Non-binary do-gooder and pluralist (it/amanda) Vibe coder with mixed feelings about AI. The first step towards being kind is understanding that everyone is different.
people from OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter calling for a slowdown of AI development, so society has a chance to catch up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
More Than 1,100 AI Staffers Call for US to Pace Tech GrowthMore than 1,100 staffers across top artificial intelligence firms have signed a petition that calls on the US government to support a mechanism that would help “deliberately pace” AI development to pr...www.bloomberg.com
Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.
I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak decapitation attacks & bombs schools?
Our position on open-weights modelsAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights modelswww.anthropic.com
printing out the k3 weights on acid-free paper to help reboot civilization after the fall
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PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.www.nbcnews.com
yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNNAs the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.www.cnn.com
We’re never going to live on Mars. We’re never going to live on the Moon. There is no Planet B. We need to take care of our magical mystical miraculous planet like it’s the only home we will ever have. Because it is.
I can't sleep so I'm up doodling this bs
Aaron RuparTrump on the CHIPS Act: "If you weren't transgender, you didn't qualify. So they'd get the money, they'd look all over for transgender people to run the company."
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The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.
