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I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

submitted 1 day ago • 316 comments

The median American will never be illegally deported by ICE and left to die in a torture prison in defiance of a Supreme Court order, so it’s hard to see how any of this is a winning issue for Democrats. by Matt Yglesias

submitted 22 days ago • 38 comments

The Democratic Party is run by Principal Skinner

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

This is a US court of law, refusing to bar illegal actions of the Executive branch out of an explicit concern that its agents will react with deadly force.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Increasingly, it is a mistake to think that the economy is about humans. We are becoming speed bumps in the true economy of extractive computation (the fracking-to-AI pipeline of universal paperclips). #frackingpaperclips

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

submitted 61 days ago • 435 comments

Yo just a reminder that Tesla is publicly traded and Elon owns only 13%, they could easily fire his ass and save the brand and make all this go away 🤷🏼‍♂️ #teslatakedown

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment