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Damn.
Nothing positive comes from unleashing tech-empowered but otherwise utterly ignorant young bros - guided by simplistic, moronic objectives - on the work of serious scholars and researchers.
The plaintiffs’ lawyers also asked Mr. Fox about some grants flagged in his original ChatGPT search, like one for a documentary about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members. ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.
The plaintiffs’ lawyers also noted that Mr. Fox’s original ChatGPT search flagged a number of projects relating to the Holocaust, including the documentary about Jewish women who were slave laborers. Asked if he agreed with ChatGPT, Mr. Fox said: “It’s a Jewish — specifically focused on Jewish culture and amplifying the marginalized voices of the females in that culture. It’s inherently related to D.E.I. for that reason.”
These anecdotes distill the attitude pretty succinctly.
Can't study a Klan massacre because it's "Black history" (this would be news to the Klan!). Can't study labor in Nazi concentration camps, because it would "amplify" Jewish voices.
As evidence, the filing notes a list Mr. Fox compiled of what he called the "craziest" and "other bad" grants, which he planned to highlight on DOGE's X account. He used three dozen keywords, including "L.G.B.T.Q.""BIPOC," "tribal, "ethnicity," "gender," "equality," "immigration "citizenship" and "melting pot." (A majority of the two dozen grants deemed "craziest" related to L.G.B.T.Q. subjects.) In the deposition, Mr. Fox said the list reflected his "subjective" judgment about whether a grant might be out of line with Mr. Trump's executive order. "Crazy' is one way of saying it," he said. "Most incriminating' is another way."
Why did I think they simply canceled all of them. Nope it was discriminatory
Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
The higher effort version of this is that much of the research that purports to find human capabilities in LLMs neglects basic principles of scientific explanation.
A 🧵out of personal interest, not so much about specific uses.
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
Probably because they aren't white.
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
this is making me laugh so hard
"Iran is a big country, filled with many Iranians." -> things our media apparently does not know
If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?
But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.
having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.
We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
This was clear from the jump, but the Venezuela invasion going as smoothly as it did, from a pure operational perspective, is going to prove catastrophic in the long run.
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
A good letter from Senate Democrats demanding a federal investigation into the murder of a Philadelphia-born Palestinian American named Nasrallah Abu Siyam.
Interestingly, neither of the two senators from Pennsylvania itself signed on. Nor did either NY senator, one of whom is Minority Leader.
A Spring 2025 poll shows Canadians saw their fellow citizens as morally good more than any other country surveyed.
He used to say "like bitches" and replaced it in his mental lexicon with "dogs", like he did with the n-word and "low IQ individual". You can trace the origin of each of his verbal tics to specific slurs.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.
Margaret Atwood, Canadian author of the 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale, which was later adapted into a TV series that aired from 2017 to 2025.
Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories.
Men: What a scary time for men this is.
He brings to mind that Chris Rock bit about the janitor not wanting to trade places with him, "I'm gonna ride this white thing out, see where it takes me"
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 .
The term ”sodomy” low key the most successful and destructive psyop of all time. Cishets took a civilization getting smote for its lack of hospitality to the poor and the stranger and deflected the blame to gay sex for like a million years and counting.
“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“
A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
A picture of The Onion in print featuring this article posted on Twitter. https://theonion.com/anyone-else-have-those-weird-dreams-where-sobbing-future-generations-beg-you-to-change-course/
Grok being wrong: The Onion does have (hilarious) print editions, but this specific "Sam Altman" piece isn't from them—or any real outlet. It's a custom meme image made to look like one, floating around since at least February. Spot on for the satire though!
Wrong again, dumbass
They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.so... • 3h Who got us into "a situation like this?" Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com • 4h Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran: "Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"
Sometimes one can only look at a post and marvel.
