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Riley Bruce

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Humanity Fanatic | Creator | Bench Enthusiast Reach out if you’d like something made. 🏠- South Minneapolis, MN More work and printshop: linktr.ee/riley_the_bruce Chop Wood | Carry Water he/they • Skeets are my own

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Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8h ago

New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 8h ago

This part finally connected the usefulness I feel when I dabble with AI and the dread I feel when confronting it writ large

From Doctorow’s piece: The other question Suresh implicitly raises is: "How can you reconcile the failure of Al in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that Al is helping them do great work?" The answer is that these Al users are "centaurs" - experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves. Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad. They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves throughput. An automation technique that requires close supervision by skilled and experienced workers isn't going to be a raw productivity powerhouse. You don't "100x" your code this way, at least, not in the sense of firing 99 of your coders and having the remaining programmer pick up all their work. Rather, an automation tool that requires the continuous and conscientious exercise of discernment will let individual practitioners improve their work in extremely satisfying and useful ways. It's a way to spend more on operations in order to produce better outputs. It's not a way to cut your workforce, realise a gigantic saving, and still produce comparable goods and services at a far lower cost. That is why some individual coders report such delight with their Al tools. They engage with those tools on their own terms, to improve their work in the ways that they, in their expert judgment, consider beneficial. No one ranks them on a "token-maximisation" scoreboard. No one tells them they can't do a project if it isn't "sufficiently AI". When they set out to do a project, no one makes them prove that it couldn't be "done by AI"
Mike Spangenberg@mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 8h ago

I’m presdisposed to Doctorow’s position here, but this really resonates: “It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Molly Coleman@mollycoleman.bsky.social · yesterday

Based on the overwhelming consensus that I’ve heard in both public feedback and private conversations from government officials, service providers, encampment residents, and public health experts, I do not believe we are prepared to responsibly close the encampments beginning tomorrow.

St. Paul prepares to clear homeless encampment amid questions

On July 8, citing a growing number of fires, fatal overdoses and reported sexual assaults, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her announced plans to close the city’s three largest homeless encampments on a rolling...

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MarniOpe! 🤬🧊@silentmachine.bsky.social · 6d ago

I need y'all to hear my thoughts. Being poor is not a moral failure. Being unemployed in an economy where there are no jobs to be had is not your fault. Being considered a cog in a machine by billionaires instead of real flesh and blood is a problem when they keep telling you "life is precious."