I met with AT management after I got a little grumpy about the Project K proposal, here’s my update and I’m genuinely hopeful we get to a better place on this important project.
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Gave a lil talk for my faculty on LLM titled "Ideology machines: How ChatGPT is training your students to do evil." I really worry that if we train students to just write prompts that produce the outputs we ask them for, they'll apply this skill to write policy that harms people.
Our analysis of satellite imagery from Nov 2023 - Jul 2024 reveals evidence of a new Israeli military corridor east of Gaza City. This new corridor is the second Israeli-built east-west passage through Gaza, after the so-called ‘Netzarim Corridor’. These corridors are infrastructural indications of an intended permanent Israeli military presence in the northern parts of the occupied Gaza Strip.
This is the shortest amount of time in MMP history where a post-election poll shows that the opposition would be able to defeat the newly-formed government (6 months).
NZ Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2022 released today. Shows 49% of NZ climate pollution is methane, mostly agribusiness. Global dairy and meat industry is lobbying to change how this is measured so 49% magically changes to 0%. That is the purpose of the ‘independent’ methane review
"You have basically cropped ... five words out of the whole Te Tiriti, and you're using it for political gain."
Mata with @Mihi_Forbes will be back in 2024 🎉 In the meantime, you can catch up on all our extended interviews here: https://t.co/S8VvEvM19l
Mini-Budget today. Despite the Incoming Government calling for clarity on existing spending, the mini-Budget today does not provide any analysis of the tax cut or spending programme of the incoming Government. It's very thin - it's basically 10 pages of press release. A 🧵
BREAKING: Fascism is a response to what Gramsci called an “organic crisis” in capitalism—not just a periodic downturn, but when serious cracks appear in nearly every edifice of capitalist society, & capital can no longer convincingly claim to be ruling in the universal interest..