I have been giving some thought as to why Western societies (I cannot speak for others) who put so much store in individuality and self expression and identity are so willing to let an #LLM in the form of an #AI chat bot speak for them. Because essentially, when you ask AI to write something for you, that is what you're doing.
Why are we so eager to have our own voices usurped? 1/
I was just watching a vid and it showed a clip of Elizabeth Holmes and I physically recoiled because of how terrifying that sociopath is.
And then images of all the big Ai companies flashed through my mind, with the exact same expressions.
probably the hardest photo i have seen from the french protests. i decided to color edit it a little to make it even cooler
I will say this; I am cis, hetero, male, white and various other flavors of problematic.
But I believe that trans rights are human rights.
And that if trans people are denied medical care including gender affirming care; that puts my own dignity at risk.
:trans: ⚧️
“French leaders have placed blame on the protesters and the far left…
Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right National Rally party, also blamed ‘the extreme left’ for the protests and riots”
800K protesters all around France & the far-left is all they got? kids started it & kids will always win. always.
When your favorite websites or YouTube channels or whatever go offline, hide behind a paywall, or just stop producing because all their public work is stolen with AI, the Internet is going to be such a miserable and shabby place - devoid of the only spark that made it truly magical years ago.
Show me a 10x AI engineer and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t own the copyright of anything they produce.
Very happy to know that my Abandoned America trademark has been coopted by not one but two different AI slop "creators", both based out of Europe to circumvent my legal protections. I love this new world we live in.
Teaching a skill you know well to somebody who’s never done it before is mind blowing. You realize just how much stuff your brain just handles for you on autopilot. Breaking the learning down into digestible chunks will also help you learn the subject better. And your students’ questions constantly force you to revisit your assumptions.
Okay. So. I was diagnosed with early stage uterine cancer. It requires an immediate hysterectomy. However. I had to postpone because finances will not allow me to rest, and layoffs are happening at my music label.
As usual, I refuse to ask for help. It feels horrible. But so many of you have offered.
So. If you’d like to donate to “Project Hysterectomy: Yeet that Uterus and Heal 2026,” I’d be grateful.
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not to get too politics here but Andy Burnham's approach to policy seems to be "things that mildly irritate Andy Burnham"
Poll, please boost for reach, I’m genuinely interested.
Do you use IRC?
Alors qu’à Lyon, un couvre-feu est instauré, interdisant tout rassemblement, des hordes néonazies se baladent tranquillement dans les rues de la ville.
Pas un flic...
Has anyone tried a state monopsony on violence?
this is obvious but
if someone is complaining, in public, that their adult kids “cut them off” for “no good reason”
get as far away as you can from that person. they are a nightmare given flesh
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The UK has rejected trans people from hospital ward leading to trans death.
It has removed treatment from youth resultiong in trans death.
It has strangled adult provision so that the wait for your first appointment is counted in decades, causing trans death.
It has overseen a massive rise in hate, leading to trans death.
It has reported parents to social services for supporting kids social transition & dangerously withdrawn care from trans adults.
The UK is democidally anti-trans.
@estelle The only violence in France that concerns me is the violence being committed by the state against the citizens who tolerate the state's continued existence.
Men are so confident they understand artificial intelligence that a study finds more than half of them claim to recognize every name on a list of AI experts, in which all the names were made up.
https://gizmodo.com/men-are-shaping-the-future-of-ai-that-doesnt-mean-they-know-what-theyre-talking-about-2000825911