I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Your reporting was very thorough, this reaction has all the depth of a child going “nuh uh!” on the playground
I lived in SoCal for 20 years, the weather when I left was radically different than when I arrived. Wild to see the scale of change within my lifetime. I loved it there but couldn’t deal with year round fire season.
You'll be shocked to hear this was posted by a "private equity executive"
Screenshot of a LinkedIn post reading: According to my friend ChatGPT, about two thirds of its users regularly say please and thank you when they submit requests. About 75% of them do it because it's simply good manners and about 15% do it jokingly "in case AI takes over." There are three major takeaways here: 1. We already think of AI systems as living in a very real sense. 2. 25% of you aren't nice people. 3. Some of us really are afraid of how much control we're giving AI tools. Do you say please and thank you?
Claiming people aren't nice because they don't say please and thank you to the plagiarism exploitation autocomplete machine is quite the take, given all the authors and artists whose work was exploited never got a please, thanks, or compensation while AI companies get billions in investment
Hopefully there’s a spirit of the parking lot that appreciated your sacrifice and will favor you going forward
Yesterday Trump said the not-war will probably be over soon, which IMO markets are choosing to believe while ignoring 1) there’s no plan to resolve it, 2) all the other batshit stuff he said, and 3) what’s actually happening
Travel pack of Clorox wipes, wipe down surfaces first thing. Doorknobs, light switches, thermostat and TV remote are never cleaned and therefore gross as hell.
Travel kettle and tea or whatever drink. Better than hotel coffee maker, which is probably gross and makes everything taste of bad coffee.
How is access to tools now supposedly essential to doing your job considered part of your employee compensation that you have to negotiate and not equipment to perform a job that the employer provides like a laptop
@edzitron.com
I feel many problems could be addressed with a firm “SHOO” and I think as a society we should look into this
I must mention also - it wasn’t just sex-selective abortion. Infanticide of female babies has been a factor in China for millennia, particularly for rural families that need the far greater earning potential of male children to survive poverty.
One Child is compounded by limited support for parents on affordability and paid leave, sexism that expects only women to stay home with children, and limited professional opportunities for women that they are expected to leave permanently once pregnant. So no wonder they are less enthusiastic.
It doesn’t often make headlines in the US but with other policies it’s reshaped marriage, having kids and working. This BBC piece links to several other articles.
China has not yet felt all the impact - One Child was only rescinded in 2016, so years of births under the policy are still children.
I assume people who romanticize farming have never so much as kept a house plant alive
It’s even worse than that, because the administration’s policies have radically contracted admissions to PhD programs.
Not only have they gotten rid of PhDs, they’ve bombed the pipeline of folks who might one day replace them. It’s scientific infrastructure terrorism.
It appears Leavitt did not actually mention the draft at all, just potential for troops on the ground in Iran
Not sure why Siskind went there, we don’t need to be inventing new problems at present
As one does
Love it
I am anti death penalty but willing to make an exception for post Trump tribunals
Dems need to be running loud and proud against this depravity. There is absolutely no reason not to - no one who likes this will vote for them anyway
Her face looks like a roasted marshmallow that’s all melted inside and about to fall off the stick
News about people destroying their finances so an amoral online casino can profit?
I never watched it either, still alive and everything
Tweet screenshot reading: Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
(tapping my favorite sign)
Who gets in a car chase with an ever loving infant in the car. There must not be any thought process at all, just angry bees where your thinking machine should be
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
