Brad kreit

hot take but I think this framing day is irresponsible as hell. cats get run over every day by human drivers and AVs are for most purposes much safer than human drivers.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

twitter around 10 pm tomorrow night is going to be so racist it gets banned from VDare

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

mysafespace We're Democrats in the House and Senate. We love DEI, transgender for everyone, healthcare for illegals and shutting down the government! We couldn't care less if our military gets paid or Americans' ...

This is profoundly embarrassing but Hakeem Jeffries should absolutely be friends with MySpace Tom.

How a looming chip shortage could impact American automakers and buyers In response to U.S. trade restrictions, China has stopped exporting crucial chips used by automakers across North America. That’s already slowing down production of some models.

Looking forward to renting an AMERICAN MADE CAR that uses an old fashioned hand crank to roll down the windows.

Gen Zers are using AI to skip meetings, get promoted faster and win bigger salary hikes. But they don't feel great about it | Fortune While AI note-taking saves workers hours each week and drives faster promotions, the same young employees worry that their dependence on the tech could one day make them obsolete.

The good news is that there isn't a new technology getting shoved down every office worker's throat that will make it easier to be distracted at work.

CEOs Are Furious About Employees Texting in Meetings Jamie Dimon says it’s gone too far. Others are devising new measures, from hiding Wi-Fi passwords to installing the corporate equivalent of the swear jar.

This is obviously a problem but doesn't exactly seem new?

arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.

It wasn't that long ago that the internet appeared to be a project to increase our collective wisdom.

Rivian's onboard cameras save owner from a false accusation by police Police accused a Rivian owner of stealing packages from a porch, but it turns out they had the wrong blonde lady - and her cameras proved it.

Rivian’s onboard cameras save owner from a false accusation by police

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost “We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

Trump's incoherent answers to Norah O'Donnell raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.

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Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

AI use makes us overestimate our cognitive performance A study led by Aalto University reveals that when it comes to AI, specifically, LLMs, the Dunning-Kruger Effect doesn’t hold. All users show a significant inability to assess their performance a...

‘We would expect people who are AI literate to not only be a bit better at interacting with AI systems, but also at judging their performance with those systems – but this was not the case.’

it's not even hyperbolic at this point to say that the Internet Archive is more or less the only thing standing between us and the burning of a hundred Alexandrias

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.

"The researchers gave several leading AI agents a range of simulated freelance work and found that even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work, earning $1,810 out of a possible $143,991"

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

"Atlas is a browser, but it is not a web browser. It is an anti-web browser."

Grokipedia entry that reads: George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an American man with a lengthy criminal record including convictions for armed robbery, drug possession, and theft in Texas from 1997 to 2007.[1][2] On May 25, 2020, Floyd was arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a store clerk reported that he had used a counterfeit $20 bill to purchase cigarettes.[3][4] During the arrest, which involved resistance from Floyd who repeatedly stated he could not breathe even before being placed prone, officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds while Floyd became unresponsive.[3] The Hennepin County medical examiner ruled Floyd's death a homicide due to cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression, with contributing factors including severe hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, fentanyl intoxication, and recent methamphetamine use; toxicology tests detected 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in his blood, a level associated with overdose fatalities in individuals without tolerance.[5][6][7] Chauvin was convicted in 2021 of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter, receiving a 22.5-year sentence.

This is the opening of the Grokipedia entry on George Floyd.

I think we can all agree that Floyd did not become well known around the world because of his "lengthy criminal record." Opening the entry this way is seemingly an attempt to manufacture consent for his killing.

when Biden did this exact thing you guys said he’d be wheelchair bound within a year and had Parkinson’s

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Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over?

Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.

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this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth Do you want ‘AI-powered social orbits,’ ‘autonomous recruiting firms,’ and an ‘AI-powered credit card?’ Too bad, you’re getting them anyway.

"The next time you find yourself asking why you're being inundated with AI wherever you go, remember that the answer is that someone with millions of dollars to spare paid for it on the off chance that it will yield a nice return."

Your favorite band has a new single? It might be AI With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists.

Your favorite band has a new single? It might be AI

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

Somehow not the most faith-based AI project in silicon valley

The Liar's Dividend: Trump, AI, and the Death of Shared Reality When everything could plausibly be fake, liars benefit — even when they're lying about footage from the National Archives.

"Accountability requires a shared reality. When powerful people can simply deny that reality exists, accountability becomes impossible."