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I sincerely need people who have built LLMs into their daily routine to consider the implications of how they’re being fucked with

SHARE OF GLOBAL POPULATION BY INCOME VS SHARE OF CONSUMPTION-BASED CO2 EMISSIONS, 2023 TOP 10% (TOP 1% WITHIN) The richest 10% are responsible for 48% of emissions MIDDLE 40% The middle 40% are responsible for 44% of emissions 50% BOTTOM (10% WITHIN) The poorest 50% are responsible for 8% of emissions Source: Oxfam

“a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year”
A stark visual from ‘Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster’ by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

digital painting of ghost's papa v perpetua forming out of glowing pink/purple roses in front of a shattering black moon #ghosttheband

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Trump sucks

🎯

But don’t call them Nazis.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments.

An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.

WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.

Jesus fucking Christ. Fuck the Wall Street Journal for spreading the initial bullshit

Like what business does the United States have responding at all

"Brazil's supreme court has--" mind ya bidness

“So what if he disagreed with you, he didn’t deserve to die”

But he thought I did.

This isn’t disagreement. It’s someone who was not only opposed to my existence but was called a good and faithful servant by the church for doing it.

I don’t have to mourn that. And asking me to is violence too.

NM health department provides COVID-19 vaccine prescription for all residents • Source New Mexico New Mexico Department of Health issues standing order —and a prescription—residents can use to get COVID-10 vaccine

New Mexico's chief medical officer has provided a COVID-19 vaccine prescription for all residents that the department recommends people bring when they go to get a vaccine just to ensure no problems.

Multiple HBCUs under lockdown after receiving threats amid rising campus security concerns At least six historically Black colleges enacted lockdowns after receiving threats, amid heightened concerns following recent campus violence at Utah Valley University.

Meanwhile, on HBCU campuses, lockdowns after bomb threats and though I'm sure this won't interest most media types, it is worth noting: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multi...

The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports.

But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.

insane that people are getting in trouble for just quoting Charlie Kirk point blank. many of these people are not even expressing support for what happened to him, just quoting him & questioning double standards in how we respond to violence. we live in a far-right culture

I feel like the last 48 hours have just been the entire world going full NYT Pitchbot.

"Whether it's the people on the right saying we should shoot everyone on the left as terrorists, or the people on the left saying we should give everyone on the right health care, both sides are---"

the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

A lot of people have called out the Republicans for their hypocrisy on Charlie Kirk's murder (and yes, I'll call it what it is), but all of them tend to focus on "so it's bad when a Republican is killed but not when it's a Democrat." And I think that's missing a more subtle but more pressing issue.

Not at all a fully formed thought: Charlie Kirk’s assassination had way more salience than (eg) the Minnesota lawmakers’ because so many people, particularly media elites, were in a parasocial relationship with him via the podcast/etc

The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence.

For an actual public servant.

Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.

Cop City Indictments Threaten Press Freedom Too The message is clear: Try to spread opinions cops don’t like through the media, and you might be charged next.

Great news that the absurd RICO charges against Stop Cop City protesters got thrown out.

Prosecutors characterized everything from talking to reporters to recording cops to using encryption as parts of a conspiracy.

I wrote about the threat to press freedom in 2023 for @theintercept.com

Gorgrimm has been twisted by the toxic pollution radiating from inside the forest. At night, noxious chemicals crawl and choke the life from within, as if hell's breath had exhaled deadly dementia. Blind and angry, he awaits at the edge, hoping to lure in anyone with a taste for the dark unknown.

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around!

1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Quick friendly reminder that Bluesky is entirely fucking public and you should post accordingly!

Heads on straight, gang!

NEW: DHS has created a ICE/CBP "volunteer force" open to DOD civilian employees. In other words, it's asking DOD employees to come work for ICE for six months. I'm told the Pentagon is supporting the recruitment program. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ice-c...

AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds Recent figures by MIT found that 95 percent of generative AI pilots are failing, with some drastic implications for the spending bubble.

Whomp whomp.

Military officers shifted to prosecute local D.C. crimes amid Trump takeover Members of the Judge Advocate General Corps are set to join the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

SCOOP: As the National Guard takes over the streets of DC, military officers are now going to be detailed to prosecute civilian criminal cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...