i have told people i know point blank that musk has hundreds of thousands of deaths on his hands and provided links to reputable sources. i did the same with the CSAM stuff. it deeply frustrates me that they just act like its not real

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

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

Going back to Musk launching unguided missiles after seeing NASA pull Artemis 2 off flawlessly really puts everything into perspective.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Based on everything we keep seeing I just don’t know how people are so reflexively defensive of Obama, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries etc. They’ve all fucking failed us. Their job was/is to fight the right and they don’t do it.

When somebody gives a commencement address, gets booed, and doubles down by telling them essentially that they are peasants and have no choice about anything, you know that the audience for that behavior is not the students. The audience is, for lack of a better term, the discourse.

It’s weird how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”

my internet bill steadily increased a little bit at a time over the last two years until it was 50% higher than the original rate for the exact same service and in order to do anything about that, i have to argue with a robot for an hour to get a $20 discount. i love living this way.

Cleansing your feed.

Not only that, but the common mainstream understanding became "Democrats defunded the police", even though the calling card applause line for the leader of the party was "I don't want to DEFUND the police, I want to give them MORE funding". Brain-numbing stuff

omfg this is so unbelievably evil

again... llms cannot count or do math... it's a very simple truth and somehow corporate types are unable to see it and another business learns this the hard way... another one to add to the list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"technology automates everything" is a story with two endings the utopian one where abundance allows everyone to live a life of leisure, and the dystopian one where all the benefits accrue to a small set of oligarchs and everyone else suffers the oligarchs are asking us to cheer for option B

it is baffling to me how people just don't understand that llms can't count or do math. they make up authoritative sounding lies. how are supposedly data driven business leaders are stymied by something this simple? (it's bc genai is being pushed on us by a cult that believes they're creating god)

All my friends who teach in higher ed have had that one student in your class: the clearly right wing student who is set in their beliefs/is just there to troll you and their fellow students. Not really interested in any learning. My question is how all of them ended up writing for the NYT.

The world’s first trillionaire being a guy who sits around and stews in white supremacy is a damning indictment of the system which gave him all those resources.

women of color (esp black women) being celebrated is something that really kills white supremacists at a soul level and you love to see it. seeing the british press melt down over meghan markle, for instance, has been really pathetic and telling. lupita's response to this is perfect

like to charge, reskeet to cast

oh man i'm like a couple seasons behind but if it made elon musk mad then i have to see it through to the end

i just do not trust a computer that can't do math

Everything starts with reining in the wealth and oligarchical classes. Taking back the trillions they stole from us, loosening their grip on our systems. All other reform of corruption and restoring and expanding our rights, addressing material conditions, depends on it. Otherwise they will stop us.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Try to imagine a Republican Party with a dozen or so staunch abortion advocates. A dozen pro-choice Republicans wrecking every shot at eroding women's autonomy, ruining every anti-choice vote. Can't picture it, can you? Yet we have to accept this kind of Democratic Party, for some reason.

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

I should probably mention I sell a bunch of anti-AI art on my website too www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/shop

On the tube

Something that should be clear in our era but remains obscured is that you can’t break politics down to metrics. Lots of polls showed that voters that Obama was too radical and he won by 10 points. Same pattern with Trump.

"don't vote for cops" is some of the best and most broadly applicable electoral advice you'll ever get

I don't think you could go too far wrong by finding out what Jeff Bezos wants and making sure the opposite happens

Resistance is not futile! AI is not inevitable, communities all around the world should decide how technology should be developed and used.

Death, taxes, and Elon breaking his promises.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

I think a lot of people should go to prison when this is over

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

this is a class of problems I call SPUDs -- Senselessly Prompting for Utterly Deterministic tasks. sometimes you just need a potato peeler, not the combined energy output of a nuclear reactor.

January 2020 has become my benchmark - there were already signs of the GOP pivot to anti-trans politics as their top issue, but no legislation had been passed in any state. If you think trans people had too many rights six years ago, there's no common ground on which we can meet.

this is sooooo pathetic... what a massive waste of resources

If this was African and African Diaspora Studies being mandated we’d see entire issues of prestige magazines pondering the disastrous implications.

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Over 1.3k comments, overwhelmingly in support of the student/against deadnaming. Overwhelmingly from locals and Mississippians. Transphobia isn't as popular among regular people as our political class thinks.

If you care even an iota about the trans community you don't want to see us stripped of rights that were uncontroversial as recently as 2020. This is not a litmus test or a purity test, it's an honesty test.

it's such a bummer that i have to care even the smallest amount what jeff bezos or musk or any of these guys think (not just for my job but bc their midlife crisis hobbies seem to be buying and destroying institutions)

imagine getting back the parts of your attention drawn into wondering “is that legal? can they get away with that?”

Don’t really care if you use DoorDash or not but you should have Catholic Guilt about it

The lesson I would take from this is that solidarity across ranks and including students works.

college budgets are for college learning! college communities want to learn together, not steal from themselves for grifter welfare and epistemic warfare.

The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will