ABrockwell @aebrockwell@social.cleverlibre.org

It is time to stop with the nonsense! There are no moderate Republicans in the US House. There are proud MAGA and scared MAGA.

Every single Republican just voted for a bogus impeachment inquiry. It is a shameful moment. But we will not forget next November.

History has much to teach us about modern politics. In my latest piece, I examine how we can make sense of QAnon through the prism of the bizarre story of a French king who thought he was made of glass—and the fascinating history of delusions. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/from-the-glass-king-to-qanon

So in Texas, a woman's healthcare decisions are between the woman and her doctor, an indicted Republican criminal defendant who was separately impeached but not convicted, and 9 Republican state supreme court justices, none of whom are doctors? Got it.

Texas is banning Kate Cox from getting a life saving abortion—claiming her fetus has rights.

Simultaneously Texas is fighting a lawsuit by a prison guard who was 7 mo pregnant, had pains, was denied a break, & the fetus was still born—arguing a fetus has no rights.

It was Never about life. It was always about control of women.

Vote the GOP out.

I asked ChatGPT to help me formulate a plan to build a guided missile using trained hamsters as pilots.

It refused.

It didn't refuse to help me build something dangerous and insane like a guided missile. It refused to help me on the grounds that my plan might be cruel to the hamsters, and suggested that there were ways of performing that function with electronics.

#llm #ai #chatgpt #gripes

@taylorlorenz Best of luck to everyone walking off at WaPo today!

What’s sad is realising you live in a world where every exaggerated analogy you used to make a point is actually happening:

Having Google in schools is like having McDonalds in nutrition class. (I find out that McDonalds does, in fact, sponsor nutrition classes in US schools.)

Having a surveillance capitalist sponsor a conference on free and open source/human rights is like having an oil company sponsor a climate conference. (Forget sponsoring, turns out head of #Cop28 runs an oil firm.)

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#MSNBC deserves all the flak it's getting after canceling #MehdiHassan for "daring to practice journalism." https://www.commondreams.org/news/mehdi-hasan-canceled?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=7b6237f33e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_11_30_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-7b6237f33e-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

Today’s inspirational message:

This shot of a little wattlebird on a leucospermum (?) might be the best single frame I shot in Australia.

(You may need to click to see the image, given the portrait orientation.)

#birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #australianbirds

Fake AI generated content “marks a staggering fall from grace for Sports Illustrated, which in past decades won numerous National Magazine Awards for its sports journalism and published work by literary giants ranging from William Faulkner to John Updike.” https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

The "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" ideologies that have been cropping up in AI debates are just a thin veneer over the typical blend of Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed. Let's try something else.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIEthics #EffectiveAltruism #EffectiveAccelerationism #newsletter #CitationNeeded

More than 260 journalists (and counting) have now signed this letter. I’m one of them. https://form.jotform.com/233177455020046

The use the term "artificial intelligence" for stuff like chatGPT and LLMs is like how people use the name "hoverboards" for things that ride on the ground and do not in fact hover.

Typography: It's Important!

#humor #humour #writing #writingcommunity #signs #typography #graphicdesign

Microsoft paid money for this.