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Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
April 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
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It's May 4th! Happy #StarWarsDay everybody! Here's #StarWars as photographs from the vast #Orkney Archive photographic collection. ⭐️
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
May 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It's May 4th! Happy #StarWarsDay everybody! Here's #StarWars as photographs from the vast #Orkney Archive photographic collection. ⭐️
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
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used to be you could just go places and buy things and come home, but then the country elected republicans
April 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
used to be you could just go places and buy things and come home, but then the country elected republicans
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fuckin gettem
No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:
April 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
fuckin gettem
Wow what poise, solidarity, and excellent articulation of the issues. As a gen x'er, I say step all the way aside for her and hers.
No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:
April 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Wow what poise, solidarity, and excellent articulation of the issues. As a gen x'er, I say step all the way aside for her and hers.
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“You complete me”
~Me, to my cup of coffee
~Me, to my cup of coffee
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
“You complete me”
~Me, to my cup of coffee
~Me, to my cup of coffee
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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i keep saying it's absolutely amazing to me that the hospitality industry isn't objecting, that pharma isn't objecting - but then again, this is why paul weiss and columbia caved - at every individual level there's a false calculation that silence=safety. it will not be.
Lost count of number of people who’ve told me a) they won’t travel outside of US for fear of not being allowed back in and b) foreigners canceling plans to visit US. Those in group a) are making plans to become b). In a few short weeks, America’s soft power has been flushed down the toilet.
March 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
i keep saying it's absolutely amazing to me that the hospitality industry isn't objecting, that pharma isn't objecting - but then again, this is why paul weiss and columbia caved - at every individual level there's a false calculation that silence=safety. it will not be.
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Remember, if someone has the audacity to claim that spending the weekend reading a mystery novel, drinking multiple cups of tea, and consuming an obscene amount of scones “doesn’t sound exciting”, then their idea of excitement is simply misguided.
March 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Remember, if someone has the audacity to claim that spending the weekend reading a mystery novel, drinking multiple cups of tea, and consuming an obscene amount of scones “doesn’t sound exciting”, then their idea of excitement is simply misguided.
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The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
March 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
I'm here for a few seconds and that's enough for me. Good god.
Holy shit are we fucked, pack it in.
hahahahahahahahahahaha
March 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I'm here for a few seconds and that's enough for me. Good god.
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Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment.
Happy World Book Day.
Happy World Book Day.
March 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment.
Happy World Book Day.
Happy World Book Day.
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"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.
Gavin Newsom would have put down the Bell Riots with tanks and napalm I can tell you that much
March 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.
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This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
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This is an AMAZING thread from @faisalislam.bsky.social
Details the diplomatic threats Canada has been receiving from the United States.
Details the diplomatic threats Canada has been receiving from the United States.
March 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is an AMAZING thread from @faisalislam.bsky.social
Details the diplomatic threats Canada has been receiving from the United States.
Details the diplomatic threats Canada has been receiving from the United States.
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This sequence 🤌
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This sequence 🤌
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Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
March 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
Well fuck me. This will be a killer for many in our NE states.
The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡
March 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Well fuck me. This will be a killer for many in our NE states.
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It’s human nature to desire wealth/privilege (resources). One example is we all get old or sick at some point and want to be able to survive w/o working, etc.
It is pathologic, antisocial behavior to hoard excess resources while watching others suffer for lack of.
There are no ethical billionaires
It is pathologic, antisocial behavior to hoard excess resources while watching others suffer for lack of.
There are no ethical billionaires
March 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
It’s human nature to desire wealth/privilege (resources). One example is we all get old or sick at some point and want to be able to survive w/o working, etc.
It is pathologic, antisocial behavior to hoard excess resources while watching others suffer for lack of.
There are no ethical billionaires
It is pathologic, antisocial behavior to hoard excess resources while watching others suffer for lack of.
There are no ethical billionaires
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The United States is no longer the leader of the free world.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
March 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The United States is no longer the leader of the free world.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
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Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.
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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/