Karl Bodethe media's obsession with mythologizing unremarkable bullshitters and parroting claims about their vaporware is utterly pathological
like it genuinely strikes me as some kind of cultural mental illness at this point
wasabi brain
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NonilexIn a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse #Israel of #Gaza #Genocide
Israel says it is fighting against Hamas, not #Palestinians as a group. But 2 of Israel’s best-known #HumanRights groups said Monday that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, adding fuel to a passionately fought international debate over whether the death & destruction there have crossed a moral red line.
#law #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/world/middleeast/israel-genocide-gaza-rights-groups.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Greg JohnsonThomas Chalmers, Presbyterian minister, speaks of poverty. The Bible expressly tells us to give to those who ask, even to the evil and unthankful, to give direct gifts to the poor from those items we possess.
Chalmers would have us give directly to the unthankful. Today, in contrast, we’ll put out people for allegations, even false ones, that they are not sufficiently our ally. Such as Afghans.
How can you give to the evil and unthankful?
I keep hearing economy is great but when you dig into things like chipotle q2 earnings or Las Vegas tourism way down, you’re seeing US consumer is really not doing well. Anecdotally I see high income earners pulling back as well
stephie 
Max LeibmanSomething Zack Korman tweeted in 2022: "Unlike most people on Twitter, I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people are making is they are asking 'how can I use this to automate a smart person’s job?', when they should be asking 'what would I do if I had unlimited dumb people?'"
I found that a fascinating idea, and it's one I've come back to again and again for two and a half years.
And yet I still don't have a good answer.
I think part of the reason that AI hasn't revolutionized my life is that I just don't have that much work that I need to do poorly.
I found that a fascinating idea, and it's one I've come back to again and again for two and a half years.
And yet I still don't have a good answer.
I think part of the reason that AI hasn't revolutionized my life is that I just don't have that much work that I need to do poorly.
Marcus Hutchins 
Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over. Meanwhile people are shoving a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because a glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems.
emptywheelI normally wouldn't link to ANYTHING from Ross Douthat, but his interview with @jkbjournalist.bsky.social is a great summary of the story but ALSO he keeps giving voice to the Israeli angle in a way you'd never see in the NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
AaronJust saw an article about how people are talking more like ChatGPT.
Bananas are cloned. When a pest or fungus evolves a way around the banana's defenses, the entire crop is destroyed due to a lack of variation.
We're already well aware of the dangers of monoculture. They have been discussed not just with respect to agriculture but also to *human* diversity as well. In particular, it is well-understood that neurodiversity and cultural diversity strengthen, rather than weaken, the performance of teams.
What sorts of vulnerabilities are we creating in our society when so many of us spend time conversing with and learning from a bot that follows the same patterns of speech and "reasoning", with the same assumptions, biases, and failure modes?
#LLM
#ChatGPT
#diversity
#neurodiversity
#monoculture
#variation
#culture
#bias
AnarchoNinaWritesAs Hamilton Nolan so succinctly put it many months before election day - "Do not make your voters step over dead children to cast a ballot for you."
Sage advice.