all these men vying for Speaker and none running to be Listener. makes u think

establishment democrats and republicans weren’t fearful he’d fail and ruin nyc. they were worried he’d succeed and represent the threat of a good alternative

50% sure J Mascis just citibiked by me in Porter Square but also it could have been any Somerville guy

at a party in Boston where everyone is singing New York, New York, perhaps the power of sport is greater than I thought

somerville ma is run by people like this and guys who are single-issue voters for bike lanes and unfortunately it's probably one of the best cities in this country

•george’s will be a meditative drama about loss and grief •paul’s will be a cameron crowe-ish slice of life comedic drama •john’s will be a romantically messy, political drama •ringo’s will be a shot for shot remake of scooby-doo on zombie island

It is 80 degrees in Boston, the only major northeast city where the question can be, *which* of the *many* ponds, lakes, and beaches a 15-25 minute bike or car ride away to go jump in after work

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

I'm just on the introduction of the encyclical but holyshit the pope is soooo based!!

RT @m_stormwitch: World so fucked even I FULLY agree with what the Pope said here in his first encyclical

The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It is produced by a currently deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; it could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development.

unfortunately the catholic church declaring holy war on AI is raw af

Mariola is an incredible community member, educator (AFT MA member!) & mom in Lynn facing potential deportation next week - please join this Mother's Day action to join her in solidarity before her next ICE check-in & against tearing communities apart mobilize.us/aft/event/950015…

blank street coffee and pop-up bagels you will never see the light of heaven

Bestie won't come to Green River Fest because she's worried the hype for Geese will create an unsafe crowd crush à la Chappell Roan Boston Calling 2024. A Geese Astroworld. Geesetroworld

why does everyone wanna go to japan let’s go to Cork

Black cats waiting to be auditioned for a horror movie, 1961.