the plan if they get into office is to loot and extract until there’s nothing left

despite no benefit & multitude of harms, AI companies aggressively push GenAI everywhere & successful adoption depends on public perception of AI. how do prominent venues like NYT report on AI? who’s voices & perspectives are most frequently cited in NYT articles? www.saysmaybe.com/latest-work/...

students use AI to generate essays; educators use AI to grade it… AI that is built on the backbone of stolen data and packaged as a shiny EdTech tool that educational institutes have to pay a fortune for… folks, do you see who benefits from all of this?

I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

Google’s Emissions Shot Up 48% Over Five Years Due to AI A new report shows that the artificial intelligence boom will test Silicon Valley’s climate commitments.

Google’s emissions grew 48% because of AI and they cannot meet environmental pledges. Microsoft too. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

11. early enough they're still raking

It's not "I suffered so you should too," it's "I suffered and no one else should ever have to."

this feels like a good time to note that my employer has tide & ocean temp info I'm yhe website footer.

ocean is big here.

someday I'll have an excuse to put ocean photos in a talk by using this story as an entry point about how technical safety is not enough

technically today's conditions are safe, the green flag is up, but it's pretty choppy today (so hard to photograph) and I'm feeling a little fatigued so I'm not going to swim, bc the ocean is undefeated and I don't test it

1/3 of my goal!

Westerners will imagine and depict the end of the world in their literature and media, but never the end of capitalism.

AI Tools Make It Easy to Clone Someone’s Voice Without Consent A survey by Proof News shows that many AI voice cloning services don’t require any proof of a human’s consent — just a simple click of an “I agree” button

We tested AI voice cloning services to see how easy it was to clone a voice without the owner’s consent.

Results: 7 cloning services offer barely any technical barriers. Only one service - Respeecher - attempts to verify consent.

From @janus.bsky.social for @proofnews.bsky.social:

Resistance is not denial, it's more intentional and active. I think it requires acknowledgement without endorsement, which is really hard.

9. nature looks like a lot of different things. seagulls were poking around the post storm seaweed and decided they don't want the washed up fish.

I am aware of the fact that meditation excercises *can*work anywhere, but the actual ocan is so much better than a guided meditation recording. it's the feeling of the breeze, the smell of the salt, the occasional mist from a big wave.

on the eighth trip, a yellow flag, no swimming for me

Honestly the difference is one of them potentially makes so much money, no way it will eventually be illegal

Important lesson: the reason crime doesn’t pay is that if it did, it wouldn’t be a crime

(Worth learning the economic reasons eg abolition started getting popular when it did)

to add a little more here, it is not that economic anxiety is fake, it is that it cannot be neatly disentangled from racial anxieties. for instance, if you are doing well but see black people doing better, you may feel anxious on account of your internalized idea of what the racial order should be.

seven. later than normal, but I made it and swam.

Bet every police precinct in the City of New York has shiny new A/C

I am all for reducing social media addictiveness, in ways that are grounded in sound evidence and understanding of the relevant technologies.

I strongly expect the most effective solutions to “non- or less-addictive social media access” will involve personalization.

a balloon, deflated, with a rock on it in sand

Balloons suck. I pulled this out of the ocean and deflated it and will bring it to the trash, but saw 2 more float by too far out to get them. Don't cause this.

six.

it's too hot to go for walks *not* at the beach this week

correction: "those in management and leadership positions are coming with AI for Hollywood"

beach trip 5.

eighteen.

OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation ChatGPT maker beefs up global affairs unit as politicians push for new laws that could constrain powerful AI models

"OpenAI has expanded the number of staff on its global affairs team [aka lobbyists] from three at the start of 2023 to 35. The company aims to build that up to 50 by the end of 2024." www.ft.com/content/2bee...

I really can't take any talk of self-regulation seriously