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Lucas
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Triste é não ter um verso maior que o literário.
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lcsdcrz.bsky.social
I like Bob Brandom very much; I like very much that he make avaible all his lectures; but I don't understanding why his lectures are so long. Is it some tradition in Pitt? I get the the conversational tone has clearly some point in it; but is difficulty to be in line with the reasoning display.
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
lcsdcrz.bsky.social
Unbelievable, I was listening on my Spotify John Cage 4'33 and it was an AI version.
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
lcsdcrz.bsky.social
'ChatGPT' is a nickname, and nicknames are for friends, and Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer is no friend of mine.
December 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
lcsdcrz.bsky.social
We should only use words from the Bible, i.e. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
lastpositivist.bsky.social lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Dec 5
Mandatory logical positivism classes, Red Vienna and we're no longer asking, etc etc.
shoe.bsky.social Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · Dec 5
We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
lcsdcrz.bsky.social
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund-Enfeite.
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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luckytran.com
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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archive.org
Who's behind our new microfiche scanning livestream?

None other than Sophia Tung @sof.is, the creative mind behind the viral robotaxi depot livestream! 🚕

Check out how Sophia pulled it all together, and why the work is so important at this moment in time ⬇️
May 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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maxread.info
this week's newsletter is about the lessons of our departed friend white genocide grok maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-...
And yet: What stands out about White Genocide Grok is how poorly it worked. It’s not just that the patched prompt accidentally created a chatbot obsessed with “Kill the Boer”--it’s that the substance of the responses were decidedly not agreeable to Musk’s own white-paranoia politics, and in some cases Grok even contradicted him by name. Whatever behind-the-scenes political manipulation was being attempted here failed on at least two levels, and not solely because xAI is staffed and run by dummies. The fact is that large language models as they currently exist are difficult to manipulate from the top down in clean, discrete, non-obvious ways. Patching the system prompt might nudge your chatbot slightly in one direction or another, but rarely to the precise effect you want, and a subtly bad prompt can suddenly render your chatbot unusably obsequious or obsessed with South African politics. Re-training your entire model along different lines, as an alternative, is likely to have even larger and stranger effects on its responses: Earlier this year, researchers fine-tuned an L.L.M. on “insecure code,” and found that, as an unexpected aftereffect, the model produced text that Hitler and suggest its interlocutor commit suicide. This is not the same thing as saying that the models as they currently exist are accurate, or “truthful,” or that their “judgment,” such as it is, is worth deferring to. Simply that these are enormous, complex systems whose interactions and outputs are still difficult to identify, interpret, and even reproduce. There’s an irony at play here. It’s been clear for a long time now that one attraction of “A.I.” to reactionaries like Musk is the idea that, in its (purported) capacity as an all-knowing, automated truth and decision-making machine, it might provide what Peter Thiel once memorably called “an escape from politics in all its forms”--a way to bypass contestation, negotiation, compromise, and other messy political processes like “democracy.” To people for whom A.I. or A.G.I. heralds a new, post-political world, the almost mystic unknowability of large language models is a feature, not a bug, in the same way that the un-plan-ability of markets was regarded by Hayek and Von Mises as their greatest strength. But this mystic attitude toward A.I. cuts both ways: What happens when the black-box super-intelligence appears and doesn’t actually agree with you on the question of White Genocide? If you’re a member of the right wing of the A.I. research community, you suggest that some kind of bias has been injected into the models that must be corrected. One problem, as White Genocide Grok demonstrates, is that “correcting” an L.L.M. (or “eliminating bias,” or what you might call “consensus,” in an astonishingly large corpus) is a complex problem that you can easily fat-finger into widespread ridicule. The other problem is that in pursuing strategies for “correction,” you’re de-mystifying precisely the supposedly un-manipulable qualities of A.I. that made it a philosophically and ideologically attractive technology in the first place.
May 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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mharrisondupre.bsky.social
NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI.

The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard.

futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
Futurism Training Season May 9, 11:56 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists' Music Artists are furious at the platform's sneaky tactics. Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Training/ Data/ Music
May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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nytimes.com
The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
I recently gave a public talk that mentioned this, and many people were genuinely surprised that the "free services" they used like Facebook, X, Google harvested their data to train AI models. The general public needs to be educated about this.
rmac.bsky.social Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · Apr 15
Most of the existing social networks already allow for the content you post to be harvested to train AI, but the question is will real people use a social network where everyone expects that to happen from the get go

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theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · Apr 15
OpenAI is building a social network
April 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
lcsdcrz.bsky.social
LLM in a nutshell.
April 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
And there it is. Putin’s lifelong dream. After years of relentless Russian propaganda, now fully embraced by the American president and the world’s richest oligarch, millions of Americans are convinced that this is a good plan because Europe is an enemy and Putin is our friend.
March 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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kevinbaker.bsky.social
"if you have zero education, but nevertheless somehow possess the benefits of a good education."
mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 17
If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models.

Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
February 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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wikimediafoundation.org
Wikipedia is now recognized as a digital public good by the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance.

This recognition highlights Wikipedia's role in advancing free and trusted knowledge, powered by nearly 260,000 volunteers in 300+ languages.

Read more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02...
Early morning in Prado, Bahia, Brazil. Text says: Wikipedia is now recognized as a digital public good. Here's what that means.
February 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM