Dr Abeba Birhane

Islamophobia codified into the patriot act decades ago is now being weaponized against all Americans.

The same will happen with the normalization of war crimes against Muslim nations in contravention of international laws and norms and normalization of genocidal anti Muslim rhetoric by lawmakers.

My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)

"the 'controlled hallucination' hypothesis— reality-as-controlled-hallucination— brings nothing new to the table regarding the problem of consciousness. And there is a circularity problem: if the theory claims that reality is a hallucination, then that theory itself is part of the hallucination"

rip my mentions... a mix of mansplaining my research, whataboutism, and US centrism

it was a mistake not to limit replies obviously

The work they are doing to normalize and universalize gAI use in schools and universities, to discredit any criticism, all to ensure they have a captive and uncritical customer base utterly dependent on them for generations

the damage they will be doing to the coming generation is unfathomable

I hope the public wakes up and demands better

it scares me to think that big tech/big AI's primary target demographic is kids

just a reminder that asking "can meta's oversight board still function?" is another way of asking "can one of the most evil corporations self-regulate?"

Nothing says "we support women's rights" like a bunch of beardy cunts forming a mob in order to harass a woman *about women's rights*.

Sums up my week. I honestly thought I just had to tell the magic machine what I wanted and it’d happen like I’d just rubbed a lamp and made a wish.
Turns out it’s more like when I had to learn how to code Stata, except at least Stata didn’t forget instructions I gave it a couple of hours earlier.

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

The Great Green AI Hoax Machine If AI companies want to claim they are helping solve the climate crisis, they should be required to show their math, writes Friends of the Earth's Michael Khoo.

If AI companies want to claim they are helping solve the climate crisis, they should be required to show their math, writes Friends of the Earth's Michael Khoo. Industry claims that AI is benefiting the climate are unfounded at best, and deceptive PR at worst, he writes.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

"We hosted that Iranian ship. They disarmed for our naval exercise. Then America attacked."

India's ex-FM just exposed the setup.

The UK stays silent when our "allies" pull stunts like this.

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

SZA says she feels like she's "at war because of AI" and criticises the technology for "disproportionately" impacting Black music SZA says she feels like she's "at war because of AI" and criticises the technology for "disproportionately" impacting Black music

“I’m not up against the pop girls. I’m not up against the R&B girls. I’m up against anti-intellectualism and doing things easy." www.nme.com/news/music/s...

omg, nailed

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

A reminder that much of this started because Netanyahu and Trump did not want to go to jail for crimes they almost certainly committed.

Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.

I definitely want to hear more deep thoughts from the guy who claimed Elon Musk's purchase of twitter would "extend the light of consciousness"

I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below

pervert glasses. so apt

This is what I keep saying when people play the AI productivity card. A lot of productivity tech doesn't actually solve productivity problems, it enables or even exacerbates them.

if the invention of emails was to make us efficient and effective, how come i can do emails till the cows come home yet feel unproductive, inefficient, and irritable

a. piece. of. software. is. not. the. type. of. entity. that. can. gain. consciousness.

the harder the industry invests on pushing narratives of AI as (only) positive, inevitable, and inherently good for society/business, the more any criticism of this narrative becomes “too radical”, “unworkable” and “unrealistic”

Hey, suprise! The big foundation model providers are not complying to the @ec.europa.eu AI act.