I think it reveals the main goal of the c-suite in pursuing genAI is to increase labor precarity. The ability to fire untold numbers of workers because of AI, even if the AI isn't working, is enough.
ok but real talk i don't like thinking about my neglected neopets, now i'm going to have to go feed them...
The US and Israel are bombing schools, hospitals (nine hospitals) and other civilian facilities in Iran. They have massacred over 700 civilians, including nearly 200 children. Absolute genocidal monsters.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
BTSisms:
HS: Minutely describing a hot Jimin photo
JK: Perking up thinking of Joon’s thighs
SJ: Smoothly downplaying his own talent
NJ: Envy at Jin’s effortless deflections
TH: Love for the BTS back catalog
YG: Styling based on his parents opinions
JM: Saying he’d feel Tae up on their first meeting
Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”
I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.
It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.
As AI/sw approaches human reliability for a task, ppl instinctively/unwittingly go from using it to verify/backup labor to multiply labor, lowering cost & quality.
ADAS/ADS calls this mode confusion and it's the core dilemma of Tesla FSD & Waymo.
Mode confusion => over trust and don't verify.
Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.
So, the take away here?
The US Military intentionally targeted a girl's school in Tehran with the goal as killing as many as possible.
people.com/nearly-200-k...
you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .
this is kind of random but i image searched "azalea banks" on duckduckgo b/c i couldn't remember what she looked like and they delivered me results for the search "azalea banks nude"... like that is not what i asked for what is going on??? i thought we were making the internet safer for kids lol
AZEALIA BANKS V @iiwasinthee212 X.com I got paid lol. Its not 7k a post but i def get paid for every Israel mention. Even the troll posts are paid.... * The General • @GeneralMCNews • 22h BREAKING: Israeli officials allegedly hired social media influencers for $7,000 per post, failed to pay them, and are now facing lawsuits totaling millions of dollars over unpaid invoices. 8:40 PM • 04.03.26 • 2,5M Views
I gotta say if you hire Azealia Banks to do something for you and not know she’s also gonna do this… well…
i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money
Rule number one of being incredibly lazy at work is that if you find a way to automate your tasks you never say that in a place your boss can see or hear which is why, even by their own terms, people that won't shut up about LLM coding are dumb as rocks. "Yeah, that was all me man" is what you say.
Amazing how all the current GOP group chats inevitably devolve into the worst Nazi aspects of 8chan, surely this isn’t a sign of what the party has morphed into
Weird they were all guests on gavin newsom’s podcast
You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.
I'm teaching a graduate level seminar on community organizing this semester. One of the fun parts has been revisiting some old organizing 101 manuals. Here's one by SDS published in 1968.
archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/do...
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Hey all, sorry to say this, as I think I have well-intentioned friends who signed, but this "declaration" means nothing. Because Steve Bannon signed it, and he wants my family dead. So if you can sign along side him? At best, you got played. He's the "humanity in control". humanstatement.org
like i get that AI boosters have already decided that anyone who criticizes llms is a brain dead cultist who doesn't know what they're talking about but some of us are actually experts in our fields and are directly witnessing how llms are degrading peoples' ability to think at an alarming rate
I've literally never had an AI booster actually respond to criticisms of LLMs with anything other than hand waving and "well I like it so you're wrong and btw you better get on board or else" meanwhile i have 20+ pages of reasons why it is a harmful technology: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
:sigh: here's my response to this nonsense... again... (20+ pages of sources detailing why LLMs suck and are being overhyped by the least ethical people alive today): docs.google.com/document/d/1...
i coauthored a book about how black pastors in ohio mobilized for obama in 2012... hillary's campaign did not do this work and she paid the price: nyupress.org/978147980892...
