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.
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Lucie / minute13h ago
nice, amiga 2000 has a built-in stand for the mnt pocket reform
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@mntmn Best Docking Station Ever!
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)17h ago

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
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Setting my out of office reply message
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@freakazoid Which worked a lot better when there were kernels of truth to it.
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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
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