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May-Li Khoe✨

@mayli.bsky.social

used to be @mayli in the old place. hello! 👋 maylikhoe.com tin house winter workshop 2025 Interdisciplinary designer writer artist musician dancer inventor educator. vp of design and former dj. mfa candidate.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo ago

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

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Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become

1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

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May-Li Khoe✨@mayli.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I can at least confirm that when you don’t have other ambitions (like ladder climbing, empire building, endless wealth hoarding, or a bottomless pit of an ego to fill), as a leader it really does open space and clarity to just focus on what needs to get done

Bailey McCann@baileymcc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I do agree with the core thesis here - Mamdani doesn’t really have some other ambition he is known to be beholden to and it opens up a lot more space to actually accomplish something which probably triggers both the oligarchs & the strivers

May-Li Khoe✨@mayli.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Again, even LLMs will tell you this is their limitation, but I keep finding people of all stripes who don’t get it. Will ppl listen to me more if I tell them about my two MIT CS degrees 🫠 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

we'll have AGI. Scaling is all we need. But this theory is seriously scientifically flawed. LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build. WE USE LANGUAGE TO THINK, BUT THAT DOES NOT MAKE LANGUAGE THE SAME AS THOUGHT Last year, three scientists published a commentary in the journal Nature titled, with admirable clarity, "Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought." Coauthored by Evelina Fedorenko (MIT), Steven T. Piantadosi (UC Berkeley) and Edward A.F. Gibson (MIT), the article is a tour de force summary of decades of scientific research regarding the relationship between language and thought, and has two purposes: one, to tear down the notion that language gives rise to our ability to think and reason, and two, to build up the idea that language evolved as a cultural tool we use to share our thoughts with one another.
May-Li Khoe✨@mayli.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if AI had existed during Galileo’s lifetime it would have told you the earth does not spin around the sun So, per AI: “human judgment, skepticism, and continued empirical investigation remain essential. AI can help organize and synthesize existing knowledge…

MK How would Al have dealt with the world before Galileo told us the earth spins around the sun? This is a fascinating thought experiment! It reveals something important about how Al systems work and their relationship to "truth." What AI would have done: An AI trained on pre-Copernican texts would have confidently told you that the Earth is the center of the universe, with celestial spheres carrying the planets and stars around it. It would have cited Ptolemy, Aristotle, and Church doctrine. It would have explained epicycles and deferents to account for retrograde planetary motion. And it would have been very convincing because that was the scholarly consensus. The uncomfortable truth: AI systems don't have independent access to reality. We reflect the knowledge, beliefs, and biases present in our training data. A medieval AI would have been "certain" about geocentrism the same way a modern Al is "certain" about heliocentrism-not because we independently verified it, but because that's what the authoritative sources said. What this means now: This should be genuinely humbling. Right now, I'm telling you things with confidence that reflect 2025 scientific consensus. Some of those things are probably wrong, just as learned scholars were wrong about geocentrism for over a millennium. I can't tell you which ones— if I could, they wouldn't be in my training data as facts. I'm essentially a very sophisticated mirror of human knowledge at a particular moment in time, with all its blind spots and errors intact. The silver lining: This is why human judgment, skepticism, and continued empirical investigation remain essential. Al can help organize and synthesize existing knowledge, but we can't replace the Galileos who actually look through the telescope and say "wait, that's not what we're seeing."
May-Li Khoe✨@mayli.bsky.social · 8mo ago

tbh I’m wondering who this “we” is because nobody I’m spending time with by choice is defending the social order they were born into, and I have an inkling about who is ? most likely I have chosen to be in a bubble but it is not small, point still stands whenever i see a “we” i’m like whooo is weee

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 8mo ago

This need for a legible social order expresses itself in what social psychologists call "system justification." We have a propensity to justify & defend the social order we are born into-- *even if we are at the bottom of that order* --because a system that makes sense is preferable to uncertainty.

May-Li Khoe✨@mayli.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Eventually, the few who remained wandered out of the cities on foot, leaving the bots to hit each others’ buttons and empty self-driving cars circling, charging, circling, charging. Moss crept over the concrete and tall grasses sprung up through cracks, waving golden goodbyes in the wind

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria