Happy Hanukkah!
#holidays #hanukkah #cooking #latkes

Today is World AIDS Day, and for the first time since its inception in 1988, the U.S. government will not be commemorating it. Trent Straube from
POZ Magazine writes about the stats on HIV and AIDS, and the impact of the Trump administration. "Although new HIV rates have declined overall […]

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.

Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

"Elon Musk is a better role model than Jesus, better at conquering Europe than Hitler, the greatest blowjob giver of all time,... has the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” and is a better porn star than Riley Reid, according to Grok […]

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"People are currently having fun with the fact that #musk ’s ego is incredibly fragile & that fragile ego has seemingly broken #grok....

And yet, this is... an extreme example of the broader #political project of #ai chatbots & LLMs: They are top-down systems […]

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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt […]

Instead of creating more solar panels, big tech wants to build a super expensive "AGI" to solve the climate crisis, which will solve the problem by telling us to create more solar panels.

#ai #agi #environment #climatecrisis

We shouldn't be blaming this whole #ai hellscape on people who use it. It's all on the #bigtech companies who are manufacturing demand and shoving it in all of our faces. We end up getting tricked into using it in one way or another. Yes, hate on Big Tech for this but don't blame the individuals […]

God is dead.