"When Gabby Petito, a young blonde woman, went missing in Wyoming in 2021, her story was "mentioned 398 times on Fox News, 346 times on CNN and 100 times on MSNBC."

In the 53 days since Westwolf's death, her name has not been mentioned once on cable news."

#MMIWG

https://popular.info/p/mika-westwolf-matters?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=123178638&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

“ What I hear in that is, “Those aren’t existential to me. I have millions of dollars, I am invested in many, many AI startups, and none of this affects my existence. But what could affect my existence is if a sci-fi fantasy came to life and AI were actually super intelligent, and suddenly men like me would not be the most powerful entities in the world, and that would affect my business.”

Great interview with @Mer__edith by @wilf
https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them

Holy shit. In less than 24 hours, I have had two apparently earnest white dudes in entirely separate discussions suggest that maybe the best way to deal with Mastodon being a bad experience for many Black people is to have more Black-run instances. To which Black people would presumably move for safety. That is, their solution to white racism is segregation.

Not only is digital ethnic cleansing is one of the fucking goals of a lot of the racist shitheads, but this also makes it the job of Black people to clean up after white racism. Which is itself systemic racism. How about instead, white people take on the responsibility of limiting the ability of other white people to cause racist harm?

Her: What is it? Your fetish. Your deepest, darkest fantasy. You don’t have to be afraid to . . .

Me: THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD FIGHTING

https://www.mediaite.com/tech/twitter-files-journo-matt-taibbi-ditches-twitter-over-latest-musk-move-and-expects-it-will-come-with-a-price/

The fact that the NYT thought we needed yet another “wokeism running amok on college campuses” piece, completely indistinguishable from all the other ones, is more interesting to me than the essay itself, which has absolutely nothing new or substantive to add.

Some thoughts: 1/

Absolutely wild @jonchristian story. CNET trained an AI on old CNET stories and didn't tell anyone

https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-articles-label