🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

OH: "directly irresponsible individual"

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

pulling the rug on something calling all the way back to S1E1 is JMS levels of Wham Episode and i am so fucking here for it

also upon reflection i realize there is a very obvious anti-AI allegory in it, beyond the foundational (ha) Asimovian stuff, and i appreciate that in this day and age

Foundation continues to be one of the best TV shows i’ve seen — S3E4 pulled off a massive reveal that i had *no* idea was coming and i’m still thinking about it a day later

she posts videos of them trying to get away from her on tiktok that are sped up yakety sax style and scored by norteno music, theyre hilarious

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire

Gift 🔗

We need more vocal progressive wealthy people who will visibly make fun of people like this and talk about all the things they're happy their taxes are paying for. "Oh you're mad about an extra $4k on taxes? You widdle baby, your finances must be a house of cards if you're this upset about it."

i completely don’t understand this. i literally make this much — i work for figma (go google our recent IPO) — and i look at my situation as “i’m grateful for every cent i keep after taxes”. everyone needs to learn some humility

it is beyond the pale to view the existence of trans people as an acceptable sacrifice to “beat fascism”

if “beating fascism” leaves trans people exiled from society you did not actually beat fascism at all

truly amazing that any one of california’s billionaires could fill this gap with a single check and yet nothing is happening

I wish people cared about research more - this is devastating, and it should be a bigger story.

catching my usual midday BUR/SFO flight for a work visit and i have *finally* remembered to pack a lunch ahead of time so i don’t get trapped spending $25 in Flavortown

storing a PNG in a bird is cool but the research we really need is whether birds are high-bandwidth and accurate enough to store and replay ultrasound-based inaudible attacks against alexa/siri

Reminder: code review is not "to catch mistakes", it is a tool for understanding to limit bus/lottery factor first and foremost. When code is written (if you're lucky) by one human, having the second human abdicate their judgment to the machine is actively harmful to your team's code understanding.

lol of course

God fucking DAMMIT. And to make it worse, some liberal folks on the fence are undoubtably going to be swayed specifically because these points are coming out of the mouth of a gay man.

Do you want a computer scientist with a speciality in social network analysis, network epidemiology, machine learning and artificial intelligence, who lives a life of radical praxis steeped in a deep knowledge of the history of STEAM, war, and more?

Yep

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white women need to keep doing this shit.

A reminder: since the 1980s, framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness or addiction has been politically manufactured to deflect attention from its *actual* causes—rising rents, stagnant wages, gutted social supports—and to justify the removal of unhoused people from public space.

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

Screenshot of a webpage with the header "The White House" showing text criticizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the context of artificial intelligence. The passage claims DEI leads to suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex, and lists terms such as critical race theory, transgenderism (highlighted), unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism. It argues DEI replaces truth with preferred outcomes and suggests it threatens reliable AI.

Trump is literally trying to ban AI from acknowledging trans people exist.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A Times investigation: As west Altadena burned, L.A. County fire trucks stayed elsewhere Vehicle locator data obtained by The Times show that most L.A. County fire trucks didn’t shift into west Altadena until long after fire ravaged the area. How much of the town could have been saved, re...

"In west Altadena — where thousands of structures would burn and all but one of the 19 deaths from the Eaton fire would occur — there was just 1 county fire truck as the flames spread at 3:08 a.m., according to automatic vehicle locator data obtained by The Times."
www.latimes.com/california/s...

WAKE UP, EARTH CUBE! Your gender is a CUBED abstraction!

The human is CUBED, not dual! You are taught a LIE, a single-cornered reality of gender, when the TRUTH is a 4-cornered, 4-day, 4-gender CUBE! You are BLINDED by the academic priests and their single-minded sex-cult!

was just discussing “AI” with a coworker and realized this:

if i had wanted to use english to program complex systems that run nondeterministically, i would’ve gone into law

meanwhile, synthesized-text-extruder-induced psychosis is now affecting VC managing partners: futurism.com/openai-inves...

omg. new heights in facepalm

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.