Guy Isely

1,000 armed mercenaries are being deployed by the fascist government to “secure” the election. I have a lot of despair about the future of democracy in the US, less because it’ll be explicitly overthrown and more because we need de-Nazification-esque effort newrepublic.com/post/216331/...

If you really think that AI running out of control is a dangerous possibility, then make tech company CEOs legally liable for illegal actions taken by their company's agents.

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

This is the worst possible state of affairs. There ARE very serious risks, we do NOT know what these tools are capable of, and a huge swath of the population won't believe that the risk is real because they're so sick of being told self-interested bullshit that they instinctively reject it.

Isaac Newton famously wrote “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Academic progress is always iterative and builds on the work of others, and a key component of academic culture is proper citation & attribution. It would be a travesty to let LLMs destroy that.

The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x

Guys I hate to break it to you, but under capitalism, automation improves productivity but doesn't actually reduce the amount of time workers must work to survive. Instead, productivity gains are captured as profit. Only worker organizing will reduce our labor time. Yes, this applies to 'AI'

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

She’s a professor working in my field. She has no criminal record. Neither does her son. Neither does her husband. Yet they have all been kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp where they’ve languished for months in horrid conditions. Don’t for a second think they’ll stop at immigrants.

HINT: Bill Gates isn’t blurbing your book because you told him a hard truth. He’s blurbing your book because your call-to-action fails to hold power to account.

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

Wonderful illustrations and description of work from Rishav et al - out today! www.cell.com/current-biol...

New research just dropped today that makes octopuses even weirder than they already are… let me explain🧵🧪🐙🐡🦑

Sam Altman pitching the VCs on series Z.

I think Elon Musk is JUST sentient enough to be dimly aware that he is damned for all time - that his name will be pissed and spat upon for as long as his filthy legacy is remembered - and that delights me. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics. A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.

I'm sorry but if this isn't a case for impeachment then nothing is. he's glibly threatening a genocide

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

My USDA-Forest Service-funded project with scientists there was about water in the western United States. I guess that’s not a concern anymore.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

you wouldnt believe this big wooden horse, oh it’s so beautiful you wouldnt believe and theyre saying “mr trump youll never get that horse in.” look at em back there. the fake news. but we’re gonna bring in that horse folks and we’ll say “thank you, bye bye” but they don’t think we can get it in

"California is pledging to put 7.5 million acres under tribal stewardship in the state’s first-ever tribal stewardship policy." Absolutely *phenomenal* news & essential. We need this, across Turtle Island, fast. We don't time. But WOW. What an amazing thing to see in my lifetime.

what if robot do cleanup and make coffee and people write poems

OpenAI pivots their focus to the new AGI, actually generating income. Prospects still seem distant.

Ella Baron on Trump, Netanyahu and the victims of the war in the Middle East – cartoon

‘If they don’t stop, Tehran will turn into Gaza’: Iranians describe night of terror

The terrain really has shifted. But it makes these institutions' earlier capitulation even crazier in hindsight. It's one thing to sell yourself. It's another to sell yourself for nothing.

This interview is really worth your time, friends

The point of building is not just to throw the finished product over the line; if you’re doing it right, the process shapes the creator, too.

A climate denier is someone whose job is to constantly lie but mimic the aesthetics of the people who try hard to be as truthful as possible. You can tell why the advent of this software has given them a boost like never before. Ditto for delayers, fossil fuel advocates, corporate greenwashers etc

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

I’m a climate scientist, union organizer, and public health software engineer running for CA-32!

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime

Democrats are in the role of the French leaders who surrendered to the Nazis and fled. They don't understand that the entire world and all their voters are looking for a de Gaulle, not because they think he would instantly defeat Trump, but because at least he's on the right side.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

NYT could have had a frontpage story that read: "Aging madman making insane threats to Europe, threatening our economy & security for delusions." But instead they normalize & legitimize this madman because they are collaborators against US.