If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
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If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
(It is also pretty hilarious seeing Anil post this considering not a month ago he was telling people not to call everything “AI” and was calling out people for doing bad AI critique. I think incredibly highly of him, so it’s just kinda weak imo)
1) yes, LLMs are wrong all the time, and it’s justifiably fun to point that out when some of the companies creating them act as if they’re going to solve world hunger 2) also, yes, LLMs suck at math, and have for a while because they’re what? Say it with me now: large LANGUAGE models. 🙄
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No, because they don’t move
Go where you feel abundant. Grow where you are watered. Go where you get good morning messages, good night texts. Hugs, check ins, pep talks, forehead kisses, validation. Go where you are being loved the loudest in return.
I am solidly anti-mandated mass transit until the US commits to actual clean air. You aren’t forcing me to be on a fucking train with anyone who won’t wear a fucking N95 mask until you put Far UV-C and 30-45 liters per second per person equivalent clean airflow rate, period.
Y’all are so obsessed with individualizing what is an EASY structural solution for Bluesky, at least technically.
People stop absolving platforms from doing the work to ensure accessibility by blaming individuals who may have myriad disabilities and limitations you don’t know about challenge (impossible)
To be clear, this is what white fat people experiencing the residue of antiblackness as anti-fatness looks like.
If you want Democratic leaders to actually change things, demand they all push for RCV in every Blue state and city. Thats how you end up with more young people and marginalized people voting, when they can vote their preferences. It’s also how you get more progressives and leftists into office.
Utterly convinced that people are wasting so much time on arguing about which governor to not vote for in a Presidential election that’s not even for three more years when what they should be putting their energy into is NOT HAVING TO ONLY CHOOSE ONE PERSON TO VOTE FOR. Ranked choice voting FTW.
Yes, but it also happens to coincide with the initial formation of the US, which is why it’s so hard for the US specifically to imagine society without a group of individuals solely empowered to enact violence on behalf of the state.
It’s also THEE most unforced error because IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS. We don’t have to have a voting structure that makes you choose between only two people. RCV exists and is far superior and has been quite successful, which I’m sure you know, since you live in NYC!
What’s really stupid about the people who say the “purity test” thing is that the VAST MAJORITY of people on the left will vote for Gavin Newsom if they really fucking have to; because we actually give a shit about harm reduction, while most “undecided” voters are just cowardly Republicans.
You’re really uneducated. Deeply uneducated.
Scary how similar they sound, huh? It is absolutely the right of the state government to legislate within the bounds of its constitution; it is the same thing that will protect Californians & Coloradans and Vermonters from federal corruption. You cannot have one without the other.
“It’s not the government’s place to decide what my kids need to be vaccinated for in order to attend public school. That is my sole right & responsibility as their parent. This is not about child safety, it is about controlling what free citizens put in their body for the benefit of the deep state.”
Which Democratic leaders? Is this related to something recent or just something you’re saying right now? Neither is wrong, just curious
But experientially, it blows chunks
Definitely the core limitation of the architecture, but it’s understandable from a technical perspective.
4) Notably, throughout this process, YGR maintained that Apple had a right to require developers offer IAP as an option, as long as they provided another fair & ethical option. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Ga...
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3. On April 30, 2025, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers mandated that Apple was no longer allowed to charge any commission on purchases made outside the app store in the US, nor put restrictions on how developers could link out from their apps: www.theverge.com/news/659246/... 3(4?)/?
1. Apple has long required every app to use in-app payments on iOS. REQUIRED. There was zero option to link out to the web. 2. In 2021, there was an exemption crafted for “reader” apps - they could link out to a website for payment & weren’t required to use IAP. www.reuters.com/technology/a... 2/?
I’m going to address some inaccuracies in this blog. Before I do, I’d like to say: you should’ve already left Substack since they directly & intentionally platform Nazis & fascists, giving them outsized contracts to publish on the platform. If your only motive is money, however, read on: 1/?
