Kate Clancy

Personally, I find these comparisons a bit grand, and am skeptical that A.I. will bring about two hundred years’ worth of economic and cultural transformation in just a couple of decades, as Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, who is among Silicon Valley’s more careful C.E.O.-prognosticators, has suggested it might. But I also don’t know that slowing the rate of data center construction will stop A.I. from introducing machine hallucinations into the conduct of war; from destabilizing employment patterns by bringing about widespread layoffs, and contorting surviving kinds of work, too; from polluting the internet with slop; from interfering with education; from making dating an exchange between chatbots; and from turning what we call writing into something extruded by prompting, and moviemaking or music into things done entirely within a machine.

Pretty disappointing and weird piece from @dwallacewells.bsky.social here dismissing opposition to data centres in the US as hollow "NIMBYISM" or at best a second-order reflection of anxieties about AI

No chance communities have reasonable concerns, not possible.

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And this was a strategy used by Israel against Gazans first

www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

We can hold two truths at once.

Hegseth saying "we, of course, don't target civilians" a day after he said there are "no stupid rules of engagement." If anyone ever needed a trip to the Hague, it's that guy.

It seems irrelevant? The government and Anthropic seem to admit that they integrated Claude into a targeting tool in a breathless WashPo piece about how they were able to hit so many targets so quickly. It's not an appropriate use of LLMs period whether or not THIS incident was Claude provided.

Right, I think these are the two relevant sources on which this is based, but it's not clear if there's a link between them

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I know this is only 1 of at least 1000 atrocious war crimes in recent memory, but the fact that Claude, which is supposedly the "less evil" genAI, is responsible for the death of all those little girls, should really get the folks insisting "ooh Dario is totes better than Sam" to STFU.

100 girls are dead because of generative AI

I think people pointed out years ago that genAI would be weaponized by governments and used to justify war crimes, because once you outsource mass civilian death to a machine, you can just say the machine made a mistake. Israel & the US have been bombing children non-stop for 2+ years.

Your periodic reminder that if you mention the name "Rahm Emanuel" to any sentient adult from Chicago, they will make precisely the same face as if you were to hand them a dead rat on a platter.

If you look at the list of peptides, one of the peptides on that list (Melanotan II) is one where my husband treated someone in the ER who lost the ability to speak in words for half a day after injecting it.

Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal • 6h X The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Some context to the Iranian boat that was targeted by US off Sri Lanka coast

Former Indian FM: “US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute”

Gaza, Sudan, Iran…

I don’t know how many more photos of parents grieving over fragments of children I can take, how many tiny bodies prepared for burial.

They’re all our children; my heart is big enough for them all.

you also have to contend with the fact that a taylor swift stan account will always be braver than you

I know that quote gets tossed around a lot but it - especially in context - really is important.

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I took my eight year old daughter to a protest on Saturday and my heart could hardly take it.

"The children are always ours, all over the globe, every single one of them. And I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this is incapable of morality." -James Baldwin

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

How to win in November

The man who got his arm broken, is Brian McGuiness. He is running for the Senate in North Carolina. If you can, vote for him.

We owe him that much for his arm, service, and his intent to do right.

This is Aly. She just learned about capitalism. Certainly not a perfect system, but if that is what it takes to put chippies on the table, she understands. 13/10 (IG: alythebichon)

Polish doctors jailed for denying woman abortion A Polish court on Tuesday sentenced three doctors to prison sentences over the 2021 death of a pregnant woman, which sparked nationwide protests and renewed scrutiny of the country's restrictive abort...

Justice for Izabela! A Polish court has sentenced three doctors to prison over the 2021 death of Izabela from sepsis during a 22-week miscarriage, after doctors refused to help. "This was a case involving extraordinary negligence, a pure disregard for the most basic and fundamental medical duties."

A lot of my former colleagues who deployed to Jerusalem had their USG property laptops and phones taken out of their possession at the airport/border for hours at a time, and had their hotel rooms clearly rifled through when they returned from work.

As U.S. escalates attacks, Iran hits American diplomatic targets in Middle East As U.S. and Israeli jets continue their punishing attacks inside Iran, the Islamic Republic has widened its targets throughout the Arab states of the Gulf, and against Israel. American diplomatic targ...

As U.S. and Israeli jets continue their punishing attacks inside Iran, the Islamic Republic has widened its targets throughout the Middle East. https://to.pbs.org/404ZS6X

Police Body Cameras: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Oliver takes a dump on the Schumer-led Democratic demands after Alex Pretti’s shooting — “masks off, body cams on” — noting the killers had fucking body cams on, that that footage exists, that it didn’t change shit, and that we’re likely never to see it b/c they were exonerated automatically.

My research is on working class women and AI and the ONE consistency among all of the interviews we’ve done so far is concerns about data centers and environmental impact. We do not bring it up - they do. Every single one.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20