Nox
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they/them. disabled queer asian. starrynox/sapphicclaude from twit
...really hate that eik and Alfred's forging bonds conversation states pretty much outright that alfred overcame his disability/chronic illness through exercise 🙃 was honestly a stain on an otherwise really nice conversation
August 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
...really hate that eik and Alfred's forging bonds conversation states pretty much outright that alfred overcame his disability/chronic illness through exercise 🙃 was honestly a stain on an otherwise really nice conversation
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🌱 Bulbasaur 🍏
The newest cursor is here! ⭐
#1 in the PokeDex and #1 in our hearts 💚
ko-fi.com/s/5a867a36c2
The newest cursor is here! ⭐
#1 in the PokeDex and #1 in our hearts 💚
ko-fi.com/s/5a867a36c2
August 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🌱 Bulbasaur 🍏
The newest cursor is here! ⭐
#1 in the PokeDex and #1 in our hearts 💚
ko-fi.com/s/5a867a36c2
The newest cursor is here! ⭐
#1 in the PokeDex and #1 in our hearts 💚
ko-fi.com/s/5a867a36c2
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“The man Meta has appointed to help address "ideological and political bias" in artificial intelligence is a conservative influencer who believes that pesticide turns children LGBTQ+ and that the COVID-19 vaccine caused Matthew Perry's death.”
www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."
www.advocate.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“The man Meta has appointed to help address "ideological and political bias" in artificial intelligence is a conservative influencer who believes that pesticide turns children LGBTQ+ and that the COVID-19 vaccine caused Matthew Perry's death.”
www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
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Yet another example of how so much of this is about language, and who gets to define what words mean. It's like how they managed to make 'anti-DEI' into everything but what it obviously is about: racism.
Astonishing how they call tire damage “killing” when gunning up on a curb could lead to actual killing!
“Pro-pedestrian” is an amazing term. It gives drivers a linguistic way out of seeing themselves as humans who are obviously also pedestrians when they’re not in their cars
August 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Yet another example of how so much of this is about language, and who gets to define what words mean. It's like how they managed to make 'anti-DEI' into everything but what it obviously is about: racism.
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I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
August 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
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Less strange when we recontextualize his big early boost. It was really in rating women’s attractiveness (I substituted a word here for the fragile and liberal among us).
Sex work is sex work.
He isn’t selling friends here. He is selling…well. I think the training guidance edits tell it.
Sex work is sex work.
He isn’t selling friends here. He is selling…well. I think the training guidance edits tell it.
So strange that FB got a big early boost for allowing friends who had lost touch over the years to reconnect, and ended up helping to atomize the country into hyperpartisan pockets of angry people in need of artificial friends.
To recap: Meta is pushing "AI companions", because Zuck see a "market" for artificial friends. They have a large workforce "training" these chatbots, presumably doing content-moderation style work, according to guidelines.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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www.reuters.com/investigates...
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August 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Less strange when we recontextualize his big early boost. It was really in rating women’s attractiveness (I substituted a word here for the fragile and liberal among us).
Sex work is sex work.
He isn’t selling friends here. He is selling…well. I think the training guidance edits tell it.
Sex work is sex work.
He isn’t selling friends here. He is selling…well. I think the training guidance edits tell it.
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This is exactly what the world keeps ignoring. A Palestinian should not have to prove they are a “perfect victim” or tell an extraordinary story of suffering to have their right to live recognized. We are living through genocide right now, under occupation,
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
I’m really excited to read the Mohammed el-Kurd book Perfect Victims because one of the things I hate about promoting Palestinian account is I feel like I have to say *why* they are worthy of help and care and not to live in occupation and genocide- but the reason is- because they are people
August 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This is exactly what the world keeps ignoring. A Palestinian should not have to prove they are a “perfect victim” or tell an extraordinary story of suffering to have their right to live recognized. We are living through genocide right now, under occupation,
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
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this is sexual harassment but obsessively talking about trans ppl’s genitals isn’t?
August 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
this is sexual harassment but obsessively talking about trans ppl’s genitals isn’t?
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August 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
August 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
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How many stories about Zuckerberg causing harm do we have to ignore because of oligarchy?
bsky.app/profile/disa...
bsky.app/profile/disa...
