Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
It's now been three years since the RSF began a campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Sudan. We need to save lives and pass the Stand Up for Sudan Act to cease all U.S. weapon sales to the United Arab Emirates. Shame on our country for enabling another genocide. RASHIDA TLAB 1:02 REP. RASHIDA TLAIB (D) Michigan little to nothing to actually stop it.
Best member of Congress on Palestine is also the best on Sudan— shocker
Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.
Solar manufacturing capacity is approx double demand. Same with wind nacelles and batteries.
The problem with Chinese manufacturing is not overcapacity!
It's UNDERDEMAND.
But how will it look as 2 x big fossil fuel supply shocks sink in?
That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture — of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents, as the federal government turns warehouses into million-square-foot concentration camps.
It is a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
Genuinely tragic. When this is over, there will be no alternative to building new institutions with genuinely progressive and experimental pedagogy, hopefully in the campuses abandoned in the defeat of previous generations’ experiments
I know this is oversimplifying, but I find it very hard to read about any part and theater of the history of the Long 19th Century and not come away with the conclusion that the British Empire was an exceptional evil that repeatedly won: truly the greater evil. Maybe the BeNe(Lux) were as bad
There‘s a major difference between discomfort & support for a different program from yours: of consolidation and defensive capabilities rather than global power projection. The article is unreflective on *why* your rearmament & modernization program is a “hard truth” compatible with “the broad left”
Such a characteristically bizarre take! The ”broad left“ position is unambiguously to convert an imperial, global, expansionist military into a genuinely defensive one: a program of redirection and contraction. The article barely considers this possibility, embracing neoconservativism instead
Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.
“The coalition wants Meta to scrap the feature entirely. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, it argues that face recognition in inconspicuous consumer eyewear ‘cannot be resolved through product design changes, opt-out mechanisms, or incremental safeguards.’”
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
Among OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and the rest it’s highly unclear to me which one is the greater evil, a real race to the bottom. Being able to survive war or a curtain falling between say US, Canada, EU, India (much less other places) is an important negative indicator
Could people who aren’t Christian have anything to see about what it means to be a person???? Maybe even ethical approaches to relational identity and non-human beings that illuminate aspects of “AI” distinct from individualism, legalism, and dualism????? Impossible.
This is theater but even so the implicit Christian nationalism from the self-described liberal utilitarian AI startup is rather telling and damning. It fits with their broader support for hawkish foreign policy (all-US staff, neo cold war framings) alongside performative guilt & call for regulation
feels like a reduction of giving a shit about the impacts things have on the world to individual consumer choices. and shit, maybe that's really my problem and it's more general than the "ai" thing
and if your arguments about "ai" are so broad they would also make web crawlers and dwarf fortress verboten then you need to learn enough to refine them to something reasonable
Can't believe I learned about this in my own city from a news outlet across the ocean (HT @savasavasava.myatproto.social), & also, *of course* it's Rosedale 🫠 For those not already aware of Flock, here is a thread showing why we need to push it out NOW, before it takes hold anywhere else in Canada:
The point of that kind of imagery, from the IWW to present nostalgia, is normative not descriptive. It’s perilous to believe that class politics ever DID subsume other social distinctions, but this kind of commentary also throws it out as an alternative to bigoted politics. What would you prefer?
The point of that kind of universalist imagery, from the IWW to present nostalgia, is normative not descriptive. Yes it’s perilous to believe fully that class politics ever DID subsume other social distinctions, but this kind of commentary also throws it out as an alternative to bigoted politics
it’s really striking how much we are now living in a normalized situation in which there’s the actual world and then there’s the narrative of the world that exists to allow the markets to keep functioning and these are not the same things even a little.
Walking around, looking at signs, bulletin boards, and printed or inscribed matter, while some global events are signified, it is almost impossible to find evidence of the war: our potentially apocalyptic war on a densely and vibrantly populated region, home to 1 of the ~4 places Empire was invented
"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.
It is such an indictment of the world we live in that just as the vaunted domestic checks and balances in the US have been shown to be basically fantasies, so are any international norm against and ability to stop a nuclear holocaust.
[50 years of neoliberalism leads to the collapse of the middle class and the rise of neo-fascism]
Democrats: A tax cut can fix this.
being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited
(and, I mean, swaggering in the right way for the interviews ofc)
^ “Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control”, Meredith Whittaker logicmag.io/supa-dupa-sk...
”Metastization” feels about right. You could sense it in 2013-2017 CS education’s empty rehearsal of the rituals of mathematical theory (without the curiosity & deferral of use), engineering (without the professional ethics or hands on part) & design (without aesthetics). Code that passes is all
