Oh sure, everyone believes Anthropic when they say Claude is now conscious and has “anxiety”
But when I say I have anxiety it’s all “have you tried mindfulness”
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Oh sure, everyone believes Anthropic when they say Claude is now conscious and has “anxiety”
But when I say I have anxiety it’s all “have you tried mindfulness”
science.slashdot.org/story/26/03/...
"During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country," Marc Abrahams, “
Eliza Davis was a Jewish woman in London in the 1860s. One day, she did something meaningful: she wrote to Charles Dickens and told him that one of his most famous books was spreading prejudice. Her letter changed the way he saw his work.
#EternalLight
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The Brennan Center’s Jesse Wegman (former NY Times ed board member) writes that in retrospect, it’s clear that the Voting Rights Act was doomed the moment John Roberts was confirmed as chief justice. bit.ly/4uduYXR
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️
🧵 This story was hard to digest, my friends. After you read this, you'll get an idea as to how bad slavery was. Let me tell you about Margaret Garner.
Pull up a seat🪑.(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
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This is a key point. In the end they cancelled pretty much ALL the grants, whether the bot deemed them DEI-related or not The ChatGPT assessment was for show, not determinative, but it enshrined “efficiency” as the top priority and steamrolled over any scruples about process.
Of interest
“We have reached a level of realism in video, audio,
and image deepfakes that for most people,
it is not discernible from fact”
Thanks to
@gmpinglish.bsky.social
for posting.
#AI
#Photography
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
wtf
The “US military leveraged its AI targeting tools—which still employ Claude—to strike over 1K targets in Iran during the first 24 hours of the now rapidly expanding war. The US is using Claude through Anthropic’s partnership with…Palantir [co-founded by Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale].” 3/5/26…1/
Good.
Covered Bridge #Photography
In case you are confused
"well shut me down and sell my lands," says NPS.
spiral galaxy NGC 5314 Looks like the eye of Sauron. https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/spectacular-spiral-galaxy-revealed-by-james-webb-space-telescope-space-photo-of-the-day-for-march-4-2026
JWST continues to kill it
This thread is useful
My problem, too.
#BREAKING: Texas Governor Greg Abbott is turning away many Democrats from voting in precincts that people could go to for many years. Now voters must go to voting locations that Republicans choose. This is exactly what Trump will be doing come General Election in November.
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Dave said far more succinctly what I tried to convey here. Not only do I wonder why academics wouldn’t want to do the intellectual labor (why else would we choose this career?), but AI evangelists saying these things are telling on themselves. open.substack.com/pub/miranday...
Bloody hell
CBP commander Gregory Bovino is under criminal investigation in Minneapolis for his conduct during Operation Metro Surge, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced in a Monday press conference.
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comic by political cartoonist Gary Varvel depicting a man hearing about Greece sending ships to defend Cyprus from the Persians while turning his calendar and discovering the year is 499 BCE.
Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
And here we are...
Toad is buried under the covers in bed. From "Spring" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*
Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.
