Mya Riemer

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I occasionally take pictures, sometimes of cats or moss, and I spend a lot of time professionally thinking about what things mean.

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Absolutely enormous daylilies in the garden. Face-sized.

"My mentions" feels like a weirdly over-identified thing to me when you're posting in public. Maybe because I come to social media from a forum culture baseline?

Writing some "Hail to the Ent" lyrics for my birthday (January 20).

I guess Bidens age doesn't matter that much to me cause I don't think US Presidents do nearly as much as the myth likes to tell. Reagan spent the back end of his run with Alzheimers, last guy played golf & shitposted for 4 years, idc if Bidens an ent who speaks once a yr, taking it over Project 2025

Maura Healey had one of the better statements I've seen from the Dem governors, media spin and headlines notwithstanding.

This is the core argument of the Republican party on all business - if a profit can be made by some private party, it *must be* made. The public good is subservient to private profit, and private harms to public resources are just the cost of freedom.

Yesterday I published a short essay on how toxic the pervasive believe that you can "offset" or "trade-off" harms from something with a benefit somewhere else, comparing "AI" and asbestos www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/ai-asbe...

AI and Asbestos: the offset and trade-off models for large-scale risks are inherently harmfulwww.baldurbjarnason.com “AI ethicists are speaking out, but are we listening?” Well, yes and no. People are listening, but many in tech aren’t. All too many think they can cherry-pick “just the good stuff” without contributi...

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COLUMNIST: Biden's economy is doing good. But maybe too good? EDITOR: No, no, you now work in Arts and Music section. COLUMNIST:

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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears

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as the surviving confederates cut and ran, union officers picked up confederate battle flags that had fallen in combat and rode circles around the rebels, dragging the flags in the mud and blood behind their horses

today is the 161st anniversary of pickett’s charge, when 12,000 confederates marched across 3/4 of a mile of open land, directly into constant rifle and artillery fire. half the confederates were killed, wounded, or captured in the slaughter, a turning point in the battle of gettysburg and the war

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JFK: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. RFK: Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. RFK Jr.:

They can't even get right one of the rare AI* use cases that's a pretty solid. (It's because they have detection dialed up to 11 with no human review. It's the only way you get the range of false positives I've been seeing.) Hopefully, the relevant audience will get the notice another way.

Meanwhile, the bots running security over at Meta think that a CFP is a phishing attempt.

What the ever living f?!?

"The University of Farmington was even listed on the website of ICE as a school approved by the U.S. government for students. It seemed real to its 600-plus students, a majority of them immigrants from India interested in studying technology and science."

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

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Inching ever closer to this paradise... // Wondermark #1209; Talk and Awe

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Remember what I say; be kicked by him; account his kicks honors; and on no account kick back

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the fact that the left and centre in France have both said that the third place candidates will drop out is getting basically no play in a US press going full apeshit over Round 1 results and yes it is so that you think fascism is inevitable globally so why not here

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

It's official, the AI hype is over - just saw an anti-AI commercial from Dove.

So, say Biden drops out of the race. What next from the media? - "If you can't campaign, you can't fulfill job duties now - resign!" - "OK, Kamala (because women are first namers, not last namers like men), why are you campaigning? You need to learn the job!"

Amazing.

“Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous” tante.cc/2024/06/26/m... > the methodology is a bit … how do you say it in English … fucked up in all imaginable ways.

Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangeroustante.cc Mozilla.ai did a study on generative AI trends and their methodology shows that they should never be allowed near anything AI. Ever.

I was gonna work a quick reply, then had a little rant. Anyway, ChatGPT can’t replace your data management team, and you’re gonna have to EXPAND IT to get a GPT usable data. How about just investing in the DM and skipping the AI until you have a REAL use case.

I have yet to encounter a corporate enterprise that truly has its data in order, and they also do not find data management at a sufficient level to improve that. DM is hard work — just determining where data originated is often impossible. Just throw AI in the mix, though, it’ll solve everything.

Really good thread.

I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out today, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy. There's a sleight of hand at the start that catapults us into a massive lie.

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2024 user: How do I make a pizza where the cheese doesn’t fall off? GPT-4: Use a quarter cup of industrial epoxy in the sauce 2026 user: If I flee to Canada can I access my US bank accounts? GPT-5: It’s necessary to complicate this with a deconstructivist reading of the colonial financial system

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I have known many CTOs that did not need to replaced by AI because they could have been replaced much more easily with a very short shell script.

In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says "some creative jobs maybe will go away" due to AI, "but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" (Kate Irwin/PCMag) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Face the intensity.

“So much of humor relies on being surprising and incongruous, which is at odds with how these models work, says Tuhin Chakrabarty… Creative writing requires deviation from the norm, whereas LLMs can only mimic it.” Which is obvious from knowing how they’re constructed.

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recipe website that uses LLMs to make the pre-recipe story go on indefinitely

Absolute best AI piece coming from a field adjacent to mine. “34% of companies report that generative AI specifically has been assisting with strategic decision making? What the actual fuck are you talking about?” Would not be surprised to learn it's being used to determine things like lay offs.

“I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity” ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-... > This isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a twelve course fucking catastrophe. Today’s must-read

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blog

Really excellent conversation.

Really enjoyed this conversation with Kobi Leins on Carnegie Council's AIEI podcast: www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series...

Linguistics, Automated Systems, & the Power of AI, with Emily M. Benderwww.carnegiecouncil.org In this episode, guest host Dr. Kobi Leins & University of Washington’s Dr. Emily Bender discuss why language matters in the development of technological systems.

Heat Dome dinners all week. This is a garlic lemon peppery chicken pasta salad with tomatoes, cucumber, radishes, sweet orange pepper, and shallot. 🍨📷

Something very obvious 20 years ago when I worked in this (roughly) space — 2% false positives on anything are MUCH WORSE than 98% true positives. 20% false negatives are fine, no one cares much. “AI” forces responses, and nothing returns 100% true positives. Ergo, laughable crap.

Well that honeymoon didn't last. Good

Clearly, they did not count the bunnies in my yard, trying to eat my brassicas.

OK this is the mind-blowing image of the week for me: the total global biomass of mammals. Wild animals are a tiny proportion. From a paper by Ron Milo Lab at Weizmann Institute, via a great Oxford lecture by @marionkoopmans.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Knowing something, even being a true subject matter expert in that thing, is not the same as knowing how to represent that knowledge in ways that are computable. You first must be able to ask and answer Who are you and why do you want to know? Also, a hot dog IS a sandwich and a burrito is not.

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.