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the "moving objects through space" really hit me as a recovering engineer whose first love was mechanical engineering. emblematic of all the modes of thinking and indeed propaganda drilled into students along with the (startlingly simple) mathematics taught (often for war)

I should be less surprised at how flamboyantly and consistently Randi Weingarten has failed the challenges of leading one of the teachers' union in the US in age of gAI. Deeply uncritical, incredibly short-sighted, but most of all, pusillanimous.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

My undergrad school - the University of Guelph- had a very strong engineering school. Their frosh week t-shirts said ‘Friends Don’t Let Friends Go into Liberal Arts’ In the 90s, when I attended, it was seen as a badge of honour to not read widely.

My fav quote ‘Despite Odysseus’s spiritual awakening, the dead remain as dead as ever. But there is a spectacular sunset and yet another lavish display of a large vehicle grandly making its way through space, across churning waves.’

An insane video game-related Lost Media find has quietly popped up on YouTube. Two episodes of "Say Powww!", a 1979 game show about video games that only aired in some markets. People in studio and over the phone played Intellivision (!!) games. Predates Starcade!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=29tJ...

You may have seen the news about KMart's smart glasses selling out. Smart glasses are being marketed as a lifestyle accessory but they're actually covert recording devices that anyone can buy off the shelf; we should be treating them that way.

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Yes, and didn't like that there is no mention of Sylvester. But otherwise it's fascinating, so many tidbits. I didn't know Niles Rodgers was a former Black Panther and co-wrote Le Freak (Freak Out) because they were denied entry into a Grace Jones party at Studio 54.