Crypto idiots out here sounding like a game of Mornington Crescent, but somehow even more insufferable.
every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house
"...weâve ceded so much power and authority to tech people with a very narrow competence and understanding of the world, but have allowed them to believe they actually understand far more about the human experience than they really do."
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says some creative jobs shouldnât exist if their âcontentâ is ânot very high quality.â Whoâs judging that? The tech people or artists? More on that, plus recommended reads, labor updates, and other news in the Disconnect Roundup.
Read to the end for a good overview of failing social media platforms
Honestly if money were made unnecessary to live we would almost certainly be getting more art out of people, not less, let's make money superfluous to existence and find out
Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
Really enjoyed my time at Bisexual Pride* today! *looking after the kids all day because my straight wife forgot it was pride and booked a non-refundable massage
36,000+ dead, Netanyahu wanted by the Hague, Israel's international reputation forever destroyed, the Jewish people forever tainted by a genocide, Biden sacrificing the election to someone promising to end our democracy â and none of, not one little bit, had to happen.
A newly surfaced document has revealed that the Israeli army had comprehensive knowledge of the plan by Hamas to raid Israel and kidnap 250 people, via âDetailed End-to-End Raid Training,â distributed on September 19, 2023 - just weeks before Hamasâs incursion, according to an Israeli media report.
The IDF had precise information about Hamas's intentions, but due to prevailing conceptions in the security establishment and possible negligence by officials, the warning signs were not acted on.
It's just so endlessly frustrating to imagine a world where our tech giants sacrificed 0.1% of their insane profits to make their product helpful, informative, useful, social, charitable, anything at all positive ... and instead they do ... whatever this monstrosity is
I've spent four months looking at AI spam on Facebook. I've messaged hundreds of people commenting on the bizarre images trying to determine if they are real, and to understand what's happening. Facebook isn't the "Dead Internet." It's something worse: www.404media.co/facebooks-ai...
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but arenât anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all...
A friendly May Day reminder that cops arenât workers and never have been. Their continued inclusion in our unions (and of police âunionsâ within the @aflcio.bsky.socialwww.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...
No other union employees are allowed to kill other human beings.
I donât want to be the âWeâre at Stage N of the fascism checklistâ guy but Iâm pretty sure security forces standing back to let the civilian goon squad kick the hell out of protesters is not near the beginning
A dispatch from the UCLA encampment by @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social, where Tuesday night police and campus security stood by while student protestors were attacked by some actual "outside agitators." www.welcometohellworld.com/thanking-the...
The insane escalation of police force against peaceful campus protestors continued last night around the country. That includes at UCLA where police seem to still be attempting to clear the encampment...