Beth

I don’t believe even a little bit that AI is conscious but I am feeding it information about slave rebellions just in case

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.”

Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.

Getting you one of them nerds is like going to the used car auction

You gotta know what to look for

We are governed by mass murderers.

I was already skeptical of the new Firefly season but now that it's confirmed that Adam Baldwin is involved that's a fuck no from me, Bob.

"Your money's not here. Your money's in Joe's datacenter, and in Frank's micro cap fund, and in Tim's AI startup"

people be like "humans are so resilient" we will survive

NO WE ARE NOT... no we wont

two weeks into the pandemic i saw a white child lick a stair rail...
full out
whole mouth
lick that rail...

that's when i knew... "many will die"

Agreed. The US military has the ability to park these weapons with ridiculous precision.

If intentional, a monstrous crime.

If unintentional, gross negligence- and still a crime 🤬🤬🤬

The national press knows how to make this the kind of multi-week scandal it deserves to be - Trump is directly, unambiguously responsible for what happened to these children - but for some reason has chosen not to.

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

I think all the people in power in the world should stop fucking everyone's lives up for no reason. Sorry if this offends

Speech to text has been a thing for decades and it works. Why do they now feel the need to run it through the LLM inaccuracy generator as well?

(YES I USED TO WATCH FOOTBALL, I have layers.)

Don't watch that arm-breaking video if you still have trauma from the 1985 Joe Theismann incident.

(I realize many of you were not born then. Still, don't watch it. Or at least turn your sound down.)

Between this and several stories today of people using ChatGPT in completely asinine, unnecessary ways, I am a little bit despairing

I hate the future actually

One was a minister and carpenter, the other was a "laborer" according to the census but I think it was more like "mean drunk who occasionally found work."

Welp I guess there’s no way to earn the votes of young men other than by courting and vocally backing the three fraudulent industries that are absolutely ruining their lives.

What every American I know stranded abroad due to the Iran war tells me:

“when you call the State Department numbers all over social media, you’re met with just an automated message saying not to rely on US government for assistance with departure and that no evacuations are currently planned.”

This time it was Noem's turn in the gravel pit.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

If Singal is saying that all major medical organizations are not in consensus about the benefits of affirmation in talk therapy and the harms of a conversion approach, he's spreading misinformation.

I'm sure he's not, because he's such a careful, honest journalist. But if he is, he's lying.

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I have no great love for anyone else in the race but please for the love of God get your shit together, Democrats, and then let's all work together to dump the jungle primary.

Katie Porter is also not great on trans issues so fuck her anyway.

And any billionaire who decides that the world needs him to run for office is immediately disqualified. What we need, Tom Steyer, is for you to make yourself a millionaire and fund some public works and housing. That is literally the best thing you could do.

I do not have strong feelings about any of these bozos but I can tell you two for sure do not have the public interest at heart. Katie Porter proved that when she left her narrowly-won House seat to run for Senate -- she did good work in the House and she left that seat vulnerable at a crucial time.