you put self-driving cars on the road and you kill a person, you should be scared. if you put a chatbot into kids' hands and tell them to use it and they use it and then they kill themselves, you should be really fucking scared. the idea that the wagons should circle *around you* is unbelievable.

we need a new internet, old internet is just dumpster fires and diaries

Infinite Wibble www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

“Andreessen Horowitz is warning that billions of dollars in AI investments could be worth a lot less if companies developing the technology are forced to pay for the copyrighted data that makes it work.”

This is NOT from the @theonion.com

www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

There is only one man who can fill the shoes of the recently departed Pope Francis

I’m giving #YachtRockDock a try - even if it’s a stupid-ass label made by people who don’t understand music (classifying Real Love, one of the realest 💔 songs ever as “breezy” & “bougie”, is for people who don’t listen to lyrics). Already dumb talking heads, while Michael McD *blasts racism* 😬

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.

Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

I wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social about birthday boy Roy Scheider's atomsplitting performance in ALL THAT JAZZ, Bob Fosse's hallucinatory and Felliniesque self-portrait of discovaudeville burlesque and deathbed excoriation.

www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2018/06/01/i...

I clicked “follow” on so many starter packs this week I feel like I just finished my third plate at Christmas dinner. I’ve gone too far and will now pay the price.

This may be helpful for you new followers. You can block every single person on these lists. Just click on the subscribe button and it will give you the option to block every one on it. Here’s the first: bsky.app/profile/did:...

When folks say “don’t give up in advance?” What does that mean? 🧵

the simple fact is that the “guardrails” of the american system have completely failed. the only thing that has kept us from going over are the voters and we’ll see if that holds.

ME: If I can't get to sleep, I won't be rested for tomorrow and it'll be a terrible day

INSOMNIA: Yesssss, feed me...make me more powerful than you can imagine

@darthbluesky.bsky.social You probably know this, but there’s a pet insurance company named Wishbone. And yes, it’s open enrollment time again!

Snake oil merchants always go very quiet when you ask them how something can achieve the claimed kill rate without being corrosive to skin and surfaces.