at home .

This sounds bananas to me. There is no reason the actual moderation needs to be tied to the account itself. And even if it is, just don't allow blocking the account. Why give people no indication that this is a problem and then suspend them?

There are a lot of things wrong with this. (Like a lot of things). But what stood out to me was "llms don't feed and validate narcissists". Like they absolutely do? These things feed you back exactly what you wanna hear. By design. Don't use ai for therapy. Full stop. Don't do it.

Reminder.

Man. Listen.

What are people using for creating temporary short links these days? I want the link to actually expire after some set time. Please don't say bitly.

I do gotta say that if anyone had told teenage me that someday I would be prepared to personally bail out an entire high school but the woman who made The Matrix did it instead I would definitely have been like “ok somebody needs their meds adjusted” What an absolute real one. Thank you, Lilly 😭

We can't even get people to get off Facebook and Twitter for their own good. I stopped expecting them to grasp geopolitical trends. I haven't yet found the right message that makes the average person start to understand why things are so messed up.

Liberal people constantly underestimate the impact of conservative sentiment in this country. Republicans have understood this for a long time. The same way white people from the heartland think they are "the real America", white liberals think their culture is "the real culture".

I was not ready for where this woman went at the end of this video.

These folks have sat in front of Congress and lied to their faces. I'm not sure what we expect to change. Go ahead and haul them in. When they feed you some bullshit and nothing changes, then what? We need to be talking about what happens after your soft power no longer works.

Yep.

I’m not going to get into this again but the defund the police critique remains complete bullshit yes we can was nonspecific lock her up doesn’t lay out why or for what make america great again couldn’t be less specific this critique is pure reactionary nonsense filtered through pundits

I'm in this bar and the TV is showing a T-Mobile commercial with Druski sitting next to Zoe Saldana. I don't watch commercials that much at all these days. Are y'all okay?

New internet insult unlocked. When someone is being an insufferable dick, be really patronizing and sarcastic. Tell them they're a special little guy and if they grow up big and strong they might get to be president one day.

There are certain tactics which are universally condemned because they do ultimate and lasting harms. You don't do foreign ops by claiming you're medical personnel...or you can't do medicine because of generational suspicion. When they claim to need help or are in distress to do harm? Same shit.

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

#amquerying Am open to be represented by the right agent for me. Need literary representation again so bad. Universe help! How I've cried to you & begged.

Right? I been paying for my mom's phone for almost 2 decades. When white people talk about what's happening with them, it almost never sounds like what's happening with us. Bruh of course your parents can afford your phone. Our parents had a different experience.