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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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After watching the difference between Israel bombing EVERY HOSPITAL in Gaza INTENTIONALLY for TWO YEARS STRAIGHT, and what seems like a Iranian stray missile hitting an Israeli hospital (which is bad, too!) - I'm done with Western media. This isn't journalism. It is complicity in genocide.

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Skrmetti’s reasoning here is directly referencing a 1974 case, Geduldig v. Aiello, holding that pregnancy is not a gender issue because “nonpregnant persons” can be any gender. Legal scholars never took seriously how Geduldig leads to “banning trans care is not trans discrimination.” So here we are.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

submitted 19 hours ago • 58 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

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CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 16 hours ago • 379 comments

just outright smacking the sign

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 13 hours ago • 677 comments

in animation, you aren't "set for life" after one "big break" or one "good job" or even after having a show YOU CREATED become a success. there are people who are legends in the industry who are out of work and penniless right now. the system is built to favor corporations, and ONLY corporations.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Adriana Smith did not give birth to a baby. She was used as an incubator, cut open, and a baby was taken out of her lifeless body. A Black woman was used as a science experiment.

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

GO GET YOUR FUCKING PASSPORTS

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My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

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My gut reaction to everything happening here was that this was always what big tech wanted to do, but because the actual value of AI is so vague (and specious in many cases!) they are basically saying "yeah we're uhh, just, uhh, stuff is more now. It also has AI. Enjoy?"

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

NEW: California is trying to regulate its powerful AI giants -- again. A long-awaited report that came out minutes ago says companies are “simply inadequate at fully understanding” risks and harms. It has the potential to make big changes. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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I don't know if it's going to stay this way, but this has become the theme: 'Your life, no matter how meaningful you lived it, or how long it was, left an imprint on the world. There is, and will always be, something of the earth that remembers you.' It's a ghost story, see?

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submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s mandatory if you want to get better

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

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"What Brad did was engage in that very moment of courage. He showed us what leadership can look like. And for that, he was arrested."

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Man, if it's this bad for xAI, imagine how bad it is for OpenAI and Anthropic

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Zuck in 3 months: We're seeing record levels of people creating Reels on our platform, and I find that really inspiring. Investors cheer

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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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A few years back I put out this video on how Israel uses queerness and pride to launder its image and perpetuate its colonial genocide youtu.be/vjcCIuSlph4?...

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Het kabinet is weg, nu de onderwijsbezuinigingen nog. Het is de hoogste tijd om te versterken wat door dit kabinet is afgebroken. Daarom dienen we vandaag met onze bondgenoten een wetswijziging in om de €1,6 miljard aan onderwijsbezuinigingen volledig van tafel te krijgen.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

comics take a long time to draw. no, but really. if artists were paid an hourly rate it would explode the brains of most people both out AND in/adjacent to the field

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

There's loads of myths surrounding this particular subject in the artist sphere, and I debunk them all. For many freelancers, pricing, licensing and contracts are by far the most daunting subjects, but I did my best to make them easy. UAG also includes a free contract template!

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Yes, hard times can be inspirational. But nobody's making crab cakes on the deck of the Northwestern during a hurricane. There's a reason the Renaissance happened AFTER the Middle Ages got all those famines, inquisitions, & plagues out of its system.

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Iran has, according to Western media, been "just months away from a nuclear weapon" for over 20 years. They have been saying this since at least 1995. Their rhetoric resets every time the USA or Israel commits another blatant crime because they expect us to not know any better.

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Pride celebrations continue! If you haven't yet, check out the in-game Market's Community Event tab to pick up Pride items like the positively gorgeous Pride Oro Decoration until June 30 at 11:59 p.m. ET. wrfr.me/4kmdhjq

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

backup ur shit asap

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Opened up a jam on itch to get entries for the Canadian Wildfires Fundraiser Bundle I'll be running. 100% of proceeds will be going to donations. Sign ups are open for the rest of the week: itch.io/jam/canadian...

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Newsletter: There is nothing inevitable about artificial intelligence, outside of the media's continued deference to the power. For a better tech industry - and a better world - the media must become more accountable, more sincere, and fight for the truth for the public. www.wheresyoured.at/sic/

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“The true solution, perhaps, is more solidarity and more sincerity.”

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I made a quick video about media literacy and the misleading Wall Street Journal headline I highlighted this weekend TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@molly0xfff/... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYkR...

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So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating. Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend more time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Molly made a good video looking into the sources used for this article youtu.be/qYkRSITTHpo

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A few thousand people gathered for Donald Trump's fascist military parade. Many millions assembled to oppose it. Trump's core of support is comprised chiefly of stay-at-home racists and mercenaries who hurt people for pay. Those who act according to their consciences overwhelmingly oppose him.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Is chatgpt making you stupid or do stupid people use chatgpt

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

If you're in organism science or taxonomy and even the littlest bit pro-generative-AI I am coming to your house to dump booklice on your floor. This technology is designed to remove the need for us to get paid in exchange for spitting out lower-quality work, what do some people not understand

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I completely let the 1 year anniversary of my new YouTube channel slip by, so hey, let's celebrate a year and a bit of Casey Explosion on YouTube! What's your favourite video of mine so far? What do you hope to see from me in future? Got any questions about my channel? youtube.com/@caseyexplos...

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.