The only thing that’s surprising about this story is that the stealing scammers actually responded to the public outcry.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Abolish ICE is the moderate position.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Exactly; one of the reasons for submitting code for review is to aid understanding across the team. Submitting AI-generated code that can't be explained to the team prevents this.

this is a very good thread. the point of rough drafts is that by creating them, you *learn about the nature of the problem you are trying to solve* and your new understanding shapes your strategy

The Trump administration putting the screws to their most consistent racist voters in the northeast, The White Men of Boston, just before the midterms seems like a bad plan

Hey venmo, if you care so much, a) default to private for all users, and b) for gds sake kill the feed!!!!!

Play stupid games etc

When people hear "it saved my life", there’s a presumption made that we mean without it we would quite literally die. And for many of us, that's absolutely true... But for those of us who rely upon it regularly.... it means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living."

This is fantastic, and it's something that we've been saying for years. When companies say that are using "AI for climate change", they are referring to much smaller models used for doing things like climate modeling. Massive generative AI models are NOT USEFUL for mitigating climate change.

openAI was never a nonprofit in the sense of not trying to make money but it's still a nonprofit in the sense of "not turning a profit"

“correlation is not cognition” — Guest & Martin (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s421... @olivia.science @andreaeyleen.bsky.social

Sometimes I have too many tabs, so my solution is to just open a new window. Then that one gets filled with tabs, so I open yet another new window. I can only imagine that the more times I do this, the better my mental health will be. Right? Right??

any man that so much as moves an icon on my desktop 5 pixels from where i put it is waking up on a mattress floating in the river, parent trap style

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

[hushed david attenborough voiceover] watch closely for a rare sighting of the elusive head of the Leopards Eating Faces party

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

this is why i use "predictive model" and ask "what does it predict?" they used a tool that predicts whether an "amino acid in a protein is likely to contact whatever chemicals that structure can bind" and one that "predicts whether any given protein is likely to form a stable structure"

ICE deportation agent: “Just to be upfront, the goal is to put as many guns and badges out in the field as possible.”

This morning, Ms. Rachel and I visited District 2 Pre-K Center, where we sang and read with the wonderful students and educators. We also discussed universal childcare - and how we're making it happen for NYC!

When in doubt, aurora borealis!

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

If you’re an indie artist working with a small, indie label, they usually handle digital distribution and don’t give you much of a choice in the matter. Depending on how “indie” you are, you may not have the leverage to push back against it.

As Ahmed Al Ahmed so clearly showed, when Republicans target and threaten Muslims simply for being Muslim, they abandon our core values and fuel hate and violence. This dangerous and baseless Islamophobia has no place in our country, particularly from our elected leaders.

"When same-sex marriage was still years away, there was America’s Uncle, straight as can be, demanding a future in which LGBTQ families be given a full stake in the American Dream and hurry the fuck up on that, please and thank you." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/americas-u...

There’s a whole thing in Hanukah about how you’re supposed to “publicize the miracle” except that there are all sorts of exceptions in times of danger. Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe. May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Oh you asked ChatGPT? Yeah well I told the wind and it just sighed.

Sohla is a queen. What if we didn't do this?!?

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

He said that software teams who were using AI coding tools were “45% more efficient” than those who didn’t. How was that calculated? Lines of code? Tickets completed? Actual products released to customers? Metrics are only useful if we know what they mean!

My hot take is: “cancel culture” simultaneously does too much and not enough. It angers people who want to be able to say whatever they want with impunity, and it doesn’t allow for actual accountability. There is no room for improvement, meaningful consequences, or reconciling with one’s actions.

evergreen

One of my uncles made a very rude and gross joke at my expense at a holiday dinner, that was overheard by another uncle and and a few male cousins, and not one person told him he was being an ass.

This makes me deeply sad but also 1000% doesn't surprise me. We northerners reeeeeally have to stop thinking that the South has the market cornered on racism.

I’m most of the way through The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social and for me the central thesis is that our entire economic system is based on a broken incentive structures where the goal is not to Do Good Work (cont)

Yet another reason why measuring the success of AI coding tools as “lines of code committed to production systems” is a poor metric. As a senior engineer, some of my most important work is knowing what code *not* to write.

The purpose of a system is what it does, etc.

Here's one of the main reasons why I'm 100% sure AI is in a bubble, regardless of any potential "success" it has in the next 6-12 months. Right now the majority of AI "success" at scale has been found in AI coding tools for software engineers. (thread)

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

I know NYT changes these headlines up now and then but.... 🥴 AM -> PM

I have received more pushback and antisemitism from Democrats telling me I'm a Bad Jew and have Betrayed My People for opposing the genocide than any other group

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

Framing this as part of the discussion about the cost of higher education in terms of ROI makes this even more salient. 🧵

The president is spending quite a bit of time on renovations to public property he personally uses while millions are about to lose food assistance and the government is shut down.