How strange that LLMs can't do a thing they were never even designed to do in the first place

Was this not… what critical AI researchers have been saying this entire time?

Check out our review paper published at PSPR! 🙂

Opp, can't believe I hadn't signed yet!

I mourn a communal ideology of vaccination that promoted universal vaccine uptake as a way to offer protection to everyone, including those who can’t get vaccinated. It really feels like the anti-vaxxers won with their focus on individual choice with no regard for the harm it would cause others.

Not to commit the sin of earnest posting, but what if the real political violence were the people we lost along the way (to racism, transphobia, ~capitalism~, colonialism, et al.)

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The thing is that police are both inefficient at solving crimes AND bad people so its honestly really hard to tell

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Cars really kill us in so many different ways 🙃

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Congrats to this bunch of devs! 🥰

Diablo devs unionize following layoffs and dissatisfaction with AI, pay aftermath.site/diablo-union...

not this line of code in my friend's program 😂

did a task that I forgot to put on my to do list what the hell

It's somehow comforting that even a bumbling idiot like Doug Ford can do good policy once in a while www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

This is the paper: www.pisavisionlab.org/wp-content/u... (Audiovisual continuous psychophysics! Very cool!) ((My own study is in VR and also records eye movements, so there is still new stuff in there)) (((I just wanted to be the multisensory continuous psychophysics guy!!! oh well!!!)))

SCOOPED! by the Italians

evidence based lesbianism

This actually just shows that not all murder poets are sexy

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

Its funny how many people take this as a criticism of PB

Cycling is a sustainable mode of travel that helps create a cleaner & less congested city. But, cyclists are disproportionately impacted by collisions & face a higher risk of serious injury. Let’s all work together to make our roads safe for everyone: www.toronto.ca/services-pay...

Somebody parked their bike on MY STREET POST!!! Outrageous

“Men suffer in silence” then why am I constantly hearing about it

fiertemontreal.com/en/event/dan... !!!

The only two contentious claims here are, to me, that 1) nobody on the left talks about it (imho it's just less visible for various reasons) and 2) that the left tells men to be ashamed of being men (that's right-wing propaganda)

the idea that “DEI” is to blame for racist assumptions about the ability of nonwhite people and not actual racism is such a perfect example of racecraft www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.

EX- CUSE- ME??? generative AI tools... are meant... to produce text, not support decision-making. Wtf ( : How the fuck are they supposed to support my decision making if I can't trust the """""information""""" they're giving me to be accurate??? This is from a @yorkuniversity.bsky.social training

Thank fucking god

Nooooooo, I saw it and was like "nah I don't have to dunk on this US small car-centric town mayor" BUT THAT'S MY FUCKING COUNCILLOR!! In mf Toronto!!!!! GIVE US MORE BIKELANES GODDAMMIT!!!

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Today in the UK, the Online Safety Act (2023) came into force. This means that social media companies are required to undertake age verification for users in the UK to see "adult content". And who decides what is and is not "adult content"? The social media companies themselves.

Councillor Dianne Saxe!

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was (ask the historian).

Not sure about faster or cheaper but Vienna shows that municipal rental ownership is, like, really good

You know if we had reasonable density we could afford all sorts of things 😭

“reaches for easy, self-flattering answers” “accepts hierarchy” and “engages in othering” are all mental shortcuts that make you stupid.

Better version of the meme.

5. The right-wing enthusiasm for AI science is not about doing better science faster. It’s about eliminating one of the most effective forms of societal resistance to authoritarian control.

Saxe is so weiiirrrrddddd

Revising my survey and experiments grad course and looking for examples of papers that do a good job of (really) integrating observational and experimental data. Suggestions? Self-reference welcome.

Punishment apparatuses do not alleviate violence, care apparatuses do.It’s a lesson that’s plain in the data but we’ve been ideologically&philosophically attached to ineffective approaches that make us feel tough/moral.We don’t have to be, though. In the 21st c we should invest in things that work.

and anti-fascism includes protecting sex workers!

Oh to live in an actual city 😭😭😭

Helpful here in explaining something that I’ve struggled to say succinctly: you cannot ever compromise with and win over the far right, you can only feed them various minority groups in bite-sized chunks until pretty much everybody despises you.