| Playing: | Guild Wars 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Diablo 4 |
| Authors: | Pratchett, Gaiman, Kendzior |
| Values: | Secular Humanist |
Thanks to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling this May, the EPA was forced to remove protections from most of America's wetlands this week.
Harlan Crow's firm lobbied for the rollback while he secretly plied Justice Thomas with gifts.
Anyone see a problem here?
“The Manhattan Institute was one of eight conservative advocacy groups that filed amicus briefs urging the supreme court to take on Moore v US, a $15,000 tax case that Democrats have warned could permanently “lock in” the right of billionaires to opt out of paying fair taxes.”
State/federal fines and fees should be based on a percentage of annual income in excess of the poverty level.
Equitable, scalable, and sustainable.
Are there people out there who are looking at #LLM/AI-generated content as pollution?
Because that is the analogy that makes the most sense to me. It's creating huge externalities for the profit of a few - proliferating enormous amounts of digital pollution (as well as real-world greenhouse gas pollution).
The more #AI/LLM churn out content for the internet, the dirtier the water, so to speak. Or the air. And the less it functions for users.
Musk brought Nazi accounts back, & makes $ money by verifying them, boosting them to Twitter users, & airing major advertisers next to their Nazi content.
“Your ads will only air next to content that is appropriate for you” - Twitter CEO Yaccarino, last wk.
This wk: 2 doz companies paid Musk for ads next to pro-Hitler content: Adobe, Amazon, Office Depot, Samsung, MLB, Atlanta Falcons, Women's World Cup, Fortune, Gallup, SI, USA Today
Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3 has industry-leading triple-A studios concerned they will have to start respecting their audiences to stay competitive.
OH WELL. 🤷
Robert Reich
Tristan Snell
Erin Conroy
Jamison Foser