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James W

@jamesw228.bsky.social

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Takes about all kinds of things but predominantly politics, autistic people things and research, technnology. Opinions my own and all terrible. He/Him Pōneke/Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 5d

The questions I keep coming back to are:

What if they do?
What if they automate away white collar, creative and transport workers?
Who buys the stuff from their companies?
With what money?
How does that economy function?

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 2m

I'm not allowed to drive cause of my eyesight or lack thereof more specifically 😂

Cars still exist

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 9m

No shit

Rest of World @restofworld.org · 15m

Teachers, parents, and students agree: AI textbooks aren't up to the task restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea

South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 11m

It's so weird that they've just totally normalized pretending that the Hatch Act doesn't exist

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 27m

The bike riders probably set off the weird Buddy system he has with his son to make sure he's not watching porn

James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 40m

I'll just be over here trying hot to rant about people talking about LLMs reading/understanding text that's fed into them

James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 46m

I don't have enough time to list all the times LlMs have generated citations for cases or research papers that don't exist

How is it more productive if you can't trust the output is factually correct? Which you'll never be able to cause that's not what it's built to do

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 14h

If we're talking about LLMs, No

For s bunch of reasons that boil down to the fact the content they're trained on includes the boases of the creators and then the model creators introduce their own to that

All technology is created by people none of whom are fair or unbiased

Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 20h

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Can AI create a fairer future for persons with disabilities?

For millions of persons living with disabilities worldwide, artificial intelligence could be a game changer. At Purple Fest in Goa, India, entrepreneurs are showing how AI is turning assistive…

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 5d

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 1h

Oit doesn't make a huge amount of sense since most of the production that relies on those minerals occurs outside the USA and only their sales in the USA are impacted by the tariffs

James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 1h

Wonder how long before Trump gets jumped and makes him eat those words

James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 4h

I'll do my best but this is your fault for making me aware of this thing 😂😂

James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 5h

@alicefraser.bsky.social

Someone trying suggested the mo more cats thing here in NZ and it went exactly how you assume it did despite our wide variety of birds that can't fly or are bad at flying

James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 7h

Careful there Keith or we'll have to break out the skull calipers and then check your blood quantum for you

Just for science of course

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 7h

you can't just call everyone nazis, they're just antisemitic blood and soil authoritarian nationalists who glorify violence and want to be nazis

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 7h

Fine motor control was not a strong point as an autistic kid 😂

Was doing well just to tie the fucking things myself 😂

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 7h

The worst was when they pulled it so tight it was painful but also an absolute cunt to get loose

Kids are the best sometimes

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