Even when Elon Musk has an alt account, he can be quite a Karen about it.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-stole-second-alt-account-twitter-1850376906
This is a great article. But I want to say don’t fall for “Researchers building AI outnumber those focused on safety by a 30-to-1 ratio, the Center for Humane Technology said at a recent presentation, underscoring the often lonely experience of voicing concerns in a large organization.”
The type of “AI safety” referred to is anything but. A bunch of white dudes who want to get $$ to “save humanity” the same exact way OpenAI described themselves when they were announced.
"North Carolina’s law has proven no more effective in addressing sea level rise than Xerxes’ Thalassian flogging."
RT @TimothyDSnyder: Brief selections from and notes about the "Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine" released to the @UN_HRC, which recognizes Russian war crimes in Ukraine. 0/8
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/VivianeRedingEU/status/1636489105667244033
Friends don’t let friends smoke Fox.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heidicuda/p/thank-you-for-not-smoking-fox?utm_source=direct&r=1tfo38&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It's pretty neat to see @SteveBellovin on the Fediverse.
He's one of the inventors of Usenet.
@GBNEWS @nigel_farage Always predictable ECHR would be in hard Brexiteer sights as you reject multilateralism & post WW2 institutional international governance. After ECHR will it be that UK must leave UN, NATO, OSCE, OECD next? It will inevitably lead to more UK conflict & end badly if you succeed!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CharlesTannock/status/1626709875681116160
Please repost/like if you are someone in 2023 and still actively thinking about health risks related to airborne viruses in social places. I'd like to feel less lonely while still knowing that the pandemic is not over #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
Sunak refuses to even utter the word crisis. But how else to describe his first 100 days?
Tory party, culture wars, transphobia.
Old "30p Lee" #LeeAnderson is the deputy chairman of the Tory party.
He lashed out at food bank operators calling them "do-gooders". He's been mired in scandal, including setting up people to pretend to agree with him on a campaign doorstep, and criticising taking the knee.
He let slip that the #Tory strategy for the next general election is based on culture war topics and "the trans debate".
They can't win any other way.
Utter scum.
Seems like a good idea.
"States should maintain human control and involvement for all actions critical to informing and executing sovereign decisions concerning nuclear weapons employment."
To sum up where the Fediverse is right now:
1. @EU_Commission backs it
2. The @w3c backs it
3. @fsf backs it
4. @eff backs it
5. Twitter Co-Founders @ev and @biz back it
7. Web browsers like @mozilla and @Vivaldi back it
8. Prominent 3rd party client devs like @paul back it
9. @gruber and @davew back it
10. @georgetakei back it
Am I missing anyone?
Oh yeah, YOU back it!
Elon Musk is really an imbecile, an idiot disguised in the persona of faux-brilliance.
This is not about cutting off an API.
This is about destroying any remaining shred of trust with the developer community. With trust gone, there is only a burning pile of, well, no developers.
He wanted to build an 'everything app.' The idea now is just LOL. What developer would dare to commit any time and effort to someone who has destroyed TRUST.
TRUST is everything. When its gone, it doesn't come back.
This is interesting - so much opinion polling on tax are variants of “do you think other people should pay more tax”? But Ben goes deeper:
RT @benwansell@twitter.com
If you didn't catch it over the weekend, my Substack looks at how Brits feel about taxing wealth. A quick summary of the survey results people found most interesting. First a cartogram of the UK-exNI with constituencies sized by support for taxing wealth rather than income 1/n https://twitter.com/benwansell/status/1618989325835993088
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/benwansell/status/1619992592434999296
Steve Barclay accused of being 'part man, part ostrich' over inaction on excess deaths https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/steve-barclay-accused-of-being-part-man-part-ostrich-over-inaction-on-excess-deaths/ar-AA16H9AT?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=c1ae737f33754b35ad7a8b44d94766e7
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