@orangecatstargrep.bsky.social
Just a geek with an interest in the world. Need more empathy and kindness in the world.
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Enjoying my best day. Hoping you all get a few minutes to enjoy the sun and tranquility somewhere.
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I just for the life of me can't figure out why a large chunk of people are inherently hostile to new technology shaped by companies that actively support an anti-science, anti-humanist mass murder autocracy
The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings
The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country t...
karlbode.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:18 PM
I just for the life of me can't figure out why a large chunk of people are inherently hostile to new technology shaped by companies that actively support an anti-science, anti-humanist mass murder autocracy
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I say this as someone who loves technology but hates the tech industry - why do we have to love technology? why do we have to give something like AI clemency for its errors? It's a product we are being sold, it should have to earn our money or attention.
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
February 18, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I say this as someone who loves technology but hates the tech industry - why do we have to love technology? why do we have to give something like AI clemency for its errors? It's a product we are being sold, it should have to earn our money or attention.
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Judge Highlights Government Fuckery In Ruling Over Migrant Detainees’ Due Process Rights
The ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota was instigated by a far-right click bait artist and encouraged by the president's portrayal of Somali immigrants as "garbage" people from a "garbage" country. And those…
The ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota was instigated by a far-right click bait artist and encouraged by the president's portrayal of Somali immigrants as "garbage" people from a "garbage" country. And those…
Judge Highlights Government Fuckery In Ruling Over Migrant Detainees’ Due Process Rights
The ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota was instigated by a far-right click bait artist and encouraged by the president's portrayal of Somali immigrants as "garbage" people from a "garbage" country. And those were some of the nicer words Trump used to describe the people his agencies would be hunting down first. Several weeks later, a draw-down has begun, prompted by two murders…
www.techdirt.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Judge Highlights Government Fuckery In Ruling Over Migrant Detainees’ Due Process Rights
The ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota was instigated by a far-right click bait artist and encouraged by the president's portrayal of Somali immigrants as "garbage" people from a "garbage" country. And those…
The ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota was instigated by a far-right click bait artist and encouraged by the president's portrayal of Somali immigrants as "garbage" people from a "garbage" country. And those…
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I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
February 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
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If we're lucky, someday we'll be able to look back and see that so much of what is wrong in the film (or any) industry right now is the narcissism of a gerontocracy who are old and incurious, but also delusional enough to still think they are the *least* old and incurious living generation.
February 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
If we're lucky, someday we'll be able to look back and see that so much of what is wrong in the film (or any) industry right now is the narcissism of a gerontocracy who are old and incurious, but also delusional enough to still think they are the *least* old and incurious living generation.
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He’s a lying demagogue trying to shore up his poll numbers by making populist pledges w (property taxes are local ; he has no say over that. The part that he did take action on was to kill the property taxes deduction in his first term). As I’ve said before. Watch what they do, not what they say.
February 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
He’s a lying demagogue trying to shore up his poll numbers by making populist pledges w (property taxes are local ; he has no say over that. The part that he did take action on was to kill the property taxes deduction in his first term). As I’ve said before. Watch what they do, not what they say.
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If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov
My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!
February 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov
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I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
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Because sure, they're the exact audience who'd benefit from the cheapest manufactured PC they can get at Freddy's, but even the prices on _those_ are going crazy lately, and they're inevitably bundled with Win11, so that might not even fix whatever problem they had - it'd just create new ones.
February 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Because sure, they're the exact audience who'd benefit from the cheapest manufactured PC they can get at Freddy's, but even the prices on _those_ are going crazy lately, and they're inevitably bundled with Win11, so that might not even fix whatever problem they had - it'd just create new ones.
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i'm just having to spare a thought for my poor extended family members, who have been trying to make do on computers from 2006 with 4 GB of RAM or even less, that if they finally decide that enough is enough and their emails no longer function without buying a new machine, they're screwed too.
February 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
i'm just having to spare a thought for my poor extended family members, who have been trying to make do on computers from 2006 with 4 GB of RAM or even less, that if they finally decide that enough is enough and their emails no longer function without buying a new machine, they're screwed too.
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And finally, part of the reason I object so strongly to the "AI skeptic" framing is that it pushes off-stage all of the real harms of this technology. That is, the topic of the stochastic parrots paper:
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On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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February 16, 2026 at 2:31 PM
And finally, part of the reason I object so strongly to the "AI skeptic" framing is that it pushes off-stage all of the real harms of this technology. That is, the topic of the stochastic parrots paper:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
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1/ There has never been a more concentrated distillation of my teaching than this lesson: Algos, Bias, Due Process, & You. It is the apotheosis of what I do. I very much hope you enjoy it, share it, and make bits of it your own.
Algos, Bias, Due Process, & You — Suffolk LIT Lab
TL;DR: I built a bunch of highly-modular online simulations you can use with your students. They cover automation bias, the false positive paradox, competing definitions of fairness, disparate impact ...
suffolklitlab.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
1/ There has never been a more concentrated distillation of my teaching than this lesson: Algos, Bias, Due Process, & You. It is the apotheosis of what I do. I very much hope you enjoy it, share it, and make bits of it your own.
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4/ The seed of the class was this reporting from 2016, "Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks." In it, the authors describe the use of a risk assessment tool by courts deciding questions like the granting of bail.
Machine Bias
There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
4/ The seed of the class was this reporting from 2016, "Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks." In it, the authors describe the use of a risk assessment tool by courts deciding questions like the granting of bail.
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Businesses sometimes threaten lawsuits over negative reviews. Section 230 helps ensure platforms don’t just take speech down automatically. www.eff.org/pages/inter...
The Internet Still Works: Yelp Protects Consumer Reviews
Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook
www.eff.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Businesses sometimes threaten lawsuits over negative reviews. Section 230 helps ensure platforms don’t just take speech down automatically. www.eff.org/pages/inter...
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Too long have rightwingers been allowed to drape their grievances and bigotries in the nation’s collective symbols, to call on the patriotic mythology of the nation in order to pretend that their desire to dominate is somehow an expression of the timeless essence of the nation.
February 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Too long have rightwingers been allowed to drape their grievances and bigotries in the nation’s collective symbols, to call on the patriotic mythology of the nation in order to pretend that their desire to dominate is somehow an expression of the timeless essence of the nation.
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MAGA claims that “real America” was only ever intended to be and only ever existed as a white Christian ethno-state. Let us not help them perpetuate this idea that the injustices of the past and present represent the sole true essence of the nation by renouncing America’s aspirational tradition.
February 16, 2026 at 2:56 PM
MAGA claims that “real America” was only ever intended to be and only ever existed as a white Christian ethno-state. Let us not help them perpetuate this idea that the injustices of the past and present represent the sole true essence of the nation by renouncing America’s aspirational tradition.
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Science communication matters because it connects scientific research with people, giving folks information they need to make informed decisions about everything from health to hazards.
February 16, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Science communication matters because it connects scientific research with people, giving folks information they need to make informed decisions about everything from health to hazards.
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Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in
Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
www.404media.co
February 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in
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One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 4:43 AM
One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern
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lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
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Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this