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Tech companies don’t understand scholarship. ‘Quickness’ and ‘efficiency‘ are not always the right values. Sometimes you don’t want to “answer your research queries faster” and when you do, existing search technology is more than adequate to help you do scholar.googleblog.com/2026/08/quic...
Guys I hate to break it to you, but under capitalism, automation improves productivity but doesn't actually reduce the amount of time workers must work to survive. Instead, productivity gains are captured as profit. Only worker organizing will reduce our labor time. Yes, this applies to 'AI'
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To know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality—another technology that has entered zombie mode in the hype cycle - it’s going nowhere, and the venture capital has moved on, but it shuffles along as if it is still alive and still looking for purpose
David Ingram@davidingram.bsky.social · last yr.“A lot of the time you’re around other people, so it’s good to just be able to type without anyone seeing.”
In a society, survival is collectivized There’s no society without that
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
Americans are accustomed to peace, coupled with slowly-expanding justice; the fascists at the helm today are promising (perverse) justice, but without peace. A society without peace is not a society.
I wonder if the federal patrols descending on DC will be including white-collar crime in their crackdown. You know, like pulling over fancy cars and auditing their taxes. That could have a real impact.
[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money
Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
He has refused his Assent to Laws… For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world… For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury… For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences… A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Medicaid is the primary payer for 63% of nursing home residents. That's your mom, dad, grandma and grandpa. So when the Senate Republicans cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid this weekend, think: are YOU going to be paying those nursing home bills, or are you going to be changing dad's bedpans?
That phrase the US prez uses - “thank you for your attention to this matter” - demonstrates perfectly the malignant narcissist mindset. Most view as appreciation for work generated by the communication and audience willingness to add to the routine. He simply observes the attention you gave him.
During a Friday morning town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst sarcastically responded to members of the audience concerned about the Trump administration's potential cuts to Medicaid.