in the bay? you're hilarious.

UAW wasa fucking shitshow of corruption until a couple of years ago. looks like its back on its feet!

the assassination of Alexander the second backfired completely.

many other places bury their wires and or do proper maintenance

my bike.

I would check in with another local Union. UC grad students are organized under UAW, which was nominally united auto workers.

why would you expect it to get better if Google is broken up?
Google has a massive conflict of interest; it both sells ads to SEO'ed websites, and ranks searches. Their incentive is for you to go to the pages with the most of their ads possible. Even a company with revenue purely from ads on the search page has less terrible incentives.

found the astronomer

weird grammar to say someone made it up?

I'm sorry Russian cat girls? Wat?

There's a distinction to be made between things that "look" dystopian, and actual dystopias. I think a lot of our current visual language of dystopia was taken from fascist/communist design choices which were in many respects independent of all the oppression they perpetrated. this example really drove that home for me, since the media it inspired came to mind before the reality.

wow, I was assuming metropolis. it just screams dystopia to me, but I guess they had to get that aesthetic from somewhere

do they at least pay more for weird shifts?

12 people. we're talking about 12 people, so any conclusions are suspect. that being said, facial recognition struggling with black faces from insufficient data is an extremely common problem, so it'd be unsurprising

EA is primarily advice for people with moderate amounts of disposable income (i.e. middle class), or people trying to figure out their career trajectory. Earn to give is very much a minority position, and that's pretty much the only one that at all involves aiming to be rich.

Longtermism is mostly a weird set of academics. the recent folks using it as a pretext to buy houses in the Caribbean are almost purely a group of cryptobros using it as a way to ethics-wash their pump and dump.

you know, I'm not sure I've seen a subtweet on the fediverse until now.

the specific people are all (with the exception of Sam Altmann) grifters. they are

1. guy whose sub imploded at the titanic
   2 Sam Altman, head of OpenAI (which went from charity to a wing of Microsoft).
2. Sam Bankman Freid's brother, who was talking about buying an island to carry "effective altruists" through an extinction-level event.

It pisses me off that these are the first EA adjacent people that are broadly well-known, rather than Givewell and 80,000 hours, who are actually doing good work.

acapella science is one of my favorite channels!

dude, go to therapy.