Sure, guys, whatever. Really getting desperate. "OpenAI and Anthropic executives are sounding the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly powerful new models produced in China, suggesting they will lead to a 'dystopian' AI future and present unacceptable security risks without regulation."

Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models

The White House is divided on how to respond to recent advances in Chinese AI and has weighed crackdown measures.

wsj.com

Happy #GrandSlamMexico day. It was probably my favorite wrestling event of last year, PPVs included, so I'm pretty hyped.

All Elite Wrestling@allelitewrestling.com · 5h ago

TONIGHT! What part of #AEWDynamite #GrandSlamMexico are you the most hyped for? Join us LIVE from Arena México for 2.5 hours at 8/7c on TBS & HBO Max, TONIGHT!

Does anyone still think China -- and now DPRK -- was overreacting at a normal statement Japan always makes? Everything here look fine and easily ignored by Japan's neighbors?

North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong issues military threat over Japan missile test

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused Japan of moving beyond a defensive posture.

aje.news

My kingdom for a single news outlet to run: "Economically Distressed Japan, Funded By US, Fires Missile Towards North Korea"

Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins@wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 7h ago

I dunno, man Perhaps North Korea has a point When the United States is currently burning taxpayer dollars to fund the Japanese Economy's stabilizing of a deeply unpopular administration just months into a 'landslide mandate'... When Japan's launching rockets at North Korea, that's the US directly

Eric Andre "Why would they do this" meme.

samantha@commiesamantha.bsky.social · 23h ago

obviously this is islamophobia, but it's also the liberal framing of american empire as always being reactive. none of our actions ever have consequences and no one ever has valid historical reasons to be hostile towards america

Wake up, a new "but at what cost?" just dropped. The only way to save the planet is by force. Global capital is forcing us to breathe polluted air, drink polluted water, and suffer extreme weather. I'll take "eco-authotarianism" over capitalist eco-terrorism any day.

“Just change how the class works! Change your assignments! Adapt your teaching! Do in person…” Fuck that noise. I teach ethics, and I have personally watched students enter live discussion questions into their phone and read responses out loud to the class. We screwed a generation or more.

“at least 26 prisoners employed by these companies had been detained by ICE, meaning that outside of incarceration, hiring them would have been illegal. To put it bluntly: their status as prisoners was the only thing that made the arrangement legal.”

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

i wrote about my favorite odyssey adaptation, o brother where art thou (2000)

Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 6d ago

TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Oh Brother Where Art Thou?'s thrillingly loose, modern and musical adaptation of The Odyssey. "It can develop or dismiss any parts of the source material as it sees fit in order to kick the maximum possible amount of ass." flaminghydra.com/issue-618/#f...

Both (?) All In main events are heating up perfectly. I couldn't keep up with wrestling as much in the last month but it's a great time to jump back in. A lot of threads are coming together just in time.

God bless you, Christian Cage. You kept my eyes on that sit-down with Renee. Catching up on #AEWDynamite and all things AEW.

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!! Is RevPro & EVE being added to MyAEW?!?!? #AEW

Pioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorship

Revealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collective

Pioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorship

theguardian.com

Abolish ICE and demand prosecution for everyone who broke the law of the state they were operating in. Nothing less from politicians who want our support. No more public executions.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 3w ago

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2

Catching up on #AEWCollision. Shoulda warned me about the lovely people doing promos that'll make me cry.

"In the 'Fragment on Machines' in the Grundrisse, Karl Marx developed the idea of the 'general intellect,' arguing that knowledge embedded even in the humblest forms of work is later appropriated by machines and turned against the workers from whom it was alienated."

AI Is Theft - Dissent Magazine

If capital is rewriting the rules of work with AI, then workers must rewrite the terms of resistance.

dissentmagazine.org

Anthropic has been stealing data for years. His problem is the threat open source poses to his profits, so he turns valid concerns about his product into fears about the other.

Chimney Sweepers Local 420@bobbby.online · last mo.

Dario yelling that open source/open weight models are dangerous is pretty funny to me. Like dude, just admit that you need the business lol. Meanwhile, GLM 5.2 is apparently reaching opus levels

"We are being strip-mined by the powers that be/ We are being strip-mined by the new bourgeoisie" New Pulp single "Begging for Change"

I'm not buying any more tshi- *sees this and grabs credit card*

Love it all. Kenny is our champ. Kenny-Omega was the best way to go of any Wembley main event ideas I've seen floating around. That oughtta sell tickets and ppv buys and give fans one for the ages. Goodbye 💋 and good night 💥

Referee Rick Knox trotting out there was the real difference maker stopping a murderous Ciampa. #AEWDynamite

Morrissey voice: "still nil"🎶 #WorldCup

I see Rahm Emanuel has been feeling the wind and listening to consultants like Harris has. Gonna start wording things a bit different and getting media attention for it. Big news, everyone. 🙄

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.

nbcnews.com

blogged it aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...

You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath

People are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated.

aftermath.site

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · last mo.

Microsoft engineered this so that it looked the least bad optically while at the same time still committing a slaughter, all so that Satya Nadella can still dick around with more useless AI horseshit. Fuck him and fuck Microsoft.

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

An island-wide blackout hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.

"I don't think they're that much morally better..." Counterpoint: yes they are.

On the 4th, I saw many people mentioning "freedom" as something that makes them proud of the USA. They mean the freedom to do and say trivial things that don't threaten the status quo or fundamentally change our material conditions. And, that's why you're (sometimes) free to do that.

William Murphy@futuredude.bsky.social · last mo.

It never ceases to amaze me how many Americans fail to recognize their own exploitation under the dictatorship of capital. A system that extracts their labor, commodifies every aspect of life, and calls it "freedom" is still mistaken for democracy. #Capitalism #ClassStruggle