Reposted by Baja BlastoiseFred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 4h“AI is just another tool.” No one’s arguing that. We’re arguing that it’s a *bad* tool, right now often dangerously bad, and that if it’s going to be used at all, some very fundamental problems with it first need to be addressed. 4182
Reposted by Baja Blastoiselauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1hodd to me that there's been little innovation in the folding card table space the last 60 years. A card table my grandmother could buy in 1974 would largely look and function the same as today 331974
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1hAll those used bookstores that are getting bulk orders from AI book-shredding companies have a golden opportunity to do some data poisoning, I'm just saying 1177
Reposted by Baja BlastoisePookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1hThis reminds me of how anyone who has *ever* had to do wfh timekeeping has had to deal with software that is not at all designed for how humans work, and they end up having to mcguyver things to fit into how the timekeeping program wants stuff logged. 48519
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 56meveryone knows gAI is software, and it's not a magic guy living in the computer everyone knows chatbots and "agents" or whatever don't do anything if they're not set up by a human to do something so do you recognize them as tools humans use? or are you playing a game? 091
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 1hmy basic bar for journalists anthropomorphizing AI is this: if Kermit the Frog ran over and killed a guy with his car, would you report Kermit was driving and maybe we shouldn't give licenses to frogs? Or would you drop the kayfabe and say some puppeteers committed vehicular manslaughter? 1165
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseShoshana 🏳️⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 19h"When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken" 😬 Disposable vapes are also horrible for the environment, throwing away so much plastic, batteries, and electronics. 59335
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 42mSecondly, Reed apparently let an AI hallucinate a pro-trans quote from Graham Platner that didn't exist. One wonders if this contributed to the way some other prominent trans writers glazed him for months. 3569
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 48mA couple of things stand out from The Needle's analysis. I have written professionally for about fifteen years, including for some pretty lofty publications, and I have *never* made 60k a year from writing. The money has to be coming from somewhere. Fear sells, apparently. 3656
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 53mAnyway, this story dropped today, which I'm sure everyone will be very normal about. These are very serious allegations that, if true, are effectively career-ending. But it does fit the pattern of becoming captive to an audience expectation for ever more panic.theneedlenews.comErin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For YearsMuch of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors. 59016
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 56mIt is maximally profitable right now to either sell panic *about* trans people, or sell panic *to* trans people. Both impulses feed the media consumer's desire to feel mastery over events. One is simple bigoted conspiracism, the other is a defensive crouch that offers a false sense of security. 111925
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 1hRecently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.episodes.ghost.ioWhat's the matter with trans panic media?Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people." 420266
Reposted by Baja Blastoisemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 45mi think the much-discussed "what's wrong with the video game industry" issue falls along similar lines. weaponization of dark patterns to turn what should be a fun activity into a grim addictive grind that serves to benefit the game's publisher 29617
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseMel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 50mIn a rare Newsom W, today he signs AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, which would establish some of the best tax incentives/rebates for newsrooms in the country. It would send $40M/year back into California newsrooms to keep journalists employed. Check out the presser happening live right now:youtube.comGovernor Newsom Signs Legislation & Speaks with MediaYouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom 414334
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseNick Lutsko @nicklutsko.bsky.social · 1hIf you like infowars you’ll love the muppets 51175
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseBrian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 1hWe're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post. 71012347
Baja Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 1hi hate that this week i saw one social media team for a museum do a silly "crappy" post because their graphics person was out on medical leave and since then i have seen three different extremely active accounts do a "tee hee crappy graphics" post. you suck. trends suck. i respect you less now 000
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18h"Restaurant operating with non-functioning sink. Oven apparently being used as storage space and employees make whirring and sizzling sounds to make food." buff.ly/QahTR38buff.lyHealth Inspector’s Notes from the Fisher-Price Kitchen in Miss Carol’s Preschool Classroom“Witnessed chefs frequently dropping food on floor, retrieving items with bare hands, and immediately serving food to customers.” reposted 7/13/23 111725
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseTony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 1hsorry to post about something Aaron Sorkin said in an interview, but I was pleased to hear him say that to him it doesn’t matter how “good” LLMs get at “writing” scripts or novels; if he were to learn that some piece of writing he liked was generated by a chatbot, he’d just sigh and forget about it 1131
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseMike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 1hRight after the Eaton Fire, Ben reached out to let me know he talked to some folks he still knew at NBC to get me on the air. I was on MSNBC the next night. There was nothing in it for him, he just did it. One of the best people I know, and he deserves everything good he gets. 326016
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1hI still strongly believe that air conditioning is a human right. But we've got to figure out what to do with aging A/C units across the world — fast. 1233
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseNicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1hBass straight up said she does not consider the genocide in gaza to be a genocide. No unclear wording, she was direct 1143
