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I think a lot could be said about how fandoms are very much structured to be consumerist without any critical analysis of capitalist production, and how this is the logical end result of that.

"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... >>

a 27 year old trans woman died after being refused entry to either the male or female cancer wards & made to wait for a (rare) side room www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...

an expert here: designing chatbots to be anthropomorphic, sycophantic yes-men is a choice ai developers make

This is like asking "Would you really give up athlete's foot to eradicate cholera?"

> The earliest account of [the hazards of] asbestos was provided by Lucy Deane [in 1898], one of the first Women Inspectors of Factories in the UK. [T]hese laywomen might not have been categorised as [experts] but they were competent observers [& t]heir reports were not refuted but simply ignored.

And this does real harm in the world. The media and policymakers too often only listen to those who build/sell this tech, despite them having not only an extremely narrow view of the issue at hand, but also conflicts of interest deeper than their pockets. >>

More generally, "you don't use it so you don't have standing to critique it" is a move to construct expertise narrowly and erase the expertise of people best qualified to expose the harms. >>

Thinking still more about the AI booster discourse that tries to undermine critical work on the topic by saying "They don't even use it, how can they possibly know what they're talking about." >>

your computer wife is just a statistical average of every reddit post

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

Okay, I propose a slogan for this: "Janky until proven functional, period." And note that that assumes HIGH standards for functionality, established in the specific use case.

If I ran a website that gave teens advice on how to commit suicide I would go to jail

at some point in the next 18 months i need to actually have one 24 hour period without any obligations beyond like. feeding myself and sleeping. alas,

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

When you think about it, it's pretty weird that we based our nation's healthcare system around having random guys in an office somewhere who say "nah, you don't need that medication" and then fuck your doctor's wife.

... and much, much more from MANY voices. When the EA claim "no one has been warning you about this stuff" they are doing a double erasure: 1) Of the people doing the warning 2) Of the actual harms they are warning about bsky.app/profile/emil... >>

In making that rhetorical move, they are attempting to erase all of the work that we HAVE BEEN doing to warn the public and policymakers about the real harms being done in the name of "AI". >>

But the insidious thing is that the argument seems to be: No one has been telling you to worry about this stuff/you're all asleep at the wheel! (And they've caught Bernie with this, among others.) >>

It's likely part of the EA campaign to infiltrate (what they consider) the Left, either to consolidate power behind "AGI/ASI is inevitable" or (perhaps for some) because they fear that the Right has been captured by their local enemies (effective accelerationists). >>

There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>

I remember listening to Chris Hayes' podcast at the start of Trump II and his guest talking about how the Brazilian movement that defeated Bolsonaro had a saying "We're not letting go of anyone's hands." Way too many people think it's okay to let go of some peoples' hands.

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

AI won't kill us by becoming sentient, people using AI will kill us because they'll trust the results, thinking AI is all-seeing and not biased and more trustworthy than human experts. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

I don’t think many nondisabled people realize that laws mandating accommodations are purposefully weak. Your employer gets to decide what an “undue burden” is. They hardly ever get called to account anyway, but if they do, they can cry about money or work hours or pretty much anything they like.

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

managers at my workplace are currently circulating information about how to responsibly use AI with kids, btw

This might be the final form of the exonerative tense: just straight up printing a sheriff lying his ass off about what a failed political assassin was trying to do Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

past jude can absolutely go fuck herself for scheduling a hem-onc appointment at 7 am

1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

(2/2) gave her and recognized the value of giving children a chance to love music as she did. To this end, she frequently funded uniforms, flags, instruments, and even multiple team travel budgets. Her only stipulation was to not have her name attached. She didn't want to distract from the kids.

(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum