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When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

Transcript of cartoon: Title: What We Tell Fat People Panel 1 (A man with a TV for a head is pointing at a woman in an aqua shirt and a gray skirt. The woman, who is fat, looks sad.) TVHEAD: I’m popular culture, and I think you’re sometimes hilarious but mainly gross. Panel 2 (The same scene, but now the TV Man has been replaced by a balding guy wearing a jacket and necktie. The woman is unchanged, and still looks sad.) NECKTIE: I’m your workplace, and we all think you’re lazy and stupid. And we pay you less. Panel 3 (Now the woman, who has not moved and still looks sad, is being talked to by an Uncle Sam like figure. He has his arms crossed disapprovingly.) UNCLE SAM: I’m the government, and I think you’re a problem that needs to be fixed. Panel 4 (Now the sad woman is being spoken to by a lady wearing glasses and a black outfit, who is holding up a rolled-up newspaper.) GLASSES: I’m smart people in the newspaper, and I’m concerned you’re ruining our economy. Panel 5 (The sad woman is now being spoken to by a female doctor, with a white doctor’s coat and hair in a bun, holding a clipboard. The doctor’s cheery expression is undercut by her harsh words.) DOCTOR: I’m your doctor, and to tell you the truth you disgust me. Panel 6 (The sad woman, who still hasn’t moved, is now being faced by… herself. Her doppelganger looks angry.) DOPPELGANGER: I’m your self-image, and I wanna puke every time I see a mirror. Panel 7 (Another fat woman, with glasses and an orange sleeveless shirt, appears. She smiles and spreads her arms in a welcoming manner. The main character smiles back at the fat woman.) SECOND FAT WOMAN: Hi! I’m the fat acceptance movement, and I think you’re awesome! Panel 8 (Final panel. The second fat woman looks surprised, and the main character looks annoyed, as ALL the other characters from panels 1-6 loom at the main character, glaring.) TVMAN: Don’t listen to her! DOCTOR: She just wants to hurt you, you fat freak!

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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

Artwork of various fat people moving in different ways. Some are posing for a photo, some are dancing, some are stretching, and some are walking/running. Alongside the people are quotes from fat activists/writers/artists. The background has various colourful shapes.

"Bodies in Motion" is a piece I made as a final for my fat studies class! I wanted to emphasize fat joy and all the ways that people move for reasons unrelated to weight loss. I also included quotes that stood out to me in promoting body liberation/acceptance!

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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.

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

shout out to people who keep going even though they're in pain all the time

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

I said in 2024 that one of the reasons Harris lost was that the narrative of Trump as a dire threat to the future, while completely accurate, sounded no more alarmist than the similar claims of the reverse from Trump and his team.

How does a low-information voter discern between, "He's a Nazi who'll destroy us all" and "She's a commie who'll destroy us all"? Both sound equally histrionic on the face of it.

Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.

ethically hollow and isn't actually technically proficient despite broad press mythologies painting him as a supergenius engineer

where have I heard that before

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption:

"The highest quality video of the moon was just released…
so beautiful

* Artemis II"

It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

Do not rely on the A.I.-generated alt text in Facebook or Instagram. The result is vague and useless, like "may be an image of food and text," and "may be an image of outdoors." These do nothing to give users the context and content of an image.

why shouldn't poor people have delicious food? name me one good reason food for poor people should be bland or unappetizing.

SUFFERING IS NOT ACTUALLY NOBLE WE DON'T HAVE TO OFFER IT UP FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS THAT WAS A LIE

100% same

Zero. The amount of risk is zero.

We are generations away from creating autonomous, sentient machines. We will likely never have the ability to do so, given how little we understand about the nature of consciousness and the limitations of our technology.

Why is a science magazine indulging this?

For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today....

This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.

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The reason to push back against blaming the technology when someone gets breached doing something stupid isn't to defend the poor innocent technology, it's to stop people from thinking the problem can be solved by just picking a better technology and not changing any of their own behavior

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

An often undiscussed issue that comes along with defunding and undervaluing arts education, particularly for musicians: copyright.

I was in a very, very good choir in high school, from a very well developed music program that had begun to languish under No Child Left Behind. 🧵

The loss of 22 episode seasons means we're losing out on the time honored tradition of "episode in which recurring character is suddenly turned evil via MacGuffin and now the actor gets to have fun"

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Here's what experts say the Amazon Web Services outage reveals about the fragility of the cloud Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

The replies do not suggest an understanding of how integrated Amazon’s cloud services are into the basic framework of daily life worldwide. This is not about drones and delivery, y’all.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/aws...

A discussion can certainly be had about how advisable it was to move everything into AWS, but destroying the cloud computing centers has the potential to be pretty devastating in ways the public is largely unaware of.

I’m not sure, from this comment, that you are aware of how much of the world’s digital infrastructure is run in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud servers. This is not about shopping.