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@sthen0.bsky.social

World-weary word-worker, parent of puns, and antifa alliterate. He/she/they. Cisatlantic SEND worker. There is no god & Sinéad Ó Connor is their prophet. Ní saoirse go saoirse don Phailestín. Follows are not endorsements.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)@funranium.bsky.social · 2d ago

Cheryl has made a fine point. I, nor other safety professionals, have really said much about general safety precepts as they relate to AI, as opposed to the bullshit artist millenarian cultists that are happy to do so at length. One of the reasons is "These tools are an active detriment to safety."

Cheryl Rofer@cherylrofer.bsky.social · 2d ago

There are general safety precepts that can be applied to AI as much as to handling plutonium. I've been kind of wondering why @funranium hasn't said much about this. The details are outside my experience, but the precepts seem to be unknown to those doing the experiments.

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 24h ago

There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists

Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’

theguardian.com

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · yesterday

Imagine if, instead of regulating drones (which we did!), we instead decided to let drone companies self-regulate, and ALSO dedicated tons of money and time to "problems" like "what if, in 1000 years, hyper-intelligent dogs learn to fly drones into mailmen." This is what we are doing with AI.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d ago

25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve@braak.bsky.social · yesterday

hahahahah did you guys fucking imagine that Trump was reading the op-eds. Is that what you thought. "Surely we can suck up to Trump with this YouTube video of the least charismatic conservatives in human history". Idiots.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 2d ago

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

orlandosentinel.com

Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 2d ago

The phrase "legitimate concerns" have been a key element in the mainstreaming of far-right politics and the framing by Mahmood makes it particularly clear On the one hand, she can denounce the illiberal articulation of racism while on the other she euphemises and mainstreams its liberal form

‘Outright racist’ activist Daniel Thomas will face ‘full force of law’ over any crimes, says home secretary Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites
Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 4d ago

Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 4d ago

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...