Dan Milo

Something else I think about is how much these AI prompt jockeys are stealing the experience of writing from themselves, they don't even realize what they're losing out on, cos writing is wonderful and you can grow and learn so much about yourself, the process is a gift. They're robbing themselves.

Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons

„We need to be paying more attention – all of us, not just those who have been victimised by predators – to the systems that allow this to happen. To the misogyny that runs like an underground river through our culture. To the fetishisation and sexualisation of young girls.“

The degree to which both of these people are so completely full of shit, name checking things they have no understanding of, free associating “deep thoughts” & yet so perfectly confident in their half-assed knowledge, helps clarify why the entire elite class is so desperate to get us all on ChatGPT

This sits in the back of my head like a cyst: how many have we lost, how many more do we lose all the time?

How many children with the potential to reframe human understanding like Einstein or lift hearts like Mozart are born and never educated, spend childhoods dissolving ewaste in acid?

That‘s the spirit.

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Fundamentally flawed economic models mean #climatecrisis could crash global economy, experts warn

- Shocks from extreme weather disasters and tipping points are entirely missed by the current models used by governments and financial institutions

Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

im the biggest hater but they got us this time😔

i went looking for the song on yt and found a mandarin nightcore dub instead, i was like damn……….banger

youtu.be/gsMy8j9tBBA?...

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

comforting to know that in a world of chaotic change, Martin Wolf remains an unrepentant, deeply misguided, monetarist.

you may think this is trivial, but having lead oped FT guy so unwilling to correct his wrong views is a symptom of a deep conservatism of the liberal mind that gets wheeled out every time politicians like @andyburnham.bsky.social denounce a system of public money creation that doesnt work for us

A Pedagogy of the Inevitable Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...

Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.

From: Sent: To: Sunday, May 8, 2016 10:18 PM jeffrey E. Subject: London talk the title of my talk October 25 in London, audience "500, 35 pounds paid attendance each "An Evening on Evolutionary Biology: An overview covering Feminism, Transgender, Homosexuality and Honor Killings." $3000 for me (i will already be in London paid for by Imperial College) and an almost certain corporate $3000 add on just as you outlined-this will create an immediate internet wave especially in the UK with coverage in all the major newspapers and so on anyway i will concentrate on it, to the exclusion of individual pieces at the moment all best

I'm not being facetious. Epstein was apparently giving talking points to the people pushing anti trans rhetoric in the UK.

jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: trivers Subject: Re: Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:35:29+0000 you are unique.. i want to see you piece on transgender in the bio world. this is for you. not me On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:53 PM,< dear Jeffrey wrote: i was stunned and extremely happy to receive the extra money and appointment as an advisor to your Foundation i talked for some time with Richard today and actually take the assignment seriously so anytime you want a quick summary of where i think the action is, which people, blah, blah, blah i will be ready擁ndeed in a few cases i may presume to initiate contact with your Board by suggesting a project or twoeing simple theoreticians like myself, costs will tend to be modest! by following your counsel, e.g. shrinking my Jamaican work to under 5 grand to get 39 more knees洋oney already in my Foundationiours will go entirely toward the theoretical work you have urged upon me, which in turn i find valuable in trying to market myself for future employment擁 now give people am updated version of the report i first prepared for you here is wishing you all the best wherever you are bob

Epstein encouraging someone named Bob to do "piece on transgender in the bio world" in February 2016.

Looking more and more like the "biological" framework fascists and terfs use had its genesis around this time at Epstein's behest.

philosophy of AI

oh this is such a nice idea

It fundamentally misunderstands the challenges they are facing while being smitten with the mysticism of information-shuffling machines. Their task is to prove that something useful can emerge from the alchemy, and instead we keep getting jokey arrangements that produce nothing of value

I want to say the chatbot website discourse is evidence that they've scraped the barrel for evidence of intelligence but they always have been. A bot that abstracts and reproduces text is a bot that abstracts and reproduces images is a bot that abstracts and reproduces video...

graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.

This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read

public radio needs to always exist because otherwise how will you turn on your car radio after dropping your friend off at the train at 11:56pm and hear 3 minutes of droning atonal music, followed by a smooth-voiced announcer saying “thanks for joining us for this hour of bug music”

Feminists have been talking about the scale of men's sexual violence, particularly towards kids, for ages only to be dismissed as hyperbolic or dishonest. We see how many - across politics, industries, etc - & yet it seems the lesson will be about power, not patriarchy.

For the record, I don’t think the takeaway here is “Chomsky is a secret fascist agent.”

I think the takeaway is once you get to a certain level of access all explicit ideological positions become secondary to the headrush of proximity to power. This is exactly how the rich recruit the bourgeoisie.

"Hysteria about the abuse of women".

Thank you left wing icon Noam Chomsky, great stuff 👍👍👍

How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago

october 2011 will go down as the month where the internet, and subsequently the world, went to shit

this is a pro Sex Worker account.

SWERF & TERF are two sides of the same misogynistic coin.

all Sex Work should be decriminalized.

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts