you can't take it with you, but you can set it free
JauntyWunderKind@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social · last wk.my data is only here to be set free
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@neuroplastic.bsky.social
They who would not sacrifice their own souls to save the whole world, are, as it seems to me, illogical in all their inferences, collectively. - CS Peirce
JauntyWunderKind@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social · last wk.West Amazon rn is literally Filho's Bacarau (2019)
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoGangs taking villages on Brazil-Peru border ‘hostage’, say Indigenous leaders
The Ukrainian people understand that they are not just at war with Russian oligarchs, but ALL oligarchs. Hope we catch up soon.
What a sick world. One of my earliest childhood memories is when I asked my mother what the number on the bottom of the news on TV meant. She burst into tears and told me it was the number of men killed in Vietnam. Today Al Jazeera has the price of oil on the screen. Burn the motherfucker down.
didn't the fused wintermute-neuromancer AI say this?
ponder@ponder.ooo · 9mo agoindeed, and impermanence is a recurring theme of phenomena
Matt Keeter@mattkeeter.com · 3w agoSince everyone is enjoying Hot Odysseus Summer, allow me to recommend "The Lost Books of the Odyssey", by @zacharymason.bsky.social. It's a striking collection of connected short stories, best read immediately after the Odyssey itself (so that everything is fresh in your mind).
Model collapse is the inevitable consequence of overshoot.
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 2w agoWe live in a time of deep epistemic crisis, and everything we have depended on to make meaning and certify consensus reality is either suspect or in peril. It didn't have to be this way, and it doesn't have to stay this way.
His other book, Void Star, is a cyberpunk novel about an AI whisperer and it absolutely rips
Matt Keeter@mattkeeter.com · 3w agoSince everyone is enjoying Hot Odysseus Summer, allow me to recommend "The Lost Books of the Odyssey", by @zacharymason.bsky.social. It's a striking collection of connected short stories, best read immediately after the Odyssey itself (so that everything is fresh in your mind).
Indeed, it's not the tech that's wrong, it's the product. The product is dumb as fuck.
Cyd Harrell@cydharrell.bsky.social · 3w agoan idea's been rolling around in my head about how what we lose with assuming everyone wants "answers" & not search results is similar to what we lose when "route" is the only kind of map we encounter I won't get the academic terms right, but it's some version of skipping an essential abstraction
Pro sports only works as a diversion for so long. Eventually, even the bros see the political morality it mirrors. It's as easy to imagine Messi's fingerspitzengefühl (h/t @vgr.bsky.social) scoring for Zapatismo vs Milei, as it is to imagine Guevara's fingerspitzengefühl shutting out Tuchel's UK.
Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 3w agoThe rot at FIFA has gone too far. Under Infantino, political greed has completely broken the game we love. We can't just watch from the sidelines anymore, the FA and our European partners need to walk away and build a fair, clean alternative from scratch. It’s time to move on.
Nature study from the generation of scientists who read Chiang's Exhalation & realised it was about capitalism:
Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · 3w agoThe study tracks how heat waves directly slow GDP by stalling labor productivity and straining healthcare. Climate economists emphasize that paying the true social cost of carbon now pays for itself many times over. 4/4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Everyone hates penalty shootouts. My own idea: during the 30m overtime, each team must pull a player every 6 minutes, so that by the end they'll be playing seven-on-seven. This would steadily open up the pitch (making scoring easier) & be strategically fascinating. www.espn.co.uk/football/sto...
Hate extra time and penalties? Here's how one man is on a mission to replace them
Soccer's format for deciding cup games that end in a tie is a flawed system. So what is an alternative to the current extra 30 minutes before a penalty shootout?
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New college reality: Students have to write in-person exams that their instructors have created using AI
image: Nicolás Ortega alt.txt: DFW
Harper’s Magazine@harpers.bsky.social · 4w ago“Though it felt a little undignified that the bipartisan commission that had toiled for eight years would be drowned out by the president’s own last-minute interference, it might be some consolation that Trump’s efforts had also seemed to be derailed.”
i guess there’s one upside to living in a crumbling gerontocracy
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." – Lindsay Olin Graham July 9, 1955 - July 11, 2026
We now have video feed of the incident
Janne M. Korhonen@jmkorhonen.fi · 4w agoThe funniest thing in Finland right now: reactions to pics of the corpse of #Iran's ayatollah transported in a former "K" grocery chain's delivery truck. Not the first time their branding attracted international attention. The logo on the right was used from 1998 to 2014.
A gentleman's game played by hooligans vs. a hooligan's game played by gentlemen
Steve Randy Waldman@interfluidity.com · last mo.Trump's intercession has taken the US vs Belgium from Big Famous Host Country vs small, fairly obscure, fairly unloved European country to a vast symbolic battle, Right-Wing Postliberal Corrupt Power vs the Seat of Struggling Bastion of Professionalized Liberal Democracy.
We saw this at Burning Man 2008 ('American Dream'). It was great when it burned!
Colin Warriner@colinelmustard.bsky.social · last mo.I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.
