shoshana wodinsky (she/her)

I don't think there's much use in asking users of a social network to behave differently — platforms are too big for norms like that, people mostly aren't posting to debate — but similar charges of meanness/insularity accompanied Twitter's rise, and arguably described a reason people *liked* it!

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Which means that Musk's attempts to control and manipulate his A.I. may ultimately work against his interests: They open up a political, rather than a mystical, understanding of artificial intelligence. An A.I. that works like magic can have a spooky persuasive power, but an A.I. we know how to control should be subject to the same suspicion (not to mention political contestation) as any newspaper or cable channel. A.I. deployed as a propaganda machine is a much more familiar technology than A.I. deployed as an oracle. For those of us less attracted to (or convinced by) an anti-political mystic machine god, answering questions like "why did computer do that?" and "how to make computer do exactly what I want?" are of paramount importance, even if they also open up the possibility of more subtle manipulations.

great point from @maxread.info regarding "regarding white genocide," and one that relates to the weird ChatGPT sycophancy thing from the other week: crude interventions like this break the AI illusion maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-...

A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say

*crab-walked

have i been missing out on croissant trees all this time

The Problem With Young Men is that they don't have 24/7 wake island bf1942 64 player servers where they can healthily engage with peers and mentors

man why’d you need to point that out

this means we gotta start calling any other social interaction an IRL-ationship

thebeemagazine.com/terminus/

who has *time* to read all those papers?????

if you think they’re not just running that shit through some kind of LLM you’re out of your mind

who told him about k-dramas

When you buy groceries, who benefits more, you or the supermarket? It's... sort of a weird question, isn't it?

this would be so funny if it was happening to anyone else

geez, what a week huh?

so did i :,))))))))

i only hope someone hires me before these get into lil bub territory

nobody did! i had to keep it “””under wraps”””

and then you need to launch into a tirade about cheems supremacy

the worst part of being DOGE’d is needing to explain the entire meme history to your parents when they ask why the hell you were laid off

There is some good news. Like Mr. Rogers says, look to the helpers, such as @teslatakedown.com.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

god I’m so sick of living in “unprecedented times”

the sound I just made

man

Now it’s a party!!!

The use of Mozilla's "do not track" feature was apparently, instead, *Able To Be Used As A Metric By Which To Track People*.

Y'know, eventually my brain is just going to flash boil and shoot out my ears as steam like I'm a cartoon.

Guide to Abortion Privacy — Digital Defense Fund

There is another batch of bad abortion-related opsec advice going around, so I'm just going to link to Digital Defense Fund's guide to abortion privacy, which is realistic, practical, and explicit in its threat models: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...

Boy is it