This is happening basically across all “Western” democracies, as mainstream democratic parties are reflexively responding to the radical Right with some variation of “They are correct, this is an acute threat / We have to take them seriously / We need to adopt their framing.” A disaster.
It doesn’t start with Kristallnacht. It doesn’t start with gas chambers. It doesn’t start with concentration camps. It starts with saying immigrants eat your pets.
"Someone discovered that an 18-wheeler wrecked during the storm was full of bottled water & dozens of people came to grab cases & hand out cases to others, until police officers arrived & shouted for them to leave. “You are stealing!” one shouted as the crowd dispersed." Priorities=what you protect
In the aftermath of Helene, scenes of destruction and suffering lay almost everywhere in Swannanoa, N.C. — cars in tree limbs, mangled homes, mud-choked roads and people desperate for water and food.
Scenes of destruction and suffering lay almost everywhere in Swannanoa, N.C. — cars in tree limbs, mangled homes, mud-choked roads and people desperate for water and food.
More simply put: The larger and more trainable the language model, the more bullshit it produces. Because, and i guess I'll keep saying it until it sinks in, making up statistically plausible bullshit is literally what LLM/GPT systems *inherently* do. Nice to have another paper to cite for it, tho.
But wait, it gets worse.
McGregor “said he had felt compelled to speak publicly bc the Haitian workers had helped his company to grow and his city to make a comeback.” Then came the threats targeting him and his family. ”They came by the hundreds—phone calls, emails and letters from white supremacists, neo-Nazis …”
“For Jamie McGregor, a businessman in Springfield, Ohio, speaking favorably about the Haitian immigrants he employs has come to this: death threats, a lockdown at his company and posters around town branding him a traitor for hiring immigrants.” www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/u...
The lifelong Republican employs fewer Haitians than others in Springfield, but his life has been upended since Donald J. Trump spread falsehoods about immigrants in his hometown.
Just a gentle reminder that being a Blue State™️ doesn’t mean it’s progressive or gives a shit about people.
BREAKING NEWS: The measure, SB 1047, would have held companies legally liable for harms caused by AI and even enabled a "kill switch" if systems went rogue.
The measure, known as SB 1047, was one of the nation’s most far-reaching regulations on the booming AI industry. It divided Silicon Valley over the balance between artificial intelligence safety and tech innovation.
“democratize” was the web3 buzzword too. it turns out it just meant “we want to take resources from everyone, and hoard them for us”. a lesson there, perhaps
It’s helpful if we start understanding “Democratize” in the tech vernacular to mean wealth extraction and cannibalism. Redirecting wealth from the entertainment industry and artists to funnel it into something tech bros can sell.
Student mobilization around Gaza was countered by (a) large donor mobilization against the students and (b) targeted congressional hearings. The modern American university system, after decades of defunding higher ed, is MUCH more attuned to the will of Bill Ackman et al than of the student body.