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a small thing, i simply cannot wait to find out what little freak voice Robert Pattinson does in DUNE PART THREE

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

do you ever read something and then your vision just kinda fades out for a sec

i think you’re right that people feel like talking about anything other than politics is frivolous, and i wish more people realized is that a key part of fascism is trying to take your joy and passion away and convince you that you must stare at the horrors.

My ETA? Excr.

Blaues Plakat + buntes Gegenplakat: dein Auto würde uns wählen ... Es hat ja auch kein Hirn

Wunderbare Gegenplakatierungen, eben zugesandt bekommen:

How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people

OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths

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Same OpenAI that's partnered w the American Federation of Teachers and whose models are used by popular ed-tech products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool.

School admin/teachers who've ignored this company's disdain for people and planet need to explain why they keep doing business w these ghouls.

on behalf of the bluesky team i am excited to announce our newest feature!

Now in addition to replies and quotes, we have the "don't reply"

here's how it works:
1. you see a post that does not mention you
2. you "don't reply" to it
3. the app shows you more posts

yes so true! my hobby is reminding Mass residents that we can access the BPL's O'Reilly online catalog for free with an eCard which is extremely straightforward to obtain

Fake Animorphs book cover, with Dario Amodei turning into the butthole-shaped Claude logo

AI bros continuing to be the worst at fanfiction

Gov. Healey could have given residents a voucher for a Coursera course of their choice, so that we could choose from any number of poorly-designed MOOCs instead of an infomercial for the bullshit slot machine. Or just given money to libraries for what they lost with the federal funding cuts idk

All Mass. residents to get free access to Google AI training classes, Healey says Gov. Maura Healey, who is increasingly focusing on AI adoption, announced a new partnership with Google.

“The more of us that know improv comedy groups, that understand improv comedy groups, that work with improv comedy groups, the safer I believe we’re going to be,” she said.

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A screenshot from the r/xteinkereader subreddit, posted 16d ago by reddit user Wheel_Extra, titled Xteink X4 + Muji A7 Compact Notebook. It is captioned "Talk about the perfect duo ;)". The picture is of a light-skinned hand holding a green notebook the size of a palm with an e-ink reader of roughly the same size mounted on it. On the reader is a display showing two disembodied hands floating in the middle of a glowing aura.

A screenshot from the r/xteinkereader subreddit, posted 6d ago by reddit user cacheofthought, titled "Reading Quran on Way to Umrah on Xteink. Love this thing Read More Quran this Ramadan than I ever did." The picture is taken in the interior of a vehicle, where a light-skinned hand holds a small e-ink reader with Arabic writing on it.

A screenshot from the r/xteinkereader subreddit, posted 2d ago by reddit user trendli, titled "How the X4 fits on a iPhon 17 Pro Max with MagSafe". The picture is of a salmon-colored iphone with a small e-ink reader mounted squarely on the back of the phone.

I'd rather call my social media timelines "targeted" so I am reminded that I'm not *actually* the one doing any deciding

and let whatever bizarre and delightful hacking is going on over at r/xteinkreader be "personalization".

(seriously, it's such a delight to see what people are up to over there)

How can we dream up a better world if we outsource all of our critical thinking to AI?

In our final episode of AI Lingo Bingo, we’re tackling some of the buzziest buzzwords with some incredible people...

windows pcs are generally for casual users who mostly use it for web browsing and maybe a little gaming. linux is nearly identical except there's no keyboard. macs are for hardcore experts and professionals who take on the toughest tasks, such as drawing three-dimensional rectangles and squares

Is the output limited to verbatim text of sources that are not themselves synthetic text? If not, the output is still statistically-likely sequences of tokens based on the training data, with no guarantee that the output fulfills the criteria that the user had in mind when they provided the input

Quick reminder that if we're curious about technology, we can ask our local librarians about the many excellent free learning resources that are available, which crucially are not limited to "how to pull the lever on the bullshit slot machine".

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

People who are serious about "AI harm reduction" should take the $ they want to invest in "fair" LLMs (🙄) and use that for 1) reparations to people who've been exploited to make "AI" products, 2) redistribution to communities who turn to LLMs because they can't access healthcare and other resources

Star Trek fans: buy physical media of everything

"Save Tonight" by Eagle-Eye Cherry is up there for sure

Apparently we're calling infomercials "training" now

samesies

masala madras mix mirch

this is what motivated me to write this