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Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.

Read this thread, and then remember everything I've been trying to tell y'all about the ways that "Generative AI" depends on violating consent and is being used to undermine the foundations of knowledge, consensus reality, and democracy.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I'm making fun of the persona your reply intended to critique. That being said I'm still hurt to an almost unimaginable degree

For the first time in history, DSA has 80,000 members in good standing! Tens of thousands of new members have joined the last year alone. In the face of rising fascism, a US-backed genocide, and an escalating climate crisis, socialism is the only path forward. 1/3

The reason @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social haven’t endorsed Mamdani can be explained with one acronym

I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter. Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.

Locutus assimilation tip: If people disagree with you online, repeat your point until they change their mind.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

“That’s all you can do, is learn and adapt,” said freelance writer Kiesha Richardson. “And I have some colleagues who are adamant about not working with AI. But I’m like, ‘I need money. I’m taking it.’” The WGA literally had a strike to prevent this & you should too www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

i think about the “do not split” principle from hong kong often

regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap

The reason the dems are so opposed to Mamdani's winning the primary is that he is direct proof that running a progressive campaign actually does work. They just don't want to do it.

I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.

It’s not gaaaaay, you’re just being exploited for your slurp-plus labor, bro.

indeed. and i think that's intentional. de-skilling and disconnecting people is an explicit part of llm marketing

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New from @nlihc.org: Nearly HALF of all U.S. workers now earn less than the hourly wage needed to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment. When I say the term "working homeless" is no longer a contradiction in America, this is exactly why.

Annnd @xai just deleted Musk's new prompt which told the Grok LLM to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, so long as they are well substantiated." That prompt seemingly caused the LLM to become Nazi 4Chan, and has now been deleted, but other recent changes remain.

major job losses in the neo nazi industry, as publications replace writers with Grok

Today is a great day to block Grok on Twitter if you haven't already, if you haven't left

Just a reminder anytime you see Hakeem Jeffries or Cory Booker pull some long speech that doesn’t actually do anything, it’s nothing more than a fundraising mechanism.

We really need to make this point over & over again. When they say, "we're going to try to be more fair & represent the right's perspective," it *sounds* (especially to them) like trying to do better journalism, but in practice, it is the opposite, because the right is built on lies.

my bluesky feed is like funny joke, death toll in gaza, cute picture of bunny, news about fascism in america, funny joke about fascism in america

i'm definitely conscientiously objecting to this holiday it's not that i overslept and also was too lazy to make plans

I’d have to see the full list to know if Jeffries gets more from AIPAC than he does from *everyone else on this list put together*. But I don’t need to see more to be mathematically certain he gets more from AIPAC than *the rest of the Top 10 put together*, as that is how orders of magnitude work.

Blue no matter who -- unless they're Muslim, apparently. Schumer, Jeffries and every other democratic leader sabotaging Mamdani's campaign need to either resign or get primaried.

The problem here isn't just the answer but the question. Mamdani has denounced antisemitism and clarified his position on this random slogan *other people* chanted at a protest numerous times. This is only a "tough question" if you think it's your job to repeat bad faith Republican attacks.

Please support real human artists

1. Fuck those fucking fucks so hard, seriously. 2. Reminder: if the mRNA vaccines make you feel like death, prophylactic antihistamines will help make you feel significantly less like death.

With new tech, "people need some time acclimating to what ‘private’ means to them, and if they haven’t looked at that (Meta AI) firehose discovery feed, they might not think through what ‘public’ means in this context,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @huffpost.com.

I know this is not a new thing to express, but it still strikes me as pretty bad that AI has both been sold as an ultimate arbiter of unbiased truth through aggregating all knowledge *and* programmed to hook users by telling them “you’re not paranoid, everyone is out to get you”

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

AI is not useful.

From Chapter 3, which dives into AI's *actual record so far*, some key takeaways: