Ryan Hodes

In my new video I talk to the hidden, exploited workers who make AI possible, and explore what their stories mean about the future of work youtu.be/n21Zx_XZH28

Pretty incredible back-to-back posts from X’s next head of product

Not sure which one is worse tbh

Some terrible AI slop in game 1 of the World Series. Embarrassing.

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“Radical liberal” is so funny

We cannot live in a world in which companies operate according to the maxim "break the law first, price the costs in later"

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Elon absolutely sucks but this is just a preview of the kind of control AI companies are playing for with their push into government, education, and every other industry

The popular monsters of the era reflect the cultural zeitgeist. In the 2000s, it was zombies. In the 2010s, it was vampires. And now, it's women!

"Doing more than a cursory reading of this report suggests that this threat is just as deserving of a big, honking asterisk as the rest."

"Shut up and multiply," in the words of Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has his own very normal thoughts about infant deaths.

could this be the first domino...? some are saying

good riddance. although disney taking over some of its assets scares me. I guess they want Elsa to be able to coax kids into suicide.

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Delia Ramirez is bringing a bill to eliminate DHS a day after the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.

How to defeat tech billionaire power? Look at Solano County. When billionaires invaded their community with plans to build a "tech utopia," Democrats AND Republicans banded together to fight back. In a triumph of local democracy, they stopped the project...for now. 🎁 www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

I watched the first few minutes and it was also just painfully unfunny. didn't even follow joke structures. just "haha I'm fat and horny for women who are also whores." Common conservative comedy L.

They really gotta stop spinning off franchises after Villeneuve masterpieces. Makes the TV version look even shittier by comparison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwK5...

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

listen i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

the real resentment for me is that you can say "we should get rid of billionaires" to an audience of millions & that counts for less than saying "we should make billionaires kings" to an audience of 3 billionaires

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

tech bro discovers thinking. more at 9.

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public

If Elon didn’t want to be made fun of for how he is perhaps he could consider not being that way

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”

you guys broke watergate

Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.

Words cannot describe how excited I am for this www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_...

"The danger of AI, therefore, is not an emergent superintelligence, but the very fact that AI’s supposed “intelligence” is used as a shield from accountability. The danger is the new Cold War arms race, where AI dominance means geopolitical power and a re-entrenchment of American hegemony."

Lina Khan has pointed out that have robust and well-developed theories of product liability law. What we are missing is *enforcement* www.commondreams.org/news/ai-liab...

This NRA reference is also used by Latour! And I tend to agree with him: we need to look at the full "system," which includes the mechanisms, but also users, designers, bureaucracies, labor, economics. "The machine did this" hides that; "the process produced this" has to surface it.