Chance

fellow prisoner of the splendor and travail of the earth. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes. https://t.co/oCahGd4lgY

[charles r. davis @charizardavis]

wow, you're telling me a ton of senators and congressmen have been funneling bribes into their personal pacs for years? it's almost like the dissenting opinion in citizens united was right, and that opening the door to super pacs has undermined the integrity of elections!

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

If The Atlantic magazine is doing guilt by association, here's a pic of its owner, Laurene Powell Jobs, with Ghislaine Maxwell.

[Aurora Britt @Britt4rva]

I know we are all numb but here’s the sitting president threatening to do war crimes to 90 million people in front of the entire UN

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

We’ve lost 30% of our purchasing power in the last 6 years and somehow, everyone just accepted it.

We literally were made 30% poorer so the government can spend trillions.

[Kyle 🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Kappa_MxK]

9 years ago, As the Australian public were putting in their survey responses regarding same-sex marriage, Macklemore got up in front of nearly 80k and millions watching across the country to perform ‘Same Love’. He did this despite pressure from politicians to have him removed from performing altogether. 2 months later, same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia.

Fuck Ed Sheeran, Free Palestine.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter Roger Waters, who has long been a vocal supporter of Palestinians, called Ed Sheeran a “little prick” on Tuesday night in an Instagram message
https://t.co/wAvHwxSdY9

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

It continues to baffle me that we don't just treat this like a normal crime with normal liability.

OpenAI is routinely hacking other companies. These are crimes! But somehow the idea of holding them liable is just absent from the safety conversation, like agents don't count.

[Chance @chackley]

Idk, I can’t help but suspect a big part of the reason these companies are calling for government to “slow AI development” is to run cover for the fact that it’s *already* slowing. “Sorry investors, we could improve exponentially but the government won’t let us because skynet”

[Ethan Perez @EthanJPerez]

Jacob was a senior researcher who joined Anthropic in May. My Anthropic colleagues and I had been trying to recruit him for ~2 years, because we knew he was a strong researcher at OpenAI. Before he left, I pitched him to stay and join my team, and I was sad he decided to leave, as are many of my colleagues. 100% agree with him that AI poses serious risks to society, and I'm glad he's speaking out!

[Chance @chackley]

@mattxiv @treeaston Lol I never in a million years would’ve assumed she was anything but a Republican. Wild strategy here

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

All Our Top Scientists: we’re constructing a superintelligence that we believe will kill us all, but we can’t stop because someone else might build it first
The President: let it henceforth be known as Chipotle American Grill

[Stan's Account @tristandross]

[seeking investors]: so we've invented a machine that dilutes all of human creative endeavour, so that, someday soon, nothing will have the capacity to provoke wonder; that we hope will render every task futile and joyless; and the good news is, we also expect it to kill us all

[Ray Kump @RayKump]

We have to build AI that murders us, because if we don’t, China will build it first, and I don’t want to get murdered by a computer that speaks Chinese. That would be ridiculous.

[Tamara Winter @tamarawinter]

“…to use an LLM to write is to void the social contract between writer and reader: we readers shouldn’t be expected to labor to understand a sentence that the writer themselves didn’t work to create.” 🎯

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

“Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology…films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator..”

—1984

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

I still think about the guy who pointed out that "the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." Rarely have I seen Al described so succinctly.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

In a…fucking what?

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

what an insane headline. this is why the ellison’s bought cbs and put bari weiss in charge.

[Chance @chackley]

Indistinguishable from a far right rag

[CBS News @CBSNews]

As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack. https://t.co/BHsuxDhOZj

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

this reads as if Bari Weiss's CBS News is deliberately trying to insinuate that Abdul El-Sayed did 9/11 or is somehow connected to 9/11 and now must answer for that