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Ruaa is once again asking for people to contact Bluesky to ask for the return of her account. She was targeted by a literal Neo Nazi (88 in the profile) prior to her suspension and has been on here for well over a year following the rules.

Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.

We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

turns out that was a job interview

First off, age verification laws are ridiculous and just waiting to be abused by profiteers and authoritarians. Also, did y'all know that the age confirmation dialog doesn't seem work on the iPhone app, at least, so I had to log in from a browser in order to get the phone app to work at all?

From the link, “It is 16 pages and printed on a risograph printer by Punch Kiss Press in Los Angeles.” There was also a recent podcast episode in which a 404er disclosed having successfully repaired their own riso printer IIRC

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This is bananas. And not a story I haven’t heard before. That said, among all of this, I see you consistently promoting ways to help other folx and volunteering your services and offering free signed copies of your book for proof of ppl helping food insecure neighbors. Much respect

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This is such a crucial reflection, especially that third point about “reparations are not ‘charity’”, but the rich history of how we got here & the reality that the fate of the minority world (wealthy nations) is necessarily linked to the fate of all people are also so critical. Listen to this guy!

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After gov shutdown + ongoing reduction in SNAP benefits (delayed, reduced, or cut due to stricter eligibility reqs), our neighbors r going w/o basic necessities to make ends meet.

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If this succeeds then one-third of West Africa will be under military rule.

Birthright citizenship, firing powers, the National Guard, and Trump's made-up "peace prize" A Trump era Friday in December is not a normal Friday in December.

I wrote that siding with Trump on this “would not be a difference of opinion, an alternative path, or even a politicized decision. It would be a decision effectively overturning a key portion of the Fourteenth Amendment, and it would need to be treated as such.”

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This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act

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There’s a character limit here, so pardon me for simplifying transformer architecture. No matter how much you complicate it, though, string generation is not “reasoning” unless you redefine the word “reasoning” to mean “synthesizing an artifact that can pass for the output of reasoning”

Most useless "deliberative body" in the sense that it actually has tons of constitutionally granted power and it just doesn't use it at all. On the bright side, Cassidy wanted to be a Senator to increase his prestige level and now he'll just be remembered as the guy who hurt thousands of children.

Your evidence is a tweet about a paper that’s never been cited by another physicist in an area in which neither of us has domain knowledge and another tweet that is just an anecdote about a random guess being right (back to my coin flip point)? Come on, man, this is profoundly unserious

Returning to this for a second. You say you made up a number to avoid an “adversarial conversation” and I’d just like to point out that making things up to convince someone else they’re wrong is pretty adversarial behavior

She’s asking you to provide even one example of a clear rubric for judgment. You haven’t done that. You even said something earlier about the “general public.” Well, a coin flip is better than the general public at retail investment strategies; that does not mean coins can reason, lmao

They’re often better than junior engineers at structure, syntax, & other things that can be easily copied from documentation, but far worse at the indicators of actual thinking (like having code that’s easy to read, future-proofed, & that considers how something might be used in other contexts) 4/4

A major use-case for LLMs is writing code, because they’re “better” than people with no training. I have reviewed LLM-generated code and it’s objectively worse than any mid-career engineer’s work I’ve reviewed. The *way* they’re worse is interesting, though 3/4

This is not because coins are good at reasoning, but because our society is structured to reward bullshit and nepotism and these structures select for ineptitude. Random number generators can beat arrogant ineptitude. That doesn’t mean they can “reason” 2/4

You know what *is* interesting to look at here is that these things are only “better” at tasks than non-experts. There are numerous papers about how flipping a coin is more successful than many business managers’ strategies 1/4

First off, that 98% number is made up & demonstrates a real lack of analytical rigor, perhaps indicating why a chatbot would seem impressive. Next, token-forecast is about plausible string prediction, not about anything remotely like understanding meaning, which is necessary for "reasoning"

after nearly a year of covering mostly what gets labeled a Trump administration “distraction”—threatening immigrants and trans people; empowering white nationalists —you know what if (what if), that being what Trump ran on and what Trump is doing, this is the actual substance of the Trump presidency

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