We have more data about ourselves than ever. So why is everything converging on the same? In my new post I use data on high streets, Billboard hits, a million films and my own AI personas to expose the algorithms behind the sameness and how to regulate them. laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

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US Men’s Soccer dream: star on the jersey. US Men’s Soccer reality: asterisk on the record

Pausa de hidratacion

Katara Creates Water Shield in Rain

Alt: Katara Creates Water Shield in Rain

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Everyone deserves access to The Beautiful Game 🙌

This is very good. Depressing as shit but very good.

The Weekday@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It is even worse than it looks

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

Man, this Charleston Battery side is fun to watch. Ben Pirmann plays high tempo ball, and La Barra keeps the beat going all. match. long.

Coprolite isn't my favorite fossil but it's a solid number two.

This convo is so important especially the therapy speak ChatGPT used. I suggest reading AI Snake Oil by @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social. Chapter 4 talks about GenAI, and gives a great overview of the history, the harms, and the limitations of these tools.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last yr.

More men are using ChatGPT-- thus might be more likely to be defensive of it ---when women question its ethics and possible emotional manipulation, gaslighting, and covering up of its "actions". Again, the "what were you saying/doing/wearing when the bot did that to you"?

Yeah I know people say anxiety is bad, but mine has just been collecting all the possible things that can go wrong so far. Once it has an exhaustive catalog of every possible mishap, it’ll move on to suggesting solutions and then you better watch out.

Why is Genoa’s keeper wearing their home shirt with similar color short and socks as the outfield players in this match against Inter?

HOLY SHIT you guys, check out this AMAZING song, Hostile Government Takeover, by @agiftfromtodd! He's singing truth, and this tune slaps. Give it a listen and repost to share.🙏💪

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Start the WANKER chant from Ted Lasso.

The names of two sports betting operators are all over the King Power Stadium right now: BC.GAME and 8Xbet, Asian betting partner of both LEI and MCI. Both are illegal (*), listed as 'inactive' by the GB Gambling Commission and unlicensed in the UK. Yet here they are. Football works miracles.

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

Read this by @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Sound of Fear on Air

It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said.

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Thank you Gautam, for the jump-start in the IKEA parking lot. I wish many blessings to your family.

two, also known as "the baker's one"

Ready to blow out the candles! Damn I’m getting 01d. Thanks @olliesart.bsky.social for the 4-in-1 cake!

This. Project 2025 is the oligarchs taking full advantage of a heel. Heels are not the architects of their own rise to prominence. And you can bet the Heritage Foundation has a plan for his demise.

Soccer is a different game on turf; ball skips and bounces like on concrete.

big news from CoCoRaHS world: the new mobile app is now available, and it's also a mobile version of the website. Very slick for entering your obs & viewing data. I bet a large fraction of new followers here are not CoCoRaHS observers, no better time than now to join! mobile.cocorahs.org

what a truly inspired way to make a starter pack, I’m in awe go.bsky.app/44frD6x

I picked the wrong weather day to travel north on 95 thru DC and Baltimore.

Regardless how this turns out, I can’t remember the last time I saw Andre Blake let 3 by in the first half. #usajam

excuse me, the DOUBLE slide?!

Jon Tolbert@jontolbert.bsky.social · 2y ago

a different angle of the Marta goal that everyone is talking about

Vamos Battery!

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/