Dewb
@dewb.bsky.social
Music, video, sculpture, architecture, theater, poetry, electronics, preferably all at once. Design tools for creative people. Synthesis & live A/V performance.
I was a bit confused by the reviews of the Slate truck that argued “but you can get a vehicle with a lot more features for only slightly more money!” Yes, but people are beginning to want *less* and are willing to pay more to get it. And this sort of offering is why.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d agoCompanies are all in on selling folks the idea that it’s in your best interest for your products to “know you” as if you are getting a dedicated servant but what you are really getting is a spy.
This is one of the best things I've read in a while about the psychology of car supremacy, and how those of us who even *question* it are viewed as heretics. Thanks to @pflax1.bsky.social for sending this my way.
We Don’t Have a Culture of Convenience in North America. We Have a CULT of Convenience.
And you can tell the difference by what happens when you question it.
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*standing up on the plane* Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace…
we are absolutely missing a critical culture right now, it's been subsumed by fandom, and reading a knowledgeable, high brow critique of a film like Emily Wilson wrote is just so *refreshing*
Wow people are really unfamiliar with the distinct pleasures of simultaneously enjoying Nolan movies as cinematic spectacle while also enjoying picking apart their paper-thin intellectual architectures, a phenomenon that is now old enough to vote
*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.
Moby Dick is simultaneously the Odyssey of the 19th Century and the Oppenheimer of the 19th Century
Andrew Pope@andrewpope.bsky.social · last wk.lol He should take on Moby Dick next. That may be the nudge I need to get to it.
The racist backlash to Chris Nolan’s Odyssey is a kind of stolen valor, an attempt by the right to claim credit for achievements they had nothing to do with in order to justify racial hierarchy in the present. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Fear of Black Greeks
White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.
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Maybe the Globe should retract the disgusting victim blaming op-ed they posted yesterday
Driver in fatal cyclist crash maneuvered around another vehicle - The Boston Globe
The driver appears to have been heading east on Tremont Street shortly after 8 a.m., and came upon a vehicle that was turning left.
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Michelle Wu beat Josh Kraft BY FORTY NINE BY GOD PERCENT and her response was to act like HE was the one with a mandate to make our streets more dangerous
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3w agoIt really is remarkable the extent to which Josh Kraft succeeded in setting back — and really rolling back — safe streets progress in Boston. How many people will die because of his anti-bike campaign and because Mayor Wu capitulated on life-saving infrastructure?
“It's not bull-leaps-into-stands, it's not Cheyenne-Arapaho / It's ‘Morning, Ralph,’ ‘Morning, Sam,’ see you tomorrow” youtu.be/d06lXE2yjKk
Drapetomania
YouTube video by Beauty Pill - Topic
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Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 3w agoDemocrats saying “farewell old friend” to the distinguished gentleman from South Carolina with whom they may have disagreed with politically on some issues including genocide and mass deportations
Playing this song while connected via CarPlay causes an instant reboot of Nissan infotainment systems 00000ooooo.bandcamp.com/track/--13
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from the album ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂:̴͓̞̑̌̂̆̊͋̀:̸͎̟̯̂̓̌ ҉ ͡ ͞ ͞ ͞ ҉● ࿀ ● ࿀ ● ҉⃝ ⃝͢ ͞ ͘ ͞⃝̕ ͢ ̛ ⃝ ̸ ̡ ͢⃝̧ ͡ ͡ ̀ ̧ ̢⃝͜ ҉ ͞ ͞ ⃝͞ ͞ ͡⃝ ⃝҉҈҉҈҉҈҉҈҉҈҉ :̶̢͙͙͕̠̩͆(̷̮͍͚̫͚͂...
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This was all so dumb and could have been avoided.
> "we democratized a thing" > look inside > they are raising the noise floor
Course correction is only possible once you can see the trajectory for what it actually is. As long as people continue to claim that abuse isn't tolerated or that being abusive can't make someone well-liked/popular/successful, we can't actually change the fact that it is and it does.
If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.
Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.
text model predicts text, using data recklessly scraped from everywhere, to answer questions that are not about the frequency of text? that seems very dangerous
if you want to improve public discussion call these things predictive models. it leads immediately to useful questions: what do they predict? using what data? for what purpose? weather model predicts weather, using carefully gathered weather data, to help people make weather decisions? great
South Florida Sun Sentinel@sun-sentinel.com · 2mo agoArtificial intelligence may have its flaws, but specific programs have proven themselves to be groundbreaking — if not lifesaving — tools in hurricane forecasts, and the National Hurricane Center will keep incorporating them into its forecast arsenal.
One *cannot* just move on from the Anthropic question when the very substance of this encyclical letter was written with the tech industry talking point. One simple example below: 👇 www.vatican.va/content/leo-....
Kind of interesting to see mainstream tech commentary come around to the idea that Google's search was built around a social contract that they've now broken Here's how I described it three years ago, in 2023, www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/tech-br...
Writing when tech has broken the web's social contract
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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As someone who had a kid in 2022, my wife and I often joke that we bet wrong on the moral arc of our country. But this kind of doomerism is loser shit. Basically every parent I know is raising their kids to be part of the solution. It just takes time. Why should we quit, they're the ones that suck.
Barry Lyndon × 21 Savage - "a lot"【4K Remaster】
YouTube video by flanthippe
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The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3mo agoA musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second. Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it’s exempt from gun regulations. Many antique or replica guns aren’t considered firearms and even convicted felons can own them.
People on the Internet will say anything. “Charlie Brown had theosis.”
Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/
