suhr
pedestrian and straphanger
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- Anyone working for this company is an absolute loser -- if that's you, know that I have nothing but contempt for you and your pitiful career fueled by greed and paved with mediocrity
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- Elon editing Grok's system prompt to make it randomly blurt out white supremacist propaganda is a completely demented thing that actually happened Xai admitted it and blamed "a rogue employee" lmao suuuure it was an intern deploying a new system prompt to prod while no one was looking
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- Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”
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- it really feels like we live in a broadly bad time for critical thinking and i've been thinking a lot about whether it's possible to ride this out until things get better, or if i should give up and accept my fate of living during an era that may only be remembered as being dominated by dumb people.
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- Everything appears to be white genocide except the nearly irreversible abolition of all of the stuff keeping white people alive. Like a Black woman having a visible job is white genocide but dismantling the FDA, removing fluoride, rampant deregulation & resurrecting old world diseases is freedom.
- the narrative with ‘white genocide’ lately isn’t an accident, this is an intentional effort to continue pushing the overton window as far as they can to completely reverse all social progress. these people are genuinely sad aparteid ended
- I really don’t find these arguments persuasive. Take this, for example, from one of the sources: this is another way of saying ‘as much water as it takes for the beef that two people consume annually’. That’s a relatively trivial amount!
- I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
- I think people want AI to be useless, to consume huge amounts of water, etc. because that lets you find another reason for it to be bad that isn’t: it’s useful and that’s why it’s bad. The thing works and is getting better, millions have found use cases for it, and that is why it is bad.
- I’ll actually take this a step further: I think you’re inadvertently doing a form of propaganda for AI companies by pretending the main problem with it is resource usage. That’s a technical problem that they probably will eventually solve. They will not solve the societal problems they are creating
- Grok going woke is one of the very few truly delightful subplots of this hellscape timeline
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- elon now deleting all the posts where grok denies that white genocide is real
- i sort of get why techbros think artificial intelligence is going to replace everyone. it's because it could replace them
- Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
- i am experiencing trauma
- Happy 73rd birthday to the great DAVID BYRNE. I’ve probably clocked more hours listening to the Talking Heads than any other band 🎧
- “You know you’re living in a fascist country when you’re constantly going over in your head the reasons that *you’re* safe,” Jason Stanley says at the end here. All I can think is how true that already was in the US, for so many and for a long time.
- I'm particularly fond of this new benchmark paper we wrote, which aims to scalably evaluate whether language models can generalize to arbitrary new tasks. The core idea is to use LLMs to generate new games, and then evaluate whether LLMs can play those games 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2505.07215
- What strikes me about the NSF termination data is exactly this: the PIs *doing the work* of making science more inclusive are primarily women, people of color, people with disabilities, and all intersections of those identities.
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- when people get like "where is the American left?" I remind them whenever an effective leftist movement coalesces the state starts murdering people
- On this day May 13th, 1985 the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the Move Home at 6221 Osage Avenue killing 11 people including 5 children. collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/move...
- Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
- Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. 2/3
- He bite (Tufted Titmouse) 📷 Zane Hiller
- A student today asked me since Trump is gutting federal research if the private sector would step in and its one of the things that is so ingrained in my understanding of the world I was wholly unprepared to answer beyond being like no way.
- i am constantly fighting the impulse (and failing) to be extremely judgey about using chatbots for this stuff but for whatever reason, this set of observations from students reminded me so much of my own internal monologue over the years about my ability to read/think and smartphone use
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- Absolutely cooked.
- I don’t think I’ve ever been more thankful that I graduated before this nonsense was an issue than reading this
- Yes the water is starting to boil, but why would I voluntarily get out of the pot.
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- Pornography is fundamentally undefinable (Justice Potter, at a loss to define it, once famously said "I know it when I see it.") and that's why it is routinely invoked by Christian Nationalists, because they can and will include ANY way of being that does not conform as "pornographic".
- the right continues to attempt to legislate its way out of accountability for touching their own dicks www.404media.co/mike-lee-por...
- Illustration from a medical text book in 1875 showing the physical difference between "the masturbator" and "the abstainer." I share this with my students to illustrate how moral culture shapes the medicalization of particular practices, even in ways obviously inconsistent with reality.
- Thinking you’re going to get an apology and remorse from the people who voted for this is like thinking your narcissistic parent is going to apologize for your childhood. These people think not apologizing or acknowledging regret is a virtue. And additionally, a form of image control.
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- It's criminal that the @sfchronicle.com's Little Man review system hasn't been adopted into the standard emoji alphabet.
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- This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...
- "impeachment or losing an election is the only way public officials can be disciplined for literal crimes" is not how literally any political system has ever conducted itself
- precisely. the local cops at the worcester, mass. ICE raid saying "we can't interfere." sooo, who can?
- george lakoff says adopt the evil GOP’s framing only if you want to support it words matter
