Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.

I was reading an article about how workers keep waiting for AI to reduce their workloads and wonder why it's not happening and in fact they are now expected to do MORE work. I feel we have fundamentally failed to communicate what capitalism is to a lot of people.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

This comic is sublime mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

If you genuinely believed you were 18 months from building a superintelligence that could cure cancer, you probably wouldn't pivot the entire company to horny chatbots. But I'm just a person with priorities. Maybe the path to solving death really does go through AI girlfriends. I don't have an MBA.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality of others living in the country as bad than good. Canada is on the opposiite end of the spectrum--they overwhelmingly see their neighbors as morally good pewrsr.ch/4ubNwaM

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

If I get one more email about Claude or whomever the fuck. 1. I wanna read my own shit. 2. I wanna write my own shit. 3. I wanna pay an editor to talk me through my own shit. 4. I don’t want that AI bullshit. If you don’t use it, you lose it. And I want to hold my brain as long as possible.

This is both a good joke and an accurate description of what using genAI to compile a bibliography does for you cognitively. You’re not learning anything if you don’t do your own generating. This is basic pedagogical stuff!

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I get it now. AI means “artificial information.”

We're at DEFCON covfefe-it-can-only-good-happen.

Why does my toaster want my Wi-Fi password

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

I saw someone compare Chuck Schumer to Neville Chamberlain, and damn is that ever accurate.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

Trump is calling on Iran’s civilians to “rise up” and take over their government for their safety and freedom, which is strange because back home US citizens are being shot, detained, or threatened simply for filming immigration agents and excercising their Constitutional rights

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

This is how a smart competent woman stand up for herself. Truth, facts and respect are how we move our country forward and out of the utter chaos we are currently experiencing! #SheShed #DefendersofDemocracy #StrongWomen

Hillary Clinton has officially answered more questions about Epstein than Donald Trump.

This Anthropic and Pentagon standoff is not getting enough attention. Anthropic is prepared to walk away from a $200M contract because they’re concerned about how the Pentagon wants to use their tech for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. We are at a dangerous intersection.

Publicly supporting women is nice, but what really matters is what men do behind closed doors. What matters is how they hold each other accountable. The men’s hockey team shouldn’t get a pass because they were in the locker room—that’s where women need their support the most.

The USA Women’s Hockey Team has officially passed on Trump’s State of the Union invite. I’m not saying women are better than men, or vice versa, but we can all draw our own conclusions knowing which team was excited by a man repeatedly mentioned in the Epstein files

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue @mluckovich.bsky.social never disappoints

Congratulations everyone

Maybe, Roger, men are able to achieve "real focus" because they've dumped all the work of care downstream onto women to manage, and leveraged their own privilege to keep those women from demanding more support from men.

This entire administration will go down in history as the world’s most extravagant grift.

"Why is everything so political now" mate, your grandparents died in a war about politics. It was always political. You were just comfortable.

Americans are told low taxes equals freedom. But freedom that disappears when you get sick, lose your job or age is conditional. The real question is not what you pay. It's what you get in return.

Kyle Bassinga, 21, was found hanging from a tree in Marietta, GA. Police quickly ruled it a suicide, yet most such acts occur privately, not in public. Why is the mainstream media silent on this? We need answers and transparency.

If you are radically altering someone’s job duties by asking them to do something outside the highly specialized job you hired them to do, you should be prepared for pushback. This is not complicated.

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South Korea’s former president was jailed for inciting an insurrection. Andrew Windsor was arrested for his connection to Epstein. Both of these cases exist in systems that are flawed, but operate. For Trump to remain a free man proves that the American system is all talk. Heartless. Empty.

Welcome to the Plutocracy

AI is not inevitable. If we had sane people in government that were not in thrall to billionaire tech CEOs, LLMs could be regulated, forced to obey existing copyright laws, and banned from places where their use is inappropriate, such as college classes. This should be a moderate position.

A woman could be arrested for seeking reproductive healthcare, but known pedophiles walk free just because they have a sizeable bank account. How are we “protecting women and children” again?

Trump tried to corner Canada. PM Mark Carney didn’t blink. He didn’t fly to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring! Instead he did what no Canadian leader has done in our lifetime. He told the president of the United States to go to hell! Now that’s how you handle a bully! #SheShed #DefendersOfDemocracy

Before W.E.B. Du Bois became a civil rights leader and sociologist, he was a young graduate student writing about cutting-edge economics. We spoke with Daniel Kuehn of @urbaninstitute.bsky.social about how Du Bois anticipated key ideas in marginalist wage theory. www.aeaweb.org/research/du-...

The reason Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon don't feel like Old Twitter is simple sociology: Community is path-dependent. You can move the people, but you can't move the history. www.joanwestenberg.com/communities...

This wasn’t just a halftime show. It was history. Resistance. Truth. Colonialism. Gentrification. Exploitation. The banned flag. The broken power grid. A call for sovereignty. Bad Bunny said it clearly: Seguimos aquí. 🇵🇷 #BadBunny #SheShed #Voices4Victory www.instagram.com/reel/DUi5tO0...

loved every second of Bad Bunny. That message of inclusion and a celebration of cultures like Puerto Rico’s is just what America needs right now. Plus, his music just gets you in motion. 10/10

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

Pressure works. OpenAI employees, and workers across tech, have been pressuring the bootlickers at the top to speak up. People like Altman don't like this kind of pressure. They literally want to become CEO-kings, and already think of themselves that way at their own companies. This is a big deal.

These are the reported tentative Democratic demands for funding DHS: - DHS required to cooperate with state probes - CBP stays at border - Warrants for arrests - IDs, bodycams - ICE out of churches, schools NOT ONE OF THOSE THINGS FIXES THE BEHAVIOR BELOW.

I struggle when someone recommends a podcast and it already has 800 hour-long episodes because I don’t have the time to get through all of those but now I have to.