I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
1) reading level does not at all indicate intelligence level. That’s so fucked up, correct yourself. 2) Americans are not stupid, many are poorly educated because conservatives have been dismantling public education for the last 40 fucking years.
Courtney. This has been a perfect example of when this platform shines, and what was best about old Twitter. Someone has a question, someone answers…in great detail!
I mean, weirdly the constitution says the literal opposite, so the conservatives could try but I’m pretty sure the states would just raise a middle finger and move on
This is so disingenuous bc Taylor isn’t even talking about anything related to Israel, she just used someone else’s tweet to make a separate point about censorship online and how too many people on the left now cheer it bc “save the children” or some weird shit?
And separately, Taylor is likely not even referencing Israel, simply using that as a jumping-off point to accurately call out the extreme censorship right-wingers want to do but many young leftists & liberals cheer bc some vague “save the children” shit?
Which, by the way, the US fuels that paranoia intentionally.
It’s advantageous for the US to export its most unethical surveillance and technology operations to Israeli private tech firms & the Mossad, which operate in paranoid fear that if they ever stopped, the US would withdraw its support and they would be killed immediately by the surrounding states
Yeah, bro, sorry, there’s no antisemitism here. The reason the US et al want to censor the internal when people criticize Israel has nothing to do with it being a Jewish state and everything to do with the fact that oligarchs love money and power and Israel is an effective tool to maintain both.
“The law doesn’t explicitly give the president permission to sexually assault children.” @nytpitchbot.bsky.social you ready?
Hungary is also a unicameral state without hard federalism that is the size and has the rough economy of Indiana. There is no comparison. None.
If Gavin Newsom doesn’t stop his little song and dance and ensure this is the case for all Californians, I don’t give a shit if he is the democratic nominee for President. That craven little fucker will never get my vote.
What you do isn’t disagreement. It’s performance. It’s hyperbolic rhetoric to make yourself seem wise but instead you just look small.
You really do not understand how this stuff works at all, do you??
It’s not a catch. It doesn’t matter whether they care or not. Also, I think nearly 50% of Congress cares. A lot.
Reminder: every day, all across the country, millions of Americans are doing small but significant actions to stop the spread of fascism. Just because you don’t see things on the news doesn’t mean they aren’t happening. Yeah, things will get worse, but hold onto hope, it’s an essential weapon. ❤️
Gavin is grandstanding on Twitter while punishing trans and houseless Californians. This is what he’d be doing if he wanted to really fight.
One thing to understand about America is that our cities have a *million* people of all genders & races who have the energy of the tank man in Tiananmen Square, because they came from communities all over the world that know oppression, that know how to fight authoritarianism, that know solidarity.
Also this is 100% a legitimate point! People can be annoyed at what people post and argue with them or whatever but don’t tell people to stop posting what they want.
listen, I generally can’t fucking stand Gavin Newsom’s but this post is so funny bc if you actually think Newsom & Mamdani have policies that are “exactly the opposite” then you CANNOT know what that phrase means! 🤣🤣🤣 another example of how algorithmic social media artificially creates polarization
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Not free, beehiiv has a free tier up to 2500
Yeah sure!
huh?
They’re a cultural meme here not for the reasons you think. The shootings came before the meme.
ALS0, you know there’s an *actual* definition for AI slop, and it’s not “all LLM output,” right?
This is one of the least rigorous studies I’ve ever seen. You should listen to @grimalkina.bsky.social & @analog-ashley.bsky.social lay out the myriad problems with the study: www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
Btw, LLMs trained on the English language as written by humans was always going to be human-like
Product or technology? Or either? Because I’ve got news, there’s a lot of technology that’s enabled genocides and encouraged self-harm that we’re all using today.
Cool cool - who’s going to be paying the equivalent amount of money that’s not Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic for something similar? Because teachers need more tools, not less, and if other folks aren’t stepping up with the money to implement *something,* I think it’s weird to get mad at her
This is fucking worse
Yeah, buddy, that’s not what she said. Nowhere near it.
