Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

AI is dogshit. And the more contact people have with AI, the more they'll realize it's dogshit and turn against it as tacky. The only reason anyone's doing any of it is because billionaires and multinationals are telling them "AI is the future!" and cramming it into everything

Even with all this they still can't get *most* people to give it more than a passing glance. Because people can instinctively recognize that it's dogshit, that it's useless insipid vapid bullshit with no intrinsic value

I say this because

1. I know some people do look up to me in that way

And

2. It is imo very important to create a culture of shame around the use of AI

If you're a coder and you look up to me in any way as a programmer, please know that I cannot respect and in fact have a very poor opinion of people who voluntarily use any kind of cloud based LLM for coding with any kind of regularity

A short comic about a witch writing down a spell to summon demons, but due to dropping some soup on her spellbook, it makes the spell summon demons that are smooching.

Some kids rediscover the spellbook and keep accidentally summoning two queer demons in the middle of a makeout session. For some reason, it's always the same couple.

The queer demon couple just work in a Hell soup kitchen.

@elilla yeah, I sit here and ponder all this stuff nearly every day lately, how little I can focus, but without changing something tactile my hands just go ctrl t social.p return again.

it is so tiring to deal with this package deal of 'fascinating discussion' and 'no attention span'

https://eupolicy.social/@edri/114704976709292632

What im trying to say is we should stop looking at sexuality as this static thing, and while it's true you are what you say you are, you should be open to new experiences changing your sexuality etc

I totally agree with the concept that you're still sexuality X even if you've never had experience with (some of) the gender(s) you're attracted to

My personal experience tho, lol
I thought I was bi, then had a few experiences with men/masculine genders and realised I'm not actually attracted to them lol

Activate the gay space lasers!!!! #pride

What is it called when you un-fix a problem that was previously fixed?

The American left needs to get organized. I know you're out there. I meet so many people who self-identify as socialists. Recent rallies in Vermont had tens of thousands of people come out, but at every other kind of organizing, be it a meeting, canvassing, strike support, phone bank, etc., there are the same few dozen people every single time.

People in power know this. They used to get nervous when they saw huge rallies, but they've learned that they don't represent an organized threat.

A reminder that the anti-Iraq-war protests were some of the largest demonstrations in human history and they failed. The "carrying signs and yelling at empty buildings" theory of change comes from a sanitized retelling of past movements.

Today, every group with a twitter is calling for a demonstration in their town, but movements that don't cause power to feel pain and don't have the institutional capacity to negotiate if/when they do are doomed to failure.

Ever seen an ad for ground.news and wondered where they get their data? Well, they too get it from Dave. Depending on the metric, they average his scores with either 1 or 2 other so-called "trusted ratings systems."

He uses a comically naive rubric to generate the data. It is the exact political theory that just-some-guy-named Dave would have. Had the site been DavesOpinions.com, no one would use it. Transmorgify them into data, pick a neutral name, and make a UI, and researchers use it credulously without even knowing who Dave is, yet upon him rest the conclusions of hundreds if not thousands of studies (>500 on arxiv alone), representing unknowable amounts of computation and thousands of hours of labor.

Digging further, we find that MediaBiasFactCheck.com isn't run by, say, a lab, or a panel of experts, but is just some guy named Dave. Dave is a healthcare worker in North Carolina with a passion for bias in the media working with a couple volunteers. According to the site, he makes all final editorial decisions.

Our paper's sources leads us, through several schema transformations and an intermediary, to MediaBiasFactCheck.com, a commonly used source for those studying misinformation, media bias, etc. It rates The New York Times as further left than @FAIR, an explicitly progressive outlet, which regularly criticizes NYT for being a right-wing rag (my words, not theirs). This is obviously wrong.

Since 2016, the number of papers on mis/disinformation has skyrocketed. It's hard to imagine another phenomenon for which there exists such a complete dataset, but this field must label things as true, biased, etc., sticky concepts to define at scale. How can you label millions of tweets as true/false?

If we pick a paper and follow the provenance of its data, I think that we can learn about not just this field, but the role of data and computation in society.

https://theluddite.org/post/spectacle-of-computation.html

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