Hey, folks, this quiz that's circulating? The guy who made it is Emil Kirkegaard, a pretty prominent "race-realist" aka white supremacist who's also virulently misogynist. I really recommend not giving it any of your attention.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 3d ago

I noped out on the first question. I CAN'T ANSWER THIS IN A FUCKING VACUUM Is the regulation something like "you should not pollute"? I like it. Is the regulation something like "should we be able to strip all your rights away and hold you in a concentration camp for months over this? I'm a no.

Literally the ROOT of this extinction theory is Nick Bostrom, who, in his list of 20 or so or whatever potential "existential risks," he had dysgenic pressures, along with so-called super intelligence. This is public information, he wrote it in a "paper."

CultureIsFirst@cultureisfirst.bsky.social · 4d ago

Everything hysterical Malo Bourgon has said in response to Amy’s question on how would it extinct humans, replace the term “humans” with “white race” and you hear the White Supremacist rant. 🚩Anti- #AI people should think hard what ideologies they’re feeding.

just saw a major political writer for national media say on the other site that saying slurs about the disabled won’t hurt peltola in alaska “but might in greenfield massachusetts” as if it wasn’t clear where this is headed

It's really clear that wide swaths of the social media left today would have been overtly hostile to the 1970s disability rights movement and painted demands for infrastructure spending for accessibility as absurd "wreckerism".

had reserved commenting on this because it felt very “look at the freak queers infighting,” especially at the same time as the boston globe running digital main-page transphobia. turns out that’s exactly what it is

DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁@rhinestonemice.wtf · 5d ago

This story seems to have been inspired by Jesse Singals podcast from last week

Someone asked me my thoughts on Boston Globe lesbian bar drama: My thoughts are that if you only temporarily struggled with isolation in 2020/2021, we should have more empathy for COVID-cautious people who have limited IRL community due to health concerns.

Release Aminata Seck. “Aminata Seck, a college basketball player and Kentucky State graduate student from Senegal, was taken into ICE custody in Louisville on 7 August as she awaited sorely needed surgery, according to attorney and social justice advocate Sadiqa Reynolds.”

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last wk.

ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.

if you think the way PBS is framing this issue (see QT below) is a joke, please read & share my latest essay, which flips that framing, exposing its many flaws: juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads

and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses

juliaserano.medium.com

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2w ago

An increasing number of Democratic officials in red and blue states are distancing themselves from their party's unflinching support for the transgender community's policy priorities, such as allowing athletes to compete on teams that match their gender identity. https://to.pbs.org/4xO5rWu

"An AI agent went rogue" also feels like a test drive for an era when no one is responsible for the worst things these products do. Seems like a standard that could be really convenient for certain governments.

the future where we lose our rights is one where the democrats fold on this issue and turn into the labour party by letting cowards and outright bigots take control of the issue. we lose our rights when you decide that '10 trans women playing sports' is no longer an actual civil rights issue.

Dead Bat Designs@deadbatdesigns.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do you think holding an absolute stance right this minute about 10 trans women playing sports is a good move in the face of future where all trans people lose all their rights? If Dems questioning about sports get elected *you can still work to change their minds*, can't do that with Trump II

Bigotry among politicians *always* escalates if it's not stopped. They're elites steeped in a highly bigoted culture already. Giving them more power doesn't make them better. Transphobic rhetoric to supposedly win one election cycle inevitably becomes supporting transphobic laws to win the next...

Have we discussed what Ben Goertzel, the man who popularized the term Artificial General Intelligence (the thing all these doomsday cults need to build and also stop from becoming evil 🙄) said that when he builds his super brain there won't be the types of girls who accused Epstein of rape?

But why would there be so much misinfo/disinfo swirling around debilitating illnesses like ME & Long Covid that affect millions of people? I dunno, maybe the corporations who should be on the hook are happy not having to pay up & manufacturing doubt is a great way to delay taking responsibility?

wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸@masksaregood.myatproto.social · 4w ago

For those unfamiliar, there's a loooong history of insurance companies working to delegitimize these illnesses to protect their bottom line. Here's some reading for the curious: www.mostewartresearch.co.uk/wp-content/u... www.margaretwilliams.me/2013/role-of...

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

wired.com

Today marks 25 years since 9/11. 8 months after the attack, psychiatrist Simon Wessely argued that illness reported around Ground Zero was being wrongly attributed to environmental toxins, suggesting “World Trade Centre Syndrome” was driven by social and psychological factors.

BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all

Long Covid is my midlife crisis and it can be yours too if you all keep refusing to mask 😇

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 3w ago

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

all of which is to say, it makes far more sense to compare a.i. slop to taboola and outbrain type chum than it does to user generated content.

breaking: XAI announces that they have used an unreleased grok model to solve a major open problem in the field of race science

Hey @mayor.nyc.gov - I'm disabled and often need to sit after climbing stairs. Why after climbing 2 flights at W 4th is there nowhere to sit? Trying to use this thing is literally worse than standing. My heart rate is 30 points higher than it should be thanks to hostile architecture

just another banger from Frankie. This isn't a difference of opinion, cis folks. It's open discrimination and hate speech. Period, end of story.

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 3w ago

NEW: It's been a while since I've published a good ol' fashioned rant. Turns out I had a lot to say about events that have transpired over the last few days. And also, there's always a new reason to take a dig at Christine Brennan.

I see the Twitter left has bravely come out against "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" this week

I had a thread about @sanders.senate.gov & Max Tegmark before seeing this one. Yudkowsky is an even more overt eugenicist, you don't have to do any digging to see that. He also has ZERO expertise in "AI" except for being a self described "genius" cult leader who wrote a Harry Potter fanfic.

Reminder that whenever a mass disabling public health disaster happens, a certain group of psychs will show up to say “it’s all in their heads.” Don’t believe them. samuelkronen.substack.com/p/nightingal...

Reveal@revealnews.org · 3w ago

Do you remember the “dust lady”? After the 9/11 attacks, her photo was circulated everywhere: a young Black woman in business attire, covered head to toe in white dust. She was later identified as Marcy Borders, a 28-year-old Bank of America employee who worked in the North Tower. 🧵

if your instinct is to go "this person [that I have never heard of before today and whose words are being presented to me by nazis] is a Problem for the Left" you're either a mark or a wrecker

#TransPeopleBelongInSports

Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...

The little-known AI group that got $660 million

Powered by a massive cash infusion from a cryptocurrency mogul, the Future of Life Institute is building a network to fixate governments on the AI apocalypse.

politico.com

I wonder if cinema studies academics are revisiting their understanding of neurasthenia in the light of the ongoing covid pandemic or if undergrads are still being breathlessly taught about "railway brain"

the new Harry Potter show is becoming like AI to me, in that everyone keeps trying to trick me into resigning myself to its inevitability because they don’t want to let me opt out

Hi! So our eSims are keeping a whole hospital going in Gaza, and countless of students who are studying for exams right now. Our funds are about to run out because the usage of those eSims are especially high. <3 #ConnectingGaza

Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · last mo.

i think for the rest of the month of the #SealeyChallenge i will reshare our esims fund throughout since we are soon going to run out of funds! <3 bit.ly/eSimsRUs