In the ep. where we meet him, Doug Forcett— epitome of getting the facts right & the message wrong, utilitarian self-harming happiness pump who never gets into the Good Place because his motivation to do good is utterly tainted by his awareness of the system— is reading Peter Singer. Perfection. 😂
Like, i genuinely feel bad for this dude, but in large part because he so fundamentally misunderstood the man he called his hero. I mean, that has to be just utterly devastating.
And yet here we are, over a decade on, and this shit is still shocking to like, Most People.
Y'know that video where the guy is super excited to show Miyazaki the "AI" animator he'd built because he loved Miyazaki's work so much, and Miyazaki just sits there looking just so existentially tired, & then very quietly & calmly tells the exec that this is an abomination? I think about that a lot
Good, hope it continues to. google still never should have integrated "AI" into their bullshit like this, in the first place.
Just literally zero consideration of social implications or harms. Jfc
No, but my point is that where we are right now was prefigured by a LOT of people workkng in various intersections of philosophy, technology, sociology, etc, and not nearly enought people (regulators, governments, societies) tried to get out in front of it
Considering I'm pretty sure that's the NYT font, i would believe that immediately and without question
would you believe me if i told you that while the overwhelming majority of examples cited within are of conservatives attacking their political enemies and the majority of those are specifically trump-related this article implicitly treats political violence and terror as a cross-partisan issue
Jesus fucking Christ
Considering I'm pretty aure that's the NYT font, i would believe that immediately and without question
would you believe me if i told you that while the overwhelming majority of examples cited within are of conservatives attacking their political enemies and the majority of those are specifically trump-related this article implicitly treats political violence and terror as a cross-partisan issue
From what I hear, that's called "psilocybin" but even that needs a bunch therapeutic talking afterward :\
It's ingrained into so many parts of our society. It's a mess.
One of the most unfair things about this universe is that healing takes so so much longer than the harm that caused it, and it Fucking Sucks 💜🖤
Yes this might also be about you.
Seriously: People have so much grief & rage & trauma & pain, these days, and so so many of us seem absolutely adamantly opposed to acknowledging that, let alone doing anything about it. It's honestly sad, in the abstract, & just so deeply wearying when they decide to make it everyone else's problem.
The key, unspoken word for the people who claim to believe in both of those propositions, is "some."
The key, unspoken word for the people who claim to believe that, is "some."
I'm trying to sit in a state of active non-anticipation about it.
It's going to be another really fucked up week.
Breaking News: A helicopter carrying Iran’s president and foreign minister crashed, but is yet to be found, state media said. Their status is unknown.
Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling, state media reported. Their status is unknown.
www.nytimes.comIt's going to be another rwally fucked up week.
Breaking News: A helicopter carrying Iran’s president and foreign minister crashed, but is yet to be found, state media said. Their status is unknown.
Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling, state media reported. Their status is unknown.
www.nytimes.comHappy birthday to el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. In his honour, admit the knife is there.
"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches & pull it out 6 inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is There."
Malcolm X changed my life. His words moved my soul. What’s one of your favorite Malcolm X quotes.
He still has his shares and manages operations
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The kind bars guy? Goddammit that's one of my only consistently okay foods
Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), [...] a log of chat messages shows.
Gift link: wapo.st/3WJ4sqO
A WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy Americans after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack reveals their focus on New York Mayor Eric Adams and their work to shape U.S. opinion of the Gaza war.
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Okay i need a dance break. If you're a music listener, post a song that's been bringing you joy, lately. Here's one of mine
youtu.be/di2rv4gmHlo
Black Belt Eagle Scout - Soft Stud from the album Mother of My Children Order: http://bbes.lnk.to/MOMC Directed and edited by Indigenous Diné transdisciplinary artist Demian DinéYazhi’
youtu.beThere's a lot in there for the theology, mythology, occulture, and comparative religious studies crowds, as well as being (i think) something everyone interested in "AI" needs to think about, more broadly
…'These actions are performed on us w/o our input, w/o our knowledge, and without our consent. And we have another word for magic performed on us without our knowledge and without our consent:
'Binding and subjugating magic… is called a curse.'
