It will never cease to amaze me that I have a real job that connects me to real people via art, and in its best moments lets me help them feel things, and I am scraping by while some clown is paid through the nose to worry about the feelings of a dodgy calculator
Corporations are tools for making money and avoiding responsibility a bisexual slide background with a pink factory, green money trucks, and people with green mustaches running away.
This week I get to do the talk with my favorite slide.
(I crawl out of my well to shame slop flingers with the Keynote clipart library.)
Честита Нова валута 🎉
Mogwai
Fuck it I don’t care anymore
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
i would like to see a monty python version of that 🙌
true 💙
OMG
original portrait shot of Barack Obama, highly pixelated on left. Unblurred version on right looks like a white guy with tan ski
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
*Seems like a good "community" start here
"Who Created This Guide?
This guide was created by a group of researchers who study consciousness and the possibility that AIs could one day become conscious.
We put this together because many of us have been contacted"
whenaiseemsconscious.org
Louder for the people in back, please!
Every once in a while I think about how the best paid jobs are usually the least helpful or most actively harmful to society (medicine being the one big exception), while the worst paid ones are the most helpful to society. Then I stare out the window for a while
Florence Nightingale didn’t just carry a lamp—she carried data. Her rose diagrams showed how statistics could save lives. Victorian celebrity meets passionate statistician. She practically invented the infographic. 🗃️
Read here: tinyurl.com/37kkd4n9
Wow ... das ist verrückt 😵💫
Imagen con el texto: fuck nudes. send netanyahu to jail.
Every time I read some suggestion for how I can use an LLM, it falls into one four categories:
- Something I don’t want to do
- Something an LLM can’t do
- Something that would be easier, better, or more enjoyable if I did it myself
- Something I don’t want *anyone* to do under any circumstances
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
U.S. NEWS Ohio police find raccoon holding meth pipe during traffic stop When an officer took the pipe away, the raccoon pulled out another.
READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
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Good morning Bluesky !
Every time I read about banning books, I think of this:
Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
If you had #superpowers, would you use them for good or evil?
In our world, for all intents and purposes, wealth gives you power - and superwealth gives you superpowers.
And, from what we can see, humans tend to use superpowers in the worst ways possible.
Typical range is from selfish to monster.
BREAKING: A federal judge has issued a restraining order against Kari Lake and the Trump administration barring the cancelation of funding for Radio Free Europe.
The decision to terminate, the judge says, appears to violate the law/congressional intent.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
can't we abandon all the [random messenger] channels, social pages, profiles, and everything else we try to use to communicate things to the audience and replace them with RSS and just be done with this constantly moving noise
hey @muiiio.com 😀
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happy international women's day to the only gender according to the US government
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
