#introduction post:
I hide my identity to avert bigots harassing me in my private life. If I come to trust you, I will share.
I'm an open minded Christian clergy member. My Jewish friends have been harassed, belittled, and threatened, and I hope this account will proactively teach non-Jews about antisemitism in its various forms.
ChatGPT and generative AI are already changing people’s lives. We talked to some of them.
They’re also misleading people, repackaging others’ work as their own, and spewing society’s worst stereotypes as fact.
We dive into the good, bad, and ugly of tech’s next big thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/10/chatgpt-ai-helps-written-communication/ w/ @drewharwell & Nitasha Tiku
Marking the old and the new:
Space Sunday: 50 years - last and first at the Moon - https://wp.me/pxezy-wRi
If you don't have any BIPOC persons visible in your feed each day, make an effort to spend 5 minutes every day combing through the Local and the Federated feeds for interesting BIPOC.
Make a habit of following hashtags like
There are more; you'll see them once you make an effort. (2/x)
"Good Thing Twitter Is Politically Unbiased Now"
by @robynelyse over at Wonkette
https://www.wonkette.com/good-thing-twitter-is-politically-unbiased-now
A guest room in an abandoned resort
Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/harmony-house-resort
Nine years ago Stephen Hawking used a TV broadcast to caution the UK about right-wing plans to undermine and asset strip the NHS. What we have been seeing over the intervening years is that managed demolition..."
Professor Hawking was right!
https://willblack-53220.medium.com/choose-one-sadistic-greedy-scamming-tories-or-the-nhs-542a1360a472
Registration is OPEN for Winter Conference 2023!
I see I should say this even more explicitly. We need #Twitter and Musk ON THE RECORD regarding who at Twitter currently has access to users' private Direct Messages (DMs), and who there currently has actually looked at any of them without the permission and/or notification of those users. This would include Musk looking directly at those DMs, or his tasking someone else at Twitter to do so and report anything "interesting" they find to him. ON THE RECORD.
Is it really prosecutable? Judges don't like it, for sure, but jurors are generally pretty immune to prosecution just based on how they voted or whatever afaik. Has anyone been prosecuted for jury nullification or similar?
Fun YouTube watch:
on the Legend(s) of Baba Yaga. This whole channel is great.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.