David Moles
@chronodm.bsky.social
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We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED
Every graphic/video that the Trump admin/MAGA/GOP release is AI generated these days, and they all look like ass. Is that the association that the ethical AI boosters on my feed want? Because increasingly it feels like this is technology by dumb, evil people, for dumb, evil people.
Only a teensy tiny fraction of books are truly rare, unique, or scarce. But the idea that people destroy the 1,921st copy of a book no one is interested in always freaks people out. They are appalled that libraries weed books, too.
Lady Yapper (KJ Colt)@moistenedtart.bsky.social · last wk.futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry
Reading @greatdismal.bsky.social's Sprawl trilogy back in the day I wouldn't have guessed that the most depressingly prescient bit would turn out to be the sociopathic zillionaires like Josef Virek and the Tessier-Ashpools, but here we are.
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 3w agoThiel sees tech entrepreneurialism and kingship as intimately bound together: acting outside the rules to build the future that no-one else has the long term vision to grasp. “There have to be CEOs and founders. Those people are expected to wear the crown.” www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...
is Kpop Demonhunters a Jamesonian allegory for capitalist development and the romance plot a longing for Korean re-unification. I'll take my answer off the air.
@knownforms.bsky.social apropos of nothing, at lunch I was having a wide-ranging discussion about higher and professional education that touched on medical residency trauma, and I realized I'd lost track of how you and Other M are doing — how are you doing?
There are plenty of horrible proprietary legacy formats but FileMaker databases from the first few versions of the software have absolutely no business being so complicated to convert. This is probably why god abandoned us tbh
JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w agoAmnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
so I know I'm 20+ years late to the party but ICYMI Angélica Gorodischer's KALPA IMPERIAL is brilliant and hilarious, thank you @kellylink.bsky.social and @gavingrant.bsky.social for bringing it to el mundo angloparlante
With every successive instance of the weaponisation of food in India to serve violent ends, I grow more and more uncomfortable with this book's choice to invoke a referent seemingly without doing any research into the role it plays in India today.
Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3mo agoPicked this up on the strength of the blurb; spellbound after the first chapter.
As I walked away, I had another funny feeling. What if this "book" and his entire "experiment" is funded by an AI company? This is exactly the kind of "scholarship" tech bro overlords want -- influential academics, preferably men, telling the rest of us that we are now useless in the age of AI.
going to laugh forever about the Knicks only losing the Trump Game immaculate scriptwriting, no notes
18th century "cat contract" (納貓兒契式; based on a Yuan-dynasty original), laying out the cat's duties and responsibilities: tirelessly guarding the grain, repelling the "mousey bandits" (鼠賊), not messing with the livestock, not stealing numnums "of any kind whatsoever" (不得偷盜食諸般).
British documentary voice: but the Grogu led Genesis lacked both the artistic ambition of Gabriel as well as the hitmaking prowess of Phil Collins Collins: strange bloke. No one understood what he said. We all agreed he had a look but at the end of the day what do you have? A frog hooked on cocaine
“The difference in measured productivity growth between California and the rest of the US is wider than the difference between the US and Europe, yet that difference isn’t the source of constant agonizing by U.S. states worried that they are falling behind.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/challengin...
Challenging the Narrative of European Decline: Revised, Free Repost
I do not think that word “productivity” means what people think it means
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Thing I had to tell a (local) LLM today: "Be very certain in your fruit identification. If you're not completely sure what fruit it is, just say 'some kind of fruit'." 🍑≠🍋
Code for Science & Society is looking for a senior Rails developer on a two-year, grant-funded contract with potential extension, working (remotely or hybrid) out of the California Digital Library on connecting field research work to research outputs: codeforsociety.org/jobs/fair-st...
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Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though
Francis Ford Coppola's Hot Tub Time Machine
🅿️rofessor Kiosk 💊@professorkiosk.wtf · 3mo agojohn carpenter’s pride and prejudice
