The funniest part is how this stuff - like all the Marvel post-credits sequences - is NEVER actually "critical." It'll be some new MacGuffin added to the background of one scene, or Tony Stark saying, "In another universe, I might have been evil ..."
My new litmus test is that any Democrat who lectures the party on how they should talk to “ordinary people” is unbelievably full of shit and doesn’t deserve your attention or your vote.
WISCON 48 Have you checked your account? Register Now There's some good things waiting for you! wiscon.net, WisCon logo
Want to join our Panels? Log into your WisCon account at the top left corner of wiscon.net and click on Panel Interest Survey. Tell us which panels you'd like to see at WisCon and if you really want a panel to happen, volunteer to be on it! If we don't have panelists, we can't run that panel!
Not sure there exists a more unemployed statement than "you're getting owned in the comments"
let me say this again: come and take it
Conservative economics: rich people are not "elite," but people with status (cultural or political) are, no matter how little they have in the bank.
IOW if people like what you have to say, your opinions should be written off, but if you got rich on stocks or influence peddling they're scripture.
As a reminder, ai cannot have the em dash
I personally think not safe to remain in any personal relationship with anyone who is using LLMs to analyze your relationship, make conclusions about your motives, or determine how to treat you. I think this is beyond red flag—it should be an immediate dealbreaker.
I honestly think AI being popular with the worst people on earth (in addition to Boomers and Gen Xers) is gonna be what turns the tide. If your parents like something it isn't cool. And having CEOs whine about not enough people adopting AI makes it even less cool. Subcultural capital matters
anyway i think they should send mr. vance to more contested election sites. i think it went really well.
Also, we each ranked our 5 favorite stories from the book, mine are:
1) The Lucky Strike (been a favorite of mine for 20 years and it still rules)
2) A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions
3) The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942
4) Before I Wake
5) Escape from Kathmandu
*the most annoying person alive* I think of myself as politically unhoused
you monster
Finally discovered something worse than a person watching a movie on their phone: a person watching a movie on ONE THIRD of their phone screen while playing backgammon on the lower two thirds
It’s wild how much of the solution here is just “invest in humans”
The idea that the response to a deeply racist, deeply xenophobic administration is to be… deeply racist and deeply xenophobic is a total failure of imagination. Like what are we even doing here
it's genuinely incredible that any time a beloved institution does something shitty, I think "private equity?" and then am right something like 95% of the time.
We may have made your gas $6 a gallon and vaporized dozens of schoolgirls but it was all worth it to replace an 86-year-old man with a guy 30 years younger who knows we killed his dad.
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.
They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.
www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
I say this as a working class public servant and elected member of a Democratic Party parish level DPEC:
What kind of person must you be to take in the enormity of this moment: the confluence of official cruelty, incompetence, and bigotry, the elite impotence, and decide the solution is "tax cuts?"
“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.
The NYT published a link to critical original reporting on Iran 45 minutes ago. A good, fair story. They have 53m followers. The engagement metrics you display say they got 94 likes and 33 retweets out of that. Is that accurate? And if so, shouldn't you work on a better algo? Image Nikita Bier @nikitabier It’s paywalled. If only 0.1% of users can derive value from the content, it will organically rank lower.
"Journalists should be on Twitter."
Twitter to journalism: "Drop dead."
In a November conversation at the Urban Consulate in Detroit, the great writer and thinker Tressie McMillan Cottom was asked by host Orlando P. Bailey, “Do you have a daring idea for us to ponder and sit with for our collective future?” McMillan Cottom replied with this: “When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled. I think that this promise of an artificial intelligent future is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they’re gonna be able to control us in the future. If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled—AI is already here, the end is already here—then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” Today, I refuse.
Print this, frame it www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
I did not write a new blog about tech journalists using AI but let me leave this from last summer right here
www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
Sorry, but if you think that Ms. Rachel is bad in any way, shape, or form, no one on the planet should listen to your opinion on anything else.
Absolutely not optimized for virality or engagement - that’s the Anthony guarantee!
Title: The Weirdest Asteroid in Space panel of Jimmy Olsen and a scientist looking at a sperm whale Jimmy: Wow! Your life-sized replicas pf the *world’s biggest beasts* are great, Professor Burton! I’ll give you a good write-up in the *Daily Planet*!
Panel of Jimmy Olsen and the professor looking at an exhibit sign Sign: Whale that swallowed Jonah Jimmy: But wait, professor! Everybody knows that no whale’s throat was ever big enough to swallow a man! Professor: I disagree, Olsen! My theory is that this was an ancient species pf the *wide throat whale*!
Panel of Jimmy Olsen walking away from the professor and gesturing dismissively Professor: And it could have swallowed Jonah! Jimmy: But I can’t swallow your theory, professor! I’ll give you 24 hours to remove that misleading sign … or I won’t recommend your exhibit to my readers!
Weird hill to die on, Jimmy
(from Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #50, written by Otto Binder, art by Curt Swan)
Ian Wurman today:
