"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming

A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...

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It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

thebulwark.com

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?

Say what you will about the Chinese, but "if company gets too big and powerful, overnight company becomes property of the state and CEO vanishes" is objectively looking like the smarter response to industry wealth and power consolidation

France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼

Paywalls are bad enough in principle. When you paywall an article I WANTED TO READ, you're a thousand times worse. STEAL THAT SHIT! WIDEBAND IT! WHY ARE YOU PUTTING A PROFIT MOTIVE IN MY FACE RIGHT NOW‽ This isn't entertainment. These are basic political, scientific, and sociology articles.

Blocked another user today who posted a paywalled article. Stop doing this. Stop retoasting people that do this. Most importantly, stop writing for orgs that put up paywalls! Paywalls are garbage and journalism orgs that use them need to crash and burn yesterday.

It’s really starting to grind me down

I’m just basing this on what other species do when one of their own goes rogue but I feel like if a guy’s business model involves making everybody stupid & gatekeeping the collectively earned knowledge of humankind in order to charge people for it we kind of have to rip apart & eat that guy.

Dylan Roth@dylanroth.bsky.social · last wk.

“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.

Good summary of what the insanity that was the Fauci hearing yesterday was about- basically a senators vendetta against Fauci and overall an attack on science versus conspiracy theories. An absolute shocking display from the Republican senators involved.

Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned

Six years on from Covid crisis, Republicans still politicizing science – and Fauci remains a political punching bag

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I believe there is no greater generational constant in USA than the high profile snake oil salesman. I bet historians can document trajectory changes in USA purely based on phenomena & gold rushes engineered by snake oil salesmen. ‘I invented a genie’ guy may be their crowning achievement though.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

The population of the usa is less than five percent of the world population. More than 19 out of 20 people don't live here.

its interesting how the people hoarding all our money for themselves are all like “in a few years the rest of you wont even need any money for retirement”

Universal Basic Ivory-Tower

I wish I could find the exact quote but it went something like … Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it means to be lynched White people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for lynching a Black person

It’s worth emphasising: the public have reached this conclusion all by themselves, because they sure as shit weren’t told it by the US press.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last wk.

New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:

Machine learning algorithms are quite different from LLMs; people have been using them 40+ years, just to do data analytics. They have no sycophancy setting because they aren't natural language chatbots The conflation of machine learning generally with LLMs specifically is a PR strategy.

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

this is one of the ways in which I think the modern publishing environment, which requires the vast majority of authors to do all of their own promotional work, has been incredibly damaging "I got canceled on social media" can be a real career-ruining thing! it's not irrational to worry about it!

@jawless-fish.bsky.social · last wk.

theres this one tumblr post ive seen talking about that phenomenon but w fiction writing that I think about often

Do you ever think about how Sam Altman has never, not once in his life, run a profitable business? Because I think about that all the time. THIS is who we're allowing to drag the global economy to the brink of collapse.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

saw this earlier and it genuinely broke my heart i'm not AMAB for the record but every nonbinary person deserves to belong in queer spaces

I cannot repeat it enough: If we make it through this, schoolchildren must be taught How Fascism Works, not merely that "1933-1945 Nazis Were Bad". The past ten years has been a long decade of people unable or unwilling to name the ideology with the swastikas filed off.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.

We still have the cultural image that actual Nazis were defeated in the 1940's, and the remaining Nazis are either unemployed basement-dwellers or fringe militias in Idaho. There is still a reluctance by media and business leaders to say openly that the world's wealthiest person is a Nazi.

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

Yeah him still being around is a choice people are making

David Kaib@davidkaib.bsky.social · 2w ago

If governments turned off the spigot of money to Musk, he’d be done.