I’m just so tired
Because cars kill people in an instant. Society allows all sorts of behavior every single day that can lead to the same things that happened to this young man. It’s a tragedy, but why would you ever think society would regulate this when it allows people to do far worse to each other every day?
New @lawfaremedia.org article & law review from the Humanitarian Program at @law.stanford.edu on how Israel had a right to self-defense, but it has egregiously exploited that idea to destroy Gaza and kill thousands and thousands of people (violating intl law) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/isra...
I feel like you left out a word here
Yeah, it’s true, but also, I can point to like 15-20 statements from National Democrats in the last two weeks condemning the authoritarianism and fascism in very clear terms. And so I’m tired of that fucking false narrative
That’s good shit!
So are you going to take their phones away at home too?
I’m confused because she doesn’t mention teachers in her post because that’s not her focus?
Wow you’re a fucking bigot
Stop using Substack. You’re funding fascist propaganda.
yes, and your defeatist attitude will be part of the cause
People underestimate joy as a political resource. It pisses off all the right people & allows us to move toward practically imaginative solutions.It’s powerful to say, as Mamdani does&others should,I love these people/this place&we’re going to make it thrive.Political version of twirling on haters.
lol, you think this is why they hate us? oh my god. lol no this ain’t it
Stop using Substack to publish, you’re funding the very people who are destroying the democracy you claim to love
The thing about Eric Adams is that maybe he is UNAWARE THAT HE IS CURRENTLY THE MAYOR OF NYC so if working people are struggling so hard that they cannot be part of a Scavenger Hunt THEN THAT IS PARTLY HIS FAULT.
Neither is what you’re saying. I’m sorry, but sniping aimlessly from the sidelines when the entire system of governance is crumbling is so fucking pointless I cannot even fucking fathom the behavior.
Who, Perry? Who is it actually being sent to? Name names, or it’s all bullshit.
Just a crystalline example of how people *do not* understand human behavior or systems of power and governance. “He’s unpopular and yet they’re still losing to him” Yes, sis, and I’d like to see you do better! Go! Run! We have a participatory system of governance!
Wait are you asking why children have chess to the same Internet as adults? Because there’s one internet.
what should they do
Teeheeheeheehee
I continue to only care if something is good. If it’s good, then that’s its job. And guess what? I have absolutely returned books by humans that were so bad they were unreadable.
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My hot science take is that scientists should know better than to say “after the pandemic”
Can you tell me what, exactly, the Democrats in the Senate or House ca do to stop what’s happening right now?
The number of y’all who yell “free Palestine” while actively contributing to the deaths of 200-300 people a day *just* in America by not wearing a mask tells me exactly how much you actually care about human life. pmc19.com/data
he picked the wrong motherfucker to fuck with!!!
stop being fatphobic wear a fucking mask free Palestine trans rights are human rights black lives still matter no human is illegal I can’t believe i have to say any of these things. What is wrong with you all?
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"Our study shows long COVID disrupts futures, breaks connections, and creates daily struggles that ripple out to families, workplaces and communities." We can't afford this.
You remain one of my favorite people.
WAIT did your idiot self just call Jay a billionaire? Oh that’s fucking funny
It’s happening outside of the US, too, you silly nob
Cool cool just fuck over all the black people there. No. You fight the law like they’re doing. But you have to comply while it happens.
You really can’t be this clueless
Lmao if you think this keeps kids “safe” I have some beachfront property in Arizona I’d like to sell you
The problem is that while many people do regularly criticize Israel’s war crimes without being antisemitic, just enough people are out there doing it in, like, and absolutely OBVIOUSLY anti-Semitic way that those who want to use that s an excuse can continue to do so.
Almost every white* institution This is specifically a white people problem bc y’all don’t understand how racial & ethnic oppression works bc y’all have never experienced it
Y’know, we’d be a lot better off if all the leftist white people who claim they’re here for full equality and justice for all people just took their masks off and admitted they’re racist pieces of shit. I would respect them so much more if they didn’t lie all the time.