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Mamdani should win but he's the latest example of the Democratic Party closing ranks to keep anyone young and exciting and full of energy out of the party - and then they spend countless millions on consultants trying to figure out why they're struggling with young voters

submitted 11 hours ago • 392 comments

AI and the White Collar blood bath -- my latest in the NY Times - gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

If you're flailing a bit this morning, take stock of your needs. Have you taken your meds? Drank some water? Had something to eat? Unclenched your jaw? Had a shower? Maybe stretched a bit? If you live in New York City, have you voted, and not ranked Cuomo?

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

I have my health issues but finding out that Emil Bove is actually 14 months younger than was a great boost to my spirits.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

glitch is now being used for phishing attacks for shame

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Lewis is so cool!!

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The response to Zohran Mamdani's campaign reminds me of the stories I've heard from ambitious, optimistic Millennials (esp. BIPOC) whose ideas are repeatedly shot down by managers, are told they don't have enough experience to be leaders, and are constantly subjected to microaggressions and racism.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Going to do some skeeting of our session, the AI Workers' Inquiry at #FAccT2025. Panel beginning: Anna Iovine talking about AI at Ziff Davis, with the employer calling it the "Summer of Gemini".

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Reading the legal complaint, Iyo Products’ claims are extremely damning - they allege both Jon Ive, along with Sam Altman and his associated entities (like his VC firm Apollo Projects) have been intentionally pretending to invest in Iyo’s Products as a means of getting technical info *SINCE 2022*.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

he means progressives in a voivod way

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

what the hell is a midget hammer

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lets make a wish on the egg star

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ah i see we’ve entered the “stop hitting yourself” phase of diplomacy.

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this dumb fucking country

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

that time again

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

what up Chicago im playing a show with some new music on Saturday dice.fm/partner/dice...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

What tech companies still have a good relationship with their users and aren’t doing inane AI pivots to solely make investors happy?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

capitalism is bad because it incentivizes every profit-seeking company on earth to call anything attached to an algorithm "AI" even though they are wildly different technologies utilizing totally unrelated forms of machine learning, literally none of which actually qualify as Artificial Intelligence

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Also, if we cannot correlate the systematic dismantling of federal disability supports in the US and the AI tech tyrants in charge, and how technocultists ACTUALLY understand the role of "AI" in relation to disability, we're doomed

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Using an LLM to rewrite the “entire corpus of human knowledge” and then using that corpus as a training set: definitely something that would be suggested by someone who knows how things work and not someone who understands absolutely nothing

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One of the first things I do with freshman undergrads is to compile a sense of how much reading they do in a day (texts, websites, memes etc) to make clear that not liking reading three volume novels is *not* the same thing as not reading.

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There are some really weird things going on in this NYT story that is purportedly about using "AI" for child therapy. Would you care to join me for a short thread exploring just a few of them? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/m...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments