"Contemporary discourse often pits Muslims & Jews against one another. But our research demonstrates that a large amount of seemingly disconnected hateful rhetoric about both—at least in 2017—originated from the same far-right extremist communities" | The Same Extremists Target Both Muslims and Jews

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the man who put the "twit" in Twitter, the one and only @elonmusk!" mashable.com/article/grok...

the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century

Imma keep it short this time:

Companies are using our work without compensation. That's the point of AI

The endless debates over whether this is "true art" or not, or whether it's gonna take over the world some day, are a distraction from the indisputable fact that this is pure exploitation

BEGGING people to understand AI language models are just fancy autocomplete, with no ability to fact-check themselves for accuracy. It can’t *answer* a question, it can only spit out something that follows the shape of an answer.

www.cnn.com/2023/12/10/h...

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Libraries are arguably the best thing the United states has going.

They are not just book collections. They are free public space, job finding lifelines, connections to family genealogy, vital resources for parents. Libraries should be funded, utilized, and universally accessible

It's incredible how accurately Shel Silverstein predicted AI decades ago

Ah, it's nice to see my allusions to Le Guin and Cherryh have not gone unnoticed

I have been trying to regain access to my Coinbase account for months. I have submitted the asked for verification multiple times . The verification has been accepted, but I'm still unable to access my account. No reason given. Anyone else have this issue? Is there a class action against Coinbase?

"De Niro then refused to thank the film’s backers, Apple, referring to the removal of part of his speech: “I don’t feel like thanking them at all for what they did. How dare they do that, actually.”

www.theguardian.com/film/2023/no...

"Nantucket’s Rich Are Losing the Battle to Keep Wind Power Out of Their Backyards"

Why don't they just do what they do best? Look the other way

themessenger.com/business/win...

Intellectually I know that not every soup needs bay leaf. I've never made a soup without bay leaf

"While we should be thankful he [Zuckerberg] has chosen to emulate Augustus instead of, say, Caligula..."

"In Thiel’s words: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

www.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...