Hey new users— we’ve been trying to build a strong culture of expecting alt text. Take it from me, because I’ve heard from them: there are blind people on this app and they appreciate being included. You can also turn on a setting that prevents you from posting images without it, if you forget

Even before the pandemic there was a spate of white supremacist mass murders that happened in random places — malls, places of worship, garlic festivals — that has never happened before or since. This was, in hindsight, one guy’s fault. Uncovered as he’s a coin flip away from power in a month.

The more I talk about the election the more shocked I am by how many people memory holed 2016-2020. Every day was a new horror. New emergencies popped up constantly. I fundamentally don’t understand how people seemingly forgot about all of it.

Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom.

But analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies are reporting.

New paper where Mel Andrews, Andrew Smart, and I outline how machine learning is laundering long discredited harmful pseudoscience and offer resources for research best practices to developers/practitioners

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I really, really wish the tone was: this guy whipped up violence with his rhetoric for years and now he’s reaping the whirlwind.

I’ve seen people responding to this as though either OP is criticizing the child or as a reason to criticize “this generation.” And both of these takes are nonsense. Kids are using ChatGPT this way because this is also how adults are using it, and this is about how it is a dangerously bad tool

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools.

Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Adding “if you even care” to the end of my wedding vows

Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

Generative AI should be called Normative AI, as all it's doing is an endless rearrangement of elements according to the statistical norms it has learned from its training data. AI is the sedimentation of the status quo.

Another way to think about this is that every day ChatGPT uses a typical US family’s electrical consumption for 65 _years_. That’s the better part of a lifetime and they’re doing it to make computers less reliable.

This Earth Day let us remember that ultimately its not the earth that needs saving, it is us, the planet will be fine through climate change, we will not, new species will evolve to deal with it, we will not. Need to stop framing this as some virtuous savior project it's a Save Your Own Ass Day

If you don't know why you should cancel your Adobe subscription, here are just 4 artists that found out their style is being sold on Adobe Stock scrapped by AI without their permission.