it gives me no pleasure to say this—i don’t find masking as much as i must to be particularly thrilling—but our reality is stark. you cannot Act As If covid is gone and then be shocked when a nefarious actor makes the same claim. why wouldn’t they? your complacency has allowed it.

if you find yourself appalled that RFK Jr is able to make this claim but you don’t wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, you are acting in precisely the way that allows him to say that covid is gone.

“RFK is a eugenicist who believes that people with chronic health conditions deserve to die preventable deaths” is a plain fact that the news media cannot or will not tell the public.

(my actual factual opinion on AI is going to remain: you don't get to steal other people's work and then charge for it, you skeezy ass motherfuckers.

since I don't have time to deep dive every single model to see if they trained it ethically, I opt out until we've resolved this situation.)

Incredible thread. The level of in person community-building and mutual aid that came out Minneapolis is unprecedented in modern American times.

The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

So hey that's eugenics

How did that incredibly American house get there (I see they tried to tone down the American-ness of it by… adding a towel warmer)

This is true and hard for us Christians (even us liberals) to accept. Even if we don’t *mean* it to be antisemitic, it IS - we just can’t see it because we’re so accustomed to the language.

GET HIM

What keeps coming up again and again is the risk of AI is really the flattening and erasure of plural forms of knowledge and capability with one way of doing things. To appropriate the Zapatista slogan, we need a world where many worlds not only fit but thrive and flourish

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

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.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I... I don't think it counts if you also started the war

This gets used regularly in our home, it was so great when our kid was finally old enough to watch (and appreciate) it!

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Several times per week I am telling people: You are not obligated to optimize yourself. It's fine to try out doing things in a different way to see whether you like it better. But you are already acceptable.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Tech Allbirds announces stunning pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175% Published Wed, Apr 15 20269:25 AM EDTUpdated 1 Min Ago thumbnail Lola Murti @in/lolamurti/ @lolavkm Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email Allbirds made a surprising announcement Wednesday that it is pivoting to artificial intelligence. Shares of the company were up as much as 200% pre-market.

Everything is fucking dumb all the time now

Hrishi’s voice is so soothing, he’s the *perfect* guest for this show!

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

It's telling that:
a) he caught enough pushback from the religious right to delete something, which he almost never does
b) those people have not used this influence to cross him on anything more substantive than a gross but fundamentally superficial aesthetic insult to their brand

Personal bugbear but I wish people would stop calling them “hallucinations”. It’s propaganda to humanise AI and suggest it has sentience.

These are errors we wouldn’t accept in any other tech product. Imagine saying your SatNav “hallucinated” a road through someone’s house.

drawing of a burning warehouse “all you had to do was pay us enough to live”

people will tell you it’s complicated but it’s really not

@clairewillett.bsky.social Thank you for talking up FreeTaxUSA! I switched this year and it was great, just as easy (maybe easier?) as TurboTax and way less smug about themselves. Also: free!

This is mind-boggling, because your personality is one of my favorite things about you. You are such a delight! Ugh, families.