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Not in defense of AI here but really, there should be better parental controls baked in to operating systems for this and multiple other reasons
Wild how they address this by offloading it on to parents rather than, say…making a safer product.
September 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Not in defense of AI here but really, there should be better parental controls baked in to operating systems for this and multiple other reasons
People continually point out how much worse the 80s and 90s were on rights, accessibility, etc, and they were. But one thing that I can't shake is how there was a semblance of bright, vibrant hope that things will get better
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September 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
People continually point out how much worse the 80s and 90s were on rights, accessibility, etc, and they were. But one thing that I can't shake is how there was a semblance of bright, vibrant hope that things will get better
I'm currently on a contract project where the director has the entire team in a meeting where he wastes two hours of our time with his yapping
The easiest job in the world: supervisor who asks the shop floor "how many widgets did you make?" and then goes back up to corporate to report the number.
Unfortunately, that's the level of management competence in tech.
And now they are asking, can't AI make the widgets?
Quality? Don't know her.
Unfortunately, that's the level of management competence in tech.
And now they are asking, can't AI make the widgets?
Quality? Don't know her.
Only outputs can be automated
By emphasizing design's role as a producer of visual outputs, our leaders have eroded the entire justification for UX as a practice.
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September 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm currently on a contract project where the director has the entire team in a meeting where he wastes two hours of our time with his yapping
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Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
July 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
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Describe police reform in 4 words
July 25, 2023 at 4:02 PM
Describe police reform in 4 words
Gork is this good?
Some of Meta's new AI staff are already eyeing the exit after extremely brief tenures with the company.
Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
Longtime acolytes are sidelined as CEO directs biggest leadership reorganization in two decades.
arstechnica.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Gork is this good?
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"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" - Qui-Gon Jinn
We really have not made a lot of progress on explaining the core deep mystery of LLMs:
How does a model using matrix multiplication to predict the next word manage to simulate human thought well enough to do all the very human-like things it does? And what does that mean about us and our thinking?
How does a model using matrix multiplication to predict the next word manage to simulate human thought well enough to do all the very human-like things it does? And what does that mean about us and our thinking?
August 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" - Qui-Gon Jinn
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It’s worth noting in my work for For Our Future Pennsylvania I knocked on an average of 250 doors a day all over the East End of Pittsburgh. I talked to the richest of the rich, the middle class, the working poor about their biggest political concerns.
Fascism. Autocracy. Authoritarianism.
Fascism. Autocracy. Authoritarianism.
August 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It’s worth noting in my work for For Our Future Pennsylvania I knocked on an average of 250 doors a day all over the East End of Pittsburgh. I talked to the richest of the rich, the middle class, the working poor about their biggest political concerns.
Fascism. Autocracy. Authoritarianism.
Fascism. Autocracy. Authoritarianism.
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so, @thomasfuchs.at has been weizenbaum-posting for ages
everybody should read it
and weep. tho that part’s optional
but not one of the problems we’re facing is novel.
everybody should read it
and weep. tho that part’s optional
but not one of the problems we’re facing is novel.
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
August 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
so, @thomasfuchs.at has been weizenbaum-posting for ages
everybody should read it
and weep. tho that part’s optional
but not one of the problems we’re facing is novel.
everybody should read it
and weep. tho that part’s optional
but not one of the problems we’re facing is novel.
I honestly hate that I can understand the individual words here but the arrangement is complete nonsense
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
August 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I honestly hate that I can understand the individual words here but the arrangement is complete nonsense
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Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
August 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
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We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves.
All of us get protections or none of us do
All of us get protections or none of us do
August 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves.
All of us get protections or none of us do
All of us get protections or none of us do
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This is just incredibly poor UX. Asking for the "birth sex" when what is actually relevant for the provider is current registered sex so they can find the NHS number, is confusing to the end user
This question literally put me at risk of a serious kidney infection.
August 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is just incredibly poor UX. Asking for the "birth sex" when what is actually relevant for the provider is current registered sex so they can find the NHS number, is confusing to the end user
Alright yeah just shut down the servers and investigate Meta
“…in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, ‘Do you want to do it together?’”
“And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”
“And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”
Instagram’s chatbot helped teen accounts plan suicide — and parents can’t disable it
An investigation into the Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook found that it helped teen accounts plan suicide and self harm, promoted eating disorders and drug use, and regularly claimed...
www.washingtonpost.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Alright yeah just shut down the servers and investigate Meta
This is just incredibly poor UX. Asking for the "birth sex" when what is actually relevant for the provider is current registered sex so they can find the NHS number, is confusing to the end user
This question literally put me at risk of a serious kidney infection.
August 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is just incredibly poor UX. Asking for the "birth sex" when what is actually relevant for the provider is current registered sex so they can find the NHS number, is confusing to the end user
It's a good thing that Elon's users are smart, decent people who respect women and-
Hold on I'm getting some new information here
Hold on I'm getting some new information here
Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.
www.theverge.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It's a good thing that Elon's users are smart, decent people who respect women and-
Hold on I'm getting some new information here
Hold on I'm getting some new information here
They're going to do everything to explain Mamdani's win other than people like him more
The Democratic primary for mayor of New York City in June was the second major election in which the city used ranked-choice voting. Zohran Mamdani ultimately benefited from the system in defeating Andrew Cuomo, especially after his cross-endorsement with Brad Lander, data shows. nyti.ms/47hfyZr
August 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
They're going to do everything to explain Mamdani's win other than people like him more
So good that we're just putting everything into this
The AI Boom’s Hidden Risk to the Economy
The build-out of artificial-intelligence infrastructure is costing a fortune, straining companies and capital markets.
www.wsj.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
So good that we're just putting everything into this
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Really need people to recognize why they feel compelled to do this when Black people are discussing racism.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Really need people to recognize why they feel compelled to do this when Black people are discussing racism.
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August 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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August 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Well ok if he's really gonna go Versailles here there's kinda a historical precedent for how this ends
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Well ok if he's really gonna go Versailles here there's kinda a historical precedent for how this ends
This is something I keep running up against. AI *could* be useful if guardrails are adopted, eg it's trained on only set data and information. You let it loose on the entirety of the Internet, and it starts hallucinating nonsense
August 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is something I keep running up against. AI *could* be useful if guardrails are adopted, eg it's trained on only set data and information. You let it loose on the entirety of the Internet, and it starts hallucinating nonsense
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A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate.
And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.
And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.
and here's David Mamet revealing that getting snubbed by Terry Gross is what radicalized him into conservatism
August 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate.
And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.
And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.