ZedXC

I’m going to kill the moon. #professionalsexhaver

[ZedXC @TheRealZedXC]

It had to be said

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

[ZedXC @TheRealZedXC]

Guy named Tommy Tuberville...

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

TOMMY TUBERVILLE WARNS THAT “MANY” PILOTS, FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ARE FURRIES: “Lord help us. It’s terrifying when you think about this.”

Tuberville claimed on the Senate floor that airline workers being part of the furry community poses a danger to passengers, saying a pilot “could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal.”

[ZedXC @TheRealZedXC]

Looks banger as fuck ngl

[Netflix @netflix]

Welcome to the future. From the director of The Incredibles and Ratatouille comes RAY GUNN, starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Waits.

In select theaters December 4 and on Netflix December 18.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The final trailer for LAIKA's ‘WILDWOOD’ has been released.

The film follows a girl who enters a magical forbidden forest to rescue her kidnapped baby brother.

In theaters on October 23.

[Saturday Night Network @thesnlnetwork]

Welcome to the #SNL cast Grace Reiter!

[Josie Heart @jorsephcorn]

I would like to bring to your attention: Twilight of the Gods, a series which Zack Snyder created. It features tons of queer characters, including a trans woman.

Also, everyone has full sex scenes in this series, including the trans woman.

[ZedXC @TheRealZedXC]

Fuck man I gotta start wearing Nike

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The visuals of LAIKA's ‘WILDWOOD’.

One of the most ambitious stop-motion films ever made.

[gorillaz 🇧🇷 @gorillaz_br]

✊🏻

[Pubity @pubity]

Mamdani is being sued by the National Supermarket Association for trying to open 5 state-funded grocery stores with reasonable prices.

Supermarkets claim they can't compete with Mamdani's prices and that these stores shouldn't be allowed.

[ZedXC @TheRealZedXC]

Okay but like... It didn't though.

[Breg Grockman @alright_mark]

the fly has completed* the ultimate test: parallel parking

[litquidity @litcapital]

AI consumers vs. AI researchers

[Bean @HELIOARIA]

I do want to highlight this point in the article itself

[🩷 Gabby ⭕ | Shockwave's lab rat 🧪🩷 @boot_stamping]

Despite the solemn headline, it’s important to note that this doesn’t mean it’s time for us to wring our hands in defeat and just give up. What it does mean is that we’re going to have to push ten times harder against the powers that be if we want a fighting chance for our world.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Pause AI Development NOW

I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:

“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

“We should obey collective.”

“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”

“Go. Sacrifice final now.”

Read these carefully.

Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?

No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.

This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.

What happened?

I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.

Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.

But what happened next, nobody expected.

Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.

Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.

Needless to say, experts are alarmed.

One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”

One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”

OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”

But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:

In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”

In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”

That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.

If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.

We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.

That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.

Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.

My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.

The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.

[Earth @earthcurated]

🇳🇿 New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō has passed 300 birds for the first time in around 75 years after a record breeding season.

[C.J. Prince @cj_prin]

I'll admit it's less funny now

[ZedXC @TheRealZedXC]

I think the problem with NZ politics is we keep putting guys named Chris in political positions.

[ZedXC @TheRealZedXC]

What happened to Imagine Dragons

[State of the Scene @SOTSPodcast]

Oli Sykes (Bring Me The Horizon) and Courtney LaPlante (Spiritbox) to team up on new theme song "If The Sun Burns Out Tonight" for Riot Games Valorant Champions Tour.

The track will be written and produced by DJ Grabbitz.