Emma Friend

general enthusiast, leftist hag, labor organizer, clanker hater. she/her

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

all these men vying for Speaker and none running to be Listener. makes u think

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

It is 80 degrees in Boston, the only major northeast city where the question can be, *which* of the *many* ponds, lakes, and beaches a 15-25 minute bike or car ride away to go jump in after work

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[roman roy apologist @ro3ver]

I'm just on the introduction of the encyclical but holyshit the pope is soooo based!!

[mari ☁️ @m_stormwitch]

World so fucked even I FULLY agree with what the Pope said here in his first encyclical

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It is produced by a currently deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; it could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development.

[Daily Bugle Janitorial @abysmaldogwater]

unfortunately the catholic church declaring holy war on AI is raw af

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

Cone Of The Night

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN 🔥

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

Day 1 of asking my local cone purveyor @IceCreamGracies to stay open until 10pm in the Summer. It's barely dark at 9!

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

Mariola is an incredible community member, educator (AFT MA member!) & mom in Lynn facing potential deportation next week - please join this Mother's Day action to join her in solidarity before her next ICE check-in & against tearing communities apart https://t.co/HuSiD6zWuj

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

blank street coffee and pop-up bagels you will never see the light of heaven

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

Bestie won't come to Green River Fest because she's worried the hype for Geese will create an unsafe crowd crush à la Chappell Roan Boston Calling 2024. A Geese Astroworld. Geesetroworld

[chloe 𓆩♡𓆪🦊 @sithlordchloe]

why does everyone wanna go to japan let’s go to Cork

[cats with jobs 🛠 @CatWorkers]

Black cats waiting to be auditioned for a horror movie, 1961.

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

@doormatt26 There are policy solutions that are working in metro Boston (traffic calming, expanding protected bike lanes, green line extension) to decrease pedestrian/cyclist fatality. We should continue de-prioritizing cars, not welcome in ones that steal jobs and increase surveillance

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

Genuinely, how do we stop the Waymos in Boston? It needs to be clear they're not welcome here & anyone who rides in one is a soulless traitor to the community. Hoping the general difficulty driving here/disregard for the rules of the road will make it more trouble than it's worth

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

@doormatt26 I'd rather pay a person who knows our streets to drive me safely home than give the same fare to a tech company trying to extinguish an entire sector of the workforce, using a vehicle that can't negotiate an aberration in the traffic pattern. That's all our streets are!

[bella ☭ @bellanati0n]

boston is getting SO much attention today… most of it not fabulous (people discovering what bostonians wear for outfits)… but im committed to restoring its glorious reputation one tweet at a time

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

.@praddenkeefe
cc @MorganRSperry

[Emma Friend @EmmaYourFriend]

Congrats to everyone running the Boston Marathon today but especially my friend Morgan who is currently doing it while listening to the Say Nothing audiobook. This is our fucking city