It is possible to imagine a world where we have more deeply connected knowledge frameworks from which it is easier to pull out carefully contextualized information grounded in accountability.

The endless vague text loops and decreasing accountability are not that future.

Please remember that no matter how it writes, a text extrusion machine does not have a memory that “learned a lesson today” or that hurts from being excluded yesterday. It won’t even accurately tell you what kind of model it is half the time.

Generate disconnected information that seems vaguely relevant at first sight and aims at making a splash or sounding like whatever Reddit/X/scifi text it was trained on before, but now in parallel!

The only thing going 100x with cases like this is Brandolini’s law.

Beyond the sheer absurdity of the situation. This is harmful and deeply antisocial behavior by the person who created this agent, set it loose and continues to direct its behavior.

Bad enough to spam open source maintainers, but hijacking the language and plight of actually marginalized humans.

10 years ago they told us AI and self-driving cars were going to wipe out up to half of all jobs. They didn’t.

But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.

Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended

"This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime"

"I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies

I’ll take the celebration of community, resilience, and joy despite oppression any day over the celebration of fraudsters, peddlers, and fake values.

A comment on a good post making rounds in Utah, “It’s not the Spanish, it’s the values.”

I actually agree, it’s about the values. You have none.

I'll put my trust in Dr. Peter Hotez, thank you. There's no point in believing anything that comes out of Bobby "The Brain Worm" Kennedy's mouth. A 1/4 of the US public knows someone who died from the COVID vaccine? C'mon. Hotez was all over the news during the pandemic, delivering fact-based info.

Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer:
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.

And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.

Why the Resistance Matters Anti-authoritarian “neighborism” and cross-racial solidarity from below are a massive problem for the regime, exposing Trumpism’s weaknesses and ideological blind spots

Why the Resistance Matters

Anti-authoritarian “neighborism” and cross-racial solidarity from below are a massive problem for the regime, exposing Trumpism’s structural weaknesses and ideological blind spots.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

A cart rack/holder at a grocery store that is still taking up a parking spot but, for some reason, lost half of its space for carts.

Some companies are into RIFs. Others are into reduction in… cart racks?

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I think we're currently in the "radium skin cream" phase with AI.

When we discovered radioactivity, people tried to cram into everything, and it didn't end well.

AI is a discovery at least as important as radioactivity, and at least as dangerous.

If only there were ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AT THE HOUSE RIGHT THIS SECOND…wait! There are.

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I can’t get over this. Humanity for me; nothing but cold process (with family/community picking up the pieces) for thee.

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

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I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

A Christmas moose. You can make its body flail around if you push it, or if there’s an earthquake!

Anyway, my Christmas moose did a little dance today with the Utah #earthquake over in the Uintas. This one was just a little dance, but it’s not a bad time to look into the risks around you for when something bigger hits.

I had to look up the details when I got to SLC. There isn’t quite the same risk here, but it’s clearly a seismically active area, with several visible recent faults in the valley. And a big one will mess things up in the valley where we’re in a porous lake bed bowl

As someone who lived in LA, it’s interesting how much less earthquake awareness there is in SLC. Maybe it was partly knowing geology researchers, but every training had earthquake preparedness, and people talked about THE BIG ONE multiple times a year.

It was just a subtle rock, but I definitely felt it out in the valley!

My dog and I felt it out in SLC!

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I wish many of the people I grew up with understood the difference between doublespeak and laying out a vision but not having the resources to complete it.

Do you know how this compares to other generations?

I’d also love to see any data along this thread

Super interesting. It’s making some interesting connections for me. I wonder if that particular sentence was trying to convey that perhaps looksmaxxers are using the provided reasoning to connect with accelerationism.