Tom Faber | Creative Technologist

As someone who is pro-AI but often mislabeled as anti-AI, I think the below lacks nuance. I am anti-generative AI because it is not trustworthy, and filled with hype and grifters, and because many of the companies building it are predatory (e.g., avoiding paying artist and writers etc is certainly part of that). That said, I have worked in the field of AI more broadly construed for a long time, and would like to see it prosper - but in a way that is trustworthy and beneficial to all. tldr: you can be anti-generative AI (especially as it is currently practiced) and still have hopes for a broader, better form of AI to grow up and fulfill its initial promise.

@AP Trump is weak. Only a weak person betrays and extort his allies. He is weak because he does not have the courage to stand up against enemies of freedom like Russia. He is weak because he sells out the American people to enrich himself.

BREAKING: President Donald Trump says he's lifting tariffs on most goods from Mexico for four weeks amid economic fears from trade war. apnews.com/article/tariff…

His barber hates him too

@NFLonFOX @JimmyJohnson Peter Thiel's JD Vance and Elon Musk's Trump are puppets. Billionaires have bought the US and try to turn it into their own private corperation. Wake up and ignore distractions like this.

Thank you, Coach.

@FoxNews It was a trap all along by Peter Thiel's JD Vance and Elon Musk's Trump puppet. Billionaires have bought the US and try to turn it into their own private corperation.

Vice President JD Vance reveals where things 'broke apart' during Trump-Zelenskyy blowup at the White House trib.al/LbQIGbp

@Grady_Booch The treators have taken over

@POTUS Trump plainly displays he's in Putin's pocket, disrespecting democracy and freedom the US stands for and Zelensky defends.

“We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure. It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.” –President Donald J. Trump

Tell the EU: Protect our online spaces from abuse act.thesyriacampaign.org/letter/Tell-th…

@fitfor55info No it can't. Nuclear is far more expensive (billions per reactor) than just investing in renewables and battery storage. Plus building just 1 new reactor takes 15-20 years. It's a ridiculous proposal, even just from an economic standpoint.

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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/

You might be interested in this, Philipp. arxiv.org/abs/2502.03387 @AIExplainedYT

Curious to get your take on LIMO, an approach to 'inject' general problem solving thinking into models via few high quality examples - and seemingly generalizes across various (tested) domains. @GaryMarcus arxiv.org/abs/2502.03387

Greta has connected the dots, and now we know why the media’s coverage of her climate activism has went silent. “Environmentalism without class struggle is gardening”

@thoughtrise thank you for the very interesting thread! But how would you say does the situation even arise that authoritarian people become so attractive?

as an anthropologist, one of my specialisations is authoritarianism & revolutionist practice in response to it one of my research foci for is the social processes of a society's descent into authoritarianism a historian once told me: it happens slowly, then all at once.

@MichaelFNunez @GoogleAI @_akhaliq @Gradio @huggingface plot twist: this article feels like mainly written by AI for click-bait, and the "shattering revolutionary" applications are really nothing new, and could have been done beforehand by just showing the image/reference(or text) in the same video feed to the model.

Plot twist: A small developer team just discovered Gemini capabilities that Google's own apps don't have - simultaneous processing of live video AND static images! 🎯💫 Read more: venturebeat.com/ai/google-gemi… @GoogleAI @_akhaliq @Gradio @huggingface #ArtificialInteligence

We are a year away from AGI and OpenAI is hiring people for $385k base to write React

@thibaultmilan i wish mastodon's onboarding had been better so that they could have absorbed the exodus of x and fb/ig, but I'm afraid it's still too "heavy" for most.

@thibaultmilan @luxtrust @GuichetLu @MinDigital_LU :P That's certain, but the vast majority of users will be in the country and from known IP ranges/ISPs. So during a DDOS the most obvious 1st step seems to block all requests from outside the country to guarantee access for the vast majority of the user base.

@thibaultmilan @luxtrust @GuichetLu btw, are you on bsky? I'm on the handle callmetom. I think I will leave this and the FB/IG mess behind.

@thibaultmilan @luxtrust @GuichetLu Yeah, I'm also looking forward to the report. Wondering though why @luxtrust @MinDigital_LU wouldn't just block traffic from outside Lux? Maybe the attacker are using Lux IP addresses (which I would find rather expensive/elaborate to procure a botnet of that size in lu).