the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/
how do they think they solved these fundamental issues in their proposed design?
number go up
how dare you, that's ancap jargon
i talk about how the idea of a humanity-saving tech revolution from the usual tech suspects is dead (for me).
note that cwebber wrote the ActivityPub spec, btw
good thing Rust is only run by Palantir
nor any other
Mao just read his Adam Smith
especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.
you must understand: this is a feature
sorry that sign's been updated
Centrists Don't Fucking Be Like This challenge not achieved yet again
The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles
hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud
an earlier piece on the, uh, issues in this case (it's pretty juicy)
now seeing EAs being deeply concerned about RFK running health during a H5N1 outbreak
dust specks vs leopards
they'll have to comfort themselves with a Coke(tm), apparently it's a Surreal Thing
not many people are quite aware that the word "systemic" is economics jargon meaning "RED ALERT RED ALERT HOLY SHIT RED ALERT"
i mean, the Ray Charles one sounds fun. My 1st year maths lecturer demonstrated the importance of not dividing by zero by mathematically proving that if 1=0, then he was Brigitte Bardot. We did actually applaud.
Razzlekhan gets 18 months for war crimes against music
The woman who dubbed herself the “Crocodile of Wall Street” and “Razzlekhan” in rap videos was ordered to serve 18 months behind bars for helping her hacker husband…
there are apparently two other prospective ads that do include AI renditions of human actors and they're as bad.
I doubt that.
look, if you just check these objectively calculated numbers,
it's so fitting that these guys are so into the AI slop as well
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a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, how decentralised it isn't in practice and the consequences of it winning
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this weird-assed social net...
Peter Singer introduces the Peter Singer AI to elevate ethical discourse in the digital age
In today's rapidly advancing technological landscape, the importance of integrating ethical considerations into our innovations cannot be overstated.
Ed Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minutes
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ProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AI
a bit of completely original journalism based on reader tips, thank you
Michael Lewis "Going Infinite" to become an Apple movie, script by Lena Dunham
Apple and A24 are in development on a film version of Michael Lewis' "Going Infinite" with Lena Dunham attached to write the script
Anthropic protects the welfare of possible future AIs. Present-day humans, not so much
oh yes, this one is about our very good friends