John Palowitch

This is extraordinarily bad

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜 I’ve recently come across a new flavor of AI denialism making the rounds.

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜

@mmitchell.bsky.social writing on how people dramatically misunderstand the "stochastic parrot" critique.

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DAMN

We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology.

This is our first statement together.

Tonight at 6:30PM (virtual) w/ @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social

Surveillance has long been used to monitor, criminalize, and control our communities. Join us for a teach-in on how these systems operate and how we can protect ourselves.

Join: bit.ly/BLOCKISHOTDC

Worker Groups Representing 700,000 Demand: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Must Reject Pentagon's Demands Reject The Pentagon’s Demands.

amazing show of red-lines solidarity across big tech with a coalition including Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, @notechforapartheid.bsky.social, @cwaunion.bsky.social, and @alphabetworkersunion.org

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Don’t let this admins fool you, this war is grossly unpopular and the Republican party knows it, countless people are standing together in protest against this unconstitutional war

Credit: bts news room

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

I wonder if she predicted she would lose the election because she promised to continue sending weapons to Israel while they were committing a genocide

www.axios.com/2026/02/22/d...

This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI ‘Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

One of the internet's most active hubs producing sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight on 4chan, where users on a NSFW board have victimized countless women and girls. The problem is getting worse, and it seems no is trying to stop it.

openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

the intentional conflation of "criminal" with "incompetent" that liberal outlets will use to avoid direct criticism of this administration should be called out at every turn

At the funeral of Rev. Jesse Jackson. Rep. Jones and I walk in his footsteps. Our story isn’t possible without the work, advocacy, Organizing, and struggle of Rev. Jackson. Rest in power.

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used as "seeing stones" BY THE VILLIANS

www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Matt Welsh Head of AI Systems at Palantir 4h Returning from an overseas deployment supporting advanced technology development for the armed forces (and, yes, being somewhat vague), I'm reflecting on how my work at Palantir may be the most meaningful thing I've done in my career. If you like solving hard problems and building things that really matter, we're hiring -- drop me a line and let's chat. likesupport 19 1 comment Liz Fong-Jones Field CTO @ honeycomb.io 1s Matt, I don't understand how to reconcile the thoughtful and empathetic engineering leader I knew when we worked together at Google, and you choosing to work at Palantir under the Trump administration, with Palantir assisting in carrying out some of the worst human rights abuses enacted by DHS, and openly embracing the lawless, white supremacist agenda of President Trump.

I just... can't any more.

Nothing to Declare Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics. They are a way for institutions...

By @tante.cc who is on point as always.

"So there is a new declaration in town called the “The Pro-Human AI Declaration“...before we go into the details, let’s look at who is pushing this for a second because the declaration keeps talking about how broad their coalition is"
tante.cc/2026/03/05/n...

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

How AI helps 20 US troops do the work of 2,000 in Iran war Palantir technology used by the US military can choose and dismiss targets quicker than the human brain can think, ushering in a new era of bombing

War fetish 🤝 Silicon Valley

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

if only certain Democratic lawmakers had an ounce of this resolve

💯 in many ways, the Musk buyout was the event that put me on my big tech breakup arc

very vindicating of my past decisions to not pay attention to him ever

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

removepaywalls.com is your friend :)

Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic

it's a shame that this is needed at all. but so so proud of my former colleagues here at DeepMind.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

need more linkdumps like this

This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

Pentagon Gives A.I. Company an Ultimatum

It should be a five alarm for all Americans that the Pentagon is going to the mat to force an AI company to let the Defense Department use its powerful technology to surveil Americans. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Go to badinternetbills.com for information on these laws and what you can say when you call. Do not let staffers gaslight you about the harm of these laws!! These "child safety" surveillance and censorship laws would devastate the internet. Sign the petitions on the site. CALL TODAY & KEEP CALLING!!