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I am SO honored to included in this dope-ass project!!
criticalminded.org/ presents:
“Liner Notes: A Critic’s Notebook”
led by Shamira Ibrahim and available for download here: criticalminded.org/downloads…
Wanna see a STACKED roster of culture writers (i don’t count LOL) ???
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NEW: Pope Leo XIV is set to become the first sitting pontiff in the Catholic Church’s two-thousand-year history to vote in a secular election.
Leo requested an Illinois mail ballot on Oct. 3, and it was sent to his brother John’s home in New Lenox, Ill.
John Prevost visited the pope at the Vatican on Wednesday and may now be carrying the ballot back to the Will County clerk by hand. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope…
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We are facing a crisis of impunity. That's why we built The Rule of Law Project — to investigate unlawful conduct by federal officials, and work with state and local prosecutors to hold them to account.
Watch former DOJ prosecutor Mark Blumberg and human rights leader Brad Adams launch this critical accountability initiative on MSNOW with Nicolle Wallace.
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"The reason ideas are more attractive than their realization is that when some project is vague, airy, ill-defined, you can imagine it has all the good traits, and none of the bad." 4/
Above quotes from @zetalyrae :
borretti.me/article/human-ro…
borretti.me/article/the-educ…
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"People think 'the ideas are mine, the writing is the AI', i.e., they feed the AI a list of rambling bullet points that it massages into a blog post, or a paper,.... But they are wrong, because writing is thinking." -- @zetalyrae 1/
(A thread on how writing is thinking 🧵)
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How did I overlook the Biggie One More Chance remix with Faith Evans/Mary J sampling DeBarges’ Stay With Me? Said it before but the 90s owes a huge debt to the DeBarges. Still waiting on @brandonousley to write the treatise on that one.
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Hey music editors: I have a knockout pitch regarding DeBarge's 1983 masterpiece, In a Special Way and its lasting impact on modern R&B and hip-hop that I'd love to talk and write about.
If interested, hit me up at [email protected] or DM me.
How did I overlook the Biggie One More Chance remix with Faith Evans/Mary J sampling DeBarges’ Stay With Me? Said it before but the 90s owes a huge debt to the DeBarges. Still waiting on @brandonousley to write the treatise on that one.
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I’m at the African American history museum in DC and there are children here on a field trip. They are laughing, running and playing around to the point that they’ve have to make several announcements over the loud speaker.
Yes… they are. This has been me the whole time
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🔇 🔇 🔇 I’ll be on the main stage at @AfroTech
on Tuesday Nov. 3 at 3:05pm. AfroTech partners with @kindred_stories, a Community-focused bookstore in Houston specializing in Black literature ♥️
✴️ You can preorder my book, Deep Unlearning, from them.
kindredstorieshtx.com/produc…
ALT A flyer for preordering Deep Unlearning from Kindred Stories at AfroTech, with a QR code that takes you to https://kindredstorieshtx.com/products/deep-unlearning-the-rise-of-ai-and-the-radicalization-of-a-tech-idealist-atc
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This is the sleight of hands AI labs and EAs always pull. First, they make the same critiques engineers like myself claim (i.e. AI is unpredictable and unreliable, and undermines democracy). Yet they caveat it with "unless you have the right guardrails" which is not only false...
Dario Amodei on autonomous weapons: Using AI armies would be 'fundamentally undermining' democracy.
"AI can be unpredictable and unreliable...
It's a little unlike human soldiers, isn't it?
With human soldiers, like, you know, they're supposed to follow this thing called the constitution. And if they get orders that contravene the constitution or that just seem, you know, morally abhorrent in some way, then they can just refuse to follow orders, whereas the AI models, that isn't true.
It's kind of fundamentally undermining to democracy unless you have the right, the right guardrails on it. And our law hasn't really caught up."
Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei on The Builders with @WalterIsaacson
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The most dangerous people are those who are rich, powerful, smart, and intellectually lazy, unwilling to critically evaluate whether or not what they think is true actually is.
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“The models were trained on creative works from writers, artists & others who frequently weren’t compensated (& who didn’t give consent)…Meanwhile, the development of the systems has empowered & enriched a small number of people leading, working or investing in these companies.”
Shake in your shoes, doomer oligarchs! "AI skeptics dubious slowdown will solve technology’s real harms" (quotes Emily Bender, Damien P. Williams and myself). sfexaminer.com/news/technolo…
ALT Headline from San Francisco Examiner which reads ' AI skeptics dubious slowdown will solve technology’s real harms', over a grpahic of Sam Altiman holding a 'slow' sign overlaid with a circuitboard patterning.
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Shake in your shoes, doomer oligarchs! "AI skeptics dubious slowdown will solve technology’s real harms" (quotes Emily Bender, Damien P. Williams and myself). sfexaminer.com/news/technolo…
ALT Headline from San Francisco Examiner which reads ' AI skeptics dubious slowdown will solve technology’s real harms', over a grpahic of Sam Altiman holding a 'slow' sign overlaid with a circuitboard patterning.
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We tried to warn the world and far too often, to be frank, we were yelled at for doing so. “Regulatory capture,” “marketing hype,” “doomer anxiety,” “fear-mongering about open source,” “why don’t you talk about the benefits?”
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"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it."
— Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason
