The singularity is near, not because machine intelligence is suddenly surging, but because we are content to risk extinguishing the spark of human consciousness by exposing ourselves to endless streams of artificially generated bullshit. ideophone.org/bringing-abo...

also massage therapy would arguably be a much better investment for everyone

why is our university sponsoring hype that deskills workers instead of actually making lives better?

I'd say just quit the service. They have always been tacky ideophone.org/academia-edu...

The opening chapterss of Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason, where he explains that an important reason to write the book was that a bunch of psychiatrists saw Eliza and did not think, we can do better for our clients, but said, hey let's automate therapy, this is great

there was a paper on the domestication of the horse a few years back and the open access fee max planck shelled out for it came down to a good race horse

for a pdf

Dienst die bij kan houden welke muziek je speelt (ik ben eraan verknocht omdat ik het al >20 jaar doe, kan tegenwoordig bv aan Spotify gekoppeld)

Ah! Blijkt dat ik Mulatos al kende, maar de andere albums nog niet, en ik was 'm de laatste jaren duidelijk vergeten www.last.fm/user/strange...

OMG such a stark illustration of the double empathy problem

as if that 'social situation' doesn't also involve other people who could be making an effort

Nee, nog niet, waar zal ik beginnen?

One more — Esperanza Spalding, one of my favourite artists, on her creative process. The bit about Exposure (her livestreamed creation of an album) was especially beautiful and interesting, touching on trust, creativity, privilege, community, and more (min 40 onward) youtu.be/uw7piG9vRic?...

not sure about insightful but I like how social interaction offers a natural laboratory to study convergent cultural evolution of linguistic items, as in this study of ours combining comparative evidence and a simple computational model pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i... (pdf)

perhaps (@duhe.bsky.social also mentions this)

but what we see is a bumbling fool, not a distracted eminence — it's a ridiculous look and plainly disrespectful to the audience, comparable to a musician coming on stage without tuning their instrument or doing a soundcheck

it clearly takes more than a PhD degree to understand that time passes as you talk

knowing your tools includes concepts like extended desktop (avoid the embarrassment of showing your inbox or your notes), understanding how pointers work (Geheimtipp: bring your own), and, a radical suggestion here, knowing your slides

I daresay it is less complex subject matter than, say, Prasse's 15 conjugations for Berber heavy verbs 😅

but yes, asking assistance (in time) is also a skill

In mijn idiolect: ophalen is het breedst (personen & dingen, van de trein, bij de bieb of van marktplaats), afhalen is veel nauwer, meestal eten dat klaar staat om geconsumeerd te worden