Toni

Back on X to witness the implosion. 🍿

[Toni @ToniThai]

The four verticals of ⁦@BADGRRLSCC⁩ are Film, Fashion, Art & Metaverse! PUBLIC MINT is live NOW! They’re animated w/ art by the incomparable ⁦@soulcurryart⁩ aka Ishita Banerjee. An artist I love & admire. You guys have no idea of what’s in store! 😜🤫💋

[Toni @ToniThai]

“New York is the strong friend.”

That’s what last week’s Knicks parade taught me.

Not just about basketball, but about belonging, joy, gentrification, loyalty, and the city that gives everyone everything and keeps nothing for itself.

New essay:

https://t.co/BoVnUdjpX2

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

I beg your pardon….HE DOES WHAT??

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Why is the AI backlash growing?

Outside of coding (where there is clear value), and a handful of other domains (e.g. brainstorming), Generative AI has been a net negative for society.

GenAI has been undermining secondary and college education, opening up mass surveillance, increasing disinformation, delusions, impersonation, phishing, and other forms of cybercrime, nonconsensual deep fake porn, bias in employment and other domains, and economic disparity, drowning the world in slop and unwanted, over-leveraged environment-damaging data centers that risk causing a recession.

Simultaneously it has empowered a bunch of people who want to privatize almost all the gains while leave all the downsides to society, taking almost zero responsibility.

I don’t think we are better off than we were four years ago.

Some of this is technical (LLMs aren’t reliable), some of it is political/economic (such as the utter lack of responsible regulation). Most of this was predictable.

Almost none of it is good.

All that said, I honestly believes some future form of AI might be great. But Generative AI has hurt more than it has helped, and been managed irresponsibly.

It’s no wonder many people have had enough.

[Toni @ToniThai]

@williamfleitch @washingtonpost The insults & belittling you attempted to bestow upon fans of the film, says more about you than MJ. Perhaps it wasn’t made for people like you who wanted to see sex scenes with kids. 🤢

WE got what we wanted.

I’m so happy the newspaper business is in free fall. 🙏🏽

[Toni @ToniThai]

@williamfleitch @washingtonpost Will, it wasn’t a bad movie, you just missed the point. WE LOVED seeing a simple narrative about his start, relationship with his dad & glimpses of his creative mind. He was investigated for 17 yrs. Acquitted TWICE, dead for over 15 & you insufferable people still can’t rest. 😂

[Toni @ToniThai]

@GaryMarcus @CNBC @carlquintanilla Didn’t he offer you short stock or something like that?

[Toni @ToniThai]

Forgot to mention the whole situation created a big stressful mess and now my father is in the hospital. It’s been days and no reply from @Uber support because they now use AI exclusively & I’m a One member. This is so f’d up!

[Toni @ToniThai]

2 days ago I ordered an @Uber to pick up up my 82 year old Father who has early Dementia from Queens. My father was telling the driver he had to go back to Queens. I spoke to the driver and told him not to listen to him.

[Toni @ToniThai]

2/2 To leave him at the drop off point where a family member was picking him up. When they arrived, my father wouldn’t get out the car and had the Uber take him back. Against my wishes. I never ordered an extra stop. What are my options?

[Toni @ToniThai]

@KeithGrossman @zerohedge Plaxico is my friend. A very good one at that.

No one talks about all of the Athletes getting robbed in NYC back then. He wanted to protect himself. Made a mistake. Went through much loss & humiliation. Did his time. Now we’ve all moved on… 🙂‍↔️

[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

I've never sen anything more accurate

[Toni @ToniThai]

@SamuelAAdams lol. This is Fake news. Are you really a “journalist”?! I know times are hard for you all but what a joke. Marty Supreme had 13 noms and won ZERO. Sinners had a 25% win rate. You clearly didn’t research & just wanted to dampen a historical moment. It failed. So transparent. 😴

[Toni @ToniThai]

@Tyrese CONGRATS T! Ignore these ignorant and mean comments. The same people yelling “toxic masculinity” don’t allow men to be vulnerable. I’d rather you “cry on the internet” than hold it in and die young. 🙏🏼🫶🏼

[Complex Music @ComplexMusic]

Salsa giant Willie Colón passed away this morning. According to a statement released on his official Facebook page, he died peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones

May he Rest In Peace 🕊️

[chart data @chartdata]

Bad Bunny becomes the first artist in history to simultaneously hold the entire top 25 on the Hot Latin Songs chart in the US (@sanbenito).

[Toni @ToniThai]

@realmelanieking WTF did I just watch?

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

His name is Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He was 37 years old.
He was a licensed nurse.
He was recording ICE and defending a female protester from their aggression.

And they executed him.

[Toni @ToniThai]

@WallStreetApes AI!!!! You forgot to add the snow and coats on people (it’s freezing outside) when you promoted AI to make this fake ish.

[Toni @ToniThai]

I’m so heartbroken and nauseous to hear of Rob Reiner and his lovely & talented wife Michele passing. I’m grateful for the moments I got to chat with them, & visit the set of Spinal Tap2 we laughed so much. Such kindness/creativity. My thoughts are with their family. #RobReiner

[Toni @ToniThai]

@Ask_Spectrum is a scam. My internet bill keeps getting higher and higher and somehow I on a higher plan i never signed up for. This is so sneaky and stressful. You all need to STOP.