Erica Stanley

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Conservatives get very upset when you answer their question directly, force them to own the subtext of the question, and expose the bad-faith politics underneath all of it. You cannot separate this from the context of the President calling AES a “jihadist” and “Mohammad” at his rallies. You can’t.

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Election interference is supposedly a crime.🤷🏿‍♂️ But in a racist enough country, no one even pretends that there's a real possibility that anyone will face any accountability for a conspiracy to intimidate Black voters in Detroit and steal their right to democracy.

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

This part. Project 2025 has been 55% implemented. And just so I’m clear, the latter 1/2 of the 900-page Christian White Nationalist government overhaul makes the first look like a relaxing walk in the park. Track Project 2025’s completion, here: project2025.observer/en

There’s this thing people do where they’re surprised that a rapper has read a book or knows any music theory or something else “intelligent”. Anyway, I hate it. Thank you.

New: Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt Don Lemon’s producer, a 21-year-old college student. They also sought to use the technology against a journalist and a state Senate candidate.

Get a library card If you have one already: use it

Now that's the kind of cyberpunk information warfare I was promised. For better and worse.

This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

I am sure it’s been said but bowing to white supremacy is participating in white supremacy. There is no compromising with segregationists. They’d have been lucky to learn from @ruha9.bsky.social! But instead they tried to censor her work and words. Embarrassing and predictable.

Most people in the USA have been very willing to allow a great deal of state violence so long as they do not need to witness or experience it regularly. MAGA has used this to push the limit of how much violence the USA will tolerate. There is no reason to think the escalation will stop.

I have been around a long-ass time and have never seen any politician absolutely torching his debate opponent the way Ossoff is doing to Collins right now. This is “Fuck Republicans as a staff, record label, and as a motherfucking crew” territory

BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.

We’ve spent years hearing that Chinese open-weight models would put too much power in the hands of hackers. Yet most of the AI-enabled cyberattacks publicly documented so far have involved closed models from American frontier labs. Oops. 😅

I could write a whole bunch about Chris but I’ll keep it brief and let him give you his own version! Chris cares deeply about the work, not just how it can look good for today but how it enables for the future it can set up. Any team would be lucky to learn with and from him as a software engineer!

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".

I worked with motion planning and genetic algorithms as side quests for my graduate research at UNC Chapel Hill way back in early aughts. The way most folks have boiled the whole world of AI down to LLMs for the last few years is giving me an involuntary twitch.

This is insane.

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

Again the only way these guys are exceptional is their willingness to exploit and discard others for their own benefit. They aren’t role models.

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

Living in American has become that part of “American Life” where Madonna started rapping.

federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Don't download the Trump app. Everything he does is underhanded and dishonest.

racists are really fucking stupid, you have to be stupid to be racist and one reason you dont elect racists is because that stupidity will show up in other areas for example, they will start wars with iran and kick people off healthcare for never filing claims. stupid shit like that

What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.