☕ Lauren ☕

Bios are hard

She/her

Black lives matter

[divvy 🧸🌷🐝 @santoshdragon]

😭😭😭

[Ross Hendricks @Ross__Hendricks]

Rob a gas station for $200: 10 year prison sentence

Orchestrate wide-scale cyber security breaches and a fake news media campaign to pressure the Feds into killing your competitors and propping up your multi-trillion valuation ahead of an IPO: no problem

[Keshvibez @keshvibezTV]

Jokes about women, written by men who actually like and love women, just hit so differently.

[☕ Lauren ☕ @LaMistemper]

@knucklexdragger Yep

[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

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

And here is 404, an outstanding site and strong report on today's unsealed documents. /15 https://t.co/Eol7bKeYfv

[Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin]

All things aside I do think people are trying to hold Zitron to higher standard than they hold most of the tech commentators who led the public like cattle to a slaughter from bullshit to bullshit over the years AND ARE STILL ACTIVE RIGHT NOW. I will take seriously criticisms of Zitron around predictions once we apply these hallowed standards to the Swisher school of journalism. Until then, I truly could not give less of a fuck because it’s plainly obvious there’s not an interest in Getting Predictions Right so much as Making Us Feel Good. And frankly even if we did, I would still have much to say about the whinging surrounding his predictions.

[Cooper @justcuuper]

"Okay sure you gave us all 3 branches and we've done dog shit but rename bodies of water and jack up prices but give us another chance 🙏🥺 I'll give you $5,000?"

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

The future of women's equality depends on a culture-wide reckoning with the female capacity for evil. We either update our representations of women to reflect their complexity, or we keep pretending they're fragile & wonderful and watch their status backslide to that of children.

[Tyler 🧀 @CheeseheadTy]

They’re slandering my team, my coach, my quarterback, my colors.

But they’ve never seen the levels of delusion I can reach.

“It’s just week 1”, I say.

A smile returns.

[☕ Lauren ☕ @LaMistemper]

@GovernorAnne It doesn't go bad, and travel size is useful either way. I say go for it

[Exomnium @Exomnium]

all other allegations aside, "we caught wind that a mathematician might be about to solve a famous problem so we spent $15 million on tokens to scoop them" is exactly why OpenAI is completely full of shit when it says it wants to work with the academic community in a positive way

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

“I wouldn't wish it on anyone” may be the funniest possible ending to a career spent wishing essentially this exact experience on millions of other people.

[RJ @MKENewYorker]

WE Energies claiming the rate hike is for investments in renewable energy projects is absolute bullshit. The Sierra Club gave them an F for their efforts to transition away from fossil fuels and reduce carbon emissions. Also - they reported $10.14 BILLION in revenue in June.

[mural of famous Serbs on Irving Park & Sacramento @GarlicCorgi]

Railway companies were insanely evil, did a lot of damage to this country, and we needed to create special agencies to get them to stop being evil. Probably a really instructive case here

[James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ @provisionalidea]

To me, Joe’s line of questioning shows the (harmful) downstream impact of how industry folks talk about these machines. “Training” becomes socially metabolized as a magical process wherein the essence of humanity gets distilled from our effluent and instilled in the machine, as opposed to a goal-directed system where a function approximator takes in a bunch of human output (books, articles, blog posts, forum threads, chat logs, pictures, videos, etc.), breaks them into chunks, iteratively goes through each one chunk-by-chunk attempting to predict the next chunk, and then, once it can do so reasonably successfully, is tasked with iteratively attempting to produce new outputs that meet a growing list of subject-specific requirements and preferences (correct code, accurate statements, answers formatted in ways users like, etc).

it’s not that it behaves like a human because it’s trained on human data, but rather that it produces text that looks like text we produce, and — because we’re so used to communicating with each other through text (especially in chat format) — we habitually respond by assuming the producer is human, or at least humanesque.

As others have noted ofc, when the same system is applied to outputs that aren’t text, people don’t respond the same way. So it’s not the system so much as how we as humans have learned to interpret and apply meaning to the textual modality.

[turbomander (TWITCH AFFILIATE ERA) @turbomander]

Conner O’Malley you son of a bitch you were right all along

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

"Stochastic Sheep", 2026 (non finito)

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

1) Texas hasn’t gone blue in over 30 years. It’s an all-hands-on-deck effort.

2) Haley Stevens and Mallory McMorrow are actively backing Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.

Francesca Hong is actively backing David Crowley in Wisconsin.

Angie Craig is actively backing Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota.

Alex Vindman is actively backing Angie Nixon in Florida.

Zach Wahls is actively backing Josh Turek in Iowa.

Troy Jackson’s (short-lived) rivals are actively backing him in Maine.

Jasmine Crockett stands alone.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, not by immigrants, not by the deep state, not by the press, not by Canada or Mexico or Greenland, not by Antifa or by Jewish space lasers or pride parades.

No. Our state is under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington. A man who ran for president because he wanted to live in a palace and get rich or get richer.

Our state is under siege by the skilled sycophants who surround that president and use his base desires as cover for their own destructive agendas.

Our state is under siege by the many, many Republicans who are either too infatuated or too frightened to fight Donald Trump for the people they serve.

And I mean Republicans like Darren Bailey. You can be a lot of things and still be an effective governor, but one thing you cannot be is a coward.