WTF is happening with this AI thing?!
The intention of this account is to track the takeover of humanity by our new machine overlords. New ZealandJoined March 2024
Publishers & web creators, pay attention 👀
Here's Google (again) admitting it's dependent on our sites -- NOT the other way around
Google didn't build the web, we did
If Google wants to reimagine the web around AI, we can & should demand control & compensation!
Publishers & web creators, pay attention 👀
Here's Google (again) admitting it's dependent on our sites -- NOT the other way around
Google didn't build the web, we did
If Google wants to reimagine the web around AI, we can & should demand control & compensation!
Fresh on the heels of the landmark Anthropic settlement, Apple was sued in a class action today, for essentially the same thing.
Authors are suing Apple for training its Apple Intelligence language models on datasets "including thousands of pirated books."
Genuinely inspired by the ability of @TaylorLorenz to relentlessly stand in her power, speak truth to misogyny, and not give one flying fuck about her detractors.
The Global Sumud Flotilla tracker is now live on our website.
Follow our vessels on their journey to break the siege on Gaza. This mission is carried by all of us, and every step forward is a step for Palestine.
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A 2024 study found that 58 per cent of English majors at two Midwestern universities had so much trouble interpreting the opening paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens that “they would not be able to read the novel on their own.”
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“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
— Toni Morrison
For fuck's sake, so many people from the CC group who successfully avoided Covid for 5+ years are catching it at the moment. Fucking nightmare. What hell of a strain is this shit?
For fuck's sake, so many people from the CC group who successfully avoided Covid for 5+ years are catching it at the moment. Fucking nightmare. What hell of a strain is this shit?
HISTORY IS BEING MADE TODAY
Today, the largest civilian flotilla ever assembled has set sail from Spain, carrying hope and humanitarian aid to Gaza.
People from 44 nations, united on dozens of boats, are defying the blockade with solidarity and courage.
When shoddy facial recognition offers the most convenient excuse to arrest innocent people - against all evidence to the contrary.
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📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.
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