You don’t have to be nice or civil about ending a genocide. The idea that people who are actively funding a genocide have any moral authority to demand civility is ridiculous. Civil people don’t create mass graves! Civil people don’t give weapons to those creating mass graves!

Hey I’m financially screwed at the moment. If you have a few extra bucks I’d really appreciate it. Venmo: Akilah Hughes

the world is slipping into a void but every day there are reminders that things are not as hopeless as they seem, happy new year and may we keep crawling towards a better world

Unfortunately , too few people understand the distinction between memorization and understanding. It's not some lofty question like 'does the system have an internal world model?', it's a very pragmatic behavior distinction: 'is the system capable of broad generalization, or is…

If you don’t condemn genocide when it matters, when lives are in peril, then you don’t condemn genocide.

It’s an extraordinarily simple position, actually.

ILHAN OMAR speaks on her experience surviving the horrors of war, as she calls for a ceasefire in Gaza: 'Imagine sitting in your house and hearing the noise that announces that you might vanish at any given moment.

Holding on to yourself, your family members, trying to get as…

Ethnic cleansing is happening now in Gaza.

yall should all get library cards even if ur not gonna use them because it makes the numbers look better and makes the government fund them more btw

Shiv being the baby of the family makes so much sense actually. She cannot seem to win an argument against her brothers under any circumstances! and on election night that has, uh, dire consequences

AI produced material is stolen work puked out through a plagiarism machine. That humans see patterns in it says more about our brains' foibles than the quality of its work.

'We have to align AGI with human values!!!' - a bunch of eugenicists

Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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continuing to think about how Amanda Bynes was the teenage Carol Burnett and one of the greatest to ever do it, had a huge hand in shaping the humor of generations to come & was the impetus for the comedic tween media renaissance 🙏🏽 harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-bo…

You cannot learn to distinguish fact from fiction by learning language patterns through a somewhat indiscriminate collection of human (and probably bot) writing scraped from the internet.

It's essentially a psychotic antisocial machine with severe manic delusion.

I think we can call it shut on 'Open' AI: the 98 page paper introducing GPT-4 proudly declares that they're disclosing *nothing* about the contents of their training set.