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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 27

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 3h

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Mar 23

One of the drivers of monetized nostalgia in the past, was that when a remake came out kids had seen the original with the parents.

There was one tv, the parent had the remote, the kid could either watch what the parent watched or get bent.

You, as a kid, consumed the media your parents liked.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 4h

except the menu was statistically assembled from other restaurant menus rather than written by someone who ate the food

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 4h

Somebody who thinks an ai summary is the same as reading a document would go to a restaurant and eat the menu

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5h

AI “summaries” are not summaries but slop

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

i would like to turn one large problem into an infinite number of tiny problems

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

this is the same guy

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Dec 14

Dave is also where we get "the Dave Graham Rule" described in Ineffective By Choice (bit.ly/IneffectiveByChoice)

This is the email where he told me that the city intentionally *stops issuing tickets for ongoing violations*

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Hello Anthony
Generally, DOE and CDPH issues tickets to a facility or responsible entity when a violation occurs. Issuing a violation is intended to persuade compliance and only after an inspector can
document they have issued warnings to allow time to rectify the issue. If a facility is working with CDPH or has resolved the issue prior to a hearing date, additional violations will not be issued. Some of the violations are paperwork issues, failing to renew permits or other issues requiring simple fixes that are small but are necessary to avoid much larger issues.

Inspectors work with supervisors and a staff attorney to determine what violation applies and when additional violations should be issued after the initial incident. Typically, we will issue no
more than 3 tickets for a existing issue to better force compliance when a facility is slow to respond and usually we can get an issue resolved. I rely on the inspectors observations to determine when additional violations should be issued and generally speaking an inspector will verify with me before a violation or additional violations are issued. I check with our staff attorney as well to make sure the violation is appropriate in case a ticket (how the violation is documented) goes to Administrative Hearing (AH). Our success rate is over 90% for the violations adjudicated at AH.

Hope this helps, CDPH needs to balance its enforcement activities to ensure compliance and
keep its legitimacy at Administrative Hearings.
Dave Graham, P.G.
Assistant Commissioner

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

i think the overlap is "it was a bad idea and they did it anyway"

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

like just imagine this said

"We cannot and will not repeat the mistakes of the past," said Hopkins, who was recommended for discipline by the Office of the Inspector General for her role in the botched 2020 implosion that left Little Village blanketed in dust.

"We cannot and will not repeat the mistakes of the past, which is why complex demolitions require stringent review and public engagement," Hopkins said. "This isn't just about issuing permits in accordance with code-it's about accountability and going beyond minimum requirements when community safety demands it."

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

news.wttw.com/2023/10/24/c...

City Health Official Watchdog Said Should Be Fired for Role in Smokestack Implosion Promoted, Will Oversee Environmental Inspections and Enforcement

Dave Graham, who a watchdog report said should be fired for “willful bureaucratic negligence” in the 2020 incident that covered Little Village in dust, is now in charge of environmental inspections an...

news.wttw.com

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

brandon johnson, watching this video: everyone involved should be promoted

Crawford Power Plant Demolition & Fallout

YouTube video by Alejandro Reyes

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

the OIG report recommended that Dave be fired for "abdication of responsibility and willful bureaucratic negligence"

so yeah i'm going to keep bringing this up forever.

also the report was never officially released, just leaked, even though MBJ promised to make it public
bit.ly/HilcoOIG

Hilco_Investigation_Report.pdf

bit.ly

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

If it was up to me, every story that mentions the botched implosion in 2020 would also mention that the city employees responsible for it **were subsequently promoted**

Marlene Hopkins is now the Buildings commissioner
Dave Graham now oversees environmental inspections

Chicago’s Damen Silos demolition resumes—activists demand more robust oversight - Chicago Reader

For months, activists have been surveilling the Damen Silos demolition to ensure that environmental protection measures are in place and enforced.

chicagoreader.com

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10h

I wonder if the fact they spent so long developing it lead them to perceive it all as familiar and therefore intuitive, when to fresh eyes it is not

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 15h

They're still building the metaverse? Do they have legs yet

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 16h

New from 404 Media: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more.

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23h

Lost in the sea of symbols

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Goose @phatcussy.bsky.social · 23h

the world: idk about this AI slop. we should maybe not do that

the sweatiest guy you've ever seen: you don't understand. it's inevitable. it's coming to kill us. we have to make more

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23h

So this would be a double double dactyl

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

ai can suck an egg

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

New era of shanties has arrived @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 1d

In "The City and the City and the City," urban researcher Ayham Dalal writes about a mapping workshop he helped organize with refugees of Homs, Syria, to collectively reimagine a city destroyed by war.

Below is a thread about the essay, featuring a comic that illustrates the work they did together.

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 2d

Sixteen refugees attended a collaborative mapping workshop in Berlin. Their goal: reconstitute the city of Homs, Syria, through overlapping memories of a place they once called home.

As music by Lebanese singer Fairuz played in the background, memories poured forth of a city leveled by war. (1/5)

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

To a certain type of person, leftist just means "stops me from doing whatever I want"

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 1d

this (and what follows it) is a profound insight

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

Computer software is also a symbol-generation industry and not an information profession

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

this is like when schools of journalism and public relations and film combine to be “School of New Media”

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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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

ask yourself important questions, like "am i referring to a real place that actually exists" and "did the events i am describing happen there"

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 1d

a few years ago i read some op-ed that used the phrase "the symbol-generating industries" to refer to everything from finance to software to media and i thought it was the perfect term, and cannot for the life of me find the source, and not for a lack of looking

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

this is their core contention

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Stax Records

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