How beautiful are these handmade creatures by kinetic artist and paper sculptor Lucy Jean Green! #beautifulbizarre #papersculpture #art
Flax Blue
@flaxblue.bsky.social
Worker by day & night. Also fish mom, musician, writer, and love water colors. Housing & environment both need collective solutions
So you know, The Odyssey is such a second edition —Odysseus should role over and we get the OG: Jason from J and the Argonauts. He brought Circe (I mean Medea) home to meet fam & friends!
I want a true historically accurate Odyssey where all the characters are played by piles of dust and bone fragments.
As ever, the most important fact about a given technology isn't "what it does," but "who it does it *for*" and "who it does it *to*." 77/
Suresh ends his essay with a long section on how to "navigate AI mania" - advice for how to smile and nod politely when you're confronted with AI bullshit, while steering clear of the worst consequences and avoiding needless fights. 59/
To their credit, Hermit Tech refused to sell these customers Cortex, and stopped doing Cortex demos altogether. Suresh describes the experience of "the total 180°, that shift from ice-cold to red-hot buying frenzy" as "deeply unsettling." 48/
As Suresh says, if you're in business with a liar, you might be able to reason with them in private - but you can't reason with a true believer. The true believers are in charge. 38/
Businesses *suck* at documenting their processes. Customer-facing chatbots *also* suck. They either can't solve your problem, or, when they seem to solve your problem, the "solution" goes nowhere. 30/
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Years ago there was an app. I would take pictures and put them thru its filters, and bang! Art! Then I put pictures of my art (paintings, drawings) into it, and bang! Art! It took me years to let go of the conviction that the filtered paintings were so much better than my on paper work
Until there’s a version of the Odyssey where someone goes out on stage and poetically recites (with creative license) a particular book of the poem, can anyone say they’ve authentically experienced the Odyssey ?
I don’t think the orange mentally processes mistakes the way regular people do. I think he sees errors as a chance to blame others and receive greater compensation
No shame on others. This works for others still. Not me. I cannot engage the meme where Batman slaps Robin. It feels like a validation of violence by men with power over a subordinate or a child.
"everyone's going to have to move up a level in abstraction" is the way i have been thinking about it, which is a bummer bc it feels sort of right-wing to me
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
There are people I have known who needed to be slightly pro-self/anti-world. It’s like a weather preference or vacation activity preference That’s a blindside that we’ve got to each get used to seeing in ourselves. What we support has to be more than what we like or feels comfortable
I just deleted 2 posts. Sorry person who liked one. When I reread, it felt mean I should have said: I dislike being in public and hearing other people’s phones doing AI youtubes or podcasts about who is the victim in ordinary situations.
[facetious] The richy rich in the nichey niche is all out of touch. He thinks the bucks make him less a cluck despite what he does everyday. That richy rich in his nichey niche will now give out some cash. He did not means test the walking fleece vest who I guess he’ll respect anyway [\facetious]
YouTube ads: I try to have a generic, don’t save my search experience on YouTube. While there I watch (listen to) albums, unpacking of tv/movies, find author talks, etc … and I get ads. Horror adds. Leatherzed dead skin people, bugs coming out of bodies, bad poop… YouTube is horror ads
Remember: Data show the US isn't actually more litigious than any other country. Instead, we're underregulated relative to other countries, because corporations keep telling lawmakers that courts and lawsuits will do the job that regulations are supposed to do.
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.