AI companies are hiring people to produce data for practically any job you can imagine: chefs, management consultants, archivists, private investigators, rental-counter clerks. It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted.
Looking to speak to immigrants rights groups and immigration lawyers ASAP for a story about ICE/DHS and mass surveillance. If that’s you or anyone you know, DM me your best contact number!! Or tag ppl below who would be good to connect with.
Literal black rain followed.
🐳🎵 stop reposting accounts that don't source their infooo 🎵 🐳
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE
it will result in dead trans people
and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing
you see the pipeline right?
we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die
WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS
meanwhile, war rages on at home.
it's next on my list so I can be prepared for her episode of the CS pod! (I've only read the first Poppy War and Katabasis)
Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works
I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.
I went to the protest by myself and I was talking to a few people around me. One man said: 'I sincerely hope that China doesn't start bombing Los Angeles to free us from our fascist regime.' - Everyone was extremely solemn at that comment.
And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."
Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.
i am in @emilygouldnymag.bsky.social newsletter today giving a sneaky preview of my book and chatting all things fanfiction and heated rivalry 😎🤩 nymag.substack.com/p/byron-was-...
"I regret to inform you that the 'L,' '2,' and '8' are also three different typefaces, according to LA28. Why? There's absolutely no reason to do that when you have all this other stuff going on. So now you also have to think about that every time you see the logo — YOU'RE WELCOME!"
Fucking hell when I pointed out this morning Ellison had a history of hiring (untalented) men who faced allegations of sexual harassment, had no idea a new one would drop in hours www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
in a free market, X would be dead and Elon Musk would not be able to open a credit card. This is not a free market, and the people who tried to organize a boycott against a bad website got sued out of existence.
i think left-liberals sometimes have a hard time seeing what's going on here because "capitalism" has come be a substitute word for all social ills. but american media consolidation is a nascent planned economy.
This is what I need cis folks to understand.
It's been a decade.
Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.
If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
Well, now they’re coming for the prosthetics, wheelchairs, and oxygen tanks.
maybe just the philosophy major in me but Vic Michaelis's episode of Adventuring Academy feels like easily one of the 10 most important episodes of anything on Dropout
for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously
This seems to be a common reply to my thread, so I'll address it here. Basically, the argument is who cares if this is a misleading attack on Newsom, he's bad so if it hurts him it's fine.
And I think it's important to push back on misinformation so that when there are legitimate criticisms...
"The point is that artistic mediums have different possibilities and limitations and if you try to make your novel a series of transcriptions of imagined TV scenes, it will fail at being either good TV or a good novel." | @thelincoln.bsky.social
countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...
i say let them do it. if i were a senate democrat i would relish the opportunity to let the country know that republicans don't think you should vote if you are a married woman www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...
I asked award-winning game devs to take an interesting photo in a boring room
The top collage includes Erika Ishii (Ghost of Yotei) snapped by Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Clair Obscur), a Svedberg-Yen photo by Greg Kasavin (Hades) and a shot by Tonda Ros (Blue Prince)
www.gamefile.news/p/12-photos-...
and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!
this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
