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Greg Pak
@gregpak.net
Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. THUNDERCATS, PLANET HULK. He/him. steering committee @comixaction.com @standupforyale.bsky.social @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social (@gregpak.com for work only) Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
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Are you MAD, NYC? Go vote! Feels good! Early voting started TODAY! Go to vote.nyc for all the details!
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I'm tired of hearing excuses about "well that model wasn't that great" or "the product is responsible [not the execs who released it]." We all know the best realistic scenario is that OpenAI pays this woman's parents a few dollars. Really OpenAI execs should be held liable for this woman's death.
Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...
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District 4 City Council candidate and Portland police officer Eli Arnold is ranked among the top police officers for incidents in which force was used against a person, according to Portland Police Bureau (PPB) data.
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Meta strongly appears to be an enemy of democracy in the US. Proceed accordingly. If you're a politician, activist, or organization on the left, you HAVE to build your presence off of Meta and X - which basically means here and Mastodon. Bring your audience over as much as possible. It's critical.
Hey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.
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Last year today was one of the scariest days of my life. We initially called a lawyer who wanted to work with feds to arrange a perp walk. Kat told that guy to fuck himself. Thank God for the National Lawyer's Guild, who Kat called right after. They were ready to fight the bullshit on zero notice.
Today is the anniversary of being told by an FBI agent that I was about to be federally indicted. I tried to look for pictures from that day but all there is the tableau of full-body stress hives all over my back. 0/10, take better pictures future Kat
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Molyneux sounds like a scab.
I appreciate the bar is quite low but this excerpt from an interview with Molyneux about AI is almost too on the nose. Nice anecdote about a colleague he used to respect and enjoy working with, followed by an explanation of how him and everyone like him is now expendable.
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With just seven days until Election Day, every minute matters. We are calling on Meta to immediately restore the page and provide an explanation for its removal. Voters deserve access to critical election information, especially in these final days. @andymstone.bsky.social /end
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1. It will be a new Senate, so maybe the votes WILL be there! 2. Come on. Impeach this monstrously criminal president.
Kamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…
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Surprising exactly zero people, "forgive my youthful indescretions committed at age 53" guy recently sponsored a law to get 15-year-olds tried as adults. nashvillebanner.com/2024/07/15/n...
So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too
Corporate death penalty for these murderous companies.
"She Worried About Cutting Her Medication Dose. ChatGPT Told Her to Push On." Another death from AI giving dangerous advice. It doesn't matter how "smart" someone is, AI is designed to tell people what they want to hear, to continue the interaction. archive.is/jXv3A
We can abolish this shit the same we we're gonna abolish ICE.
Since SCOTUS allowed states to legalize sports betting in 2018, Americans have legally bet more than $600 billion. Apps like DraftKings and FanDuel say they have tools to protect bettors who lose control. We spent 10 weeks testing their safeguards.
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I cannot stop thinking about this. I cannot stop thinking about suicides and mass murders encouraged by chatbots where somehow the company that made the chatbot that encourages the violence is saying "but that's because that person was crazy." I cannot stop thinking about this.
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@indivisible.org asked @gregpak.net to create a zine: What If You See ICE at the Polls? gregpak.net/2026/10/15/z... download, print, & distribute it in English: indivisible.org/wp-content/u... and in Spanish: indivisible.org/wp-content/u... Call 866-OUR-VOTE (en), 866-VE-Y-VOTA (es)
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Got to the part about her getting laid off by Amazon and had to scroll past an ad by Amazon about the great benefits they offer
Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...
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hey democrats: this is how you do it. more bill nye, less (actually, zero) james carville abdulforsenate.com
you can donate to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and several other of the candidates i'm most excited about right here! secure.actblue.com/donate/pakpi...
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Lot of folks (self included) expressing despair that despite aggressive prosecuting fascists ("doing everything right") Brazil was still going to get Bolsonaro-ed and the fact this guy gtfo-ed as quickly as he did should be a big signal for the AOC DOJ to go *hard* in 2029.
Aw nuts *BOLSONARO EN ROUTE TO THE US, FOLHA REPORTS CITING ALLIES