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Bad Faith. A grim but essential watch. The scale and the vehemence are quite staggering, really does make the notion of 'reaching out' for debate or whatever seem tragically laughable.

And I really like the black and white version. Not re-edited, so the same holes and caveats, but there's an Alphaville/DOA noir cool which suits it very well. And these are certainly the times for it 🖤

So worth revisiting TS Eliot's 'The Hollow Men's after this passage brought some lines to mind, oof 🖤

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Seeing a lot of May Day folklore posts, and now I'm overthinking whether it's a Good Day to eat these conjoined bananas 🤔 or is the answer Absolutely Not... don't want to get sucked into the Black Lodge or something 😬

Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your method 🙏 I found your post after discovering a similar sized (beginning of) nest and was wondering how best to deal with it. Felt a bit bad, such a lovely little structure, but I'm sure she'll start again elsewhere right away 🤞

Keep getting sucked into rabbit holes, chewing over the *no motive* point. LLMs have *no skin in the game*, the importance of correctness will never be a matter of life and death for them, (for me, layperson:) fundamental conundrum of "meatspace", embodied knowledge + that Cartesian confabulation 🤔

(not discussing Freud's *very particular* take, the earlier Jentsch essay is much more on point.) The Uncanny Valley is well known in robotics and Moravec's paradox is interesting to me when reflecting on which 'part' of us *just knows* when something's not right. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec...

Not (just) pedantry: yes, ugh, I do indulge in a silly little phone game with, ugh, ads and oh boy Amazon... all that money on AI and well, you're really not selling it 👀 God forbid you should pay one human to put out something even ok at the most basic level 😬 Low grade crud, #enshittification #AI

We miss you. Happy birthday Starman 🖤

Crikey, at least let me know how close it is

The strengthening wind is giving me the heebie-jeebies tonight. Like in 1987, it's been raining for weeks & I fear a lot of trees may come down 😔 I remember a friend and I went for a walk that night and remarked how weirdly warm the wind was. Now it's always weird. Félix Vallotton, The Wind (1910)

Likes are definitely there for me 👀🐱

New guy in town (I expect he's come to see the Turner Prize), very handsome, hope he stays forever 🖤

Michael Rakowitz, The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

Pineapple Lily, or Sideshow Bob as she is affectionately known. Apparently not at all attractive to slugs or snails and unphased by neglect. A fun bulb if you want to grow something kind of weird looking 🖤