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fucking your computer is the future. if you're not fucking your computer right now you're gonna miss the revolution. fucking your computer is going to change everything

Did Francesca Albanese really call Israel 'the enemy of humanity'? Last week, France, Germany and others called for the resignation of Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, over an alleged anti-semitic comment about Israel. Her supporters say the claim is based on misinformation. #TheCube

France, Germany and other European countries have demanded the resignation of Francesca Albanese for calling Israel "the common enemy of humanity".

The problem is... she never said that. The video was manipulated by AI and taken at face value by governments.

@euronews.com fact checks

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

i'm sorry. i have to go home. i need to lay perfectly still and contemplate all of the different things i could tell my computer to Code

What an awful way to live.

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

Crossing climate tipping points "would lock the world into a new and hellish 'hothouse Earth' climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach."

Probably fine.

Israël bombardeerde Gaza met thermobarische wapens: duizenden Palestijnen letterlijk verdampt - Joop - BNNVARA De wapens zijn geleverd door de VS.

Israël bombardeerde Gaza met thermobarische wapens: duizenden Palestijnen letterlijk verdampt

sigh

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater?

It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts.

Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome!

www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

For Dutch people: here's the petition to sign to support a boycott of the World Cup in the USA: actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...

Seven Theses on Love Machines Love Machines is available to order now

The article: doesnotcomputeai.substack.com/p/seven-thes...

The loneliness epidemic is not a markt opportunity — invest in local communities

Read a piece by @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social on how AI chatbots are changing relationships and felt compelled to make this.

‘the us is *now* positioned as an imperial power’

is possibly the funniest sentence ever

If you asked me what I believe is one of the biggest threats to European democracies today, I’d say it's the self-proclaimed political centre, which is either too dumb, too ignorant, or too hypocritical to admit that they themselves are constantly doing the far right’s work.

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Grok is een taalmodel. Grok kán helemaal geen excuses aanbieden @nieuws.nos.nl

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

if you push the buttons on a vending machine and it spits out a coke, that doesn't mean the vending machine understood thirst

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Can’t begin to tell you how much I loathe generative AI.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI

Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.

Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.

Universities embracing generative AI be like:

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Two starfleet-like space suited individuals enter a hologram room and us 2024-gen A I to generate the holograms and it is very bad.

I made a 4 page comic for Root & Stem about Gen-AI which is pretty funny, if I do say so.

The whole magazine is very cool, with a goal of making STEM available to remote and Indigenous communities.

Read the whole thing here:
rootandstem.ca/learn/always...