1. LLMs and image and video generation come at enormous environmental cost, both locally (diverting water and energy and increasing community costs) and globally (hello climate change). Our use of these products has real world environmental impact.
Viva Vestal Vespa
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AI Hater. If AI has one hater, I'm that hater. If AI has no haters, I am dead. I like fashion, bread, and books.
2. AI companies exploit people training the models, especially in the global south. Karen Hao detailed this in her book Empire of AI, and 404 Media has done important followup work. Our use of these products adds to that exploitation.
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
404media.co
Flashback to the time I created Judith Butler as a custom wrestler in WWE 2K24 (complete with a ring announcer call-out). Straight from the WWE Gender Performance Center!
I just saw a job listing for an "experienced and energetic" comms professional and I'm sorry but I think you need to pick one.
Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over
Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.
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What, exactly are the "functions similar to human feelings?" Self-preservation mode and an impulse to blackmail humans when threatened with shutdown or failure.
WIRED@wired.com · 4mo agoResearchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.
I know what everyone is trying to say here but F-series trucks are fleet vehicles for like every construction company so maybe reserve judgment for every American driver bc most of us are just trying to make life bearable in unwalkabe communities
My nephew wanted his 10th birthday theme to be his cat, so I made him a Remy cake.
For some context, American air space has always been vulnerable. There’s a decades old mythology of “UFOs are interested in our atomic sites” to cover up the fact that China and Russia are able to violate our defenses with impunity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_rep...
UFO reports and atomic sites - Wikipedia
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yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos
TFW youre the future of art and technology and youre definitely doing fine and the billions of dollars you need to raise every quarter are a good investment
Exclusive | OpenAI Set to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App
The app, released last year, allowed people to insert themselves into famous movie scenes, among other functions.
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"AI is quitting without admitting to yourself you're a quitter." Say it from the mountaintops.
Radmad@radmad.bsky.social · 5mo ago"what do you mean I have to make the whole game" is the first humbling a game dev receives and it either inspires you to become greater than you are or quit. AI is quitting without admitting to yourself you're a quitter.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still
America’s only protection from the threat of Marxism is illiteracy and the Republican Party are champions in the battle against education. Can’t go woke if we strangle you in your sleep!
Ahhhhh@nerdjpg.com · 5mo agoSaw someone say on here that communists only do literacy programs and raise literacy rates for propaganda reasons and I thought about this post
Engagement stats for Bluesky vs Threads are completely bizarre. I have 10 times the followers here and I got 500x the replies and views over there. Very curious about how the algos are different. Is it just because it's tied to Meta somehow?
garfeild getting into his 2007 singer-songwriter feels
Garfield and Friends Screens@garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 5mo ago
In Columbia Heights, we just held a mutual aid craft show that raised $15k. Handknit hats made by grandmas and original art created far from the front lines made $ to help ppl pay rents. Our tactics continue to diversify and art is a big player.
Unpopular opinion: If Cesar Chavez were still alive and still active in progressive politics, there would be people publicly doubting Delores Huerta and trying to protect him from accountability.
I'm not a lawyer but if a man's conviction was upheld because the state's attorney used AI to fabricate citations *and* the trial judge clearly did not read the motion or response, wouldn't the ruling be reversible error and wouldn't this be prosecutorial misconduct?
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 5mo agoUpdate: Today, the Georgia Supreme Court issued an order directing counsel for the state to file a sworn affidavit providing a “complete explanation” for the filings that included non-existent cases and other errors.
this post office shit is really grinding my gears because, as with most of these things, it is the result of decades of bipartisan effort when the GOP holds power they hamstring and undermine the PO, when Dems hold power they ignore the damage and fix nothing see: Louis DeJoy
When I say that we are much further down the line to a true US collapse, this is what I'm talking about. The pivot to petro-yuan will be talked about in the future like we talk about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand now. asiatimes.com/2026/03/iran...
Iran's Hormuz yuan play a direct hit on the petrodollar - Asia Times
The Strait of Hormuz has long been treated as a narrow maritime chokepoint with outsized strategic value. But in moments of crisis, it becomes something
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Saw a tidtok a few days ago where someone was talking about how badly we’ve been robbed just since 9/11 of infrastructure and social housing and healthcare and sustainable energy infrastructure and sp on and I’m just never gonna stop being angry Trillions to waste on blowing people up tho
To put it mildly, the Trump mayhem plugged into social media algorithms, AI hallucinations & a media vertically monopolized by oligarchs is creating a society-wide civilization-destroying mental health crisis that will last the rest of our lives & probably the rest of the next generation’s lives too
