Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Reposting my @cafedotcom.bsky.social piece from October ICYMI open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

This is one of my favorite covers because its straight quaver approach is so different from the original, while still being an homage to the original and nothing like the whitewashed versions.

Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains

A well-deserved third #Walkleys Award for cartoons to David Pope. #GazaGenocide

If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:

This is a great discussion of why films, generally, are so visually underwhelming now.

RIP Jimmy Cliff Worth taking 3 minutes this morning to watch this profound and lovely performance. And if you’re my age, to remember where you were when you first heard the song. #ManyRiversToCross youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ

Jeffries as speaker would be like watching the NY Giants defense get a turnover and then having to watch the offense go 4 and out, again. If AOC isn't on the short list, the Dems aren't taking it seriously.

TBH, the fact that appointments were purchased does explain a lot.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Confirming, as someone of the same age, that if when you told someone that Glen Matlock was kicked out of the Sex Pistols for liking the Beatles the implications was, "I would have been kicked out of the Sex Pistols, too."

We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme. It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism. www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Many happy returns to #ChelseaWolfe born 14 November 1983

“Capitalism demands the best of every man – his rationality – and rewards him accordingly." -- Ayn Rand

"The science is evolving quite rapidly and time is running out to do anything about it because the tipping point may well be quite close," says PIK's @rahmstorf.bsky.social in this piece on Iceland declaring the potential collapse of #AMOC a national security risk. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them

Andy, who sat behind me in Geometry, lent me this cassette and changed my life.

One on side, the Trump administration is arguing that hormones are "mutilating" when used by trans people. When used by cis people, they are removing all the warning labels and increasing access. Funny how that works. archive.ph/JhbUF

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything." For once, I believe him.

I think an important part of becoming an adult male is realizing that anyone appealing to your ‘masculinity’ is trying to use your insecurity against you to sell you something. Don’t fall for this shit! You’re fine just the way you are, these assholes can all get fucked.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Maplewood, NJ stepping up.

That lamp looks PISSED.

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

This is the hype video the White House posted when they arrested Sandwich Guy, who was found not guilty today.

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this. Incredible timing.

With an entire country's ages 5-17 kids (England), this study again confirms the benefits of Covid vaccination. Meanwhile, just 15% of eligible US kids are up to date on this vax.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Every one of us should be asking: what risk does a raid like this actually mitigate and what risk does it introduce? I don't see how the former comes anywhere near the latter.

A few years ago, Republicans were talking about turning Puerto Rico into a fossil fuel playground. But reconstruction has failed so badly that it's instead become a testing ground for distributed solar, which has become one of the few bright spots. Remarkable. www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis...

Could errors from an AI surveillance tool cause ICE to grab and detain you? The agency’s use of facial recognition — and alarming new details on its reckless procedures for doing so — make that sci-fi-sounding nightmare an all too real risk, writes CDT surveillance expert Jake Laperruque.

This is the most profoundly American thing I have read in a good long time. The one true thing about this country is that we are a noodle bowl of entwined diasporas, and the genius of the arrangement is that “I’m an American” applies universally anyway. Go watch An American Tail with your kids.

Technically, I think this should be "criminals indistinguishable from US immigration officers".

each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.

"She even won Morris County, which hasn’t gone for a Democrat in 52 years." This may reflect that many "Frelinghuysen Republicans" have stuck to their principles far longer than Rodney Frelinghuysen did.

This seems huge, and deserves more attention. SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights. Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court. Feds fail us, states step up.