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseTuta @tuta.com · 1hWe did it: The EU Parliament continues to OPPOSE #ChatControl 2.0! 🥳 Thanks everyone for writing to representatives. 🫶 The next trilogue is scheduled for November, we must make sure that end-to-end encryption and private communication remains to be protected! #privacy 08550
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1hHow many years and billions in investment, just to learn we should be doing it the way we've always done it 2325
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1hI decided to re-do this old calculation + LLMs test, and now it seems the big models just create a piece of code to do the calculation instead of brute-forcing it. IE: LLMs work best when they're doing at little LLM as possible, and every advancement is just less LLM and more stuff-that-works 24012
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1hThe shift from industrial to post-industrial did not just take place on the macro-economic scale. At the scale of the household, our grandparents knew how to repair appliances that we cannot understand today. Just as neoliberalism *de-industrialized* our society, AI is *de-intellectualizing* us. 25219
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseYell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 2hDenver has banned all lawn watering due to drought (good, there should be no lawns in arid ecosystems). No water use restrictions for CoreSite’s datacenter, which by the company’s own estimates will use 115,000 gallons per day—not counting the additional two buildings currently paused for one year.denverpost.comSeparating fact from fear when it comes to our Elyria Swansea data center (Opinion)CoreSite’s planned DE3 data center near the National Western Center has been at the center of … worries. I want to address the five most common concerns. 14620
Reposted by Baja Blastoisemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1hEven hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext) 1539248
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseChappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 2htoday's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996 26214
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 2hIt's inspiring to learn the idea for this school first started in 2019 and education scholars have been working on it for years: www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...tc.columbia.eduHip-Hop Education Enters a New Era in the BronxThe Bronx School of Hip-Hop was co-created by TC’s Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to Education, Christopher Emdin 25014
Reposted by Baja Blastoisemolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 3hdon’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks 311271345
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3hIn San Francisco, Lurie's RV ban—on which Dan Strauss' similar proposed ban in Seattle appears to be modeled—hasn't gotten people into shelter, but it has pushed them outside city limits, often after losing their RVs and becoming unsheltered. Is this what "success" will look like here?missionlocal.orgS.F. cracked down on RV dwellers. A year later, many have left the city altogether.Data shows that a year after San Francisco's RV ban, 1/3 of RV dwellers using city aid have moved outside city limits. 815546
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 6hthe virgin AI ("it's inevitable and here to stay but also we are gonna need a government bailout and we need you to force people to use it") vs the chad photovoltaics (accelerating deployment in spite of a totally hostile policy environment) 09021
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseMando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 6hthis is not just a meme btw. solar can't be stopped even when governments are blatantly against it this is the real tech of the future. it's here, it's getting adopted whether idiots want it or not, even if more slowly it just makes sense on an economic level www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...yahoo.comByron Donalds says solar power is a ‘fad’ but Florida utilities are expanding its useDespite the Trump administration’s hostility towards renewable energy, information released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that utility solar capacity — large scale projects that ... 17943
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 2hNEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 110267
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 2hIn 2024, I was diagnosed with HPV again and had to have LEEP surgery for an 8% chance of cervical cancer. I did general instead of localized anaesthesia and it cost me $1600+ with insurance, plus $40 per appointment with my OB-GYN. And the Gardasil vaccine has been approved for adults up to age 45! 16619
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1haudiences know that there's nothing behind it. You lose the drama. It's not limited to AI. Think about Milli Vanilli, or James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. A huge best-selling memoir — until it was revealed to be semi-fiction. The story itself didn't change. But the context did. It was empty. 2606
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1hThey tried this with adult content and it largely failed. While there have been some niche use cases, audiences want to feel a connection to the creator — whether that's an author, a porn performer or a musician. It's not because the technology isn't believable, it's because 19120
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseMatt Orion @orionmatt.bsky.social · 1hFRIGHT NIGHT PART 2 (1988) has a funny tooling up scene. Peter Vincent recites all the films his weapons appeared in, as he packs them for the fight 032
Reposted by Baja Blastoiselauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2hgoogle should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years 222745450
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2hIn our media landscape, having enough money makes you too big to fail. It doesn’t matter if Gates has extremely credible allegations of what he took part in with Epstein or if Musk does Nazi salutes and pushes white genocide. They can get a profile/interview with any outlet they want at any time. 0309
Reposted by Baja Blastoisephil @philjamesson.com · 4has always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery 313633477
Reposted by Baja Blastoiseutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6hdestroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal. 12743143
Reposted by Baja Blastoise𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 19/12/2024“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” 626745
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 3hA little bit of whimsy along a curbside bike lane in London. I love these tulips! 825440
Reposted by Baja BlastoiseEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2hI know it's been said a million times before, but it's worth a reminder: this kind of thing is marketing. This guy sells AI courses. "You hate me for being right about how much you all will love this" gets attention from haters and is a lightning rod for potential customers. It's a gimmick 15412