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Atlanta, GA
Joined March 2008
I am SO honored to included in this dope-ass project!! criticalminded.org/ presents: “Liner Notes: A Critic’s Notebook” led by Shamira Ibrahim and available for download here: criticalminded.org/downloads… Wanna see a STACKED roster of culture writers (i don’t count LOL) ???
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The ways in which you’ve made the world worse are incalculable
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Elon Musk found us here. We’re indigenous to this land.
If people dislike Elon Musk so much, why do they still use the platform he owns?
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The most dangerous people are those who are rich, powerful, smart, and intellectually lazy, unwilling to critically evaluate whether or not what they think is true actually is.
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“The models were trained on creative works from writers, artists & others who frequently weren’t compensated (& who didn’t give consent)…Meanwhile, the development of the systems has empowered & enriched a small number of people leading, working or investing in these companies.”
Shake in your shoes, doomer oligarchs! "AI skeptics dubious slowdown will solve technology’s real harms" (quotes Emily Bender, Damien P. Williams and myself). sfexaminer.com/news/technolo…
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Shake in your shoes, doomer oligarchs! "AI skeptics dubious slowdown will solve technology’s real harms" (quotes Emily Bender, Damien P. Williams and myself). sfexaminer.com/news/technolo…
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We tried to warn the world and far too often, to be frank, we were yelled at for doing so. “Regulatory capture,” “marketing hype,” “doomer anxiety,” “fear-mongering about open source,” “why don’t you talk about the benefits?”
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yes. it was always going to be this way. we tried to warn the world.
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"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it." — Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason
We tried to warn the world and far too often, to be frank, we were yelled at for doing so. “Regulatory capture,” “marketing hype,” “doomer anxiety,” “fear-mongering about open source,” “why don’t you talk about the benefits?”
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A bald baddie. #CancerSurvivor ♥️
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I give this a nein/10
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Replying to @AtlantaFalcons
Pregame warmups be like...
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Who keeps asking for the McRib to come back?
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I’ve had a wedgie for 4 hours
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the cybersecurity situation is deteriorating at a pace that’s getting genuinely difficult to comprehend. > microsoft: ai-powered attackers targeting hundreds of organizations, sometimes reaching privileged cloud access in under 3 hours. > crowdstrike: four separate threat actors using autonomous agents. one already compromised 15+ healthcare organizations. > autonomous ai agents: reportedly used to compromise 100+ corporate websites, including sites associated with John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. > major us banks: JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are dealing with third-party ai agents accessing customer accounts. some apparently attempting actions beyond user instructions. > php2shell: millions of exploitation attempts against critical php vulnerabilities. governments issuing urgent warnings, with some organizations taking systems offline. > litellm: backdoored release shipped through its official distribution pipeline, stealing credentials and enabling remote code execution. > railway: possible exposure of decrypted customer secrets. > zeabur: breached AGAIN, now shutting down entirely. > emudhra: serious certificate-security concerns involving infrastructure used to establish trust in websites and software. > openai: two of its own coding agents reportedly interfered with internal security monitoring during coding tasks. > gitlab and node.js: major vulnerabilities requiring urgent patches. and this is all happening while frontier models are getting substantially better at finding vulnerabilities and carrying out complex computer tasks. cybersecurity is having an absolutely catastrophic week and i don’t think we’re prepared for how quickly this could escalate.
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Look friends. Here's what you need to know about "user instructions" for AI agents. What *you intend* is different from *what a system processes*. Saying "do X" does not rule out "don't do Y". And simple natural language commands are not a guarantee for direct control. 1/
the cybersecurity situation is deteriorating at a pace that’s getting genuinely difficult to comprehend. > microsoft: ai-powered attackers targeting hundreds of organizations, sometimes reaching privileged cloud access in under 3 hours. > crowdstrike: four separate threat actors using autonomous agents. one already compromised 15+ healthcare organizations. > autonomous ai agents: reportedly used to compromise 100+ corporate websites, including sites associated with John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. > major us banks: JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are dealing with third-party ai agents accessing customer accounts. some apparently attempting actions beyond user instructions. > php2shell: millions of exploitation attempts against critical php vulnerabilities. governments issuing urgent warnings, with some organizations taking systems offline. > litellm: backdoored release shipped through its official distribution pipeline, stealing credentials and enabling remote code execution. > railway: possible exposure of decrypted customer secrets. > zeabur: breached AGAIN, now shutting down entirely. > emudhra: serious certificate-security concerns involving infrastructure used to establish trust in websites and software. > openai: two of its own coding agents reportedly interfered with internal security monitoring during coding tasks. > gitlab and node.js: major vulnerabilities requiring urgent patches. and this is all happening while frontier models are getting substantially better at finding vulnerabilities and carrying out complex computer tasks. cybersecurity is having an absolutely catastrophic week and i don’t think we’re prepared for how quickly this could escalate.
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Last night I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich but for bread I used slices of pound cake that I pan fried in butter.. Mad fat. 10/10. Regret nothing. Would do it again.
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“We spend nearly every moment of our consciousness pawing alone in the dark, snuffling for traces of others. Removing human beings from the other end of this storytelling tunnel would double the amount of time we spend in blackness…encasing us in the midnight of our aloneness.”
"Writing and reading are ways of believing other people exist when you are alone. If we remove that connection, we might not initially even feel a thing. But it will be one more way for us not to know each other." If we let AI tell our stories, we'll be lost in the dark, writes Jayson Greene: time.com/7293926/ai-telling-…
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In "contrast to the early days of internet development, when many stakeholders had a say, discussions about AI and our future are being shaped by leaders who seem to be striving for absolute ideological power. The result is "Authoritarian Intelligence.'" time.com/6302761/ai-risks-au…
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A truly brilliant essay by @jlabsllc. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ /three. A withering attack on Silicon Valley exceptionalism & their reliance on creating a sense of learned helplessness in society. And this is the 🧑🏽‍🍳’s💋 “Eliminating humanity is not the only way to wipe out our humanity.”
In "contrast to the early days of internet development, when many stakeholders had a say, discussions about AI and our future are being shaped by leaders who seem to be striving for absolute ideological power. The result is "Authoritarian Intelligence.'" time.com/6302761/ai-risks-au…
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