Peter Swimm
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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"I myself have publicly advocated the use of direct action, including property sabotage, in the cause of climate justice. It stands to reason that I should support the same range of tactics in the effort to prevent genocide."
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"I myself have publicly advocated the use of direct action, including property sabotage, in the cause of climate justice. It stands to reason that I should support the same range of tactics in the effort to prevent genocide."
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Damn really. That’s crazy. Damn [lowering into lava like end of terminator 2] damn
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Damn really. That’s crazy. Damn [lowering into lava like end of terminator 2] damn
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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We have less than one week until Queer in AI's programming at NeurIPS 2025 kicks off! 🌈 ✨
1. 📝 JOINT POSTER SESSION: Tue, Dec 02 6 pm - 9 pm
2. 💐 WORKSHOP: Thu, Dec 04 9 am - 5:30 pm
3. 🥂 SOCIAL: Thu, Dec 04 7 - 11 pm
For more details, go to queerinai.com/neurips-2025. See y'all there! 🌟
1. 📝 JOINT POSTER SESSION: Tue, Dec 02 6 pm - 9 pm
2. 💐 WORKSHOP: Thu, Dec 04 9 am - 5:30 pm
3. 🥂 SOCIAL: Thu, Dec 04 7 - 11 pm
For more details, go to queerinai.com/neurips-2025. See y'all there! 🌟
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
We have less than one week until Queer in AI's programming at NeurIPS 2025 kicks off! 🌈 ✨
1. 📝 JOINT POSTER SESSION: Tue, Dec 02 6 pm - 9 pm
2. 💐 WORKSHOP: Thu, Dec 04 9 am - 5:30 pm
3. 🥂 SOCIAL: Thu, Dec 04 7 - 11 pm
For more details, go to queerinai.com/neurips-2025. See y'all there! 🌟
1. 📝 JOINT POSTER SESSION: Tue, Dec 02 6 pm - 9 pm
2. 💐 WORKSHOP: Thu, Dec 04 9 am - 5:30 pm
3. 🥂 SOCIAL: Thu, Dec 04 7 - 11 pm
For more details, go to queerinai.com/neurips-2025. See y'all there! 🌟
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everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
Her insanely unsatisfying company memo after the el paso shooting was really the straw that broke the camels back to make me leave, so glad to see she is still a keen people manager.
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Her insanely unsatisfying company memo after the el paso shooting was really the straw that broke the camels back to make me leave, so glad to see she is still a keen people manager.
happy thanksgiving to all who tolerate it
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
happy thanksgiving to all who tolerate it
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What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
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you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Got a book about the political economy of AI - and because you can't have critiques of political economy without ghost stories and dead labor, it features stuff like Hayek's ghost, steam demons, and AI nightmares!
Why We Fear AI — Common Notions Press
Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than the technology of the future.
www.commonnotions.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Got a book about the political economy of AI - and because you can't have critiques of political economy without ghost stories and dead labor, it features stuff like Hayek's ghost, steam demons, and AI nightmares!
i bought this thing not knowing anything about the chud behind it so i think i’ll have to paint it before i can use it
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i bought this thing not knowing anything about the chud behind it so i think i’ll have to paint it before i can use it
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
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This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
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They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
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Yeah was also confused by all the glowing reviews. But this one is good. blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...
One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution
Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.
blackgirlwatching.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Yeah was also confused by all the glowing reviews. But this one is good. blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...
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They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
i’ve never walked out of a movie i was screening in my own home but one battle after another made me consider it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
i’ve never walked out of a movie i was screening in my own home but one battle after another made me consider it.
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i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
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At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
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Insurers are now seeking to exclude AI from corporate policies because the risks are too unpredictable and liability is unclear. This is a signal: we cannot rely on insurance markets or tort law to protect against AI harms. We need actual governance and policy.
Insurers AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots and to retreat from coverage of AI risk as multibillion-dollar claims mount
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Insurers are now seeking to exclude AI from corporate policies because the risks are too unpredictable and liability is unclear. This is a signal: we cannot rely on insurance markets or tort law to protect against AI harms. We need actual governance and policy.
hello god it’s me, charlie brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
hello god it’s me, charlie brown
“Don’t let the millions who gave their lives for conflict minerals have done it for nothing.”
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
“Don’t let the millions who gave their lives for conflict minerals have done it for nothing.”