The conclusion of Vol. 2 of the Hater's Guide is important to me, and summarizes my frustration with what I see as a failure by media and analysts to realistically explain what LLMs actually do. Retail investors - regular people - will end up hurt as a result.
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I get furious when I hear people say they didn't know he would do this stuff. Black people knew. Indigenous people knew. LGBTQ+ people knew. Latinos knew. Environmentalists knew. You didn't know because you didn't want to know and didn't want to listen to the ones who did know.
Yeah but it's also "and be genuinely interested in the answers to those questions because you're looking for someone you can connect with, not just fill in the slot of Imaginary Girlfriend."
ICE has repeatedly lied about not detaining people in office buildings and other places like this across the country. 👇 Push your local municipalities to go after unlicensed ICE detention facilities. City & state govts have more resources than nonprofits do, they need to be doing the work too.
I'd be curious to see a poll of the public asking them when they thought internal combustion engine vehicle sales will start to decline.
I expect most have no idea it happened years ago. I expect this would be different if our media wasn't doing the work of preserving the status quo.
New in PN: "On Los Angeles Street where it meets the 101 freeway, I didn’t see anyone attacking police, nor did I hear orders to disperse. Like all riots, the matter of who started it remains, at best, an open question. But the police at the very least escalated things." — @justinglawe.bsky.social
#BookSky
🚨 VEHICULAR ASSAULT in San Francisco 🚨
Just received a report from someone OTG: "Tesla asshole hit an old man. MD and EMT appeared outta nowhere and helped out. Paramedics arrived after 5 minutes. They caught the Tesla. Plenty of abrasions and bleeding and possibly broken leg (per EMT)"
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
If the @washingtonpost.com wanted to set its credibility on fire, this is what it would do.
ChatGPT cannibalized an actual reporter’s good work, turned it into a steaming pile of misinformation and then had the fucking nerve to slap the reporter’s name back on its bullshit.
There are many other tactics that are more appropriate right now.
On the less risky side, intentional incompetence in every day life to grind the gears of oppression to a halt buys us time.
On the more risky side, I'm inspired by the Citizen's Commision to Investigate the FBI. 😉
white guy DEI
I woke up yesterday to learn that PBS had scrubbed my work, the PBS Independent Lens Map of Gender Diverse Cultures, from their website, without warning.
These folks are throwing us under the bus so fast, they're gonna throw out their backs doing it.
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Officers have also struggled to meet their quotas because immigrants are refusing to open their doors when ICE officers knock. The enforcement teams generally do not possess criminal arrest warrants that would allow them to force their way into their targets’ homes. ICE officials say they can’t afford to leave teams of officers waiting around for targeted immigrants to exit their homes.
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
Graph titled: More than 1 in 3 people in state prison were first arrested before their 16th birthday
More than 1 in 3 people were first arrested before their 16th birthday – does this look like a society that cares about uplifting youth, or imprisoning them?
Good to see spines
According to Soleil Ho's Chron piece Jan 24, "[Brooks] also admitted to me that including supervisory staff in her petition was an error & said she would ask the NLRB to amend it, removing 5 people from the list."
Which would mean they're only disagreeing by 1 🤨
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Do not believe the media when they say tRump got over on Columbia... He didn't.
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That is not true.
In many public sector unions managers are in their *own* union, *not* in the same bargaining unit as the people they supervise.
The workers absolutely are saying that, the workers have not been vague about what roles should and shouldn't be in the union.
A Simple Favor
Labor Notes National Call Tonight (Monday, 1/27):
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Really interesting deep dive on the tech oligarch right, and the fight against them:
"2025 may be marked less by clashes with Proud Boys marching through the streets, and more by local communities banding together to stop AI infrastructure projects."
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HEY GUYS. I THINK IF THEY MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO BE ANTI-FASCIST, THEN WE MIGHT BE IN FASCISM. JUST A THOUGHT.
