Michael Eliot

For a long time, I thought mountain dew was caffeine free. In unrelated news I have unmedicated adhd

Y’ALL. This is not a drill. The Wayback Machine is often the only source of webpages that have been scrubbed from the Internet.

Only policy gets to be incremental while direct action has to immediately be The Revolution. When you hold onto seeing radical action as a trend that feeds into itself this whole line falls apart. Past that they'll finally admit they didn't even want revolution anyway!

This is the next line liberals take when they can no longer pretend to be blind and ask 'where are the revolutionaries?' The point is to bog you down in specifics and place the weight of the world on any immediate action: 'how does this help? how does it end capitalism?'

This isn’t unpopular, it’s perfectly in line with one side trusting evidence-based science and the other trusting whatever their schizophrenic delusions are telling them on that particular day

My take: All AI systems degrade over time as they feed on their own bad data and try to second guess rather than solving real problems. LLMs are stuck on a developmental plateau. The data centre build only makes this worse.

please dont mock harm reduction somewhere, there is someone, who needs to know this

If you think datacenters are useful wait till you find out about food

The City of Festus, MO canceled their Council meeting for tonight following last night's election whereby citizens voted out of office every single member who voted for the data center there that the people did not want. Micro to macro, that is how we hold them accountable.

This effectively means that your Google search results are now inaccurate 10% of the time. One out of ten searches delivers you bad information. This is enshittification!

I’m serious when I say commercial landlords are at the epicenter of the destruction of your city. You don’t have generational businesses with affordable products/services in your community specifically because of these parasites.

Why is this so hard for people to understand? I've made this point to tech bros on various occasions, and it does nothing to sway them. They tune it out or do a bunch of handwaving.

This is fair to call out. Javier Bardem is EXTREMELY pro-Palestine too and has consistently been speaking out since the beginning. They have not blacklisted him.

Yep. and from Google:

I hate Grammarly, I hate Smart Compose, they’re flattening language by removing all the things that make it personal & distinctive. Your voice, your style, your idiosyncratic perspective are being molded into a blancmange of conformity. Don’t let them steal what makes you unique

The show won't work. It'll collapse, or be cancelled. Essiedu (Snape) is already receiving death threats before a single episode has aired. An Italian actress has been cast as Parvati Patil, a canonically Indian character. Stanton's parents had to disable all of their daughter's social media within an hour of her casting announcement due to racism and, again, death threats. She is eleven years old and already articles dissecting her skin colour have since been written. The cast is already fracturing. Lithgow nearly quit over Rowling. Nick Frost publicly distanced himself from her views. Essiedu signed an open letter supporting trans people, while playing a character in a show exec produced by Britain's most prominent anti-trans voice. The show is also biannual, not annual. Season one arrives Christmas 2026. Deathly Hallows, if they get there, lands around 2040. John Lithgow will be 95, almost guaranteeing he'll die during filming, much like Richard Harris died aged 72 after just two films. The story itself is a now a logistical trap. A Black Snape being hung upside down by the Marauders, spending years fighting for blood purity, then dying for the cause of a white woman he loved. Those scenes cannot be written cleanly anymore. Every choice will generate a fresh brand new controversy from absolutely every angle and political sphere. This franchise requires a sustained decade of audience goodwill to function. That goodwill simply does not exist anymore, as her base is now the most vitriolic, toxic abusers, a narrative at some point (if not already, seemingly) HBO Max will have to adresss. The three child leads have not signed long-term contracts. What happens when they're 18, 19, 20, with fully formed opinions about the woman whose name is on the tin? The magic is a dead horse.

A lit publishing friend said her company screens submissions for the likelihood they’re AI, and turns down subs with high likelihoods. Ironically, they’re using AI to do this and don’t seem to understand that, in doing so, they’re giving AI more content to digest and train on. Now add to the mix this high degree of inaccuracy and you get writers submitting original content that’s being used without their consent to train AI which prevents them from earning a living from their personal work. Humanity can’t keep going in this direction.

There’s a huge legal battle re AI: When you file a claim to get medical coverage from your health insurance, a human isn’t on the other end. It’s AI. 😖 So now ppl are getting claim denials on stuff that’s actually covered…because AI is wrong. Those patients sued.

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