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Jennifer B / MC Evol @evol.bsky.social · 2h

Since people in the government are breaking the law by firing many CDC staff, it might be wise to get out those masks. I personally never stopped wearing mine (for multiple reasons) but now the stakes have been raised (as if it wasn't bad enough). Covid isn't the only concern.

Red headed woman in glasses, wearing N95 mask looking down at selfie camera. She is standing inside a Costco warehouse in front of a Costco sign.

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 8h

“FORGET AMAZON.
Soon my music will not be there.”
- Neil Effing Young 🤘

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 8h

“Forget Amazon and Whole Foods. Forget Facebook,” Young said on the Neil Young Archives website. “Buy local. Buy direct. Bezos supports this government. It does not support you or me.”

Neil Young Archives

NYA contains the complete archives of Neil Young. The site is designed for a chronological exploration of artist output including music, books, films, & videos. Music is streamed in high-res with Xstr...

neilyoungarchives.com

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine being a person who sees a tamale or taco stand and thinks “oh yeah this is easy pickings let’s grab em”

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 12h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 12h

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 10h

The Trump administration has slashed hundreds of thousands of jobs this year, leaving many vital federal functions un- or under-staffed, and they don’t seem to be letting up. We updated our Equality at Work timeline this week, and here’s what we saw: unbreaking.org/issues/equal...

Equality at Work: Timeline — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 10h

Interviewing people to claim to be building machine gods that pose an "existential threat to humanity" while the real existential threats are such people building their machines with stolen data, exploited labor and plundered environmental resources.

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 10h

This is dumb. Don’t give GH this airtime to spread his weird religious beliefs.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 11h

The Daily show also interviewed "father" of effective altruism William MacAskill & promoted his book.

The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.

All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

www.youtube.com

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 12h

I have not! Will look into it :-)

Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 15h

appropriate comment

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 16h

It’s important to keep learning how to be a good public speaker, but if you’re a comment-not-a-question guy, please learn to be a good audience member. Why would you bother attending a thing if you’re going to 1. Sleep or 2. Attack the speaker’s credibility and then refuse to accept her answers.

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 16h

This is going to look like the award to Aung San Suu Kyi in the rear view mirror.

Machado has fought for democratic rule in Venezuela but.has demonstrated willingness to align with authoritarian actors for that end. Peace can be ugly sometimes.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after intense public and private campaign by Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 16h

Current status: hanging out at a cat cafe with my kid & partner … a good day so far 😺❤️

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 18h

Peter Thiel saying the quiet part out loud — surveillance for thee… but not for me and “my” money

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19h

All these anxious billionaires....

“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 18h

The wizard uses a cantrip to light a brazier.

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Elizabeth Buie, PhD FRSA @ebuie.bsky.social · 20h

Survey asked why I hadn't used Airbnb lately. I said: "Joe Gebbia supports DOGE and Project 2025. I won't use Airbnb again as long as he is there. The Government already had a brilliant design team at 18F and did NOT need to replace it with someone who cares nothing for usability or accessibility."

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. What a bizarre turn for one of the best information tech schools in the region.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Consider that most of the investment is not in current usage, but as of now theoretical products which will require exponentially more electricity once they have a user base. In order for the $1.2T of investment not to evaporate overnight, they have to build new data centers and for each of them.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 1d

Free market capitalism baby

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 1d

Orchestra by Man Ray, 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137396

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Gift, Peggy Guggenheim, 1979

© 2016 Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Xander Berkeley @xanderberkeley.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there’s nothing better than when the cat climbs in your lap and makes you stop, breathe, and slow down. 🍁

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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