@benjolondon.bsky.social
Machine learning researcher; principal scientist at Amazon Music; don’t post much.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.
April 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.
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It’s so silly that tech people keep saying that we’re on the verge of a full artificial intelligence takeover and yet most automatic soap dispensers can’t tell hand from not hand half the time.
April 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s so silly that tech people keep saying that we’re on the verge of a full artificial intelligence takeover and yet most automatic soap dispensers can’t tell hand from not hand half the time.
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If you see a Trumper who is sad because they can't afford things, then don't be nice to them.
April 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
If you see a Trumper who is sad because they can't afford things, then don't be nice to them.
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I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.
Elon Musk says "10% of federal expenditures" are due to people having fake Social Security numbers, claiming it is "half a trillion dollars."
March 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.
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If senior leadership doesn’t understand or acknowledge that we’re in an emergency, junior Dems should ruthlessly undermine them and push them out.
March 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If senior leadership doesn’t understand or acknowledge that we’re in an emergency, junior Dems should ruthlessly undermine them and push them out.
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if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist
Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.
January 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist
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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
www.theatlantic.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”
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sorry, this is the gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights (Gift Article)
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
sorry, this is the gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...