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This asshole keeps fucking trying this anti-regulation "AI" shit. Democrats! There are literally Millions of people waiting for you to present the neat & compelling connections btwn nonconsensual "AI," data centers, affordability, quality of life, corporate greed & billionaires' theft & entitlement

I live in a deep red part of central TX in a medium sized city that is a medical & economic hub for all the small —2,000-10,000 people—30-60 miles away. I have watched as (different) data centers have tried to build in each one, only to be told ‘no’. Now they’re going to the littlest towns until yes

Having recently reread Carpe Jugulum and just now finishing rewatching Sinners, wow do thise ever have some interesting things to say to each other

Nooooooo! The BEST, the MOST it will tell you is SOMETHING of what it's been trained on, and SOMETHING of the weights it uses to transform that, and that ONLY by inference and Not With Certainty. Why can people not understand this???

Listening to a biography, narrated by Levar Burton. It's wonderful.

This asshole keeps fucking trying this anti-regulation "AI" shit. Democrats! There are literally Millions of people waiting for you to present the neat & compelling connections btwn nonconsensual "AI," data centers, affordability, quality of life, corporate greed & billionaires' theft & entitlement

Still feel like if Dems wanted to fully own the midterms they'd just need to hammer Epstein links, vibe w/ the people who are out protesting over "AI" data centers making their water & power bills & air quality worse, & then link those to talk affordability, QoL, & corporate/billionaire excesses

If you had told me ten years ago that every candidate running in the 2026 midterms would have some section of their campaign platform devoted to the idea of "artificial intelligence," I'd've said "god i hope so." But that damn monkey's paw knew that, too.

C'mon propublica, not you too. I just… don't fucken do this, man… Not the people who literally broke the story about how "AI" systems disproportionately harm the already marginalized, reinscribing prejudice into supposedly objective process w/ life & death results. All that shit's still there, y'all

I mean, they probably thought they were cooking with "even AI says AI hs bad" but i just… there are so many layers of bad understanding here

Entropy wins and everything changes, so what we do to and for ourselves and each other between now and the heat death of the universe is the only thing that matters. Change happens, always, and so what do we want the experience of that change to look and feel like?

Exactly a year old, this thread, and exactly the same sentiments.

Every day i walk into a classroom and teach an actual class on technology and disability or data ethics and "AI" using human words in real language instead of chain-smoking a pack of unfiltered Lucky strikes and alternately weeping and screaming, i should get some kind of nice treat.

… y'all I'm so tired

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

I’m glad they’re striking, I hope they win. I’m already disgusted that ProPublica has been using NOA for narration on their stories, which used to employ voice actors to using genAI. And they’ve been using genAI/LLMs for research (this piece is pathetic) It’s just disgusting.

Jfc

using "shame causes more harm than help" to defend AI writing is wild. that phrase is for destigmatizing mental health, addiction and SA not for protecting people who use plagiarism machines to plagiarize. absolutely pathetic framing.

… y'all I'm so tired

I was thinking about this earlier, and trying to find the comment where somebody pointed out that the problem is not being mean to a robot or computer program, cmon, it's the attitude that it's super fun and exciting to have a slur-shaped word you're allowed to use.

Under a new state law, starting tomorrow, stores in our state are required to allow you to pay in cash.  Businesses can't deny access to necessities by refusing to take cash or charging more for paying in cash.   You have a right to service no matter how you pay.

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it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work

C'mon propublica, not you too. I just… don't fucken do this, man… Not the people who literally broke the story about how "AI" systems disproportionately harm the already marginalized, reinscribing prejudice into supposedly objective process w/ life & death results. All that shit's still there, y'all

the thing about the Olde Twitter culture whereby leftism equals being a belligerent dickhead, and the bigger a belligerent dickhead you are the more radical your leftism, is that invariably you get guys who just like saying slurs and reverse engineer "left" excuses for doing it

MAGA is red Cats chase a mouse

Mayne listen… you don’t choose the stim the stim choose you You just gotta find somebody who alright with it

right this way buckaroo

Using a generative AI agent is like having a utility infielder on a baseball team who occasionally goes around kneecapping the other players and shouting slurs

Huh! Apparently it's Sister Rosetta's birthday today!

One thing about synthetic imagery of all types—photo compositing, fax, cgi—is that it gets more obvious over time as the artifacts which characterize it tend to pop out for people more. Makes sense this would have an age curve but it’s more about relative familiarity I think.

at least ghosts won't harvest my data for the surveillance state 🤷🏾‍♂️

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"Your life is worse off because those in power don't like Black people," me ON #VibeCheck TODAY. 😭 I got to join the AMAZING @theferocity.bsky.social and Zach Stafford to discuss history, pop culture, and the Business of Black women. One of my favorite conversations TO DATE.

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March 20th is Fred Rogers' birthday. Be a beautiful neighbor, or maybe even just spend some time figuring out how and planning to be the best neighbor you can.

March 20th is Fred Rogers' birthday. Be a beautiful neighbor, or maybe even just spend some time figuring out how and planning to be the best neighbor you can.

brain? brain. can we please PLEASE stop waking up at like 7.30 and not getting back to sleep until like 9+

They're trying to build a data center over my hometown nature preserve and I am losing my fucking MIND

Co-sign

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These are the roots of singularity & consciousness uploading vogues: this terror of death & impermanence. I been there, man; it takes you down some strange roads. But imagine understanding that everything that ever did or will or could exist still and already does, just by dint of time and change…

Hey y'all? If there is one place you absolutely Do Not Want profit-motivated surveillant "AI" bullshit to start creeping in, it's your interpersonal sex life. If you're a tinder user, don't just Not Accept this plan to have "AI" scan your photos to make a profile of you, actively & Loudly reject it

These are the roots of singularity & consciousness uploading vogues: this terror of death & impermanence. I been there, man; it takes you down some strange roads. But imagine understanding that everything that ever did or will or could exist still and already does, just by dint of time and change…

It's interesting to think that one of the big drivers of generative AI is very extremely obviously the weird relationship with their mortality that billionaires have. Middle-aged and over billionaires, desperately and pathetically seeking immortality, turning to whatever snake oil promises it.

think about age gating for "adult content," think about anti-trans laws, think about period tracker data being turned into abortion tracking data, think about all the times and ways gender and bodily autonomy and consensual sexual activity between adults has been criminalized. You Do Not Want This.

Hey y'all? If there is one place you absolutely Do Not Want profit-motivated surveillant "AI" bullshit to start creeping in, it's your interpersonal sex life. If you're a tinder user, don't just Not Accept this plan to have "AI" scan your photos to make a profile of you, actively & Loudly reject it

We very much need to remove the profit motive from medicine and technoscience like right now