In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
It was a very interesting choice to put her in an XC90, the safest car on the road — no one has ever died in one.
No no no, it’s exactly the way!
If I had to guess, I think therapists would disagree that they should be comparing themselves to patients. Or, at least, I feel like that’s what my therapist would say to me lol
There’s strong evidence that session note takers (for MDs, at least) free up their time significantly an allow them to focus more on patients. That’s a good thing.
I do have complex taxes and also had an accountant do mine, but I then asked Claude to review them and it found a major deduction I was missing (not the accountant’s fault) that got me more money back. Also confirmed that everything else seemed okay.
Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either:
a. Incompetent
b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't
c. a & b
If we bought a few less bombs, we could probably afford nice things.
One thing I'd like to see from the next presidency would be to appoint a special commission to prepare a report on the actual cost to defend the United States from attack.
Not foreign wars.
Just the cost to defend this country.
Over 500 million people use one of the three big LLMs EVERY DAY and well over a billion use it at least once a month. Like, you think that’ll just disappear???
I’m not claiming that ChatGPT or Anthropic are going to be around in 10 years. But the idea the LLMs wave is just about to collapse sounds delusional to me.
The AI denialism on this app is so deeply weird to me. Whole threads of people just having a meltdown about it, claiming AI is like Napster or that is will “go the way of nuclear power” (there are hundreds of nuclear power plants across the world, BTW). Y’all are living in a fantasy world.
One of the most common things I help nonprofits fix: a website only one person knows how to update. They leave, and suddenly it takes two weeks to publish an article. It's not a tech problem — it's an ownership problem that was always waiting to happen.
@faircount.bsky.social used AI to help reach 2 million undercounted voters in Georgia. @aapivictoryfund.bsky.social built organizing tools at a weekend hackathon. The same technology everyone's shitting on constantly is already powering progressive wins: progressivesforai.com/archive/issue-7
I'm not a developer, but with #AI tools I've stood up a newsletter platform, #RSS reader, monitoring systems, and my website. The #fediverse needs that energy, but keeps pushing it away. jordankrueger.com/blog/fediver...
Like 10 years ago I bought the ezywiki.com bc I wanted to set up a service that made wikis easy to launch, so I empathize!!
A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany.
We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.
At CREDO, we launched a superPAC after months denouncing them. My boss: "We don't get to unilaterally disarm."
1/3 of political consultants use AI daily. Nearly 4 in 10 progressives haven't touched it.
Why that gap should worry us:
https://jordankrueger.com/blog/you-need-to-learn-ai/
The UK four-day week pilot saw 39% less stress, 71% lower burnout. Revenue held steady. The how-to is further along than people realize: fourdayswithai.com
"AI productivity gains should become shorter hours, not just profit." @johnquiggin.bsky.social in the Guardian today -- he's right!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Subscribe at progressives.fyi - let's build an AI future that works for everyone. 🤖✊
The progressive response shouldn't be to ban AI tools, it should be to ensure they serve working people, not just big corporations!
Take Montana's Right to Compute Act: First-in-nation law protecting people's right to own and use AI tools. Interesting tension with New York's take on this.
Issue 6 of #ProgressivesForAI is dropping tmrw and I'm excited about this one.
We're diving into a fascinating tension: AI democratizes access to expensive expertise (legal advice, financial planning, technical knowledge) but it also raises real concerns.
I've been on the same tear for months. Custom project management, monitoring dashboards, tools shaped exactly to how I work. The SaaS era trained us to reshape ourselves around someone else's software. That's ending. "Software for N of 1" is the whole thesis and I'm 💯 here for it.
This touches on something I've been feeling but couldn't articulate: @craigmod.com built his own accounting software in five days with Claude Code — not because he's a programmer, but because no off-the-shelf tool fit his life craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers/
What if AI actually gives us our time back? Progressives are great at AI guardrails but we're not talking about the genuinely good futures enough. More time for family, creativity, rest - that should be OUR vision.
progressivesforai.com/archive/issu...
This is exactly the shit that makes this platform absolutely insufferable
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
And this
bsky.app/profile/sky....
Somehow I’m just in this bubble where every post is like “we can’t have a reasonable discussion about [this thing]” and 25 people will respond saying “the people who are in favor of [that thing] are ALL unreasonable simps for [evil people].”
I get zero value out of scrolling my feed on Bsky and often have to close the app in under 3 minutes just because of the intolerable dogpiling and performative contradiction.