The farmer and the cowman should be friends. Why don’t #DAIR and #futureoflifeinstitute prioritize what they agree on regarding an aipause, cooperate to achieve it, and then deal with the underlying issues? #ai
https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023
How amazing is my wife (insta: @katehiltonbooks), you ask? She's a best-selling novelist, a psychotherapist, an incredible mom (not to mention her hugely successful past lives as lawyer and major gift fundraiser) and NOW she and her co-author have had their super fun cozy mystery series picked up by House of Anansi press! https://twitter.com/translitagency/status/1641798225748172804?s=42&t=4xyVz5HLF2rDJ0eyeHYSuQ
@carnage4life this is one of those “so close to getting it” moments, isn’t it? #bigtech
Great, now do the rest of the crimes. #trump
Regulation by bricking (à la Natasha Tusikov), but it’s not your watch or your tractor; it’s your life companion. This may be the most sci-fi-dystopian real life story I’ve encountered. #AI #relationships #sexuality
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-replika-chatbot-ai-companions/
@cbecker reading Maureen O’Mara’s history of Silicon Valley, /The Code/
@PavelASamsonov @mulegirl “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
@actualham Theseus is not amused.
Public university president bans drag show and promises to ignore "the law of the land" https://boingboing.net/2023/03/22/public-university-president-bans-drag-show-and-promises-to-ignore-the-law-of-the-land.html #boingboing #drag #free_speech #LGBTQ #politics
It's amazing how much you can learn about risks to the future of the internet by just watching attacks on sex workers and their livelihoods.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x9mb/spankpay-sex-work-payment-platform-shuts-down
@PavelASamsonov I want to play as the “Bought pizza” guy.
@Riedl well I mean, sure you can if you’re a time travel expert.
🚨 “what we do in the next few years will determine our fate for millennia” 🌎
Humanity at the climate crossroads: highway to hell or a livable future?
#IPCC report released.
The scientific publisher Elsevier is involved with the fossil fuel industry. As #scientists, we cannot work any longer with publishers promoting a dead world. We ask #Elsevier to stop supporting #fossilfuel. Join us in a fight for a #FossilFree Research.
https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com/
@Popehat you would’ve been SOL
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com