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This is a really good example of how LLMs are an excellent tool for managing cultural narrative for an authority's own ends. In this case, the instructions from the owner of the LLM on how to engage with reality leaked out into public view. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What Ras Baraka and the members of Congress who stood with him are doing is exactly what anyone with an ounce of privilege or power should do, and that is to stand in broad daylight and tell the truth and not stop no matter what twisted lies are thrown at them.

The management class is used to experiencing the world through the *artifacts of work*. LLMs produce the artifacts of work without humans producing the associated institutional value and advancement of that work.

The environmental toll of AI is something we really need to keep shouting about

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

OH: "AI is not a tool, it's a tiny Kafkaesque bureaucracy inside of your codebase."

A bunch of folks showed up to the Bothell City Council tonight to speak against a potential resolution affirming Bothell as a welcoming place for LGBTQIA+ people. Here was Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson's response.

My man's stone cold and straight to the point. Gotta respect that!

@booker.senate.gov We disagree on many things, but I appreciate what you did today, and desperately want more elected Democrats to be louder and more forceful in this fight.

At a peaceful #teslatakedown event today, massive honking of support from passing drivers in cars, busses, and even a garbage truck. The only middle finger we got was from a white guy in a Chevy.

Legitimately shocking to me that Mark Cuban is held in any esteem.