Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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artist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, neo-luddite, anarchist
Sorry you can’t breathe this summer, but it would have hurt profits. What you want oxygen? For free? Radical socialism.
this is key to understanding why liberalism seems to "go to sleep" in off years. we dont keep up the drum beat. conservatives slither into power. they fuck everything up. the backlash erupts and liberals win. then we assume clinton/obama/biden have it handled and stop getting involved. cycle restart
Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.
Alan Turing, born on this day in 1912. Helped save this country only to be persecuted by it.
Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
theguardian.com
One reason that approach can be functionally more dangerous is that it lulls citizens into a false sense of security with a baseless belief that their government is doing something useful about it, and for that reason the amount of public engagement with the issue declines under LPC governments. 6/
there is no such thing as an opinion about AI that will be more impactful or meaningful than just ummm Doing things. Making things. opinions fill the room with hot air but making something with your hands adds something to the world. something that isnt AI. you dont even have to tell anyone about it
I wrote a piece about the origins of may day a few years ago. About the immigrants and a formerly enslaved woman who built a movement to abolish their oppressors: the state and capitalism. www.tangledwilderness.org/features/hur...
Hurrah for Anarchy: A History of Haymarket, May Day, and the Chicago Anarchists — Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
by Margaret Killjoy Zine #29 — May 2024 A History of Haymarket, May Day, and the Chicago Anarchists
tangledwilderness.org
Dodgers currently 14-1 in game 8 of the 2025 World Series
The main problem with checking AI outputs for errors is that you need to have an idea of what you actually wanted it to do. Most people use AI as a *substitute* for having to figure that out.
OpenAI shutting down Sora feels like knocking down the first domino
FUN FACT: If no one uses OpenAl, OpenAl dies. The same goes for many Big Tech corporations and their AI platforms. We are the ones that set the expiration dates. Tell your friends. Tell everyone you know.
This International Women’s Day, stop men. Even better, men stop.
Listen, apart from maybe some marketing hype, it doesn't actually mean anything that a bunch of weirdo AI execs might think that their LLM is conscious. We've seen how they treat other humans, who are *irrefutably* conscious.
Can anyone tell me if beer selling is one of those jobs of the future Doug Ford favours? #OSAPcuts (and because someone will misunderstand, I am fine with beer selling -- it just seems a deep preoccupation of this government -- like its the future!)
“If I’m here at Super Bowl LX, it’s because I never stopped believing in myself. You should never stop believing in yourself either. It’s worth more than you think.” —Bad Bunny
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
“Countries seeking permanent membership face a $1 billion contribution fee, with Trump designated as permanent chairman even after leaving office, according to a copy of the charter”
Trump launches 'Board of Peace' at Davos signing ceremony
The board originated in the US president's 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan endorsed by the UN Security Council, but has expanded far beyond its initial mandate.
euronews.com
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
@marykmac.bsky.social · 8mo agoyeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
Also the subtext here is hilarious: it’s clear these AI bros know that they have yet to do much that would be described as ‘useful’ with gAI, and they’re terrified that people will notice Hope it keeps Satya and Sam and Elon and Peter and Jensen and all the other technofascists up at night
Mrs Dr Syd@mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 7mo agoDelicious to me