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Louis Anslow

@louisanslow.bsky.social

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Louis Anslow@louisanslow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Decadence of the young is sign of civilisational progress NOT decline: They once worried about being COLD, now they worry about being HOT. They once farmed for SUSTENANCE now they farm for CLOUT. They once had ARRANGED marriages by chaperone now they ARRANGE dates by smartphone

Louis Anslow@louisanslow.bsky.social · last wk.

Why campaign on contentious life/death topics such as abortion, healthcare, gun control and climate change when you can just spout AI doomerism and get tons of cash from billionaires bankrolling a doomsday cult?

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

A B I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In erkeley, California SE GYGES 10 HOURS AGO 8 5 These people shouldn’t make policy. There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In two days of testimony to Congress, RFK Jr. has blamed Mennonites, immigrants and other countries for the resurgence of measles in the U.S. Does he accept "any responsibility" for this crisis, after years of pushing disinfo on vaccines? Today he all but said no. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-me...

RFK Jr. Refuses To Say If He Takes ‘Any Responsibility’ for Measles Crisis

The HHS secretary instead blamed immigrants, Mennonites and other countries for the measles outbreak in the U.S., not his own vaccine disinformation.

huffpost.com

Adil Ray@adilray.bsky.social · last yr.

A standing ovation for someone found guilty of tweeting about burning migrants alive. She was sentenced to 31 months for inciting racial hatred. The judge said “You intended to incite serious violence. What you did encouraged activity which threatened or endangered life.” Who’s calling this out?

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · last yr.

The Reform UK conference gives a standing ovation to "special guest" Lucy Connolly, who pled guilty to stirring up racial hatred after she called for asylum hotels to be set on fire with people inside them.

Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm sad that the Observer is moving to Tortoise, but I will be glad when its chronic #MoralPanic decamps the Guardian. ‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?

theguardian.com

Steve Being@stevebeing.me · 2y ago

If it makes no different whether you're an optimist or a pessimist, you might have a better time being an optimist. If it does make a difference, if we become what we dream, why wouldn't you be an optimist? (cf. Political satire) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow

A new progressivism, one that embraces construction over obstruction, must find new allegories to think about technology and the future

theguardian.com

Kyle Johnson@kyleejohnson.bsky.social · 2y ago

I watched maybe half a dozen episodes of Black Mirror before I stopped. It was too depressing, and if I wanted that I could've watched the news. Pessimism Porn is an absolutely accurate description of that show. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow

A new progressivism, one that embraces construction over obstruction, must find new allegories to think about technology and the future

theguardian.com

Alexander Hay@alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 2y ago

I've been saying this for a long time. Black Mirror is just small-c conservative pessimism, and the better episodes are precisely those which stray from this unrelenting, po-faced, finger-wagging misery. Caveman Sci-Fi, without the self-awareness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow

A new progressivism, one that embraces construction over obstruction, must find new allegories to think about technology and the future

theguardian.com

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2y ago

My latest: Has RFK changed his tune on vaccines? Not so fast. His measles statements are chock-full of anti-vax code words, signs of how he intends to transform recommendations for, availability of, and trust in vaccines. newrepublic.com/article/1923...

How to Decode RFK Jr.’s Dog Whistle Messages on the Measles Vaccine

To some, it might have looked like the notoriously anti-vax Health and Human Services secretary was finally moderating in the face of the measles outbreak. Nope!

newrepublic.com

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2y ago

This is embarrassingly stupid. This is literally Senate Dems handing censorship power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. WTF are they thinking?

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2y ago

There’s an active fascist takeover going on. Let’s check in with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee to see how they’re resisting it. Oh… oh I see. They’re trying to blow up Section 230 and open the floodgates for Trump to censor the Internet. Inspiring!