Nolen Gertz

I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.

The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Can't wait for there soon to be a whole new crop of students excited, and immediately disappointed, to study Aristotle...

Very excited to discover that there exists a Bollywood version of Nightmare on Elm Street...

Mahakaal (1993) 📽️

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The two things I know for sure:

1.) AI is the ultimate knowledge box that uplifts our society by containing and collating all of human progress.

2.) When AI is asked to do anything vaguely complicated, it’ll just say, “Got it, Chief” and make up an answer like a co-worker who flaked on a project.

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RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs...
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email to me with a title: 2027 MSc in Artificial Intelligence Application – Research Interest in Trustworthy Generative AI & Multi-Agent Safety email body: I have been deeply inspired by your pioneering work on AI accountability, algorithmic harm governance, and ethical alignment of generative multi-modal systems. As Geoffrey Hinton has repeatedly warned the global community about the existential and structural risks of unregulated AI systems, I have long been searching for actionable, ethical frameworks to translate these high-level warnings into practical, safe AI design — and your research has been the definitive guide for me. In particular, your 2023 paper in Nature Machine Intelligence on the structural risks of large-scale generative models, as well as your AI Accountability Framework developed at the Mozilla Foundation, have fundamentally shaped my core belief: capable AI systems must be built on the premise of safety, transparency, and consistent alignment with human values, rather than pursuing functionality alone.

never published in Nature Machine Intelligence & neither do i have work on "AI Accountability Framework"

i know this is now normal but i want you all to stop & reflect on how much the future is fucked & the only way to mitigate this disaster is to ban/limit this dammed technology

"Billionaires are taking over the media, but it's okay because we can still get our news from the old trustworthy Associated Pre--"

24 hours later

Don't think Claude is an ethical AI just because Anthropic pretends to be opposed to military applications for AI...
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Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: Massive amounts of theft, invisible exploited labor, and data centers that destroy the environment can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs...
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It's in God's (the publisher's) hands now...

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over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.

ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

Sam Altman: "If we had to obey the law, AI couldn't exist."
Also Sam Altman: "We must help the military because we must obey the law."
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Very disturbing to realize someone thought turning Einstein into your personal plagiarism machine was a good idea...

Two photos. The first shows Catturd tweeting: Name one US inspired regime change that hasn't ended in absolute disaster The next tweet shows him posting an AI illustration of Khamenei turned into a pile of dust. It says "I'm eliminated."

Two tweets. The first shows Laura Loomer promoting her show, where she says "A message has been sent that we are not interested in going back to the way politics were prior to Donald Trump, prior to 2016. We don't want warhawks. We don't want any more Neocons. We want American First. Period. End of discussion." The next tweet says: Today is a great day. Our military is amazing. @PeteHegseth is an absolute killer. Now you see why the Deep State worked so hard against him. It’s great having a Sec War who has Infidel literally tattooed on his body. He actually gets it. God bless him.

Two tweets. The first shows Will Chamberlain tweeting: The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars. If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position. The next tweet shows him posting "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead." The tweet has a USA flag attached.

Two tweets. The first shows Gunther Eagleman tweeting: "Warmonger Lindsey Graham just rushed to Fox to advocate for U.S. involvement as soon as he could. He is also pushing for a US-backed regime change in Iran. I would like to renominate Graham to get a one-way ticket to the frontlines of every war he wants America involved in." There's an attached video of Graham speaking. The next shows Eagleman tweeting: UST IN! President Trump is HARD AT WORK all weekend after the massive strikes on Iran! He’s already on the phone with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte! Trump is a machine!" There's an attached video of a news segment about the war in Iran.

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

There is absolutely no reason for Sam Altman to say anything but he is currently digging the biggest hole possible, responding to all and sundry on Twitter. This is the worst possible statement he could have given!

The founder of Polymarket has LITERALLY said this out loud. When asked about insider trading, he sold it as a feature, not a bug. Seeing people bet heavy on an immediate event is a better predictor of world events than straight leaks. gambling sites replacing news. Fucking. Banana Pants.

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whatever the big apocalyptic fears from AI + weapons, the most realistic fear is that it's used the same way a sloppy commander is happy to launch raids based on suspect tips from informants. The AI is a permission structure for targeting, an oopsie-doodle generator that leaves dead civilans behind

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Enthiran (2010) 📽️

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