Even white Dems make this mistake constantly:
When they see 90%+ of Black voters voting for a candidate, they cannot accept that this means that the candidate is an overwhelmingly better choice than the others.
Instead, they believe that "Black people vote for Black people! Racial solidarity!🤡"
Someone catfished that Jake Lang white supremacist guy pretending to be a 15 year old girl and he took the bait in the worst possible way.
I live in the state of California, he's my governor, I voted for him in 2018, and he's the worst piece of trash imaginable.
He hates the trans community, he's criminalized being homeless in a state where hardworking people are one missed paycheck from the street. He had Bannon on his podcast
The Diversify Tech newsletter is going out tonight! Keep an eye out for it if you are job hunting.
We are including lots of remote roles in the U.S! Nothing in Gen AI, surveillance or defense because you don't have to work at blatantly unethical orgs.
www.diversifytech.com/join
Yup.
~10 years ago, Black people tried to tell y'all that this was the inevitable outcome of the detailed plan written by literal nazis in the US.
We told white folk exactly how they planned to accomplish this, and why.
And instead of listening to us, people in the US listened to literal nazis?🤦🏿♂️
I don't like the framing of skeptic vs enthusiast. More and more people understand that it's capable (the degree to which varies), but the framing diminishes the very real concerns around all the other harmful consequences of the technology.
The AI Skeptics Reading Group is reading Why We Fear AI now!
If you've been looking for an online reading group on AI, I highly recommend this one!
13 is middle school
If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
even the surveys about AI using dark patterns
The newsletter isn't going to tell you you're a good person.
It's not going to give you a completion badge or a safe space to feel better about yourself without doing anything differently.
It's going to show you something true. Ask you to sit with it. Then give you one small thing to try.
When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project
BREAKING via AP
The FAA has grounded all JetBlue flights due to a request from the airline.
The ground stop impacts flights to all destinations, according to the advisory.
It was not immediately clear why JetBlue requested the ground stop or how long it would last.
The biggest change in software development is not AI code, but a permission structure for disregarding quality in the pursuit of velocity
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
MSU students are protesting U.S. strikes on Iran — and calling out their own university's Innovation Campus for housing companies that develop military surveillance tech. Over 1,000 civilians reported killed. Congress has blocked efforts to require approval for further action.
#Iran #StudentProtest
Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!
Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
They’re literally pushing out Black women to make sure they can try to permanently staff the federal government with white supremacists.
Both proposals comment periods are now closed, so now we wait to see what the FCC decides. But, thanks in part to all of you, we hit in the neighborhood of 1500 comments on each proposal, what PCMag called "a staggering amount." From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who commented.
we had a real asshole donor who tried to pry a bunch of information about a renter from us
if you want to offset the $2000 this rent cop decided not to donate, please
venmo @colocha_rachel so we can pay the rent
because the familes we are helping aren’t poverty porn, they are PEOPLE
Slept well for a week. I guess it was time for insomnia 😫
will remember jay as the person who deleted lexi alexander and link, worked hard to cut palestinians off from their one chance at survival, ignored the ongoing abuse of Black and trans users, and then when confronted about the whole thing said 'waffles'. and for that fugly no caesars shirt.
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com. The company gave me this statement over email: We’ve heard the feedback about this tool and appreciate the engagement from those who have taken the time to raise thoughtful questions about the functionality and the experts surfaced. We agree that the product experience can be improved for both users and experts. The agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship that add value to their work. We want the people behind those perspectives to have greater control over whether their name is used, while providing new ways for influential voices to reach new audiences. Our goal is to improve Expert Review to deliver this outcome.
NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
I'm also looking for updates 👀
The unnamed woman alleges that Epstein introduced her to Trump in the 1980s, around the time she was 13 to 15 years old. During that meeting, the woman says, Trump attempted to force her to perform oral sex, after which she bit him, resulting in Trump hitting her.
EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
wow 😲
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...
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