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politico: extremism triumphs, darkness falls

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This is terrible. They don't even know what this creative imagination dialogue engine is (it is most certainly not a search engine). And if they ask it, it will lie to them. Infuriating that people have emptied the word "facts" of all meaning. And continue to evacuate meaningful words.

Well this is grim

“[G]iven the racial shifts in the last decade on a global level and the rise of white nationalism, I think there are more McBrearity types around us than we want to admit. … These people are not outliers, they are the natural consequence of a white supremacist structure. …

My latest on the blog. blackgirlinmaine.com/commentary/w...

When a hatemonger passes on (or, America’s most MAGA dad is no more) | Shay Stewart-Bouleyblackgirlinmaine.com I have been writing about racism for over two decades now. When I started back in 2003, I never could have imagined that my occasional submissions for local publications would end up altering the cour...

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Photo of the finished green hair Tank Girl piece before she flies away to her forever home. She has been adopted! Watch at tessfowler.storenvy.com for a chance to adopt your own!

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laen (lily's new name?) (@[email protected])social.coop Attached: 1 image things are really hard right now for so many. it can all seem overwhelming and impossible and like you just can't find the way. but you will. we will. we have to. little steps and ...

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Auction ends tomorrow. 🙏

#PudgyHorse dons a pair of wings. 'Pegapudge', if you will. Brown pencil on plain notebook paper, 122 × 132 mm, 2019. This original artwork is available at auction this week, ending Friday 5th July. Link below and in profile. 🙏

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I wrote this earlier, but it may be broadly applicable today. Accepting things you can't control doesn't mean giving in to hopelessness. Quite the opposite- it's a guide for how sleep at night after facing ugly truths. I sleep knowing I did what I could, and the rest is out of my hands.

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The bartender says "sorry, we don't serve faster than light particles here." Two tachyons walk into a bar. The punchline comes before the joke You know what the worst thing about time travel jokes is?

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Our very own Esther Wang spoke about the growth of worker-owned news outlets with Laura Flanders: "We're the ones who make the decisions about what to publish. It's all of us, the journalists, who decide how the company is run." Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwFZ...

Meet the BIPOC Press: Is Worker-Owned Media the Future of Journalism?www.youtube.com YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends

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Have a poll up on Mastodon about online ads. If you’re willing to go over there and vote, would love your input: writing.exchange/@ernie/11270...

Ernie Smith (@[email protected])writing.exchange What is your tolerance for annoying online ads? At what point do you break? (Asking for an issue I’m just about to post.) [ ] I destroy all ads from my browser [ ] Non-invasive ads only, please [ ] A...

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The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive’s existence is getting threatened because it loans books like a library, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

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It takes years to process what we already know. California is finally taking steps to restore some of the money Big Tech is sucking out from media's jugular; here's k.e. harloe with a good report, a Q&A with Matt Tinoco of LA Public Press flaminghydra.com/issue-108/

The big media paybackflaminghydra.com Today: k.e. harloe, a freelance writer based in New York, author of the newsletter media x capital and the column Mediaquake. Issue No. 108 Pay the Journalists for the Journalism k.e. harloe Pay ...

no real time for this kind of thing lately, but managed nevertheless a sketchbook-doodles post on anti-IG Cara last night cheers to all the hard-pressed working artists attempting break from Meta cara.app/post/8a25c91...

paul bowman (@pdbowman) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platformcara.app couple of little heads

‘From my testing across 10 publications, it appears that currently, ChatGPT is often doing what its predictive text generation does best: predicting the most likely version of the URL for a given story — rather than the correct one.’ www.niemanlab.org/2024/06/chat...

ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigationswww.niemanlab.org Nieman Lab’s tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.

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Swamp Thing is better than Man-Thing because swamps are better then men.

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Sometimes, such small things as the cooing of a wood pigeon on a hot but gradually cooling summer's afternoon can be the most evocative thing in the world. I suppose that for me, it's also reminiscent of childhood days in Chiang Mai, where it would have been zebra or spotted doves instead.

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again, today's the last day to try to opt out of facebook/instagram's AI bullshit. follow these instructions. If they refuse or something you can keep that email as proof when they inevitably get got for this deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t...

11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIdeborahcopaken.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

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It’s Act II of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social survey of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. And this one has EVERYTHING: bear rug incest … sexual anarchy … demigod battlemaidens in full armor… the Will of the Species. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

‎In Bed With The Right: Episode 25: Richard Wagner: Act II on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show In Bed With The Right, Ep Episode 25: Richard Wagner: Act II - Jun 18, 2024

you don’t say www.axios.com/2024/06/18/a...

GenAI chatbots are spreading Russian propagandawww.axios.com A NewsGuard audit found that chatbots spewed misinformation from American fugitive John Mark Dougan.

reading differently with @jewishcurrents.bsky.social pdbowman.studio/briefs/15-ju...

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Thor's helmet should emote like Asterix's, my only deeply held superhero opinion

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It is NOT true that you become boring as soon as you leave your twenties, I for instance saw a HUMMINGBIRD outside my window yesterday morning and I am telling EVERYONE

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becoming fully and irreversibly KRAZY KAT-pilled

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the most recent from Yahav Erez at Disillusioned, published last month, is very good — a conversation with Arnon: pod.link/1624487374/e...

Disillusionedpod.link Ever wondered if there are Israelis who support the Palestinian struggle? This is where our stories are told.

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it's draw time

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‘All output from a LLM is a “hallucination” — generated from the latent space between the training data. LLMs are machines for generating convincing-sounding nonsense — “facts” are not a type of data in LLMs.’

i wrote precisely this up here 1. TOO MUCH venture capital $ with nowhere else to go 2. middle managers have to push the hype cos their C-levels love it very dumb BS and blatant lies ensue across tech the "tech" is now in the "knowing fraud" stage davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2...

Pivot to AI: Hallucinations worsen as the money runs outdavidgerard.co.uk Remember when AI had proper hallucinations? Eyeballs! Spurious dogs!

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

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If you try to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized, things improve for everyone. And that ought to be the starting point for all of our work in communities.

google news distributing anti-union lobbying operation Illinois Policy’s blog posts as if they were journalism — positioned ahead of actual news stories, in fact nothing new, of course, just an instance i thought i would capture and post today, for whatever it’s worth