John Maxwell

@jmax
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He/him.
Them sheep is all liars.
Reluctantly aging geek.
LLMs are a scam.
I miss you, Hobbes and Tux. You were the Best Cats.
Adopt the Juicero or be left behind.
Corporations are not people.
Lisps are the one true programming language family, Scheme is it's purest member, and Emacs is its temple.
nice, amiga 2000 has a built-in stand for the mnt pocket reform

Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? Nanna Inie and I have got you covered:

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: The Newsletter
Setting my out of office reply message
Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for $44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because of people like him, not because your neighbor is an immigrant."
#hunger #poverty #greed #politics

Prairieland sentencing update: today’s rulings don’t just close a case, they clarify the direction of power. What happened is not only about eight defendants sentenced in Texas; it is about the rapidly expanding power of the state to redefine dissent against fascism itself as terror.

Full update- https://www.wewillfreeus.org/prairieland-part-4-blueprint-for-repression/

Prairieland Part 4: Blueprint for Repression

Prairieland marks a dangerous precedent. When speech, political association, encrypted chats, legal gun ownership, and proximity to protest become grounds for decades in prison, dissent itself becomes criminalized.

We Will Free Us