[witty title]

Enjoys detailed conversation | Hyper-responsive | Severely allergic to bullshit | Often states the obvious | If you must know, please ask | No small talk

[shadbrim]

More people need to be getting their news from Wikipedia

[goodieprocter]

This one made me laugh hard enough that it gets to skip the queue and get posted immediately

inspiration

EWC by @justcakethanks

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

[galaxywarp]

obsessed w this fucking tweet

[ironychan]

Really enjoying the idea that Grace's angry outburst in Denmark became a meme. The Angry Scientist. It shows up in discussions of egregiously bad sci-fi movies and arguments with antivaxxers and astrophage deniers, in forms ranging from pristine screencap to super-crunchy jpeg. There's an animated parody in the style of Ace Attorney. His students use it without realizing it's him.

In his first week on the Gansu six different people asked him about it and four asked Stratt why she hired Angry Scientist Meme guy.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

[Getting so angry it makes my brain disease worse] people sre supposed to be nice..

[rin-reeee]

Rocky visits the Hail Mary, book vs. movie

[i-am-a-snom]

cc û )___\ The Snom is medium sized, because it is the perfect size for hugs.

[hahniana]

Really obsessed with this exchange

[gauntletqueen]

For those curious, they're talking about The Legend of Khiimori.

[edenisquiet]

holy SHIT my previous post blew up

(lowkey screamed in surprise and joy when i saw the legend @justcakethanks themself liking my idea)

so yeah. here you go. another stupid one

[trix-the-artemis]

For context,

Torment Nexus : "an idea that is so bad and dangerous in theory and practice that its indistinguishable from capitalist satire".

Luddite event : After the creation of textile machines (which produced fabric at a lower quality but faster rate while being dangerous to operate), textile mills fired a huge amount of their workforce leading to the remaining workers becoming overworked. A Luddite event thus in this context is "an innovation that is exaggerated to excuse mistreatment of the workforce".

[pansylair]

living in the aftermath

[fireflysummers]

Gonna be real with you, most of my art advice comes down to:

Find something and become a little freak about it for an extended period of time, preferably with a small group of 2-4 other freaks.

Skill simply comes as a natural result of constructive competition to out-freak your friends.

[fulcrvm]

illya is so dramatic oh my god i love him

[nepenthe-e-deactivated20180811]

me: why am i so depressed?

me: *remembers all of the reasons* oh yeah

[cosmonaut775]

Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

[flamiemoonfox]

and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently

[flamiemoonfox]

So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:

On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.

After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.

That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.

There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.

Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.

Sources:

Alys Davies, 14.12.2024, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. BBC News

Barney Davis, 16.1.2025, Suchir Balaji’s family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death. The Independent

Cade Metz, 23.11.2024, Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law. The New York Times

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[3liza]

you know what though, big appreciation to all the people on IG i never talk to who know me from decades ago that always are so happy to see me log back in there. i dont feel like i deserve that kind of welcome but you know what, the tiktok therapists are actually wrong about “you have to love yourself or no one else can love you”, thats bullshit (and self evidently so). the truth is you have to stop questioning people’s decision to love you and just graciously accept and do your best to behave honorably. the truth is that trying to argue with someone’s good opinion of you, or rejecting them for it, isnt your responsibility. and its rude as well.

[3liza]

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