I don't think they are that astonishing though - I think they're a tremendous amount of computational power used in a quite novel way, but ultimately the cost of keeping them running is too high for us to sustain. I don't think it's impressive to liquidate society to do brute force statistics.

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

Kid Rock was the nickname for Epstein's island

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

That’s one big ass trophy. How are they going to carry that home?

Dang they really got a category for everything

a few good Jessica’s

Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 3w ago

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Wrote up a little newsletter about why people should go see "Supergirl" -- and watch "Sorry, Baby" and "Is God Is" "They’re all very different films, but they all grapple with what it means to embrace life under the totalitarian horror of misogynist violence." news.chanda.science/archive/you-...

You should go see Supergirl

It's pop art that is unapologetically political.

news.chanda.science

Remember folks, if buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · last mo.

PlayStation is deleting over 500 purchased movies from its customers' accounts 🎞️ • Includes films like 'Terminator 2', 'Rambo', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Hot Fuzz', and 'Moonlight' • No mention of refunds • Comes after a licensing deal ended

"Converting PDFs to presentation slides" is such a telling example because so much of what LLMs are being used for seems to be labor that doesn't need to be done at all. It's just renting a space heater in someone else's building to accomplish nothing at all.

404 Media@404media.co · last mo.

Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.

People, I am begging you, if you have air con in your flat please PUT IT ON YOUR DATING PROFILE.

funny how that works

In America if you touch the president's special slime pool they send you to prison

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo ago

Breaking news: U.S. Park Police officers arrested former Olympian David Hearn on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.”

I get the urge to try and argue from a common ground, But police shouldn't kill guilty people, either. Guilty people shouldn't die from abuse or neglect in jail, either. Nobody deserves to be sexually assaulted, even in prison, even if convicted. Obviously. We can't cede that, even rhetorically.

My main worry is that we’re banning social media for kids but not AI. So you can’t speak to real people online anymore, kids, but you sure can talk to your fake artificial friend who weirdly loves to talk about taking your own life!

european countries would rather grant humanity to clankers than to refugees

tante@tante.cc · 2mo ago

Just read that Estland is planning to give "AI"-Agents E-IDs comparable to the IDs people get. The fact that "AI" as a narrative is used to undermine human rights and dignity in order to allow even more creep of non-democratic technology into our lives is really undeniable these days.

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2mo ago

New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind

THE ONLY DATA CENTERS WE NEED TO BUILD ARE LIBRARIES!!! SHIRT AVALABLE AT dashare.zone ALONG WITH TANK TOP'S, HOODYS ETC - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

Gorilla Playing Saxophone with Balloons has dropped out of the White House concert

Ok this is a truly great tweet

NEW OCTOPUS DROPPED

Chris Mah@echinoblog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

As Karl notes, the rage against AI is a rage against capitalism and the oligarch extraction class using it bluntly and proudly to consolidate even more wealth. The goal is not new, but the overreach is, and I hope it radicalizes a generation against the entire corrupt system that's eating us alive.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 3mo ago

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'

Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not.

karlbode.com

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

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Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For your information: these are the final hours of Viktor Orbán’s 16-year-long rule in Hungary.

💥Minority Hungarian and Slovak communities in Serbia’s northern Vojvodina region describe growing political pressure, shrinking autonomy and a quiet exodus of youth.

Caught Between Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest: Serbia’s Fractured Minorities - VSquare.org

As protests continue to shake Serbia, minority Hungarian and Slovak communities in the country’s northern Vojvodina region describe growing political pressure, shrinking autonomy and a quiet exodus of youth.

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when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Gen Z has rediscovered the Flintstones & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to 2 million years ago "Watching The Flintstones... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier working in a quarry as a brontosaurus operator."

Don’t mind me just reading an article on UBI and thinking about how much easier my entire life would’ve been if we’d had it

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Also, "woke" in the now-common white supremacist appropriated vernacular just means "I'm a bigoted and/or complacent piece of shit, and every reminder of the vastness of human diversity—up to and including simple basic acts of human decency—confront me with my moral failing, causing me to lash out."

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."