ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@qoto.org

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.

And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).

The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the only woman on the old board was replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.

The OpenAI story is about greed versus the possibility of the company living up to its founders' pious promises. Greed flattened ethics because that is how everything works now.

@ZingerLearns @edutooters When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

America is addicted to policing as a solution to all social problems. Not enough housing? Sic the police on the homeless people! Inadequate mental health care? Sic the police on the psychotic and depressed! Not enough resources to handle disabled children? Sic the police on the kids!

@ZingerLearns @edutooters Local cop shot a kid in a road rage incident. Defense pointed to his work as a school "safety" officer. "Treated those kids like his own children." Turns out he had domestic violence record as well.

@edutooters @ZingerLearns Related… The Kids of Rutherford County

“For over a decade, one Tennessee county arrested and illegally jailed hundreds, maybe thousands, of children. A four-part narrative series reveals how this came to be, the adults responsible for it, and the two lawyers, former juvenile delinquents themselves, who try to do something about it.”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kids-of-rutherford-county/id1707247008

@ZingerLearns To be frank, I thought our entire sp’ed team and the LEA were worthless, but the faculty did wonders with them, and if we could get them before things escalated, they were sent to me to chill. But you know how quickly an ED child can go off. I’m going to do a quick photo edit masking the child’s face and dm you a pic. @edutooters

@DoomsdaysCW @frederick people really need to stop using the word “renewable”. This is a word coined by fossil fuel industr marketing assholes, trying to sell the public on fuels grown on fields instead of switching to shit that doesn’t burn. The word you’re looking for is “sustainable”.

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Indigenous, Native American and Originarios should have free movement across the Américas. no passports, no visas.

the nation-state is the complete opposite of freedom.

the older i get, the more Anarchism makes sense to me. the state is the original colonialist, genocidal, enslaving, violence machine.

yeah... the older i get, the more radicalized i become.

Kill the capitalist in your head.

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@ZingerLearns @edutooters Interesting! But presumably these people don't leave tech completely. It's two different things to consider - how long people stay at one company but then move in the same industry, versus how long it takes them to move industries. I feel with teaching it is always said that a ridiculously high number of trainees leave teaching altogether within the first 5 years...

One of the greatest tricks that capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that half a chicken wing is a chicken wing.

@ZingerLearns @Hey_Beth @20002ist @w7voa maybe.

But she was worth somewhere in the low 8 figures before the deal, and compensation seems to be somewhere in the 5-10 mil range, including stock options (for the now private company that has lost most of its value).

I just can’t see it paying off better in the long term if she very publicly trashes her reputation.