We have a lot of Afghan refugees right here in the city, and I've been worried about this a lot since there are two families in my immediate neighborhood

Jenn Huck of the Library's Research Data Services on Consensus, an AI-powered academic search tool designed to eliminate the risk of "hallucinations" by grounding its summaries in real, peer-reviewed research papers, providing verifiable citations for every claim it makes.

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Excited to announce next year's SLab Fellows: Praxis, Critical Making, & DH! We're welcoming 7 fellows from 4 fields in the arts, humanities, & social sciences to our interdisciplinary research community for critical, creative, & just explorations @ the intersections of technology+culture:

It's hard to imagine anyone sounding dumber than Bob Good when he speaks, but McGuire pulls it off

Pro Israel, pro Ukraine lmao

Yeah

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.

For the Monday crowd: please circulate this widely.

It may be hard to find the perfect candidate (an experienced data engineer/architect generalist with an interest in cultural heritage willing to take a state salary), but it's a great group/mission/city and we know the right person is out there.

Democrats' net favorability of Israel: Mod./conservative: 2022: +22 2026: -55 Liberal: 2022: -26 2026:-74

Democrats' net favorability of Israel: Age 50+ 2022: +10 2026: -54 Age 18-49: 2022: -25 2026: -70

Brutal polling when it comes to public opinion among Democratic voters on the topic of Israel:

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Uh

I'm rooting for AI to crash

Here's a thought: don't just boycott the building contractor, but every company that hires the building contractor. Make the job too toxic for a company to take

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Wasp spray

I don't think we'll get more than a drizzle

She often has interesting things to say, but she's really just posting through it tonight

So while I have no real intention to use LLMs for any purpose whatsoever, there are a lot of very useful applications for computer vision, machine learning, to improve accessibility, quantification, etc. that aren't deleterious to the environment

I think the negative use cases of generative AI/LLMs far outweigh the positives, for example accelerating the spread of disinformation. But there are very useful technologies that get lumped in as "AI" which are not artificial intelligence as such, but accelerate pattern recognition

A post on the TrueAnon subreddit titled "The US navy has entered the 'please believe our sailors are being fed' phase of the American century of humiliation" The post itself is just a screenshot of a tweet from the US Navy that says "Fresh meals. Full service. Mission ready. Sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Tripoli continue to receive regularly prepared meals--no interruptions, no shortages" followed by four nebulous photos of supposed troop-feeding action.

A closeup of one of the photos that seems especially egregious in its veracity. One of the kitchen workers is blindly passing two loaded trays of food across the chow line with a giant metal partition right in front of his face. Things that make u go HMMMM

lmao come on dude

Tom Perriello is spending all his time campaigning in the cities that will only be his district if the referendum passes Tuesday.

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Gonna be America in 2 years 7 months

Exactly one year ago today:

FYI someone already died on West Main 15 years ago or so

How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats When will they learn? The party remains far too solicitous of an industry that’s rewarded their fealty with four years of Trump and untold damage to democracy.

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Unfortunately not. If it were me, I would have called the police

sigh

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)