Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:

“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.

This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

Bellingcat took a very close look at the killing, which clearly contradicts the DHS narrative
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Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis.

This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.

There's only one thing I really miss about Twitter now that it's a repugnant sinkhole of Nazi child pornography, and that's the ability to publicly shame corporations into behaving better. 🧵

Maybe making flatbread this afternoon will fix me. For some odd reason, starting a new notebook hasn't done it.

Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.

one thing I like to do when I have a new technology with no domain-specific purpose that soaks up time and does various harms to its users is to test it out first in hospitals and schools

Senator / the staffer running this account: this is a pathetic message, entirely divorced from reality. Lowering costs doesn't do squat for your murdered constituents.

The Steller's Jay is back at the feeder today, which means the finches are going to yell about it from a distance for a bit, and there is now corn *everywhere*. Throwing whatever he happens to dislike this time out of the feeder is p much his way of life

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

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What you gain an immense understanding for is that people do not know how to fail. They come up with an idea and hold onto it so long. You have to know failure in all its permutations. You have to fail. Because all they've ever done is win by following the instructions. And now those aren't working.

Someone recently messaged they appreciated my troubleshooting series over the years and wish I'd compile them.

Telling the story of how you develop from incapacity. All the time you DON'T waste by failing, becoming a professional.

Because at the fringes, knowing how to fail – is what others don't.

Being the person they have to call when the LLM hits its limit and they're running in circles is already the position I and some of my peers are already in.

The problem here is the pipeline. You don't get to my capability, by replacing younger less experienced me with an LLM.

This is gonna be bad.

My coworkers are starting to COMPLETELY rely on ChatGPT for anything that requires troubleshooting And the results are as predictable as you think. On the easier stuff, sure, here's a quick fix. On anything that takes even the slightest bit of troubleshooting, "Hey LegOz, here's what ChatGPT says we should change!"...and it's something completely unrelated, plain wrong, or just made-up slop.

Oof, the sycophancy problem in LLM's + triggering on any irrelevant details you feed them, recently led a P2 problem call down the wrong pathing for hours.

The chatbot is never going to TELL you to step back and ask if this entire inquiry is irrelevant to larger goal.

This is your moat. It's mine.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Love how, for the New York Times, using LLMs is just this value-neutral thing that everyone will eventually do, but being transgender makes you too biased to write about anything ever

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Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."

Nooooo! That's distressing. I hope you have very good tape.

That's thirty two too many hornets 😬

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.