We are fighting so that we don't have to pay attention to the squabbling of the technocapitalist class We could control our own destiny - our own GPUs, our own benchmarks - AI could enable human flourishing, instead of the other way round The future is ours - if we want it

Tens of thousands of college students are being silenced for supporting Palestine, tens of thousands of their peers are bargaining for higher wages. When will they join forces with the near-millions who are realizing that ChatGPT stole their future?

A robot companion can teach you to draw precisely, copying a photo. But she can only paint a masterpiece becoming erratic, unlearning precision!

Just learned this really cool history about Palestine. In 1936, amidst the Great Palestinian Revolt, the British Mandate sought to stop communication between the resistance & villages. In response, women devised a method of encoding messages in songs by reversing letters!!

This is how E**n talks about workers and unions

I (+others) risked my career to organize against Google's development of AI weapons. We won. Our arguments were evidenced and clear and made Google (temporarily) cancel the contract. But being right is not a strategy. And I've been sickly sitting w this. theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

We need a 10-point checklist on how to intervene when <bad AI model> gets deployed into the world 1. Involuntarily open source the model on Github 2. Poison the dataset on Mechanical turk 3. Develop single-bit attacks that allow people to elude detection by the model ... etc

Who wrote this

Fascinating

Google will never beat the "shipping the org chart" allegations

"Password must contain at least one special character" all characters are special. Language is a beautiful miracle

Chat is this real?

Huge thanks to Endnotes for publishing this piece I co-wrote with Phil Neel which answers the question "how would a communist society work?" We deploy a scientific approach with a large emphasis on questions of production and industry. (1/2) endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-a…

Christmas came early 🎄🛠️

Hell yeah, free him

Competing for 1% benchmark improvement on "SOTA" at top tier AI conferences is competitive programming not science

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