The endpoint of “too big to fail” is “we have to let it eat the whole world, or the whole world collapses”
The Irish TimesAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
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Louise Seamster
Профиль Vivelydebt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
here is another response to “well AI is good at ___” —the race to make LLMs the omniscient multitool is diverting resources and attention from the bespoke models like this protein folder, because a) most people don’t know the difference and b) this is about selling a product.
Dan McQuillanAlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.
quoted in this piece on how LA governor’s antidemocratic campaign against New Orleans mirrors practices in other states-- www.nola.com/news/politic...
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s tough stance on New Orleans mirrors other red-state governorsLandry joins other red-state governors in taking a tough approach to Democratic-controlled cities. Critics say it’s political point-scoring; Landry says it’s time the city was held responsible for mis...www.nola.comca. 2018 I attended a planning consultant community presentation on their 200-p report on problems with Knoxville's zoning code, then the smaller presentation the next am, where the same presenter told attending “stakeholders” (developers) she had only read Knoxville’s code the previous day
Derek GottliebWE’RE not cutting things because we WANT to! The very sober deliberative experts at the CUTTING factory were kind enough to take our case, and to all of our disappointment, this is just what they think is best.
well..they do “transform" the book into trash
Eli ValleyDeliberate civilizational destruction is now "transformative" "value migration" of "information delivery mechanisms."
[audience switches to jazz hands to signal support] city council: Waving at us is distracting us.
404 MediaPolice arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...
the same type of people who "couldn’t do" pronouns and are aghast at the inclusion of multiple gender options on a survey are like “please record your sex ten different ways, including official documentation of the appearance of your baby-self's genitals"
Ethel WeaponThe implementation guidance equates "Sex at birth (observed)" with "phenotypic sex". Which suggests trolling or massive stupidity. Sex at birth doesn't determine what a person's "phenotypic" sex is. Gender affirming healthcare can change primary and secondary sexual characteristics...
I’m going to start “II," Imaginary Intelligence
Louise Seamsterthat’s what you’ll have when you graduate!
have been reading @rahimk.bsky.social's great book tracing, among other things, how military housing eventually turned into public housing in LA County... this has been the real fed public-housing policy for decades, when it’s never “it’s too $$$ to build new units now"
Erin Fogg says Free LinkWhat could up to 2k illegally deployed troop apartments cost, Michael? $148,000? Each?
After the warped TESCREAL worldview (allegedly) hinged on stuff like Peter Singer’s utilitarian "would you save the drowning child across the world”, it’s significant that kids in those places are being rhetorically erased by people like Musk, who just literally erased them.
Toby Buckle"zero kids" & "traitor to the west" are demands for white people's fealty to whiteness above all else my latest with @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2135...
As the old saying goes: if the product is free, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT
SkynetAndChill.comAnthropic and OpenAI launched free K-12 teacher tools as AI labs compete for a piece of the $6tn global education market.