Rebecca

Just because I’m curious about what started this collection and the fascination with them!

I would like a follow-up to this information please!!

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Adding this to my watch list, thanks!

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Someday, before I die I hope, Americans will come to realize that not choosing the lesser evil means the greater evil wins

For some reason I was just thinking fondly of making an ms access database in high school. I have no memory of what it was a database of…but I remember it was fun!

SAM ALTMAN: "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an Al model ... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

This is so cool!! And also I wonder what variety of okra they are! 😂 ~Two more months and it’s okra planting season!

This is an incredible thread

Perry: When is it OK to compare aspects of what’s happening in Minnesota to Nazi Germany? Gov. Tim Walz has made some such analogies in relation to ICE and has been criticized for it, David M. Perry writes.

Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do?

New at @startribune.com

Shaun King aka Talcum X aka (insert your favorite moniker here) is Shaun Kinging again, on Substack, writing ICE-related stories. Please do not support him. He's a serial grifter. He promises he's 'working hard behind the scenes'. He's not. He's just taking your money.

I’ve seen individually packaged stuff with the main package opened in the ones in our neighborhood sometimes, so not unheard of…I guess it somehow feels different in those more casual take something/leave something environments versus a regular food pantry.

lol! I know, but I bet SOMEONE likes it!?! Or needs the low sugar?

Does your neighborhood or anywhere nearby have a little food pantry (like a little library but for food?) That might be an option, even for the opened box!

PSA if you have a 9-12 age kid…our pediatrician recommended getting HPV vaccine this year rather than wait because insurance companies promised to cover the vaccine at least through 2026 but no guarantee after & it’s one of the more expensive vaccines. It’s a two-shot series 6 months apart.

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

This is bone-chilling.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.

Excellent article!

What these goons don't seem to realize is that decades of neoliberal policies have forced the work of care downstream--from the state onto families, and then onto women, who've had to get very good at caring for others through the crises that those same neoliberal policies tend to create.

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.

Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Columbia Heights school leaders speak out after ICE detains kids ICE agents have detained students on their way to and from school and also tried to get onto school property, the Columbia Heights superintendent said in an emotional news conference Wednesday.

"it’s unclear when or whether Liam will be able to return for his stuffed turtle, his hat, and his W worksheet" sahanjournal.com/education/ic...

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime

Thread thread but also—I have been thinking about this and marveling over it and talking about it with whoever will listen every day. As Margaret says, I am trying not to romanticize or minimize. I’m aware I’m only seeing a fraction of what’s happening. But this basic fact is astounding. .

Me too! I came here looking for this reference!

an agency-wide criminal conspiracy against the constitution. no one in the department of homeland security is fit for any government service

The Tech Billionaires Behind Trump’s Greenland Obsession Beneath Trump’s Greenland rhetoric, private tech money and experimental governance projects drive growing US interest.

See. Peter Thiel planted the Greenland seed with Trump in 2019. The whole thing is a Thiel and friends long con to set up a sovereign crypto-state. Controlling critical minerals for tech and data centers is just AI gravy. Good times, right? beincrypto.com/tech-billion...