Matt Churgin

Fascinating cultural differences

NEW: The House has passed a bill to crack down on price gouging at gas stations by a vote of 217-207. Every single republican voted NO.

Imagine being so “pro-life” that you are willing to vote against baby formula …

They just went to the grocery store. Buying breakfast for their kids. Looking for fresh vegetables. Getting the ingredients for Sunday dinner. They just went to the grocery store, and now they’re gone. It’s unacceptable. It’s devastating. It’s terrorism. It’s white supremacy.

This week really shows the absurdity of comparing the far left and the far right. A far-right white supremacist just killed 10 people in cold blood, while the establishment spent the week calling the left “too aggressive” due to peaceful protests at the houses of the powerful.

If tonight’s news is true, Michigan’s 1931 state law banning abortion would snap back into effect, making any abortion illegal in our state — even if the mom will die, or if she was raped by a family member. No exceptions. 1/2

Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Elon Musk owns Twitter. When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

I refuse to be delegated to the "skeptics box" in someone else's framing of a debate. Here is my response to @stevenbjohnson 's NYT Magazine article about LLMs and OpenAI. On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed link.medium.com/rag8kbGujpb

Second order effects of the rise of large language models:

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Wow. Marjorie Taylor Greene with the holocaust-denying antisemitic racist Nick Fuentes. The ads pretty much write themselves. Spread this everywhere.

Betsy Sneller, Assistant Professor in @MSULiLaC, was awarded a @NEHgov grant to develop an open-source code to create a self-recording mobile app, which will be critical for researchers who work with spoken data. Read more: cal.msu.edu/news/neh-grant…

I recently learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head. Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry. Hang onto your hat. This is wild. 1/

every insanely interesting person i know seems to have been completely comfortable being boring for a very long time while they investigated what exactly about their interests was interesting to them

There's only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus, whatever they are calling themselves these days.

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🎙️Speech community event incoming! 📨 The Robust Speech Challenge will be held from January 24th to February 7th in collaboration with @OVHcloud 🔥 Come and join us to build robust speech recognition systems in 70+ languages🤗🌍 To participate: discuss.huggingface.co/t/open-to-the-…