Definitely a painstakingly detailed and beautifully rendered art piece and not just a 1280 x 1280 square the same color as a broken image on Bluesky, totally

Spent a long time on this art, now time to post it to very functional website BlueSky

Too many pizza delivery customer service bots doing python for people.

This got me 🤣🤣🤣

For me, the fun of online discussion has deflated, knowing ai bots are garbling up every word.

I want to converse and share ideas for sake human experience, not to create content/training data for corporations.

Hoping to find a way past these feelings.

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

tl;dr Brave was created by a guy who got kicked out of the for-profit part of Mozilla for being too for-profit and corrupt, so he created a browser that was focused around manipulating advertisements to divert the revenue and then threw several crypto scams on top of it when that failed.

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

[Via @itep.org]

"Gen AI" is not politically neutral, even & especially when using it against political opponents. This isn't some "tying a hand behind your back" situation, this is literally harming yourself and everyone else by giving legitimacy and credence to a deeply dangerous technisocial paradigm. So stop it.

"i see a ghost"

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

a cat sitting on a chair in a living room looking at the camera ALT: a cat sitting on a chair in a living room looking at the camera

Raise your hand if usage of #genAI by coworkers exponentially increases your workload.

Thank you for sending me this #AI summary, much of it is wrong and will require double the work to rectify.

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Three watercolor paintings with brains and anti AI messages

New Anti-AI watercolors in the shop! Artologica.etsy.com 🧠

Absolutely heartbreaking. So many mathematicians I know studied there, men AND women.

Maryam Mirzakhani studied there.

If this isn't enough to cancel/relocate from the US the International Congress of Mathematicians #ICM2026, nothing will be.

Oh so now copyright matters.

I like to say that Gen Ai has made me a better/faster writer… out of spite.

Thinking about someone submitting junk written by gen ai, really dissolves the perfectionist (~ ‘I can’t find the right words’) writer’s block.

And what haunts me are the the number of people who ‘can’ but are readily outsourcing their brain to become among those who ‘can’t’

I randomly think about how the field as a whole should have been tougher on alpha fold. The best predictions are those with most training data (surprise!), many structures are mostly low confidence & look like spaghetti monsters … but worse are the misses with supposed high confidence.

My main gripe with the alphafold example is how it shows you need decades and decades of high quality data, well structured, open and accessible to train a model -- and yet they always gloss over it and pretend it's just AI and magic. No, we need to continuously invest in real data and FAIR data.

For me, the most maddening thing is when AI boosters, or detractors, all seem to agree that AlphaFold is an unmitigated good and useful tool showing the power of AI.

I disagree. It's hit and miss. And the misses are REALLY expensive. Especially when the conversation suggests it is ALL HIT.

It'sa good example of the pipeline that turns public funding into private profit, thereby concentrating wealth.

This is the post I needed to see.

Loved the movie and all the practical effects but the side-by-side placement of tubes in a centrifuge haunted me.

#projectHailMary

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Meta losing in court *and* OpenAI shutting down Sora??? But it's not even my birthday… 🥹

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out.

The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco.

The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

AI BOOSTER BINGO The squares read: I might get attacked for saying this Imagine what it'll do in 5 years Al critics are just afraid Al is better than you Everyone is doing it "Levels the playing Field" Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors MORE VOLUME!! Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM] Yes jobs will be cut... Humans aren't perfect either It's FUN!!! No practical advice "Sorry bluesky" Solution to chronic underfunding What if it could cure cancer??? I made something that appears passable No need for pesky underlings Is it accurate? No. But... Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted" Get with it or get left behind!!! Al critics are luddites This was actually written by AI For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC

I made a bingo card

#Roxbury
Warehouse sale NOT FINAL.
Dalfen has contacted the town council and said the story is false.
Because of the warehouse’s location, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection must receive 30 days notice before any sale and they have not.

This is the second time that ICE has "made a mistake" in claiming that a concentration camp purchase is a done deal.
Or maybe they think that if people believe it is a done deal they'll back off...

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

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