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"No, but we're still racist" is the most Alberta result possible

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you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

Genuine question: How is what a government does in another country under the purview of the U.S. government? And if Maduro can be charged for this, does this not make a case for doing the same to Netanyahu or Putin?

Quite a glass house for a country globally famous for torturing people that has an entire culture industry built around watching an action TV or movie star throw a ream of laws in the garbage can before waterboarding someone with an accent.

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

I had a panic attack writing this and setting it up because I have a million things on my plate, and it never stops. I really really need money to move and sign a new lease. www.gofundme.com/f/a-fresh-st...

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare." www.404media.co/someone-tort...

three best friends a gal can have when sick

incredible scenes

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

Put another way, to be legible enough for AI to be useful to most families, they would have to stop communicating as the family they have known, never had to overtly think about, and become something stranger and coarser that has no cultural foundation. Why would I do that?

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

we have strayed so far from god's light

tim curry you will always be famous

from the Comments section of @nymag.com (link below)

and i think it's worth interrogating why the thing that would increase safety while putting a significant burden on cyclists is considered common-sense while the thing that would do the same for drivers is considered an absurd non-starter. way more motorists die every year than cyclists!

anti-helmet case is basically 1) helmet wearing reduces injury but in similar degree to wearing *while walking* does, which we would all agree is absurd 2) helmet mandates provably reduce cycling 3) safety-in-numbers is best cycling safety strategy so anything that reduces cycling increases danger

Landlord tech — from digital keys to intercoms — are a crucial part of the surveillance state.

IMO @stevesalaita.bsky.social does *really* well in a Chronicle interview that feels very gotcha ("Confessions of a Campus Radical"). Below, facing a question designed to make him 'endorse' violence, he carefully indexes who is allowed to commit violence (Israel) and who isn't ("Hamas").

we need a robust set of public shaming practices for people doing this and we need it NOW and customers should start doing it when they notice workers being harassed like this

numbers 1, 6, and 7 are all perfection

The problem with innovation as a reader is that the perfect technology has already been invented (book) and every subsequent innovation has the defect of being Not Book.

My insomnia:

Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century

millions must read!! @deandettloff.bsky.social @mattbernico.bsky.social

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/

To make things worse, AI *can't do the jobs* it's replacing: AI is predicated on the premise that monopolies, duopolies and cartels that control the global economy can deliberately worsen their products without suffering economic or regulatory consequences, because they're the only game in town. 4/

As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

yes… ha ha ha… YES (double yes that they had 98.2% voting in favour of strike!! that’s how you do it) thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

imagine trying "I know I've been gone four months but I'll explain when I'm back" if you were a shift worker at Arby's

Hadn't seen this before. Nicely done. isaiprofitable.com