For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Packy Anderson
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Packy's just zis guy, you know?
Todd Blanche’s motion for summary judgement in my Epstein redaction training video lawsuit is due tomorrow after a short delay. Multiple sources told me there were videos training FBI agents on how to redact Trump from the Epstein files. I’m suing to get them.
Two essential people to read and follow, who speak from both professional expertise, and having worked in the belly of the beast.
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 24h agoNew from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This administration is so incompetent they're incapable of "legally" killing someone on death row but perfectly capable of executing innocent civilians in the street. Also, abolish the death penalty.
That candidate does not exist. We could nominate AOC, and the same people who spent the Biden administration screaming that he was trying to murder us all and then 2024 calling Harris a genocidal transphobe will say the same sorts of things about her.
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2d agoso idk where we really go with that, i'd like to see a candidate in 2028 who we can defend with our full chests, not (however correctly) as a lesser evil Ideally, someone like aoc who has credibility as having always, loudly been outspoken on this
… alright, so we’re getting “go back to Africa” before the N-word. Let’s adjust our betting sheets accordingly.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h agoJD Vance on Angie Nixon: "Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America"
Ooh, fascinating.
Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 19h agoSeveral weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
Plus, there is a significant risk of sexual assault or harassment *by* police during the reporting process. I always think about Lauren McCluskey's story of calling the police over 30 times before she was murdered. They didn't help her, but they did do this:
University of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker
<b>UPDATE</b><i>: Logan police announced </i><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/17/logan-police-will" target=_blank><i>an internal affairs investigation into Officer Miguel Deras</...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “To have any hope of coping with A.I., we need to analyze these tools’ output literally, not speculate about how close to human they are,” Leif Weatherby writes in a guest essay.
Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human
If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.
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me to my brain: it is truly horrifying that the most powerful man alive is being led by the nose by the fucking pedo robot, please think of a joke so I can ignore the implications of this my brain: lol I bet he has his own Grok named Stan Cherabot bsky.app/profile/cwar...
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 20h agoFor a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · yesterdayI went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Kai Ryssdal, former U.S. Navy Lieutenant -- the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot
Audie Cornish@audiecornish.bsky.social · 21h agoHegseth on military vision: No fatties, no trannies, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors. Harrison Mann, former U.S. Army Major and former Executive Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, reacts to new policies announced by the Defense Secy. this week.
And the WHCA says wut?
Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 21h agoWhite House drops CNN from the press pool covering President Trump's trip to Texas and Oklahoma, a move that comes after a federal judge blocked the administration's effort to more tightly control the media outlets that have access to the president. www.washingtonsun.com/media/w...
The idea that Newsom is even remotely a serious candidate for president is so goddamn clown shoes at this point In the past month he's vetoed LGBTQ+ rights measures, pushed the Paramount merger through, further cozied up to AI barons and now this. Dude couldn't even win a Governor reelection now
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 21h agoCalifornia governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”
John Light@johnalight.bsky.social · 21h agoThe DOJ is reviewing "whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation."
look, if the pentagon wants IT security then they have to do what the rest of us do: hire trans furries who go to renfest don't ask me why, idk, i just know that data is insecure until sanctified by the holy aura of someone who checks at least one of those boxes. it's part of god's plan.
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d agoThe Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
The first-ever Women’s Club World Cup could be coming to the U.S. 🇺🇸 The inaugural 19-team tournament is expected to take place in January 2028, with FIFA in advanced talks to bring the competition stateside, per The Guardian. 📸 Dirk Waem/Belga/Shutterstock
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Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d agoTime for this classic again.
I honestly am curious if Brendan Carr thinks he's fooling literally anyone?
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 23h agototally normal to use $20 million in taxpayer dollars to air black and white Trump midterm propaganda on all the major broadcast networks definitely no red flags
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · yesterdayFCC Chair Brendan Carr says that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.”
I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · yesterdayJewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action https://aje.news/zjyo4q
Someone said to me that there are frats everywhere, so why do I seem to have more ire for spaces like Cornell? Money & power. About 1/10 Cornell students have families in the top 1% of income. The institutions are by them, for them. This takes every other dynamic and amplifies it times over.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 2d agoFraternity men perpetrate sexual violence at a rate three times higher than other college men. The fraternity lobby is one of the most powerful in DC—and they consistently oppose any bill for survivors’ rights.
