chikoritaglazer420

finally… macbook amateur

Ed Zitron must be absolutely seething that “guy who wrote a blog post so good it wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars of growth stock market cap in a day” is in fact a real job you can do but it turns out it’s not him.

@singerng.bsky.social any chance we could get back in touch? need to clear up a few things. i should have asked way sooner

We are at an urgent moment in history: if you hate Elon Musk you need to be quiet about it and get on the jury

The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.

my biggest nightmare is that I won’t be looking at my phone when It Happens

p4 is so cool

Tpot is having a civil war which is nice to see

One thing that is very interesting in the topic of writing in particular, is that even if you accept the premise that AI is an incredibly powerful and useful tool, the *way you communicate with that tool* is by writing.

The technology of AI makes written communication skills more valuable, not less

Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.

chikoritaglazer420

The worst part about this is that xAI *isn’t* reviewing to prevent future issues. Grok is just saying that because that’s the sort of thing a responsible company would do

pretty sure i meant to say 3 not sure why i wrote 2

1, 2, 5, 7, 8. right?

I never know how to react to the latest news, so let me just say one more time: immigration is good. It helps immigrants and it helps native-born people. It makes the world richer, culturally and financially.

A chatbot cannot be held accountable if a paranoid schizophrenic talks to it and then chooses to murder someone

YouTube video by Hank Green I Know Why Lying about AI Water Use is So Easy

Hank Green covered AI water use and imo did a pretty great job
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6...

i think there is a significant cultural problem everywhere microblogging exists where there's essentially no space for critical support for anything future facing (AI, arcology, biotech). i think people misdiagnose this as a bsky exclusive.

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

this is just deflection

agreed, we should be doing those things too! there are lots of ways to solve mass pedestrian death!

you can’t possibly be this stupid

Cool, when are getting started?
Oh wait, you guys just oppose actual solutions to problems that are currently getting done because they just get in the way of your imaginary solutions that are never going to happen
You are effectively pro-mass murder

I refuse to let my chances of dying in a car crash stay higher to satisfy people’s reactionary technophobia

Waymos in every city

Spread the tech to all cars

Make human drivers rare

you seem like a very angry person, i hope you get the help you need

3) a bunch of people calling themselves prison abolitionists seem to want lynch mobs

for all talks of local-first AI, given controversies over datacenters, I don't think people are willing to hear that local LLM inference is *probably* less environmentally friendly than cloud inference the majority of the time.

Best party on healthcare

granted this was 8-12 years ago so idk how it’s changed since then