Bonesmashmaxxing 6'5" Australian terachad

Bluesky has four kinds of users

I understand the movie much better for having listened to this

If you are advocating for more AI use, you are advocating for more money in the pockets of deranged fascists like Elon Musk and Peter Theil, which makes you a useful idiot for them no matter how much you hate them.

documentary is secretly about how if you rope Nathan Fielder into a contract he doesn't like he will spend essentially infinite effort getting out of it

I successfully avoided spoilers on You Can See Everything, so it's only now that I've seen it that I understand how batshit so many of the takes on here have been. Anyways, best movie of the year, go see it now.

It is wild the number of people in the replies who justify this by pointing to the existence of another grocery store nearby, as though the people who live in this area shouldn't be allowed to have a choice of multiple grocery stores to shop at.

There's an anecdote in Jazmine Ulloa's recent book about how Chinese people would enter through El Paso to get around the Chinese Exclusion Act, because as long as they could say "Yo soy Mexicano" it was often enough to fool the border guards.

One of the many great things about being a middle-aged gay is that I can be pretty confident I will never have an Aella number.

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

In case you were wondering how people are feeling about AI, there are two of these signs in the back of the lyft I'm currently in

Credit where credit is due, this is a good apology.

I think this site has a lot of shitty leftists, but letting yourself get so negatively polarized against them that you'll defend the cruelty of the American health care system, you're at least as shitty as they are.

John Oliver documents the evils of American health care: so true bestie! A leftist complains on bluesky about their experience as a victim of these predatory practices: ZOMG HOW DARE YOU IT WAS JUST AN HONEST PAPERWORK ERROR! youtu.be/h1pXm0GjLho?...

I have been a will stancil defender in the past, but watching him gleefully participate in bullying someone in defense of the predatory practices of for-profit health insurers is beyond the pale.

The "is AI slavery" discourse is exactly what the tech bros want. It doesn't end with fancy autocompletes having human rights. Its logic ends with you having fewer rights. If you believe AI is sentient (it's not) & are down with enslaving it (it's not slavery), then why do human labor rights matter?

The same people who tell us they can't control their own invention, also insist that they're the only ones smart enough to have any say in its development.

reducing Black and Brown children and families to dots on a screen of zero consequence while also saying that some other dots on the screen, the ones that are powering the murders of the aforementioned, might have souls and feelings meaning the real crime against humanity would mean not using them

"What if the computer has feelings" ask the people who write the code used to blow up Palestinian families and Iranian school children, to strip millions of people of their health care, to help the modern-day Gestapo put our immigrant neighbors in concentration camps. Yeah, what if.

mfers will would rather argue that your computer program has feelings than accept that the same is true of a Black person, and try to construct a worldview where turning off a computer program is murder while a lynching isn't.

honestly the thing that I find most galling about all this is the massive overlap between people trying to apply human rights models to computer programs and those arguing that some categories of humans -whether by race, category, or caste- don't have them.

As I keep saying, they want their server racks to have more rights than you and your family.

Talarico should order the palak paneer tacos from Velvet Taco and really give the racists an aneurysm

Would you go in?

The people who claim that AI is alive, do so specifically because they want computers to have more rights than people.

Reminder that unions turned against Dems starting in the late '60s, not because of anything the party did on labor issues, but because their members believed that LBJ was a coward who wasn't murdering enough Vietnamese kids.

the United States is already a bilingual country, we're just in denial about it

Wishing this brave nurse a very jury nullification

Update: actually not a scam

Received this text today from a number that's never texted me before. This has got to be a scam, yes?

It shouldn't be surprising that the people who think they've created a literal god feel entitled to other people's bodies. They are our superiors after all, the people who are so much smarter than us that we must defer to them even as they (allegedly) lose control of their own invention.

It's really weird that there's a concerted effort to shame people into listening to this song. I'm cynical enough to believe that it's being pushed by the record label in an attempt to milk more money out of the song.

My first exposure to rationalism/HPMOR was through a guy who turned out to be very racist, the kind of person who read SSC specifically for the eugenics. I have been grossed out by anything connected to that stuff ever since.