Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF.
Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it.
The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.
Standing by the window I heard it,
while waiting for the turn. In hot light
and chill air it was the crossing flow
of even life, hurt in the mouth but
exhausted with passion and joy -
RIP J.H. Prynne
Purrfection. No notes.
I notice most accounts pretending the LLMs are an accessibility tool are new and have few followers.
I would not assume those are real people’s accounts.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
this is it right here. AI violates Vonnegut's number 1 rule for writers: "Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted." AI shifts the burden of effort from the writer onto the reader/audience and that is unacceptable
It is a disgrace beyond words and of historic proportions that, immediately after watching the undeniable truth of what Israel is doing to Gaza, the world responds by letting it lay the groundwork for the very same in Lebanon
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We're coming up to a year since I sent this letter to my executive board and I will resend it on or close to the year mark with even more international and national support against AI.
Thank you!
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every single weird right-winger who says london is such a hostile city just needs to travel with a small child. and london isn’t even very child friendly! (although it is more so than much of England, honestly).
Live Nation CEO Sentenced To 10 Years In Online Queue
Live Nation CEO Sentenced To 10 Years In Online Queue
It’s not an advert. It’s a threat.
3 étapes : 1. Image de manif, Macron dit "Vous devriez plutôt voter" 2. Résultat des législatives, Macron dit "Vous devriez plutôt signer une pétition" 3. Résultat de la pétition, Macron dit "Vous devriez plutôt aller vous faire foutre"
Point d'étape ☝️
I have a migraine, but I'm so done with seeing these everywhere every few months that I had to send an email — and I know others have too. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social
Please, they must stop doing this. I'm so tired of this nonsense.
In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways
analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America
Let me crystal clear here: There is no utility, no time or productivity benefit, and no functionality that will ever be enough to outweigh the constantly growing mountain of ethical, legal, and social harms caused by LLMs and vibe-coded vaporware.
These are tools of technofascism. Sorry not sorry.
"At this late hour, the ethical position isn’t to call for, or work towards better use of these massive systems; it’s to demand they be halted and the computational capacity re-purposed for more pressing issues. We can no longer afford to wonder how many angels we can get to dance on pins."
why do I find it so wildly offensive and paternalistic when I see folks suggest that LLM use can help 'disadvantaged' people to 'write better' or 'save time'?
because it is such a sad underestimation of people's abilities, a surrender to a thoughtless monoglot ideology, a celebration of ignorance
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
AI bros sound the same as NRA people popping up after tragedies to say guns have legit uses. Nobody asked you, everybody already knows what you think, and you're only here to yell PR for the product that you turned into your identity.
"Heartbreak is at the heart of all revolutionary consciousness. How can it not be? Who can imagine another world unless they already have been broken apart by the world we are in?" - Gargi Bhattacharyya
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Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this.
"Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings."
ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas
"Use the slop machine more to reduce slop" is one of those takes that makes me want to walk into the woods, never to return
there's apparently tons of AI hallucinated fake references in this too. sigh.
damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman
The synagogue was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. The IDF claimed, unfalsifiably, that they were doing a targeted assassination of an "Iranian commander" in a neighboring building. Whatever munitions they used to kill one man leveled several buildings.
A metal plaque with raised letters that spell out the phrase "It's hard to know if you're crazy if you feel you're in danger all the time now."
Jenny Holzer, "It's Hard to Know...," from The Survival Series, 1983-85
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With all due respect, it's utterly dismaying to see the leader of the AFT saying that we should embrace AI as a solution to the crisis of overburdened, under-resourced teachers instead of leading the charge against this project to make them do more with less.
