Michael Morrison

“Two independent analyses of social media content in the lead-up to the German federal election in 2025 have shown that extremist parties, in particular the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), were disproportionately favored by X, TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.”

[arse technica screenshot of a comment] The whole situation is so strange. I have started using Gemini quite a bit in the last 3-4 weeks, and it is shocking how good it is and how much detailed information it can give me about obscure topics like particular revisions of automotive parts or configuration settings. What's also eye-opening is just how often it's completely wrong. ...and when it's incorrect, it's confidently incorrect. It has suggested parts that fulfill my requirements that simply don't exist, and it has explicitly told me which programming values to change to update the 12V battery configuration in my Mach-e, and when verifying, those values are in the wrong location. It even explains why those are the correct parts or correct values. When I correct it, it says, "well spotted! Those are the correct values for the F-150 and x other vehicle. The correct value for your vehicle is 'y'". It's often still incorrect. It's so important to verify these things.

i literally do not understand ai clowns. under the latest arse technica fuckup ("oops we used ai and it made up direct quotes!") someone pipes in with how they've been using gemini, and how often it is completely wrong

why do you keep using it, then!? why are you like this!

I'm rewatching Ep1 now. It's a little wooden, but it's actually better than I remembered. I like the very lived in feel of the station. The details are well thought out.

BLUESKY, DISCORD AND ITS ALTERNATIVES, YOUR ART SITES, YOUR ADULT SITES, FANFICTION

ALL OF IT DIES WITHOUT SECTION 230 GET CALLING

#savespeech #stopcensorship #section230 #defendsection230 #defends230

this quoted post is uninformed nonsense. policy changes towards trans people have been profound at both the state and federal level.

the EEOC won’t even process charges of trans discrimination right now for fucks sake.

It was a long-simmering and deepening dismay with what this post describes that motivated me and @cnygren.bsky.social to propose this as one of our four frictions. www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

I said what I Fucking Said (original here: bsky.app/profile/wolv...)

They’re the World’s Most Hated Hockey Players—and America’s Greatest Hope Matthew and Brady Tkachuk are despised across the NHL. They are also the linchpins for a U.S. squad hoping to become Olympic champions for the first time since 1980.

this sentence is supposedly just about hockey

“instead of being better than their neighbors to the north, the Americans leaned into being meaner, heavier and generally more irritating”

www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

maybe the biggest difference between LLMs and every other computer you ever used is that other computers can A) do math and B) give you an error message if you try to get it to do something it can’t do

Obviously this is who we have always been, that is a given... but the fact that people who did not know that are out here, protesting for the first time, in actual tears?

They have lost complete control of this narrative, man.

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…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls

"boo hoo stop bullying discord, they are being forced"

nah, they are complying in advance. Fuck that.

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

Feature, not a bug

lol

lmao

Pleading with people to understand the scope of this.

It won’t just be for immigrants.

They will use these camps to detain anyone they deem as an “other”.

The disabled. The homeless. Trans people. Political dissidents.

Your tax dollars will be spent incarcerating people without due process.

I’m sure this dude is fine. He does have a Nazi tattoo. And says women whine about sexual assault in the military. And that black people are stupid. But gosh darn it he says he’s a progressive, and since he’s white and male, who can really say what’s in a person’s heart.

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

Newsom would represent a shift from the Clinton-onward "New Democrat" that used vaguely progressive rhetoric to sugar coat Reaganite policy; to "fuck you, we're literally repeating Trump 2016 politics but in a way that soothes liberal embarrassment."

Thank you. My lord. Too many rubes (or worse, people playing rube) ignoring this shit. It's no different than your "AI microwave" that for some reason needs to be attached to your wifi. Everything is selling/using your data and giving you zippo in return.

1. Dazzler
2. Eowyn
3. Black Canary
4. Kira Nerys

This is probably ok

Think about what that library could do with an extra $2 million a year

every time some earnest fellow who is fully equipped to know better proclaims "ah, but *tech* will definitely fall to AI" forward them this skeet and also a "FELL FOR IT AGAIN" badge

bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ... TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

It's really not shocking at all. When you are "Owns-a-sports-team" rich, you really don't think you have to care about other people at all. Life bends to you, not the other way around. So, I'm appalled, but not surprised.

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

Reaction to 2nd shingles vax only slightly less awful than the 1st. And, I threw my back out. (Pain. Much pain.)

But it's not all bad. It's Valentine's day and I have a wonderful partner who I love very much. So, that's a win.