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Love that how Bluesky is handling 85% of the people from Gaza entering stage five of a famine is by mass deleting their accounts again

Imagine not just the sheer physical amount of waste produced, but the amount of investor cash spent on this folly.

Anthropic isn’t a company, it’s a black hole for VC cash. $5.6B in losses last year, much more this year.

Nope, this happened.

really enjoying reading _The AI Con_ which just came out! "To put it bluntly, 'AI' is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase 'artificial intelligence' is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies + 1/2

The whole idea of "antiwar" Trump has long rested on a confused reading of his hatred of multilateralism, the international order, and the Deep State. He doesn't hate those things for "dovish" reasons. He hates them for degenerate/corrupt reasons.

Thoughts on that:
newrepublic.com/article/1969...

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children

The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted

Women and children in parks

View of the No Kings protest from the 4th floor of the Boise Capitol Building

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO?

#NOKINGS

Sydney morning herald front page. The headline above a photo of a bombed apartment building says ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES

that’s a residential apartment building, Bevan.

Gen-AI moment is like early 2000s when aerial images proliferated but cultural aerial vocab lacked so the state read them for us as pseudo-empirical images. The power that produces such tech paradigms always takes advantage of the novelty period where interpretative lexicons are still developing.

It's like all the tech bros trying to defend AI after ChatGPT lost at chess to an Atari. Their argument is that the Atari is custom built to play chess. And that is the point. LLMs are great at synthesizing data into something that sounds good. But that doesn't mean they can actually do the work

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

First messy breakup of Pride Month 💅

“𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺.”

- Nam June Paik

Vibe researching

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

Alas no!

Did Native Americans have habeas corpus when they were death marched to reservations?

Did African Americans have habeas corpus during chattel enslavement & mob lynchings?

Did Asian Americans have habeas corpus during purgings & Internment camps?

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

Why Physical Media Deserved To Die Over the course of more than a decade, physical media has gradually vanished from public view. Once computers had an optical drive except for ultrabooks, but these days computer cases that even sup…

At some point in the last 25 years, corporations managed to convince people that it was worthwhile to trade control over our own information and actual ownership of the things we purchase for convenience. Things that used to be "normal" are now seen as "luxury goods" that demand a premium.

Are you talking about the performing artists or the crowd?

Futurism AI Killed the Radio Star May 2, 9:51 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College's Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Site "It undermines our community for lazy profit. Exactly the opposite of our greater goal." / Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Slop/ College/ Radio Image: A skeleton in a suit looking at a computer screen featuring a photo of Richard Gere, with the text "HOMELESS????" overlaid on it. In the background is a radio tower.

NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out misinformation-littered AI slop for profit.

futurism.com/emerson-coll...

everybody gets digital mummies, lifeless nth-order approximations (as are we all), and the most wifeless neckbeards ever will chime in chorus "our consciousnesses have been DIGITALLY UPLOADED, we're gonna live forever maaan" (digital soul lost to data corruption, under/over, 20 years)

The Freedom Flotilla’s ship ‘The Conscience’ has come under attack in international waters by armed drones. The ship was unarmed and onboard were 30 non-violent humanitarian activists preparing to sail to Gaza and challenge Israel’s illegal siege and blockade.

They’re both very evil and very stupid

Wait did Bluesky really truly bully Adobe off this platform because if so I take back every flippant shitpost about this place being boring af and pledge my undying devotion 🦋

Consider the story of Kseniia Petrova, the Russian anti-aging scientist who had her visa revoked for not declaring medical samples that her Harvard lab director had asked her to bring into the United States. America used to recruit such brilliant and dedicated scientists. Now, we give them away at the behest of men like Marco Rubio. She is in a jail cell in Louisiana, worried she will be deported back to Russia, where she had protested its authoritarian leader. Harvard has done little to object. She said: Even immigrants here, they have to have some rights. But it seems that nobody really cares about our rights here…This is not the kind of America I used to know

US higher ed is:
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

IN THE FUTURE WE WILL HOLD WITH REVERENCE THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OUR COMPUTERS CAME FROM THE GROUND.