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Make sure you explain why you think Herzl was wrong when describing his own project
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Governor Andy Beshear, in a Trump +30 state, gives advice to Democrats: Do not throw LGBTQ+ people under the bus, it will not work.
His advice to dems: Lead on your values.
This man ran on a fully inclusive campaign in 2023 and won. He received the same kind of ads Harris did.
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BREAKING: H.R. 9495 has FAILED to pass a vote in the House, with 256 voting yes and 145 voting no. It has failed to clear a 2/3 majority required to pass under suspension vote.
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If people tell you gen AI is a tool rather than a replacement for human creativity, show them this new data from Harvard Business Review:
- ChatGPT reduced writing jobs by 30% and coding jobs by 20%
- AI image generators reduced image creation jobs by 17%
- These numbers are not rebounding
- The effect is bigger and faster than with other forms of automation
It’s self-evident that generative AI competes with the work it’s trained on, and the people behind that work. But there is now a growing body of evidence to support this.
hbr.org/2024/11/research-how…
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While scientists were more productive, they reported lower job satisfaction, mostly because their skills were under-utilized and because their tasks were more repetitive after the AI.
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And this is how tasks change when the AI is introduced, one of the coolest graphs of the whole paper: idea generation halves, judgement of materials doubles, experimentation slightly increases.
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Importantly, the *more productive* scientists--those initially producing more new materials--are gaining more from the collaboration with the AI. See the shift in new materials discovery distribution (left) and new prototype introduction by decile of productivity (right).
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Unless Democrats understand what happened with Latino voters this year, they could be out of power for generations.
A deep dive from reporter @jherrerx 👇 politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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If someone with felonies can be President, those with felonies should be able to vote, to secure housing, employment, and student loans.
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AOC asked her followers who split their ballots either for Trump/her or Trump/downballot Dem to explain why and posted the replies:
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actually kind of helpful that the tech billionaires have gone mask-off. liberal software engineers who have been working at companies like "ah well at least it's being run by democrats, probably not evil" look again!
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just my friendly reminder to consider destroying shit:
xitter.cf/_alialkhatib/status/18…
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….which shows how broken the surveillance biz model powering the current centralized tech industry is.
Signal is the nervous system of secure comms globally. We are innovating while big tech is stagnating. Yet we’re fundraising donations while boring apps white labeling big tech cloud APIs are getting billion dollar valuations…
From Meredith Whittaker at #FTFutureodAI Summit this morning: "We haven't set up Signal as a not for profit company to be cute, in a normal company the board would pressuring us to monetise your data and erode privacy; I won't do that."
@mer__edith @madhumita29 @FT @ftlive
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The rise of Trump and Trumpism cannot be fully explained without first recognizing how, over the last two decades, American politics has been shaped by the rise of China. 🧵
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𝐏𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐈 𝐓𝐄 𝐋𝐎 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄 | Mi participación en el Festival de la Esperanza #Eltriunfodelaesperanza #vamosaganar
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I wrote about the origins of modern computation tracing to enslaved labor, the influence this has on what we call “AI," and how this helps highlight some limits of Silicon Valley narratives that insist the tech sector is escaping capitalism
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🚨BREAKING 🚨: the MIT student zine Written Revolution and a chief editor have been officially BANNED from campus over their support for Palestine. This Orwellian act was imposed without a shred of due process and is indicative of MIT's increasing authoritarianism.
