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My big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.

It's not even the same font, letter spacing, kerning or color.
(If you don't know what this is about, ignorance is bliss in this case. Not worth looking it up.)

"...roughly one in 50 Americans gathered under one slogan (“No Kings!”) to protest against the president’s authoritarian methods and monarchical aspirations. And while Trump’s allies may feign ignorance with regard to claims that he’s seeking arbitrary and unaccountable power…it takes no time at all to write out a litany of offenses that threaten the republican foundations of American democracy."

Opinion | There’s a Reason Trump Fears No Kings
Who’s the patriot now?

Defunding the Dept of Education.
Calling colleges "a scam".
Denouncing #science.
Cutting public TV/radio.
Banning books.
Republicans advocate ignorance, denounce #education & push non-intellectual pursuits... because educated voters don't vote

Said Musk: “I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the Doge organization.”
Which suggests his ignorance is quite extensive.
‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule
https://www.t…

Said Musk: “I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the Doge organization.”
Which suggests his ignorance is quite extensive.
‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule
https://www.t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Dream Warriors & Gang Starr:
🎵 I've Lost My Ignorance (And Don't Know Where To Find It) (Tim Bran Remix)
#DreamWarriors #GangStarr

Survivalism is right-coded, but dying of ignorance and lack of preparation crosses the aisle

The following platform’s community: Reddit #i18nFails
i18nfails.1a23.studio/posts/the-following-platforms-community-reddit

The following platform’s community: Reddit | i18n fails
Translators trying hard for ignorance of developers

In one case, it turns out that an all-male client group was giving vicious beratings (undeserved!) to a female project manager when they had her cornered alone. I had no idea.
In the moment, I found those men kind of obnoxiously self-confident in their ignorance, but nothing worse. Later they want on a Trumpian scorched earth campaign trying not to pay everyone for work already done and threatening lawsuits willy nilly. They turned out to be horrible people. Missing that early red flag of misogyny cost us all — but especially that manager.
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Defunding the Dept of Education.
Calling colleges "a scam".
Denouncing #science.
Cutting public TV/radio.
Banning books.
Republicans advocate ignorance, denounce #education & push non-intellectual pursuits... because educated voters don't vote

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson
“you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing.
If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed,
and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
-- John Pfaff
https://

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

I like to check the Register comments for something that usually boils down to "I did this thing on my own without a problem, so why can't a massive organisation do something I consider to be analogous?"
A new classic of the genre:

Anarcho-capitalists genuinely blow my mind. Their ignorance of the wider anarchist movement is astounding.
#Ancap

Ignorance must certainly be bliss or there wouldn't be so many people
so resolutely pursuing it.

I report those accounts as well, they usually feign ignorance or do ye olde “just asking questions”, but it’s 100% obvious what they’re doing.
Fucking assholes, I hope you choke on a Lego brick.

Sonnet 078 - LXXVIII
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:
In o…

"How do you acknowledge that the father of the computer was a homosexual, brutally bullied by the state into suicide, and then fund groups that want to deny gay people fundamental human rights?
The ARM processor which powers the modern world was co-designed by a #trans woman. When you throw slurs and denigrate people's pronouns, your ignorance and hatred does a disservice to history a…

Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen

"Anti-semitism is fuelled by conspiracism, ethnonationalism and sheer ignorance, and occurs in a context of rising political violence across many democracies, itself driven by a range of motivations.
"The horror in Manchester will be used by those who want to poison community relations and restrict legitimate forms of democratic protest and speech, already menaced."

While politicians often avoid answering questions,
Speaker Mike Johnson’s habit of doing so is particularly noteworthy
because of the prominent place the speaker occupies in government.
“Very few officers are mentioned specifically in the constitution;
the speakership is one of them,”
“I would say it’s absolutely the responsibility of the speaker to keep up with what the president is saying and doing.”
But there are at least 14 examples of Johnson saying he…

Just posting this excellent quote which has no bearing on recent or current events in any way shape or form .
#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

Hallucination reduction with CASAL: Contrastive Activation Steering For Amortized Learning
Wannan Yang, Xinchi Qiu, Lei Yu, Yuchen Zhang, Oliver Aobo Yang, Narine Kokhlikyan, Nicola Cancedda, Diego Garcia-Olano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02324

Hallucination reduction with CASAL: Contrastive Activation Steering For Amortized Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities but often hallucinate, confidently providing incorrect answers instead of admitting ignorance. Prior work has shown that models encode linear representations of their own knowledge and that activation steering can reduce hallucinations. These approaches, however, require real-time monitoring and intervention during inference. We introduce Contrastive Activation Steering for Amortized Learning (CASAL), an efficient algorithm that conne…

Hungary is a disgusting reminder of the cruelty, greed, and ignorance Russia thrives on.
They spy on Ukraine and support Moscow's war crimes and genocide of Ukrainian people and culture.
Georgio reports from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine, where the boot-licking US corporate media will never venture.
He shares the friend link to bypass the paywall:

Spy drones Hover Over Western Ukraine From Hungary
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

you need to catch the 9:44, and if you hurry you can just make it, only, crap, forgot your keys, and to go back will take at least 5 minutes.
so you get the sched and historical records, and you find there is quite a bit of variation so you crunch the numbers and figure the odds are still reasonable it will be at least ten minutes late. You weigh your probabilities and decide to go.
Meanwhile I call a friend who is on that train and ask their estimate. I now have a better estimate? After my call, they ask a porter and get another even better estimate?
Meanwhile, 12km down the rails a protest has blocked a crossing, determined to hold that train at least until the police arrive.
Probability is a subjective measure of ignorance 😅

ignorance, n.:
When you don't know anything, and someone else finds out.

But it’s clear that Republicans messed up badly on the implementation of Project 2025. Immense cruelty was always part of the plan, but policy wasn’t supposed to get this cruel, this soon.
So what went wrong? I’d attribute it to a combination of policy ignorance, visceral hatred of doing anything that helps people in need, and the Epstein files. (Seriously.)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-too-soon