Anthropic pushed back against the Department of Defense over concerns about mass public surveillance and the use of AI in weapons systems without meaningful human oversight. Now, the DoD has labeled the company a potential national security threat.
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"
counterpoint!
the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined
"I'm annoyed at how organic the pairing of Harley and Shaggy is."
—@gabrielenguard.bsky.social via @keepetclassy.com
I'm a man who appreciates a nice goth collared shirt. 🕸️ 💀
EVA cockpit interior
![Carmen Miranda's Ghost 04 - Bomber [HQ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/bafkreigh3rdkko2mgacia3jr2725a256dxvtktb2kfw557lbbahy3chk5u)
Sharing this filk banger apropos of nothing...
youtu.be/sjmnq44H6Wo?...
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]
Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o
i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api
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
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
“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.
The level of incompetence in this administration is staggering.
The federal government has approved new border wall construction in the Big Bend region of Texas, including stretches that would directly affect Big Bend National Park. Historically, Big Bend has not had a continuous border wall.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has ended restrictions that barred political appointees at the Justice Department from participating in political activities, according to a memo seen by NBC. The rules were originally put in place to avoid even the appearance of political influence, prohibiting those
Well, if this isn’t corruption in plain sight. If you don’t want consequences for breaking the law, then don’t break the law.
The Justice Department is now attempting to step into disciplinary cases being handled by state bar associations against its own attorneys.
Meta has a history of torturing their moderators and providing NOTHING in the way of mental health care. How do I know? Because I used to be a moderator for Meta and I got a $3,500 settlement for the PTSD they gave me.
When we tried to unionize, they moved their moderation to the Philippines.
This is the letter US senators sent requesting an official investigation into DOJ leadership blocking a civil-rights probe into the killing of Renee Good. The letter asks the Justice Department’s IG and Office of Professional Responsibility to determine who ordered the investigation stopped and why.
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
A win! Democrat Alex Holladay defeats Republican Bryan Renshaw by a 20-point margin in the Arkansas House District 70 special election.
and you're just saying that out loud, huh
Publicly, Sam Altman claimed OpenAI is amending its agreement with the Department of Defense(lies). Behind closed doors, however, he told employees during a Tuesday all-hands meeting that the company doesn’t “get to make operational decisions” about how its AI technology is used by the DoD. #QuitGPT
Major Kira holds her surrogate son Kirayoshi O'Brien on Deep Space Nine
I was wondering what the Star Trek equivalent Baby Bjorn is, and then it struck me: a Baby Bajoran! 😁
Gregory Kent Bovino is now under criminal investigation by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for his conduct during Operation Metro Surge.
In a new filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the U.S. Department of Justice formally pulled back its request to walk away from the legal battle involving four firms. The court hasn’t said how it will respond, and another government brief is due Friday.
Noem just defended referring to Pretti and Good as domestic terrorists.
Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, “You believe calling the victims of violence ‘domestic terorrists’ is a way to calm the scene?”
Scenes from a personalist regime
A coworker and I realized last night that the name of any sword also sounds like a fancy cheese.
"Can you pick up a half-pound of rapier, a quarter-pound each of cinquedea and flamberge, some nice sharp scimitar, and a good stinky grossmesser?"
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Shingle Diggins Family Restaurant in the TMNT logo style
