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Phase two of military AI has arrived Three open questions about the Pentagon’s push for generative AI.

"Military commanders are interested in AI’s potential to improve decision-making, especially at the operational level of war,” the authors wrote.

A state-sanctioned (un)accountability machine is going to be making choices on who gets to be America's next victim.

Go finish up that short story of yours.

Someone out there needs it more than you know!

(i.e.: who is it that manages to dominate/capture most of your ability to perceive yourself? celebrities? elders? your community? how do they talk about their past (if ever)? who do they define as actual community?)

NGL I'm kinda blown with Race After Technology - mainly b/c of the size of the introduction: it's 50 pages (and about 1/4 of the book proper)

So for folks who weren't there, here's what happened with Talib:

1. A Black women, Maya, made a comment about rappers (PLURAL, I don't even think he was named) patterns of having light skin wives in I think a larger convo about colorism. It was an observation, not an insult.

I need to do this migration to the BlackSky PDS soon. Might be tonight tbh

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ngl once they got to Idgis and they had that "you're thinking so loud" moment, I was like "of course, a super power beyond tech that's gonna be OP throughout this season"

I'm at S2E4 I think!

I haven’t seen too many people talk about this but the shift between 2020 DEI programs and support of BLM and marginalized communities at large to now seeing tech moguls blatantly support Trump at worst or say nothing at all at best has given me whiplash and put a bad taste in my mouth

lol I got a book on this that I keep putting down

We get to choose what we remember, IMO. Collectively, we *can* define what's important for focus. I do think a lot of capture of attention (into the hands of "spokespersons") has helped with this to a point of erasure

I'd say historians will look at that in dismay but we *barely* got shit clocked for Jim Crow :/

And it's not like things have gotten better over in NOLA either

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We need to relearn how to use AI when it’s on our bodies Gemini on the wrist is at war with your muscle memory.

“You have to invest effort into training an AI to know you. That, in turn, demands that you fight your existing programming.” 🤔

In a way, they're running to their roots if they lean into the idea of augmentation (think that was the OG alt name for AI).

Folks also saw that they can edit language with product decisions and they already morph virtual behavior: why not leap out for more?

And tbh this by-self would be enough to make folks anti-war IMO: soooooo much money blown when there's so much to do here.

It's all a choice - they're not being forced to make guns

Yeeeup. Stuff like this is why I got into civic tech but this is something deeper than policy can fix tbh (because it's all there, if those in office aren't interested in enforcing it, it's for show).

Mind you, the useless pointless war on Iraq is happening simultaneously. Money is being poured into this war that benefits the American people in no way. And yet, barely a dollar was sent to support and rescue those people. Many of them fled on planes days after the hurricane hit and blew by

So I just watched Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke and I’m certain Hurricane Katrina has got to be one of the worst domestic tragedies to happen since the emancipation of enslaved Black people in America

The cheat code fr. Zenni isn't so bad on the pocket either

Did I block all of the AI folks or did they block me? Lol

Is it me or are captchas getting really weird?

I'd like it to preferably in longer form with reproducible evidence (if available). I'm avoiding specifically company (marketing) material and interested in the use of it.

ISO literature on the #AI conversation that's more in "favor" of:

* accelerationism (a la a16z)
* acceptance of existence ("it's here and here's why it's great" historically)
* evangelicism (ways it's improved/enhanced workflows)

veerrry much so! (glad you made it okay!)

This is the way! docs.rs/miette and docs.rs/thiserror help me a *lot* with this pattern

oh dang not the hands

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