Is it a distribution problem if the owning class has actively prevented their global-scale logistics systems from being applied in a way that would benefit the poorest of the poor? Amazon and Walmart have the technology, resources, and knowledge to feed everyone in the world. It’s a solved problem. The problem is with who owns them and therefore who makes decisions about their operation.

This image looks very different from the last time I saw it

It reminds me of how nursing homes are operated. I know so many people whose grandparents’ homes got sold to pay for their nursing home bills. My grandma went into a nursing home with a need for PT, but otherwise fully independent. She was supposed to get out in like a month. They just kept lengthening her stay. Turns out she got there, they almost immediately declared her bed bound, and put her into a room alone. By the time we pulled her out because they were trying to admit her indefinitely, she could barely talk and she never walked again. I don’t think she was even getting her PT. But she gained her ability to talk back and boy did she have some shit to say about that place.

Throwing rocks is “catty”? First time I’ve heard that one

oh well it’s still far off lol, we’ll see when we get there

This is not something you want to wait to figure out until you’re actively grieving btw. I’m in my early 30’s and my wife and I are in the middle of saving for headstones/funeral and drawing up our wills because we just saw how bad it went when one of our grandparents passed. You don’t expect people to get petty over stupid shit and ruin relationships over a relatively negligible estate but people do.

Larry Ellison? More like Go To Hellison.

Turns out, under the Federated Data Platform contract, Palantir gets access to pseudonymised patient data across all of England.

Everyone should read “pseudonymised patient data” as “data that took us a few minutes to assign to a real person instead of a few seconds”. And that’s being generous. If Palantir bought your phone’s geolocation data (they have) and knows you were at your doctor’s office from 11:25 to 12:10 and they get some chart data with your exact age, height, and weight that corresponds to what they have your demographic data set as for the exact same time, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who “Person McPersonface” is in their “anonymized” records.

They’re literally trying to finalize the creation of the digital panopticon and police precrime. This is something that privacy nerds would have said said as an exaggeration 10 years except now there’s no hyperbole.

I’ve started taking a medication that completely changed my life and it felt like this. Then I did it with another one. And another one. Now I’m working on a fourth one.

Turns out there was a lot wrong with me.

It’s a root vegetable that only exists in the blockchain

It’s because I’m taking an open eye nap leave me alone

Never thought of the keys in the tote trick. Thanks!

Some good news, at least. Hopefully China’s support continues. Energy independence seems a long way away

I can see why you’d be put off by that process. A five year waiting list is just cruel

Could you point me to some reading on uses of AI for disabled people? I’m familiar with a variety of aids and the general idea of “if it looks useless, it’s not for you to use”. I’m just not familiar with what the use cases are.

if AI can exist, it will inevitably exist

Unrelated to the question of ableism, this specifically logic that’s pushed by tech companies in general, that their decisions were inevitable and therefore there is no point in questioning them.

Look at how modern LLMs work. They’re trained in large data centers owned by private companies using giant corpuses of data that were largely obtained without the permission or knowledge of the people who created it. Then, to use them, the weights are loaded into an amount of memory that’s out of reach for most consumer desktops and users must call into the LLM using an API. Working memory of a conversation doesn’t persist in between messages or tool calls, so the entire history must be loaded into its context window on every call. In other words, all the “learning” for these models must take place up front in training and outside of taking context into account, it doesn’t actually adjust to learn new things about the world. There are workarounds for this, of course, to simulate the experience of interacting with something that can learn, but they have their limitations and aren’t reliable yet. I could go on. Running probabilistic process on deterministic hardware is an area that we may see more work on soon.

Every single step of that description had alternatives that would be more likely to be chosen outside of a capitalist system. They could be more eco friendly. They could be more efficient. They could be more powerful and learn from your interactions in way that persists. And a lot of these changes would delay the exposure of LLMs to the general public and see them spending longer in academia. But that would be okay because we wouldn’t have the profit motive at the center of this inflating a giant bubble that’s poised to pop and flatten the economy. Bottom line is this stuff was pushed out and hyped up well before it was ready and well before it was able to be scaled up ethically and with the working class in mind. None of this was inevitable.

If you’re looking to completely stop this from happening, you need to speak to a psychiatrist. They have the training to recognize and properly handle whatever it is that you’re going through. Apparently your old therapist did not. I’m not personally a psychiatrist so I’m not going to armchair diagnose you, but this does seem like something medication could help if you so wish.

Hey I’m sorry to have implied that you were inexperienced and make you roll out your bonafides. I’m glad to hear you’re doing better now than you were last night.

I went back and read your previous post and I am in awe of how strong you’ve been. How much you’re being targeted currently is a testament to how successful you’ve been.

How much training have you had on organizing? I also don’t say this to be critical, but just as observation; It seems from a cursory reading that you either did not anticipate the extent to which the administration would go in response to your actions or you did not put your organizer(s?) through an inoculation process. Please correct me if I’m wrong about that. I know there’s only so much detail you can include in a single post. It’s also tempting to think “If only I’d done more” when you’re already putting in so much work.

I don’t know much about student organizing and its standard practices. I’m more familiar with labor organizing. But I do see you working incredibly hard to breathe life into something that others are more just participants in and I recognize that dynamic. It’s very common while organizations are just starting to get momentum and I’ve been there. Labor organizing has an advantage of being well documented and having a well-established playbook on both sides. Because of that, inoculation is less a process of looking forward and more a process of looking back. Maybe that’s not so true with student organizing?

Regardless, I’m sorry you’re facing such a traumatic and unfair circumstance. I hope you find a way to make your organizing sustainable and healthy for you as it often chews straight through those who take it on.

They can’t kill SpongeBob, but they can sure fuck up the invisible hand