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Conlin
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frontend architecture @ whatnot.com

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nameshiv.bsky.social
I mean Ursula le Guin published the first Earthsea book in like 1968 or something
becauseivy.bsky.social Ivy Jelisavac @becauseivy.bsky.social · Jun 11
Soon enough science fiction will be about communal living in tune with nature and doing a very reasonable amount of labor and spending the rest of the time experiencing the joy of being human
June 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Counterpoint: No. It’s not. www.businessinsider.com/openai-cofou...
Sutskever said that while AI is already better at some things than humans, "there are so many things it cannot do as well and it's so deficient, so you can say it still needs to catch up on a lot of things." But, he said, he believes "AI will keep getting better and the day will come when AI will do all the things that we can do." "How can I be so sure of that?" he continued. "We have a brain, the brain is a biological computer, so why can't a digital computer, a digital brain, do the same things? This is the one-sentence summary for why AI will be able to do all those things, because we have a brain and the brain is a biological computer."
June 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Computers were a mistake. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Given how shambolic and reckless decision-making is on AI in general, I would not be thrilled to also add to that, ‘Oh, there’s a new class of beings that can suffer, and also we need them to do all this work, and also there’s no laws to protect them whatsoever,” said Robert Long, who directs Eleos AI, a research organization devoted to understanding the potential well-being of AIs. Many will dismiss all this as absurd. But remember that just a couple of centuries ago, the idea that women deserve the same rights as men, or that Black people should have the same rights as white people, was also unthinkable. Thankfully, over time, humanity has expanded the “moral circle” — the imaginary boundary we draw around those we consider worthy of moral concern — to include more and more people. Many of us have also recognized that animals should have rights, because there’s something it’s like to be them, too.
June 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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nollbok.bsky.social
Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis.

Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all.

"Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"
May 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Feel like it’s never out of place to point out that the people controlling these technologies are literally seeking the end of the world.
May 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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hejchristian.com
A good time to remind folks of the Affinity suite; One off payment for the major version, no subscription.

I use Affinity Designer daily and it's really, really good 👌

affinity.serif.com/en-us/
May 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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404media.co
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist

🔗 www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
www.404media.co
May 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: Facebook has deliberately pushed its Llama 4 AI model to the right in an attempt to show "both sides." Obviously that is dangerous/stupid if the AI is talking about climate change, health etc which are scientific fact but clouded by politics www.404media.co/facebook-pus...
Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”
Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.
www.404media.co
April 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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joanwestenberg.com
GamerGate wasn’t a fight for ethics. It was a dress rehearsal for incel extremism. Step 1: find a scapegoat. Step 2: weaponize your loneliness. Step 3: cry “free speech” while building a hate machine powered by YouTube algorithms and anime icons.
March 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM