"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
Someone on this app said one of the biggest things that AI will steal from is our collective sense of wonder and I’ve never stopped thinking about it. Photos like this shouldn’t have to come with a caveat because nature is deliriously gorgeous and … wondrous.
The Jetsons lied to us
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
A screenshot of a post indicating that a user named @schizanon.bsky.social has added me to a moderation list called "Techno-Pessimists"
If by Techno-Pessimist you mean "I recognize that AI is a tool used by Fascists to try and take over countries, with data centers that are poisoning communities, all the while they operate using stolen data, taken for and used by the creatively stunted and greedy."-
Well then yeah. I am.
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.
the Black Panthers were right
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.
A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak.
A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak. This picture shows the sticker in more detail, being held up by fingers.
#formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart
🤖🚮 There are some things a machine can’t replace.
Tumblr post by stimmyabby Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority" and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person" and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay. 642,270 notes
I think about this post a lot
Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
This Brazilian woman hates AI
The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.
"This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an 'accountability sink.' The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes."
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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Sometimes I take pictures.
This is Halloween (Halloween Halloween)
#nikon #kodak #halloween #toronto #photography #analogphotography #filmphotography #believeinfilm
Sometimes I take pictures.
Present day. Present time.
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Sometimes I take pictures.
Cherry Street South Bridge.
#canon #kodak #urban #bridge #toronto #photography #analogphotography #filmphotography #believeinfilm
The RMA lady where I used to work was Polish and would always call these the 'Rage Furries'
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Sometimes I take pictures.
It's for you.
#nikon #kodak #urban #graffiti #toronto #photography #analogphotography #filmphotography #believeinfilm
Sometimes I take pictures.
Of autumn walks.
#nikon #kodak #ontario #brucetrail #forest #autumn #photography #analogphotography #filmphotography #believeinfilm
When people say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." the correct response is:
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."
Sometimes I take pictures.
Of sneaky sneks.
#nikon #landscapes #snakes #wildlife #brucetrail #forest #ontario #photography
