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jasondbarrons.bsky.social
Product Designer and thoroughly fed up with the DNC. Will engage with right-wing folks in good faith only.
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I'm considering starting a change.org petition where the signers pledge not to donate one cent to Democrats until: 1. Super delegates are abolished. 2. Seniority rules are revoked wholesale. 3. Dark money and larger donors are banned from primaries.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

We’re already living in the world cyberneticians feared: feedback loops too fast for us to critically process. The new epistemic battleground isn’t truth vs. falsehood; it’s statistical plausibility vs. interpretative meaning.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

We need publicly owned systems on the internet. Publicly owned alternatives. I'm not content with my only option to post my work to youtube, where I have to code my words in what is the internet's equivalent to cockney rhyming slang to not upset the machine in charge. It's absurd.

submitted 21 days ago • 48 comments

Stargate is a tacit acknowledgment that the real money in AI is in infrastructure, not in software. Economies of scale don't work on neural nets, but they still work great in data centers and chip manufacturing.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Oh look, Trump is going to raise prescription drug prices. What a man of the people: www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking more about conversations with @benjaminjriley.bsky.social , I think a big reason why people are being duped by AI is how we've conditioned users on computers for the past 40 years.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Kid Rock is aghast, AGHAST I SAY, at Michelle Obama having the temerity to not show up to Trump's inauguration! How dare she not respect the incoming incoming administration! Afterall, we all know that Trump...oh wait nevermind.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing makes me cringe harder than hearing a data scientist say, "One of the things I love about neural networks is that I can use them for anything that's unstructured since they mimic the human brain."

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Just read a designer on linkedin claiming that he replaced 12 engineers and 12 months worth of work with just himself and AI working over less than 30 days. How does he know how much was involved? He asked the LLM, and it told him! Folks, this is a high level of malpractice. #AI

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Hypothetical - Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk come willing to band together with the Democrats to campaign against oligarchy in the US. This will be the only issue they will work on with you. Let's assume the success rate is high that it works to put in significant reforms. ... Do you do it?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments