Jesse McClure 

@jmcclure@sciences.social
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Scientist | Anti-capitalist | Behaviorist

- PhD in Neuroscience & Behavior
- Member of the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB)
- Certified FearFree℠ Professional
- Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA)
- 20+ years professional experience in animal behavior
- Research in canine behavioral genomics
- Former professor of canine science & behavior
- Former USMC working dog handler

Webhttps://jessemcclure.org
PronounsHe / Him

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:

1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.

2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.

3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.

4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.

5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.

It’s a grift, through and through.

The people mocking Mamdani for eating with his hands have no issue with white people eating burgers chicken & fries with their hands

The people mocking Mamdani for identifying as African American despite being born in Uganda have now issue with a white billionaire identifying as African American

The people mocking Mamdani for saying America can do better had no issue with making President the white guy who ran on “America isn’t great”

It’s not patriotism they’ve embraced—it’s white supremacy.

"Dachau was the first step on the road to atrocity. Will America go there? Eight months ago, I would have said never. At that point, America was still a nation under the rule of law. Now, we have politicians cheering the image of people being fed to alligators" and "selling swag celebrating the construction of an American concentration camp."

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/american-dachau-trump-takes-the-next

American Dachau: Trump Takes the Next Step

Six months.

Charlie Angus / The Resistance

This is like if Nazi's sold Auschwitz merchandise to their base in 1941.

It's beyond sick. The clinical term is sadistic psychopathy.

People keep saying they're celebrating their freedom today.

Hell, if we can celebrate imaginary stuff, I'm celebrating my pet unicorn! And no, you can't ride it.

#PetUnicornDay

@Viss We've been replaced!

We can argue about what’s the absolute worst part of what Congress is about to do. The enormous transfer of the nation’s wealth to the richest one percent from everyone else?

But for me it’s this: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/114762327100958328

Kim Perales (@KimPerales@toad.social)

Attached: 1 image 🚨"If the bill passes, it could make #ICE the US' largest jailer, with more funding for #detention than the entire fed Bureau of Prisons. It'd give ICE enough💰to have more officers on board than the entire FBI. This alone could transform American society forever." -A Reichlin-Melnick #BBB "Trump is committed to keeping his promises, & failure to pass this bill would be the ultimate betrayal." -C Pergam In effect: funds terrorism agst undoc #immigrants +others who oppose the #TrumpRegime. #USPol

toad.social
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump’s ex-wife Ivana wasn’t an American citizen until 1988. She gave birth to Don Junior in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984. — Let’s cancel their birthright citizenship first.
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.