From "Religious Belief & Practice in the Age of 'AI'"
As part of a seed grant project funded by the AIAI Network, Damien P. Williams, assistant professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North...
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Cops, doing cop shit.
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Well this is a huge.
"SFPD spokesman Evan Sernoffsky said these requests violated the city ordinance and were not authorized by the department, but the agency faced no consequences from the city. He declined to say whether any officers were disciplined because those would be personnel matters."
The Washington Post has obtained emails and other documents showing that police in Austin and San Francisco skirted city bans against using facial recognition by asking officers in other cities to run...
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…'These actions are performed on us w/o our input, w/o our knowledge, and without our consent. And we have another word for magic performed on us without our knowledge and without our consent:
'Binding and subjugating magic… is called a curse.'
From "Religious Belief & Practice in the Age of 'AI'"
As part of a seed grant project funded by the AIAI Network, Damien P. Williams, assistant professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North...
www.youtube.com…'These are Logics of belief in religion, belief in spirituality, belief in Magic. These Frameworks then become the ground reality that we all exist in— by the actions that they take, the things that they create, the world that they make for us. And thus, *We Are All Made Subject To* these logics.…
As part of a seed grant project funded by the AIAI Network, Damien P. Williams, assistant professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North...
www.youtube.com'I said before, the Logics that we use in this space, they are frameworks that depend upon notions that say, "the creators of these technologies will be able to enact their will at a distance; they will be able to make changes in the world; they will be able to alter the very fabric of reality."…
As part of a seed grant project funded by the AIAI Network, Damien P. Williams, assistant professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North...
www.youtube.comThat spins out into interesting consequences for clinton's impeachment in '98
Thinking about writing a short time travel story: who would've been on Bill Clinton's short list of Supreme Court Justices 1997?
GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME
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THIS IS RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS.
Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, and Charlotte Rampling also star in the comedy
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More amazingly good news in the realm of potential glioblastoma treatments:
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Really exciting stuff happening in oncology, y'all.
A doctor with glioblastoma—an aggressive brain cancer that kills most patients less than a year after diagnosis—has now been cancer-free for a year, thanks to a world-first personalized vaccine.
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Richard Scolyer has undergone a new treatment for glioblastoma, based on his own melanoma research.
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Like… handwritten post hoc police reports notoriously distort and amplify certain elements, especially concerning race, and often in a reciprocal relationship to whether a crime is charge, for whom, and of what level of severity.
This is going to be a fucking mess.
NYC please tell Eric Adams to go fuck himself, every chance you get, in every form you can, including this one.
And please, for the love of god, stop electing corp-sucking technocrat cops to high city office
shitfuck mayor Eric Adams is trying to evict the Elizabeth Street Garden, a community green space. pre-written letter campaign here: www.elizabethstreetgarden.com/write
Send a letter to our Representatives demanding that they rescind the notice
of eviction!
Police body cams w/ automated "AI" report writing integrations. "AI" trained on what again?
That's right: Parsed & tagged datasets made of police reports… which are themselves written based on cops' memories.
Everything is going to go wrong w/ this because it starts from a place of utter wrongness
Axon's AI is now writing police reports directly from bodycam footage. Says cops are actively using it. What could go wrong? This is what it looks like:
www.404media.co/here-is-what...
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And this absolves admins of NOTHING. They could hold firm on principled ground but instead they collude with or cowardly capitulate to billionaires and politicians. So no, "the donors made me do it!" isn't an excuse.
Collusion gives no one an out from anything
Collusion give no one an out from anything
There are no assurances, because in almost every instance it is explicitly the case that the university boards and sonor class are directly involved in these violent, highly miltarized police responses.
What assurances can university leaders provide that the disciplining and arresting and beating of their students is not directed by politicians, lobbying groups or billionaire group chats?
Oh well done with the Borges allusion/adaptation, Discovery; VERY well done, indeed
oh wow that's exactly what it is
This world doesn't have to be this way, and i wish reminding myself of that was motivation enough.