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this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"

when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter

it's diagnostic

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

Now I'm not saying that they have been underpaying their security, so if there was ever a time.

The people are not the problem in this metaphor but the system itself, especially one that allows these companies to accumulate and misappropriate these funds. It's not that they should redelegate these funds to housing but what makes them lucrative, creates homelessness

Also you house these people, that covers their housing not their food, employment not complex needs in the case of mental illness, potential substance issues, disability, all of which may push them towards homelessness again. It's very much trying to empty a bathtub while leaving the tap on.

It's also not just about the money but the conditions that create the homelessness in the first place. If you were to commit $20 billion a year of private money towards homelessness you would begin to see the costs rise year to year with profit motive etc (this applies to NGOs too).

Even stepping away from trans voices. Listen to Australian music, so much singing training is about separated yourself from your accent and vocal ticks. Very few people end up singing the way they talk.

It's less the idea vocal training, I know two brilliant vocal coaches who are conscious of these issues, but more the ways in which societal norms will just poison the well and what is being 'refined' can easily end up being perfectly fine expressions that aren't idealised within the culture.

I mean they also trained out working class and ethnic accents (as they did in the UK hence the coining of the term BBC English). Resulting in the strengthening of classed/racialised/gendered linguistic hierarchy. (Women presenters and politicians will lower their pitch and tone).

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

I don't know man, participation implies he at least tried to secure peace.

More than anything else classism is that if you lose your company half a million you get fired, but if Zuck loses Meta 77 billion he gets paid $28 million.

Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.

Carney Defector Says ‘No Way’ Canada Can Meet Climate Goals Now Ex-minister Steven Guilbeault said the government’s recent policy decisions put its targets for 2030, 2035 and even 2050 out of reach.

Carney was UN's special envoy on climate action. His policy changes as Canada's PM will ensure the country will miss all climate goals, says @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social who resigned from Carney's cabinet in protest.

Story with @daniellebochove.bsky.social
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It's heartening to come to Madrid and see Palestine flags semi-regularly hanging from windows and shops with explicit anti-genocide messages. Just a reminder of how passive Australians can be.

Not if you're a Netflix executive

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.

Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages Amazon data centers might be adding to a public health crisis in Morrow County, Oregon.

Even if you could give me a use-case for LLMs and Generative AI, the technology is so new and there's a new cost of use every 3 or so months. Be it financial cost, Psychological cost, environmental cost, and/or health cost.
www.theverge.com/news/834151/...

It really is precisely the inverse of how much work you actually are doing

What a great headline

Have binged today, stays pretty strong. Definitely a different show from season 1, but it has grown in fun ways.

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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"

futurism.com/artificial-i...

there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize

This is coming out just over a year from the Claudine Gay 'scandal'

"Generative AI is just like calculators and people criticised them too!!!!"

NO

www.instagram.com/reel/DRQAZDj...

Every time

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.

It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.