A writer just claimed on social media that using AI to write is no different than “using glasses to see,” and critiques of AI are “ableist.” Disability is a concept invented by capitalism to discipline & standardize the labor force thru the uniformity of industrial work. AI is a technology 1/2

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

next time someone tells you AI is inevitable 👇

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Op Ed: Spare a thought for my prospects for generational wealth transfer!

Vince Mancini@vincemancini.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh no, not your mom’s pied-a-terre!!!!!!!

A reminder that many universities are foisting this tech on students while slashing the training that would help them evaluate its outputs

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 3w ago

Please cut that 💩 OFF share.google/D3ScIGG10c70...

If you've been following my coverage on xAI / SpaceX in Memphis, you know the issues around noise, air pollution, energy & water consumption concerns and more. We went there to see how xAI neighbors are doing and show you how sprawling the facilities are... www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XP...

Elon Musk’s Memphis Takeover — The Marvels And Messiness Of SpaceX’s AI Buildout

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wracking my brain to remember what was going on 20 years ago…

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4w ago

RBAdvisers: “.. Why isn’t this nonstop talk? The 30-Year Bond Yield is back to the levels not seen in nearly 20 years!”

great news for everyone who was forced to buy SpaceX stock through Nasdaq index fund 3 days ago!

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 4w ago

China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.

The fiasco of the 2024 Columbia campus clearances made abundantly clear what uni admin think of students: they are mere generators of revenue and will be disciplined with Pinkerton armies.

profchander@profchander.bsky.social · 4w ago

i quit.

People are actually being killed by people who are hopped up on hormones and ICE bonuses

Julie Rei Goldstein@julierei.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, says he walks around worrying that someone who's hopped up on hormones and Trans surgeries is going to try and kill him.

The largely conservative student body at the school where I work is really only ever capable of critiquing perceived “bias” in cultural objects (by which they just mean “leftist” thinking). So believe me when I say I’m gonna have a field day with this in the Fall.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.

Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”

What if we combined the phantasmatic productivity gains of the New Economy with the leveraged debt of 2008 and the “we’ll mine asteroids” infinite growth solutionism of the 70s, then multiplied all that by 10…?

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · last mo.

What if the AI productivity boost has been vastly oversold? "...for each dollar that companies spend on AI coding tools, 44 cents goes towards fixing AI-generated bugs, 27 cents goes towards rewriting the code, and 11 cents is lost to other inefficiencies" www.hardresetmedia.com/p/are-we-bet...

Every guy in NYC dresses like Kevin Costner in Bull Durham

The download numbers for this episode have filled me with dread. Hopefully, an indication that we are ready to get organized. In the meantime, remember, print is a rent strike.

unsettling aside the intended effect of campus crackdowns: seeing a lot of posts on here about what levels of repression students ought to be willing to weather for the cause. I assume I'll be seeing these posters at the barricades

The Trump 2.0 smash and grab really does put the lie to the notion that there is a “fix” to the current crisis of accumulation. The options appear to be managed decline or accelerationist carnage.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 6mo ago

Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."

Grok, did you test the O-ring seal before launch? Yes! Absolutely—the O-ring is a key component in ensuring a safe & epic ride on any SpaceX™️rocket. Enjoy your trip! 👍

George Pearkes@peark.es · 6mo ago

omg *SPACEX IN MERGER TALKS WITH XAI AHEAD OF PLANNED IPO: REUTERS *SHARES OF XAI WOULD BE EXCHANGED FOR SHARES IN SPACEX: REUTERS *TWO ENTITIES SET UP IN NEVADA TO FACILITATE TRANSACTION: RTRS

Hot take: Jean Paulhan’s Les Fleurs de Tarbes (1941) is the best book on generative AI out there.

Just found this tacked up at the college at which I teach, which has recently signed a deal with Anthropic, which stole 6 of my books and books by 131 colleagues.

If you thought Bovino’s demotion would change anything, you fell for it

Matt McDermott@mattmfm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

New: Unsealed court docs detail Big Tech’s yearslong, secret race to ingest the collective works of humanity, including Anthropic’s project to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” Gift link: wapo.st/4rjXAMQ

How Silicon Valley built AI: Buying, scanning and destroying millions of books

Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

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Sorry, no, this is not a “political realignment.” This is very much in keeping with the techno-libertarianism that has dominated Silicon Valley’s executive class for decades. They were naming their kids and companies after Ayn Rand characters back in the 90s.

The Information@theinformation.com · 6mo ago

The Brockmans’ move into Republican megadonor territory highlights a broader political realignment underway in Silicon Valley. https://thein.fo/49FCQZS

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek

Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for economic ...

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Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.

People better equipped than me to think about this: how does the Trump regulatory picture on AI dovetail with the Brenner/Riley articulation of “political capitalism”?

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m currently visiting my parents, which is the only time I really watch any TV, so this is the first time I’m learning everyone is evidently obsessed with electrolytes!?

“What the driver was or wasn't doing with her vehicle is irrelevant; so are the ICE agent's feelings about it. The agents never had to be clustered around the woman's vehicle in the first place. They never had to try to extract her from it.“

ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector

On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...

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ICE is recycling the same bullshit story they used in Chicago to cover up yet another murder.