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LLMs should never be used in any application where it is important that they be accurate.

They are only appropriate for situations where it doesn't matter whether the task fails.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

Colbert’s & Kimmel’s firings are a reminder that corporate media consolidation is a key battery for the creation of state media.

State media = authoritarianism

State media ≠ democracy

Once we scrape the Mad King & his crew out of office, let’s break up media conglomerates.

NEWS: The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill allowing anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription, which have been requested recently due to changes in federal vaccine recommendations. (And some D.C. residents have had to go to Maryland or Virginia.)

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Tennessee's governor sent the state's National Guard to DC.

Apparently it wasn't about DC's crime rate: Both Memphis and Nashville have higher violent crime and property crime rates than DC does.

I assure you that I don't need to be cautioned that LLMs are not sentient. That said, LLMs have the "bear-proof garbage can" quandary, which is that the apparent intelligence of the best LLMs significantly overlaps the actual intelligence of the most willfully stupid humans.

This is your reminder that no one in Congress should be trading stocks. Who’s with me?

The sooner this so-called "AI" bubble bursts, the better.

100% certain my work was copied, in more than one language, which means that in addition to my work, the work of translators was copied, so that's a double theft right there

The 7000 series is a solid livery, as is what I remember of the 8000 series mock-up. Either is far better than a giant 'M'.

These are all bizarre designs, and none should actually be selected. Either have a continuous brown stripe like the earlier generations (removing the giant 'M'), or use the same design/comparable as the 7000 series.

"One Metro" reeks of cheesy, pointless, branding-by-committee.

This is ultimately my concern with "free" transit. There's always a limited pot of money for transit investments, and dropping the fare to $0 means other elements of bus service are at risk.

If Birmingham had the same murder rate it has year to date but the same population as NYC, they’d be up to 2200 murders this year. NYC has recorded 188 murders this year.

Americans are being conditioned to think of crime as an urban issue. Ask why.

Alabama's murder rate is far higher than New York City's.

Urban crime is not worse than rural crime. It's just more visible. In cities everything is more visible.

So be careful what you blame city leaders for.

Or maybe it’s a shitty tool and you shouldn’t spend money on it.

Fantastic news and a great step towards improving democracy in the District! Thank you to all the councilmembers who supported implementation of Initiative 83 and all the activists who helped this happen. Let's keep that support up for the final budget vote!

ChatGPT will do for your ability to think what GPS and navigation software did for your ability to remember a map of your city.

This needs to be nipped in the bud. Doesn't matter if you're pro or anti, or whether you think they're viable. We can agree that robot cars must meet a safe systems standard that does not imitate human aggression, scofflawing, or "oopsies."

When Lyft or Uber asks you to contact elected officials to "keep rideshare affordable" remember that they profit from undermining public transit and increasing congestion. Use them where necessary, but don't let them use you.

CEQA comment SANDAG Del Mar Tunnel Alignments CTA Call to Action: Support Electrified, high speed service & alignment options in Del Mar Tunnel CEQA Process Updated Notice of Preparation for Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) Comment period en...

The Del Mar Tunnel CEQA comment process is now open, but NIMBYs want to shut down the US's #2 rail corridor instead of saving it from falling into the sea. Tell SANDAG by June 30th to support the fast Crest Canyon alignment and #LeaveRoomForCatenary! @ridesd.org docs.google.com/document/d/1...

More slop, but from an (alleged) news organization

While I have sympathy for the newsroom having to deal with fuckery from the ad side of the organization, the problem with this is that the Sun-Times' name is there in the header and it's not immediately clear where editorial ends and "advertorial" begins. Imprimatur implies responsibility.

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Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

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While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.

Using a LLM to write a term paper is useful in a similar way t using a forklift for weightlifting at the gym. Yes, it may be efficient in completing the task, but the value is in the hard work