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Not real pleased to see one of the last trustworthy science communicators on the net say the hallucinating world burning false oracle might have a point.
Hell of a take from an ostensible climate defender, and makes me worry I can no longer take anything SciShow says at face value.
Hell of a take from an ostensible climate defender, and makes me worry I can no longer take anything SciShow says at face value.
April 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Not real pleased to see one of the last trustworthy science communicators on the net say the hallucinating world burning false oracle might have a point.
Hell of a take from an ostensible climate defender, and makes me worry I can no longer take anything SciShow says at face value.
Hell of a take from an ostensible climate defender, and makes me worry I can no longer take anything SciShow says at face value.
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As a computer engineer that studied these in college and now refuses to touch them, they should have never left an academic setting. They aren't accurate enough for general usage and people assume whatever they say is correct because of bias for text that we THINK sounds like a human wrote it.
April 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
As a computer engineer that studied these in college and now refuses to touch them, they should have never left an academic setting. They aren't accurate enough for general usage and people assume whatever they say is correct because of bias for text that we THINK sounds like a human wrote it.
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This is the logic we agreed to live by when we agreed to let ‘er rip on covid. If you get sick, if you die, that’s no one’s problem but yours. As I’ve said from the beginning, this is an anti-societal choice that isn’t containable. Disregard for health safety was never going to just stick to Covid.
It is a consequence of intentional editorial decisions about what "news" to cover and what to largely ignore that Trump's recent decision to have people across the U.S. get cancer, developmental diseases, become infertile, and die is not felt as a "public safety" emergency.
October 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is the logic we agreed to live by when we agreed to let ‘er rip on covid. If you get sick, if you die, that’s no one’s problem but yours. As I’ve said from the beginning, this is an anti-societal choice that isn’t containable. Disregard for health safety was never going to just stick to Covid.
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This shit isn't getting any better.
Abolish "A.i." from your lives and institutions, friends. It's garbage pushed by billionaire sociopaths and it breaks brains.
Abolish "A.i." from your lives and institutions, friends. It's garbage pushed by billionaire sociopaths and it breaks brains.
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
www.wsj.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This shit isn't getting any better.
Abolish "A.i." from your lives and institutions, friends. It's garbage pushed by billionaire sociopaths and it breaks brains.
Abolish "A.i." from your lives and institutions, friends. It's garbage pushed by billionaire sociopaths and it breaks brains.
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AI boosters, 2024: "AI will replace the need for most creative work within five years."
AI boosters, 2025: "AI will no longer call itself Hitler."
AI boosters, 2025: "AI will no longer call itself Hitler."
Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI
Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI
Grok’s responses must come from “independent analysis,” not Musk’s stated beliefs.
buff.ly
July 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
AI boosters, 2024: "AI will replace the need for most creative work within five years."
AI boosters, 2025: "AI will no longer call itself Hitler."
AI boosters, 2025: "AI will no longer call itself Hitler."
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On AI image generation: "It is simply stealing the fruits of other people's originality and efforts, damaging the value of the work, and giving strength to bad taste and fascism."
これはできるだけ広く拡散されるべき記事。生成AIの是非ではなく、「元になった創作者の意思・意図を汲め。権利を尊重せよ」という意味で。
www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories/tech...
www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories/tech...
自らの醜悪さを晒すだけ...ジブリ風AIイラストに「大はしゃぎ」する人に共通する点とは？
＜ChatGPTの新機能を礼賛する人たちは宮崎駿作品の本質をわかっていない──2016年に宮崎監督がコンピューターアートについて語った言葉を振り返る＞
先頃、オープンAI（OpenAI）社が対話型AI...
www.newsweekjapan.jp
April 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
On AI image generation: "It is simply stealing the fruits of other people's originality and efforts, damaging the value of the work, and giving strength to bad taste and fascism."
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Officially trying to build a studio for a publisher pitch. To that end, I'm looking for game devs who've been victims of layoffs or studio closures who'd be interested in signing on if it's greenlit and funding is secured. More info in the thread to follow, but here's the initial list:
April 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Officially trying to build a studio for a publisher pitch. To that end, I'm looking for game devs who've been victims of layoffs or studio closures who'd be interested in signing on if it's greenlit and funding is secured. More info in the thread to follow, but here's the initial list:
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i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc
April 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc
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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
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The prayer room at NYU — accessibly only via NYU ID — was vandalized with islamophobic graffiti and prayer mats were reportedly urinated on.
