unionize heaven
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we must organize against God, the CEO of heaven
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2w agoThis is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
cnn.com
something I feel it's important for people to understand about tech news: everyone is afraid of saying "no, that can't happen" because it's hard to prove and you lose credibility if later it does but no one is afraid of saying "that ridiculous thing could be true!" because it sounds open-minded
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last mo.This is almost precisely what Emily was saying when OpenAI had claimed that got-2 was "too dangerous to release" circa 2019-2020 so that you understand how long we've had to fight the press performing propaganda-as-news services.
i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality
This is a really interesting read paired with that AEJ paper I shared at some point this week. Both show no clear evidence that faculty affect students' partisanship. Again, no priors will be updated. (I'll find my post with the other paper and reply with it below)
Annaliese Paulson@annaliesep.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/
we need thousands more of this guy and thousands less of the kinds of guys we do have
Tauriq Moosa@tauriq.bsky.social · 4mo ago"[A] black presidency is a contradiction—it owes its power to a movement against racist state violence at home but seeks an office which has always practiced racist state violence abroad." Just an incredible piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Well, it happened again. I got put on the jumbotron at the grocery store and everyone booed my groceries
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
I believe insane Nazi pedophile Donald Trump is capable of changing his mind for the better. And yep - I’m a journalist!
This is kind of the end result of the bipartisan consensus of "fund the police" which is replacing every public service worker with cops
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last yr.National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
In some ways it's a gift that rich pricks constantly volunteer their Thoughts™ and somehow every single time it's dogshit like "incent us to help those who need it most"
Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · last yr.Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO. Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch
The @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social made a very nice thread here quoting from my recent article for them about the history of reactionary politics here in California--take a look!
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · last yr.In Dan O’Sullivan’s essay, he revisits the history of California and its relationship with the nascent fascists of America. “How could they acquire California’s riches without conceding to its abolitionist tendencies?” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cracked-costly-fantasies/
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.
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we have an utter fucking nimrod attempting to set himself up as dictator because for 50 years anyone who could have stopped him has dithered and procrastinated, hoping someone else would do it
Jon Walker@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 2y agoSo Trump saw Dems pathetic response to Jan 6th and concluded basically everyone with 'power' in America was actually a pathetic push over coward and... It turns out he was right.
In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers. The firing comes one day before contract negotiations were set to open with the University.
Our sick society cries out for the powerful corrective that is Mort Crim’s Chump Of The Week
Dreams are God’s ultimate nighttime improv show 😇 And your friends are right there behind you, backing you up 👍
the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
(waking up the morning after the song calling me a pedophile won 450 awards) Well i tell you what i might want two cups of coffee today haha
The fastest and best American ways to gain class consciousness are 1. To watch film noir and 2. To root for a team owned by a shithead. In other countries they read books and stuff.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2y agoi'm sensing some broader parallels