ABrockwell @aebrockwell@social.cleverlibre.org

There are people who want a big house, a fast car, and a lot of money. And others just want a little house in the woods to be as far away from such people as possible.

Virtual Reality in the 1800s

#Video #TunnelBook

Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago today. This remains as one of my favorite pieces of wisdom he shared. And now, they're making it illegal to even claim the knife is there.

"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." — Malcolm X

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) introduced a bill (cosponsored by Boebert & Santos) making the AR-15 the “National Gun of America.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has a bill to award killer Kyle Rittenhouse with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says Ukraine is not our friend and Russia is not our enemy.

The GOP is far, far too extreme to govern.

"Woke mind virus" is how billionaires describe the idea that you should give even the tiniest bit of a shit about how your actions will affect other people.

Rightwing extremists advocating for the dissolution of the country is neither new nor surprising.

The fact that such extremists have risen to the center of conservative politics and continue to be elevated within the Republican Party, however, is indicative of an acute threat.

Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.

We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

I don’t know understand the attraction of being able to talk to computers using breezy casual conversational language; I’ve been telling these little digital bastards what to do for decades using extremely precise formalised language and they still get it wrong

"Fearing an all-out ratings crisis, #FoxNews executives “made an explicit decision to push narratives to entice their audience back”...

notable from the filing? Fox Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch noting the election-fraud #lies are “terrible stuff damaging everybody” and that it is “very hard to credibly claim foul everywhere.”"...

Think about that statement — the top official at Fox News choosing falsehood over fact, for the sake of ratings."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/17/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-texts-election-claims/

#Fox #Lawsuit #Journalism

Love to see how mad the Onion is here. More folks should be this mad about this.

If you want a really solid critique, it's actually here too. They put their *all* into this piece and while it's sarcastic as usual, it really does cover *so many* aspects of how horrible the current trend of "news" in this space has been.

Go read it:
https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

Just leaving this out here for any technology writers that need a reminder

#ChatGPT #OpenAI #BingAI

https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test

Being trans doesn't make me depressed. Being dehumanized, degraded, and debated does. I'm on the edge and I just wish that the world cared enough to stop torturing us with this.

Just realized it's now been two months since I was locked out of Twitter for factual reporting. I could delete the (non-rule-breaking) tweet and go back but, to be honest, I just don't feel any real desire to. It's a social network built for one, and not a place where you can trust that real reporting won't be punished on a whim. Every tweet supports a place that's hostile to what we do. Why enable that?

Super frustrated with all the cheerleading over chatbots for search, so here's a thread of presentations of my work with Chirag Shah on why this is a bad idea. Follow threaded replies for:

op-ed
media coverage
original paper
conference presentation

Please boost whichever (if any) speak to you.

“Anthropomorphizing automated technologies reveals our fascination with them, but it gets in the way of a meaningful understanding of how they work, and how they impact us.” #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #technology

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/opinion-chatgpt-will-not-replace-humans/

Ahhh… wonderful!!! Scary, funny, and disturbing… 👍

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

Best to be read in a calm end-of-the-wold mood! #brilliant #AI #ChatGPT

t seems like the bigger story here is that you can poll 2600 cryptobros and even then nearly 1 in 5 will go "oh, you like crypto...? yikes"

@academicchatter @academicworld @academicalnerd @academicsunite @academia_carnet

The death of shame - Robert Reich https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-death-of-shame?publication_id=365422&utm_medium=email&action=share&isFreemail=true#details

I saw this on Reddit and thought there's no way it's real, but after testing for myself I've confirmed it is. Bing AI will give you incorrect information then fully gaslight you if you question it.