August 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
How many stories about Zuckerberg causing harm do we have to ignore because of oligarchy?
bsky.app/profile/disa...
bsky.app/profile/disa...
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This was a fringe idea a couple of years ago, pushed by DeSantis and conservative lawyers, and now it is a key argument for government censorship of campus speech.
Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This was a fringe idea a couple of years ago, pushed by DeSantis and conservative lawyers, and now it is a key argument for government censorship of campus speech.
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Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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They can’t recognize the agency of regular people on the street so they truly believe it was their media coverage, colleges, nonprofits, and politicians who “let” it happen and they’re trying to correct their “mistakes” by purging Black people from public life.
August 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
They can’t recognize the agency of regular people on the street so they truly believe it was their media coverage, colleges, nonprofits, and politicians who “let” it happen and they’re trying to correct their “mistakes” by purging Black people from public life.
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Watching video today of ICE agents roaming the streets of American cities and reading about the anger and fear of Bostonians during the Fugitive Slave crisis is a reminder of why it is so important that the institutions charged with interpreting the past be allowed to do so without interference.
August 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Watching video today of ICE agents roaming the streets of American cities and reading about the anger and fear of Bostonians during the Fugitive Slave crisis is a reminder of why it is so important that the institutions charged with interpreting the past be allowed to do so without interference.
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If they have an extra 20 guys to arrest sandwich man, you would think that the Epstein files would be released by now. Didn't they say there may have been 1000+ victims? You have to wonder about priorities when a guy who threw a sandwich at an agent in protective gear is arrested before the pedos.
August 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
If they have an extra 20 guys to arrest sandwich man, you would think that the Epstein files would be released by now. Didn't they say there may have been 1000+ victims? You have to wonder about priorities when a guy who threw a sandwich at an agent in protective gear is arrested before the pedos.
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It’s really not appreciated how committed our institutional elites are to making sure there’s never ever another moment like 2020 and the George Floyd protests. They believe this was the lowest point of their lives, they’re embarrassed it happened and they think *they* fueled/started it.
August 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It’s really not appreciated how committed our institutional elites are to making sure there’s never ever another moment like 2020 and the George Floyd protests. They believe this was the lowest point of their lives, they’re embarrassed it happened and they think *they* fueled/started it.
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
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And this is why using AI to learn any language, let alone languages that are not English. never made sense to me.
Because even if a language is represented, the vast majority of training data is English.
#LangSky #polyglots
Because even if a language is represented, the vast majority of training data is English.
#LangSky #polyglots
Opinion: Only 7% of the world's 7,000 languages are reflected in the online material that trains AI systems. That means 93% of human linguistic diversity is digitally underrepresented.
When AI Doesn’t Understand You: A New Form of Global Inequality
Opinion | Many of the world’s languages aren’t adequately represented in the data used to train chatbots and other AI-based tools.
undark.org
August 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
And this is why using AI to learn any language, let alone languages that are not English. never made sense to me.
Because even if a language is represented, the vast majority of training data is English.
#LangSky #polyglots
Because even if a language is represented, the vast majority of training data is English.
#LangSky #polyglots
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I hope this piece will be followed by one each on the principled sacrifice of the what, 13 now? authors who withdrew from the long-list to show the vast majority of queer writers stand with trans people.
1st-time writers struggling for ££ who put solidarity first.
THAT's a story I want to hear.
1st-time writers struggling for ££ who put solidarity first.
THAT's a story I want to hear.
August 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I hope this piece will be followed by one each on the principled sacrifice of the what, 13 now? authors who withdrew from the long-list to show the vast majority of queer writers stand with trans people.
1st-time writers struggling for ££ who put solidarity first.
THAT's a story I want to hear.
1st-time writers struggling for ££ who put solidarity first.
THAT's a story I want to hear.
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As one of the debut authors who pulled out, I think it's hilarious to talk about "bullying". Like...you shat on my birthday cake and I said "nah, I don't want to eat this now"...that's not bullying that's self preservation
August 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
As one of the debut authors who pulled out, I think it's hilarious to talk about "bullying". Like...you shat on my birthday cake and I said "nah, I don't want to eat this now"...that's not bullying that's self preservation
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Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her".
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender-critical novelist urges writers to re-enter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her".
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...