Rob Tesh

I do not have enough yikes

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

Screenshot of David Simon interview SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Bourgeois nativists spend a lot of time pretending their opposition to immigration is about working-class jobs/wages, but show them a society where all the real work is done by foreign guestworkers with fuck all rights and they're like "omg this is paradise"

ALT TEXT: A headline on The Courier website, reading "Tayport bus users threaten protest over Stagecoach plan to cut routes Tayport travellers were "incredibly angry" at a packed public meeting to discuss bus service changes to and from the town." Beneath is a photograph of around 40 people, seated in a public meeting.

ALT TEXT: A headline on The Courier website. The headline reads "Xplore Dundee posts record profit as ticket prices rise and wages increase The bus firm posted increased revenue and profit in the wake of ticket price increases." Beneath is a photograph of the male CEO of Xplore Dundee, smiling, standing in front of a large green bus.

How can some bus companies thrive while other are making cuts?

Bringing bus companies into public ownership would mean your ticket fare would go back into the service, instead of lining private pockets. People, over profit.

It works in Edinburgh, and it could work in Dundee.

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

Let's make hope normal again.

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Our members have voted to support industrial action to fight against job cuts passed today!

In the ballot our 72% of members were in favour of strike action, and 90% in favour of action short of strike. Turnout was 58%.

Thank you to all members, reps and officials for helping us get the vote out.

this is straightforward to reconcile imo - we dont have slurs for oil rigs or factory farms. i think treating LLMs as things to *de*humanize anthropomorphizes them too much already, which is tech marketing's desire - that's the thing the "friend" ads were looking for people to react with

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

- informed consent in primary care
- bulldoze every gender clinic
- hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there
- apologies + damages to patients denied care
- bosh ✊

If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.

“good news, we’ve created the playroom that tells kids whatever they want to hear and makes them not care about their parents from the seminal Ray Bradbury short story, Don’t Create the Playroom That Tells Kids Whatever They Want to Hear and Makes Them Not Care About Their Parents”

what an absolute horror show. it calls for nothing less than ferocious resistance on every front.

*Cops experiencing policing for the first time* wait are we the baddies?

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

The essay is great not just because it is a fantastic polemic but also because it is a beautifully crafted work of prose.

It is an answer to what writers can and should do with our time in the era of GenAI: craft fucking fantastic sentences.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Angst (Nordic style)
Latex Armaments (US style)

prescriptions are fascism

it should not be illegal to buy medication without getting a doctor to allow you to do so

i should not need to see a doctor multiple times a year to ask for permission to have a working endocrine system

because that permission can be denied and be turned into a weapon

And to piggyback, drawing a line almost always comes with a cost.

Drawing lines early on fascism cost a lot of us, pretty early on.

Most media elite folks still don't want to pay that cost because (rightly) it might cost them their media elite status.

And so they balk at line-drawing.

The Courier yesterday stated that Nigel Seaton will be staying on for another year.

We strongly oppose this reporting.

As they mention, Court will have to give final approval But this is reported as a done deal. It isn’t!

All Court members should be able to share their views at the next meeting.

Given how mindbogglingly vast wage theft is versus literally all forms of robbery and burglary combined, the entire system would crash to a fucking halt the instant people simply refused to work for free.

eg I don't want cis people who just go around saying "trans rights are human rights"

I want cis people who actually know what opposing trans rights is and how that's affecting our lives on a daily basis. I want them disgusted with what we have to live through to the point they fight for better.

That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing.

Not distressing.

Full tilt disturbing.

When they bring out an annoying guy to sit with you before dinner, an amuse douche if you will

From Express article: Party co-leader Ross Greer – a rabid republican – will move an amendment to the Housing (Scotland) Bill to close the loophole which allows the monarch to purchase property in Scotland without paying any Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT).

Always a good sign when the newspaper of the far-right is raging.

I think one of the richest families on the planet should pay their taxes. What about you?

basically, if your pretty meagre proposal for climate action got massacred by corporate lobbyist and culture war freaks then what you're seeing is not messaging failure, it is that capitalist democracy and climate action are largely imcompatible.

I gave a speech to the Stop Trump demo in London yesterday. The loudest cheer I got was when I said this;

“Transphobia is now central to fascism.

It is not peripheral, it is front and centre, it is a core component of fascism.

If you are transphobic you are a fascist.”

Maybe sounds a little conspiratorial, but I think we are seeing the capitalist class realize that climate change poses a threat to their economic system and backing fascism to maintain it. I think the media's acceptance of Gaza and the canonization of Kirk are part of that change.

every video game is either bouba or kiki

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Acceptable Losses Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...