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That said I'm totally on board with firing being on the table for "AI" malpractice, such as idk deciding to purchase an "AI" product for children's mental health care

bsky.app/profile/hype...

I am not a particular fan of Edwards's work, but when I see things like this I get worried about bosses using "AI" to force people into situations where they either have to quit, get fired, or commit malpractice, then bosses fire the employees for "not using the tools according to company policy"

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

I'm seeing so much "I typed a lot of inputs and read a lot of outputs, so that means I've thought critically about this topic". Also seeing a lot of "product testimonials are a form of lived experience, so we shouldn't try to critically analyze them".

"community data collection"

Hey how many anti-fat things about trump do you guys have left in you? Aren’t you bored of this yet? Because I sure fucking am

Street name "Prince Andrew Court" with the last part crossed out and changed to "caught".

cot-caught-court on a British high street ;-) #linguistics

Waiting for the pitch from tech bros that GenAI is going to save teachers time to focus on what really matters: their side jobs.

the wildlife calendar at the café near me has a picture of blue-footed boobies, and ever since I saw a picture of one in my wildlife fact file as a kid I've always thought it would be so cool to have blue feet

chairing is caring

Three workers pose in front of a Starbucks store, holding their union vote certification

Did you know that Pittsburgh has one of the highest densities of union Starbucks stores in the country?

CONGRATULATIONS to baristas at the Banksville Plaza store - they just won the 21st union Starbucks in Pittsburgh! ✊🔥

Newspaper: we're committed to publishing a wide variety of views

Me: Holy shit! Like the far left?

Newspaper: LOL no... not those views

Me: So...working-class community organizers?

Newspaper: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Newspaper: Oh, you know the ones

A truck carrying Vicks Vaporub overturned on the highway here but the good news is there has been no congestion for 8 hours.

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”

I've repeatedly said this in the past: the end goal of all AI is surveillance, specifically to influence and control

This reminds me - everyone should read the news site that welcomes anarchists in its editorial section!

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Even by the standards of "AI" boosterism, this is remarkably shallow and unoriginal

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I'm wondering if they have a course on how to get a 200 million dollar contract from the department of war, then feel bad about it when the department of war starts using it for war 🫠

did you know your editors have a choice in deciding which opinions make it to print and which don’t? no one holds a gun to the opinion desk and says “you must have john bolton endorsing war crimes in today’s paper.” this is something editors choose to do. and you know it.

The fact that the first "cardinal rule" in this piece is "You're the boss" is so illustrative in ways that the author probably didn't intend

At this point I am literally begging for "AI" enthusiasts to find new arguments. Honestly if they wrote some gross neoliberal misreading of attachment and emptiness and how that relates to "AI", it'd still be tedious bullshit nonsense but at least it wouldn't be the _same_ tedious bullshit nonsense

kei truck: image of a white kei truck visual kei truck: image of a white kei truck with a big blue j-rocker wig on it

TILAISSSIBTKAY

(today I learned and I suppose strictly speaking it's better to know, and yet)

Mike: My son is very smart: straight A’s, top 1% pre SAT scores. Maybe not Harvard smart, but close. So if you could advise him on college choice, excluding Ivies and Stanford, where would you point him? Pretend cost is no object. He’s 16 and has no idea what he wants to study or where—can’t even provide a quadrant of the country, can’t tell us big school or small. Essentially he’s a lump of clay looking for molding.

FUNBAG: defector.com/how-do-i-get...

Boosters love to say that people need to "understand" LLMs. I don't think people should waste their time learning about specific architectures, or "testing" these garbage products. I *do* think we should understand why LLMs don't "reason", and how we trick ourselves into thinking that they do.

There is far too much pressure to live your best life these days. Leave me alone and let me live my most middling life in peace, with the colourful miscellany of highs and lows that naturally entails.

that quote reminds me of the opening quote we used @andreaeyleen.bsky.social here:

[A]ll science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. (Marx, 1894, p. 592) doi.org/10.1007/s421...

so even a baby knows "correlation does not imply cognition" 🙃

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