NYU didn’t address the incident for several hours. Elected officials quick to condemn antisemitism have said nothing.
NYU didn’t address the incident for several hours. Elected officials quick to condemn antisemitism have said nothing.
April 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The prayer room at NYU — accessibly only via NYU ID — was vandalized with islamophobic graffiti and prayer mats were reportedly urinated on.
NYU didn’t address the incident for several hours. Elected officials quick to condemn antisemitism have said nothing.
NYU didn’t address the incident for several hours. Elected officials quick to condemn antisemitism have said nothing.
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I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
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"beloved children's institution funded by taxpayer dollars whose rights and distribution had been scooped up by a private company announcing layoffs once staff begins to organize" is a little too on the nose for 2025 america
April 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
"beloved children's institution funded by taxpayer dollars whose rights and distribution had been scooped up by a private company announcing layoffs once staff begins to organize" is a little too on the nose for 2025 america
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I am so grateful to @chrismurphyct.bsky.social for just plainly saying what has been obvious to millions of us for years.
Republicans are done with democracy. If the US is to survive, we must be done with Republicans.
Republicans are done with democracy. If the US is to survive, we must be done with Republicans.
April 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am so grateful to @chrismurphyct.bsky.social for just plainly saying what has been obvious to millions of us for years.
Republicans are done with democracy. If the US is to survive, we must be done with Republicans.
Republicans are done with democracy. If the US is to survive, we must be done with Republicans.
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This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be:
DO NOT WAIT
DO NOT UNDERREACT
Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
DO NOT WAIT
DO NOT UNDERREACT
Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
February 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be:
DO NOT WAIT
DO NOT UNDERREACT
Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
DO NOT WAIT
DO NOT UNDERREACT
Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
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If you’re a Democratic elected, work at some institution under assault, or (perhaps most of all) work in the press, and you find yourself thinking “Should I wait and see? Am I overreacting?” the answer is “This is what they’re counting on: you realizing you underreacted later.”
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
If you’re a Democratic elected, work at some institution under assault, or (perhaps most of all) work in the press, and you find yourself thinking “Should I wait and see? Am I overreacting?” the answer is “This is what they’re counting on: you realizing you underreacted later.”
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is not democracy."
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is not democracy."
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Easy example because I'm an Orioles fan: O's owner Peter Angelos was never forgiven by the other owners for publicly refusing to hire scab players during the 1994-95 players strike. Shunned and fucked-over by the other owners and MLB front office until his death. That's class solidarity!
April 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Easy example because I'm an Orioles fan: O's owner Peter Angelos was never forgiven by the other owners for publicly refusing to hire scab players during the 1994-95 players strike. Shunned and fucked-over by the other owners and MLB front office until his death. That's class solidarity!
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it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers
This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again — leaving thousands of jobs and the shift to clean energy in doubt.
April 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers
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It is not and has never been about wealth or prosperity in an objective sense. It's about control of human beings and the wealthy have more control and power in a desperate, shrinking economy than they do in a prosperous and wealthy one.
April 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It is not and has never been about wealth or prosperity in an objective sense. It's about control of human beings and the wealthy have more control and power in a desperate, shrinking economy than they do in a prosperous and wealthy one.
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Also: they're taking away visas and green cards and talking about getting rid of birthright citizenship: any one of us who does something the administration disapproves of could be *stripped of their citizenship.* It's the logical next step.
Louder for the people in the back:
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
Also I hope we're all on this same page
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
April 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Also: they're taking away visas and green cards and talking about getting rid of birthright citizenship: any one of us who does something the administration disapproves of could be *stripped of their citizenship.* It's the logical next step.
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Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
April 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
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GOOD. This is the ONLY way to do this. You have to say no when fascism knocks.
New York Dept of Education says it will not comply with the US Dept of Ed's order to certify their schools are getting rid of DEI programs.
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
April 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
GOOD. This is the ONLY way to do this. You have to say no when fascism knocks.
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Louder for the people in the back:
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
Also I hope we're all on this same page
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
April 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Louder for the people in the back:
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
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If I found the Necronomicon Ex Mortis I would simply put it at the bottom of my bedside TBR pile, the safest place on earth
October 8, 2024 at 10:14 PM
If I found the Necronomicon Ex Mortis I would simply put it at the bottom of my bedside TBR pile, the safest place on earth