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toddrowell.bsky.social
Not only a man of science—a man of hope. Software primate and UI designer at the Toyota Research Institute. I fight for the users. More fox than hedgehog.
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This is how you write a headline: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just click on this: skyviewer.app/explorer #RubinTelescope

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Given how many ChatGPT users are proud to declare they’ve cheated their way through their attempted education, I think we should believe them.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 350 comments

“The technology is a vehicle for exploitation. It’s a vehicle to extract data that people have worked their entire lives to create, they put everything into that data. It’s not just data. Data is such a reductive word, but unfortunately that is how it can be exploited. So don’t listen to them.”

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submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Here’s the thing about the Trump Administration talking about violence: 1. They’re lying. No doubt there’s some but they are dramatically exaggerating. 2. They’re lying in order to justify escalating violence and violations of laws and rights. 3. Their goals are bigger than today. /1

submitted 19 days ago • 91 comments

On iPhone 8 or later, hold the power and either volume button for a moment then tap cancel. This disables biometrics quickly. Other emergency calling advice here: www.macworld.com/article/2239...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Every time you talk about how they’re “dismantling DEI” you’re passing up an opportunity to talk about how they’re “enacting white supremacy.” We already have language for this. There’s no reason to adopt theirs.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

As far as its funders are concerned, the purpose of AI is literally and explicitly to oppress labour. If you wanna post how LLMs are useful for something and you ignore the literal reason for all that funding, you’re whitewashing and you know it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

Going to start calling Sam Altman "Sloppenheimer"

submitted 44 days ago • 37 comments

This is how ChatGPT feels to me

submitted 43 days ago • 39 comments

"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.

submitted 51 days ago • 41 comments

Make it last, Megaweapon … make it slooooow

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments