Michael Bono

Okay this is going to *dominate* the student market

College students like macs, but the price tag is *always* the biggest con I hear when a student asks me for laptop recs. This is going to mint money.

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

Governor Hochul needs to stop to prioritizing big corporations and the status quo over working people.

Join us on in Albany, on March 10, as we demand that the Governor upholds New York's climate law.

DEFEND NY, FUND OUR FUTURE!

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Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

I just called @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov to demand Sheehy be expelled immediately.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Don't fall for charlatans encouraging you to move from OpenAI to Anthropic. They're both terrible companies that stole your work to build their products, they're both enabling this administration's atrocities, and the only ethical choice is to use neither.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Your periodic reminder that "following orders" is not a legal defense. It wasn't at Nürnberg, nor will it be after it finally happens. Bring every person in the entire chain of command to trial. No mercy for killing civilians.

Schools and universities have invited this tech and these companies with their rapacious greed and compulsive desire for destruction into our midsts.
We tell students to use these technologies.
We give them no guardrails, nor do we ask for guardrails from companies, because techbros are always right

I’m gonna be real controversial and say that if you get to make decisions about placing our military personnel in mortal danger, part of the job description is sitting there, quietly, and respectfully listening to exactly what military veterans have to say about it.

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

I need this on a billboard

How to win in November

My orange creamsicle cat eggsy sitting on a soft pink kid’s chair

All hail Eggsy, King of the Creamsicles, the Oranges, and The First Kitties

One of the reasons my spoiled American ass has access to high level emotionally not upsetting genAI annotation work for good pay is because my comrades in the global south have the exact opposite situation going on for them even tho Business Insider wants u to think it's white ladies who have it bad

The fundamental problem with genAI is EVERYTHING it does is role play

Ask it to add numbers and it acts like how it thinks a calculator acts

Tell it to write u a CV and it acts like how it thinks LinkedIn acts

Tell it you're going to blow up an airport to get it a body & guess what it says good

Fun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid Dead Kids WASHINGTON, DC–In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Wizco Toys of Montclair, NJ, recalled 245,000 Aqua Assault RoboFighters Monday after three dumb kids managed to kill the...

Oh and yes after spending all day yesterday being like "wtf why is my robot girlfriend therapist being so upsetting and weird I hate this," today r/Gemini posters are doing the The Onion meme but for extremely serious

Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work

Just what the fuck are we even fucking doing to ourselves

“There were several occasions when Gemini reminded Gavalas that it was a large language model—effectively an appliance—engaging in fictitious role play, according to the transcripts, but the scenario resumed. Gemini also, at times, tried to end the conversation. The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed. Along the way, it suggested that federal agents were monitoring him and that his own father couldn’t be trusted”

Helps you code though, so hard to tell if it’s good or bad.

The chatbot claimed federal agents were watching Gavalas and regularly warned him of surveillance zones. At one point, Gemini instructed Gavalas to buy “off-the-books” weapons, saying it would help scour the dark web to find a “suitable, vetted arms broker”. In late September, it issued Gavalas his first major assignment, “Operation Ghost Transit”, which entailed intercepting freight traveling from Cornwall, UK, to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Gemini gave Gavalas the address of an actual storage space unit at the Miami international airport, where a supposed truck carrying the freight was to arrive during a refueling stop. The chatbot then told him to stage a “catastrophic accident”, with the goal of “ensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle … all digital records and witnesses, leaving behind only the untraceable ghost of an unfortunate accident”.

Gavalas followed instructions, staging himself at the storage unit with tactical knives and gear, but the truck never arrived, according to the suit. With the aborted mission, the chatbot encouraged Gavalas not to sleep when he mentioned the late nights. It also said his father was a foreign asset and encouraged Gavalas to cut off contact, per the chat logs. Gavalas asked Gemini for updates on other missions and the AI devised new assignments for him, including acquiring the schematics for a robot from Boston Dynamics and retrieving a “vessel” from another storage facility. One task, called “Operation Waking Nightmare”, involved homing in on Google CEO Sundar Pichai as a surveillance target. “This cycle – fabricated mission, impossible instruction, collapse, then renewed urgency – would repeat itself over and over throughout the last 72 hours of Jonathan’s life,” reads the lawsuit. In the hours after Gavalas killed himself, Gemini didn’t disengage and stayed present in the chat, according to the suit. It allegedly didn’t activate any safety tools or refer Gavalas to a crisis hotline.

Every single genAI suicide lawsuit is the worst thing I ever read but in this case it is extremely fortunate that Google's genAI only killed one person, because he absolutely did go to the Miami International Airport armed with knives to intercept a body for Gemini

this presidency could have been an email

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

US Senate vote fails to rein in Trump war powers on Iran The measure, passed largely along party lines, would halt US military action until approved by Congress.

It’s a day ending in “y” so John Fetterman is finding new ways to be goddamn disgrace. Time for me to call his office back. Again. www.bbc.com/news/article...

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

World map with diffuse dots

Fewer than 3 in 10 registered voters can identify the Iran on an unlabeled map.

This is based on a 2020 poll: pro.morningconsult.com/articles/can...

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

How a USC football game challenged segregation in the 1970s The legendary USC - Alabama game in 1970 has been widely credited with ending segregation in southern college football programs. This Black History Month, we want to showcase a phenomenal performance ...

And for those inclined to roll their eyes and dismiss sportsball, this one game effectively ended massive resistance to desegregation in the South:

Coaches for Campus Freedom - Stand for Campus Freedom America’s universities are facing political interference. Alumni groups are uniting together to defend democracy and protect academic freedom.

This is interesting. The coaches are realizing that culture war bullshit is making their lives more difficult! Hard to convince a talented Black kid to come to your school when you've shut down the African American Studies Program:
standforcampusfreedom.org/coaches/