FYI, @zevshalev.bsky.social summary mixes up 2 alleged victims of Trump & Epstein. The payoff disclosed was not to "Katie Johnson," who was 13 in 1994 when she says T & E assaulted & raped her. The payoff was to the Hilton Head victim, who said she was 13-15 when Trump raped her in the mid-1980s.
@zevshalev.bsky.social Your summary mixes up 2 alleged victims of Trump & Epstein. The payoff disclosed was not to "Katie Johnson," who was 13 in 1994 when she says T & E assaulted & raped her. The payoff was to the Hilton Head victim, who said she was 13-15 when Trump raped her in the mid-1980s.
Cry "Havoc!" and let slop the dogs of war
Screenshot of headlines: The Secret to Keeping My Toilet Stain-Free Is in the Kitchen 11 Surprising Things You Can Put in Your Dishwasher
Nicely done
This is ridiculous, @protonprivacy.bsky.social.
You gave up the identity of a customer (as required by law) via an FBI request. You could be writing a guide on how customers can help prevent this from happening again, not frivolously attacking the integrity of a nonprofit journalism organization.
On the Money: Ellison Takeover of Warner is Hair-on-Fire Stuff, but the Left Just Whines
Dean Baker on a way to take back the news from billionaires open.substack.com/pub/themoney...
'How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain'
This from a new book by Businessweek editor Jason Gale should motivate people to mask up again in crowded settings & insist on masks & air purifiers in schoolrooms. Air purifiers take minutes to DIY & cost under $100 (box fan, HEPA filter) archive.ph/FYsGV
Pro Trump, Pro Netanyahu fanatics Larry and David Ellison will most likely now control Paramount, CBS, CNN, HBO, Warner Bros, and TikTok
@kaburbank.bsky.social connects a few dots between Epstein and the near Jedi level “nothing to see here” CIA Torture admission of wrongdoing and destruction of evidence in 2014. ‘Ka’ is one to watch:
youtu.be/jiAwk6D6RFQ
dougiefox_fl "To the kids who are doxing their I.C.E agent dads, I want to tell you something that they have never said to you. I love you, and I'm proud of you."
krickbrendan: "Remembering an open mic in Pennsyltucky in 2011 when we had "offensive joke night." Everyone else said slurs, but I went up and talked about how "l don't support the troops. I do support the war though, because war is the number 1 killer of troops" and had to be escorted out of the building for my safety"
mathew @mathew@universeodon.com The orphan-crushing machine is just a tool. You can also use it to mulch puppies and purée kittens. Why are you angry? You can use it for harmless tasks like making mashed potatoes. You eat mashed potatoes don't you? Yes, admittedly it leaks machine oil into the potatoes, but they're working on that. It leaks so much less oil than it did when you tried it three months ago. In a year from now it's going to be a Michelin-starred chef. Well, that’s typical, gatekeeping by telling people they should have to learn to cook. You don’t think people who can’t cook deserve good food? So what if the machine is powered by slave labor? That's innovation. You're just scared you're going to be one of them. Besides, it's inevitable. Nobody is going to crush orphans by hand any more. You're going to get left behind. Oh, well there you go with your ridiculous purity culture again.
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
At this point Donald Trump is essentially a pedophile corpse that’s being weekend at bernie’s’d by various billionaires and ideological fascists (not mutually exclusive).
When police and ICE join forces, community surveillance becomes government surveillance.
Yes, and see Benn Jordan's study posted a few days ago about the damage caused by infrared sound from data centers. @bennjordan.bsky.social @rusty.todayintabs.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP8...
Yes, and see Benn Jordan's study posted a few days ago about the damage caused by infrared sound from data centers. @bennjordan.bsky.social @rusty.todayintabs.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP8...
Oh I think we're gonna slam the wrong particles together and the Higgs Field is going to slip into its vacuum state.
If you don't know what I'm talking about don't look it up until you're ready to spend a few weeks with existential insomnia.
This is a targeted anti-ICE/digital surveillance economic resistance guide that can help people understand and avoid ICE surveillance strategies and specifically targets the industries enabling this:
publish.obsidian.md/datastrike/
The tell for me with this stuff is, you don't see people doing the same mental theorizing for GenAI when what it is generating is audio, or images. I think that fact is fascinating from the perspective of understanding *humans* but it's all the same to the models.
This is just the “alignment problem” in action. I feel like we’d all be better off of people read Brian Christian’s book of the same name.
I love how obvious this is to you. I’ve been so embarrassed by my industry these last few years (software, not tech journalism, though that’s been embarrassing too). Anytime someone “asks [the LLM] why it did that” I die a little more inside.
I think that AI chatbots raise really interesting questions about _language_, but not consciousness or intelligence. It seems clear that we, as humans, are really strongly responsive to language use, and that might say something interesting about humans and language.
it "thinks" is private? good lord this article is dogshit
yeah, it’s fine to have relationships with AI personalities up to a point, but it’s no different than having a relationship with a stuffed animal and it’s dangerous to listen to them.
you talk to God it’s prayer, God talks back it’s psychosis. same with AI. you talk to AI, it’s a sounding board.
How do you get to be an "AI researcher" without growing up on the stories of people convinced that Eliza understood them, even when they were directly told how it worked?
Is this an entire field of "R.I.P. to those other idiots, but my objectivity is incorruptible" guys?
They should have hired David Chalmers. "Can Claude experience seeing the qualia of red? No? It's a linguistic actuarial table.
Is there a word or term for a study that generates valuable data but not on the subject matter that people conducting the study intended?
Because this research tells us a whole lot about people's inclination to anthropomorphize *ANYTHING* especially if it talks back to us.
AI not so much.
It doesn't mean anything. Anthropic does stuff like this constantly. They arrange for a flashy headline about their bot doing a thing "spontaneously" or "deceptively" and it always turns out that it was just programmed or prompted to do the thing that it eventually did.
It doesn't have thoughts...
It’s true that human cognition is poorly understood and the question ‘what makes us human?’ has changed a lot over time as various technologies have emerged.
But the fact that thinking and speech can now be simulated doesn’t call into question thinking and speech themselves.
