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OH LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN THE LIVING ROOM SHELVES

I truly wish this had been handled better from the start in terms of getting people’s permission to build these technologies. I don’t know how we rectify the damage from here.

I honestly have not been following the data debate in detail, so this may not be news at all. but I find this fascinating. I simultaneously think it’s a good (legal) defense, and also that since so many people are using ChatGPT as a search frontend, it might cause info dissemination issues

browser opened to nytimes.com/robots.txt, where you can read the whole thing. the relevant highlighted bit says: “Prohibited uses include but are not limited to: … (2) the development of any software, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and / or large language models (LLMs).”

I was perusing the NYT’s robots.txt today as part of explaining to a friend where LLMs get all their data

and discovered that NYT now has a license agreement in the comments of their robots file, that specifically disallows crawling from / by / for AI / LLMs

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

We have always been at war with Tylenol

may your body someday allow that sort of strength again, and short of that, may your experiences still give you that strength inside =)

the book is quite good, and I think worth a read even if you can’t currently lift! I do know the frustration of not being able to act on the inspiration, though

lifting very heavy things on a regular basis is one of those things that make you feel capable of fighting fascism, and I just want everyone to know that

(I owe this analysis to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, whose book is very good and I rec it to someone at least weekly)

oh god. I have so many friends who will be impacted if so… 😭

There goes the First Amendment.

the stories we tell ourselves about worlds ending are all-encompassing. in stories, we need the emotional space to process the change. parts of us wish to be allowed to be so utterly altered by world-shifting experiences.

but for change to be so stark in real life means no escape from grief.

the fact that other things keep going can still feel shocking. you feel out of step, like you can’t quite play a tune you once knew by heart. you need extra space to process.

yet the ceaseless normality also provides a refuge when the ended part of your world offers only despair.

I’ve said it before, but this was one of the lessons I learned very quickly in the wake of the wildfire that took our house. just because the world ends for you in one way doesn’t mean it ends altogether.

there is comfort to be found in recognizing that fact, if you allow it.

meanwhile, 28% of the population trusts nothing beyond the end of their own nose

Disney's ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after FCC chair criticizes the host's Charlie Kirk comments The network confirmed it is "indefinitely" pulling the show.

Earlier today, FCC Chair Brendan Carr said “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” about Disney/ABC “taking action on Kimmel.”

Hours later, ABC pulled Kimmel off the air.

It’s a blatant crackdown on free speech by an authoritarian administration. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

it’s very funny to make a distinction between cancel culture and what this is, which is clear government supression of speech. cancel culture isn’t anti first amendment, but this specifically is! which is worse!

I had the exact same experience today! very weird and confusing day. looking forward to feeling stable tomorrow, hope you do too

I remind myself regularly that courage is something we admire not just because it is good, but because it is rare.

I feel that way about a lot of virtues, these days.

“Trans people have kitchen tables. People that love trans people have kitchen tables. Immigrants have kitchen tables,” Abughazaleh said. “Democrats have been messaging on this issue, which is basic human decency, wrong this entire time. It’s a two-pronged thing. When it comes to extremism, if you’re constantly ceding ground that trans people don’t deserve to exist, or that there are carve-outs for that … it never stops with the people that you deem inhuman, it will always come to you.”

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lot of people been posting this one but here’s my post of it with my name correct. okie doke

the fact that you crave Doritos after eating Doritos is less about the chips having transgressed some clear nutritional boundary, and more that it’s been carefully engineered to make you want it

I read another article about how eliminating ultra-processed foods changed someone’s life, even though we still don’t have a definition of what one is.

it’s made me think that the right definition is simply - food made by a corporation, with food engineers and marketers to make you want it.

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

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ouch

Einstein

MLK jr

Malcolm X

While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history:

The FBI didn't like MLK jr. They called him "the most dangerous negro." Because he was influential, brought people together, and was vocally against anti-Black racism.

some Fairview kids are passing around rumors that they heard gunshots. any idea what that might be?

This is exactly the right way to think of this; precisely what I'm saying, yes

I keep seeing kids in their late teens and early 20s romanticize the year 2016. “It’s 2016 and you’re listening to this song…”

Guys, nobody liked 2016. Until 2020, it was considered one of the worst years anyone had ever seen. Everyone cool died. It was fucking miserable. Stop it.

Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions Sources say it’s part of a concerning pattern at the university.

“What we have are approaches from the world of corporate crisis response, policing, and law enforcement being directed at disagreement and dissent as if they are problems to be solved rather than fundamental values to be cherished.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...