ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

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(PS this is where quote tooting would be helpful e.g.).

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.

Nothing says "this company's purpose is to defend the status quo and reinforce existing economic power disparities" like putting Larry Summers on your board.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altman-return-openai-ceo-2023-11-22/

If you ever wonder what a “not-for-profit that owns a for-profit” means or who really calls the shots at a Silicon Valley “not-for-profit”, remember this.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/22/sam-altman-openai-ceo-return-board-chatgpt

Hint: always follow the money.

PS. What other organisation can you think of that’s a “not-for-profit that owns a for-profit” and gets all its money from a surveillance capitalist? 🤔

#microsoft #openAI #whosYourDaddy #google #mozilla #BigTech #PR

@misc @trochee
If critics could get past the "o the board's incompetence, how droll!" stuff, they might find a useful illustration of how & why #TESCREAL ideologies & #LessWrongism more generally fail. The Board appears to have been made up of sincere people with crazy beliefs that happen to be really amenable to exploitation for manipulation of sincere people. There's a lot to unpack in this, but I've got work to do, a novel to finish, grandkids to play with....

DO NOT trust your money to random cryptocurrency bro's!

They have zer0 clue what they're doing and only want your money, money, money

Waterford Whispers has been demonetized by Facebook, for satirical articles about what's happening in Gaza such as this one: https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2023/11/20/israel-bombed-two-un-run-schools-sheltering-civilians-but-i-want-to-talk-to-you-about-some-red-paint-instead/

If you're a fan, and you'd like them to keep going, they have a Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/WhispersNews and you can throw them a few quid.

New issue of @bcsmagazine is here! https://weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-396/

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On a retreat some years ago in Colorado, we did an opening night ceremony of circumambulating this stupa, then individually touching our foreheads to it.

The next morning this little guy was doing the same. 🙂 🙏

How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op by By Nick Romeo

"In Spain, an industrial-sized conglomerate owned by its workers suggests an alternative future for capitalism"

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-mondragon-became-the-worlds-largest-co-op

Y'days post: Why does the political right have such a problem with reality, and how should experts respond? https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/11/why-does-political-right-have-such.html
As the pandemic showed in the UK, most people have not lost trust in experts, but right wing politicians are increasingly hostile to science.

welfare for the rich, wage suppression for everyone else. the "AI" dream.

https://mastodon.nuwus.org/@bweaking/111452771179543344

The Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales. #solarpunk as reality, not fiction. A lovely place, and an amazing resource. https://cat.org.uk

How do you do, fellow non-X users—

Does anyone know how to get link previews to show up on newsie.social?

Remarkable how little conversation there has been about abortion rights winning by 13% IN OHIO. I know it’s not as fun to talk about as polls that mean absolutely nothing. But it does suggest that the central organizing idea of the Republican Party has now become its greatest liability.

From Judd Legum
Free speech does not require subsidizing bigotry

https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=1664&post_id=138998132&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=eo2d1&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNDYzNzQyOSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTM4OTk4MTMyLCJpYXQiOjE3MDA0Nzk5NjksImV4cCI6MTcwMzA3MTk2OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE2NjQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.uniSq-8Xx5yKlDO0aoL1KABUOvW6AKRDDE7CZ7brNMI

Many recommendation letters written by humans are subtly sexist. Letters written by AIs amplify and expose that sexism. In a new study, male candidates' words include "thinkers" "expert" "integrity" & female candidates' are "emotional" "grace" "delight" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-replicates-gender-bias-in-recommendation-letters/

"Netanyahu has a salient interest in the war continuing until Donald Trump ousts Biden from the White House. That would help him implement his three “noes” – no acceptance of responsibility, no elections and no Palestinian state."
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-11-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/is-it-good-to-die-on-the-altar-of-netanyahus-lifes-work/0000018b-ee64-ddc3-afdb-fe75c6600000

Wow, that's a cool story. Infocom's Zork interpreter sources leaked/found decades after they made history.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/infocoms-ingenious-code-porting-tools-for-zork-and-other-games-have-been-found/