Last week, UK MP Jess Asato sued xAI after Grok generated sexualized images of her.
This isn't a one-off. In January, we found that Grok generated an estimated 3 MILLION sexualized images over just 11 days.
This is the predictable result of unregulated AI platforms. We need accountability now👇
OMG I know SO many of these people. Like my friend's husband, a tech finance guy, who's culturally very liberal but told us he agreed with "90% of what DOGE did."
Even eliminating the Dept. of Education? Yes, he said. Absolutely.
I had to pick my jaw up off the floor.
A lot of people who are much much closer to abject poverty than wealthy enough to be a billionaire or trillionaire defend these billionaires/trillionaires because they want to believe they can be the lucky ones too. But they won’t be, and our economic systems make sure they won’t.
"Thank you for your work with landlords and child care, what the FUCK is the hold up with libraries and reducing the astronomically bloated police budget" is a completely reasonable question to ask or yell.
The purpose of “Abundance” is to find pro-housing/transit liberals who will never respond to overt conservative propaganda or manufactured NYT doomerism and trap them in political funhouse mirrors that convert every genuine desire for a better world into anti-labor politics in service of oligarchy.
Evergreen sentiment
yes, this planet was named for a male god in mythology. No, this planet does not have a gender. Stop being weird.
✈️ HAPPENING NOW: As fans arrive at the first World Cup game in New Jersey, a plane is circling MetLife Stadium to remind game day staff:
FIFA WORKERS HAVE RIGHTS!
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An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power until now - makes thrilling reading, finds Penny Sarchet
I serve in local politics. I do talk to normal, regular people with normal, regular reasons to oppose data centers. Lots of them. Will is just making shit up right now.