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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 4d ago

NEW WRITING! I had just a few things to get off my chest about physicists and others collaborating with technofascists … “Why am I so convinced that companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are a danger to us? Because, to paraphrase a David Cross joke, that’s what they fucking said.” 🧪⚛️🔭

Would you invite a see-through Trojan horse into your home?

I wouldn't! And that's why I don't use technofascist AI.

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McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 4d ago

"A group of young, attractive, if somewhat emotionally stunted people, who otherwise seem to have things going for them, have decided upon a secret pact to effectively end their futures. They want you to join them. Dinner parties at other people’s houses are involved." buff.ly/oR5kV77

Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?

“You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practi...

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👻Spooky Costanza-Chock@schock.cc · 4mo ago

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

Shaun Lintern@shaunlintern.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

been thinking a lot about this 1972 Weizenbaum paper a lot lately, especially when i hear people say things like access to llms reduce inequality by leveling the playing field, solve the mental health crisis & the loneliness pandemic, etc, all of which are problems rooted in very technology itself

a screenshot reads: The structure of the typical essay on "The impact of computers on so- ciety" is as follows: First there is an "on the one hand" statement. It tells all the good things oomputers have already done for society and often even attempts to argue that the social order would already have collapsed were it not for the "computer revolution." This is usually followed by an "on the other hand" caution which tells of cer- tain problems the introduction of com- puters brings in its wake. The threat posed to individual privacy by large data banks and the danger of large- scale unemployment induced by indus- trial automation are usually mentioned. Finally, the glorious present and pro- spective achievements of the computer are applauded, while the *dangers al- luded to in the second part are shown to be capable of being alleviated by sophisticated technological fixes. The closing paragraph consists of a plea for generous societal support for more, and more large-scale, computer re- search and development. This is usually coupled to the more or less subtle assertion that only computer science, hence only the computer sci- entist, can guard the world against the admittedly hazardous fallout of applied computer technology. In fact, the computer has had very considerably less societal impact than the mass media would lead us to be- lieve. Certainly, there are enterprises like space travel that could not have been undertaken without computers. Certainly the computer industry, and with it the computer education indus- try, has grown to enormous propor- tions. But much of the industry is self-serving. It is rather like an island economy in which the natives make a living by talking in each other's laundry. The part that is not self-serving is
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 11mo ago

At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."

Fans of Aftyn@fansofaftyn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This is the type of energy we want to see from the rest of our representatives! For too long they’ve forgotten that they’re public servants. Aftyn Behn is part of a growing group that wants to change that! Tennesseans make sure to get out and vote! We have a chance to flip this seat on Dec 2nd!