They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

The moderation decisions that this team is making are infested with transphobia and anti-Blackness and that can be taken seriously as an engineering problem or ... not.

And I just want to reiterate this ( from a thread deep in replies). I started doing this work before any of these tools existed. The number of my contemporaries in the field who have died by suicide is NOT A SMALL NUMBER. The work is incredibly traumatizing.

"consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam"

The always brilliant The Oatmeal on the emptiness and sadness of AI art

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Shout out to all the mansplainers who have never won any science writing awards telling me how communication works

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

Every quarter, in every undergrad class, I talk with students about what should be included in our LLM AI policy.

For the first time, most of the class decided that we should not allow AI at all.

Here's how we got there . . .

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“The Khalidi Library represents everything the settlers cannot abide. It is a monument to, and repository of, the history and heritage of a culture they claim should not exist.” Ryan Byrnes chronicles the fight to save a medieval Palestinian library.

Bluesky keeps deleting Abo Jameel's fundraiser so you should definitely donate or share today

These are profoundly anti social tools that erode the social fabric. Their main purposes are harassment, abuse, demolishing consent and furthering an authoritarian project.

Any uses outside of that are incidental.

8 million people in Sudan are facing emergency levels of hunger, part of a strategy of deliberate starvation.

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

From GJP's newsletter: "...we think it will be compelling for all AAG members to witness the intransigence our group has experienced firsthand over the last nine months–and to keep this obstinacy in mind as we approach whatever 'input processes' AAG has created for the 60 days following the meeting"

AAG members: This is tomorrow 9am PST/12pm EST.

Given the anti-democratic structure of this webinar (which is also *not* what members asked for w/ the BDS vote petition over 10% of membership signed this march), we will also be holding a "People's Special Meeting" on October 17th at 12:00 PM EST

we anticipate that AAG's "authoritative history" will attempt to diminish the importance and meaning of a history of member-driven advocacy within the organization. though not every member vote was successful, we think it's important to note member opinion *was* important enough to be consulted - !!

While Goodall received her PhD in the 1960s, it was not until the 2000s that Ugandan Emily Otali became the first African woman to complete a PhD on chimpanzee behavior. The networks that facilitated European and North Americans researchers impeded the same opportunities for Africans (9/10)

What the narrative leaves out is the contributions of the local Tanzanians who assisted and facilitated Goodall's early research, as well as preceding and concurrent research. Nat Geo created a story about a lone white woman alone with chimpanzees, erasing the Africans that were beside her (3/10)

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Israeli pirates have just kidnapped Irish, Spanish, British, American, Turkish, and Dutch citizens, among others, sailing peacefully in international waters where the state of Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever. Demand a response from your politicians and governments to this outrage.

Update: At $3697/$6K with $2303 remaining for out of pocket medical expenses for my third urgent revision spinal fusion on **October 24th.**

Thank you all for the ongoing support. I am a very complicated patient & this improves my chances of survival + uneventful recovery in a very tangible way.

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."