Claire
@dontforgetflowers.bsky.social
worker of/with texts, sounds, and images
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agur donosti 🪽🌬️
December 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
agur donosti 🪽🌬️
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our latest AI has passed the turing test. it agrees with every premise i propose it, which is exactly how a human should act.
December 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
our latest AI has passed the turing test. it agrees with every premise i propose it, which is exactly how a human should act.
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“Chalma, Mexico,” a photograph by Graciela Iturbide, whose work is on view at ICP through January 12, 2026. Her monograph, Graciela Iturbide, was published by Editorial RM and Fundación MAPFRE last fall © The artist. Courtesy D.A.P.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“Chalma, Mexico,” a photograph by Graciela Iturbide, whose work is on view at ICP through January 12, 2026. Her monograph, Graciela Iturbide, was published by Editorial RM and Fundación MAPFRE last fall © The artist. Courtesy D.A.P.
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You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court
December 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court
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Is logistic regression "AI"? What about convex optimization? Is LLM AI? What about an image recognition system built without using "feature learning" techniques but done through "feature engineering"?
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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"Amidst all this bullshit, Anderson has long been a beacon of light for readers looking for astute judgment."
Conor Williams profiles film critic Melissa Anderson, and talks to her about her new anthology of columns. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/so-many-things-have-vanished/
Conor Williams profiles film critic Melissa Anderson, and talks to her about her new anthology of columns. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/so-many-things-have-vanished/
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"Amidst all this bullshit, Anderson has long been a beacon of light for readers looking for astute judgment."
Conor Williams profiles film critic Melissa Anderson, and talks to her about her new anthology of columns. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/so-many-things-have-vanished/
Conor Williams profiles film critic Melissa Anderson, and talks to her about her new anthology of columns. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/so-many-things-have-vanished/
Fui a conocer a una escritora española de 60+años cuyos libros descubrí por pura casualidad y quiero traducir. Es de las personas más dedicadas e inteligentes que he conocido últimamente. Luego me envió algunos de sus textos inéditos—me llenaron de inspiración. Algo positivo para empezar el 2026 ✨
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Fui a conocer a una escritora española de 60+años cuyos libros descubrí por pura casualidad y quiero traducir. Es de las personas más dedicadas e inteligentes que he conocido últimamente. Luego me envió algunos de sus textos inéditos—me llenaron de inspiración. Algo positivo para empezar el 2026 ✨
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
“Lotería de preservación audiovisual”
(con dibujos de la gran cineasta y artista mexicana Azucena Losana)
communityarchiving.org/loteria/
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(con dibujos de la gran cineasta y artista mexicana Azucena Losana)
communityarchiving.org/loteria/
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December 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“Lotería de preservación audiovisual”
(con dibujos de la gran cineasta y artista mexicana Azucena Losana)
communityarchiving.org/loteria/
🎞️🎙️🎥🃏✨
(con dibujos de la gran cineasta y artista mexicana Azucena Losana)
communityarchiving.org/loteria/
🎞️🎙️🎥🃏✨
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anyone can release a book of poetry, they can't stop you, poets have no regulating body
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
anyone can release a book of poetry, they can't stop you, poets have no regulating body
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"Energizing and brilliant."
@newrepublic.com reviews "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury":
@newrepublic.com reviews "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury":
Ruth Asawa Connected Everything
A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with family and with community.
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
December 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (J0405-3648). RGB Filters: 1800, 1130, 770
PI: Berg, Danielle, program 07041. CRVAL: 61.355811, -36.835101
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
PI: Berg, Danielle, program 07041. CRVAL: 61.355811, -36.835101
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
December 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (J0405-3648). RGB Filters: 1800, 1130, 770
PI: Berg, Danielle, program 07041. CRVAL: 61.355811, -36.835101
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
PI: Berg, Danielle, program 07041. CRVAL: 61.355811, -36.835101
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
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I wrote about glasses ads on BART and tech surveillance paranoia, but didn't use a single "through a ... darkly" pun, please clap: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/surveilling-...
Surveilling the Seen
I'm kind of glad that the people who made these ads know they don't want you to know they're surveilling you, that they know you won't like it.
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I wrote about glasses ads on BART and tech surveillance paranoia, but didn't use a single "through a ... darkly" pun, please clap: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/surveilling-...
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The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
December 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Some thoughts on filmmaking from Robert Bresson’s “Notes on Cinematography” (1975)
pdf: davenold.net/wp-content/u...
pdf: davenold.net/wp-content/u...
December 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Some thoughts on filmmaking from Robert Bresson’s “Notes on Cinematography” (1975)
pdf: davenold.net/wp-content/u...
pdf: davenold.net/wp-content/u...
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Still processing the tragic news of the loss of Rob Reiner. I'm of the age when he was a huge part of my film-viewing in the 80s, and about ten years ago wrote a piece for the BFI celebrating to my mind some of his finest work. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-re...
Rob Reiner: 5 essential films
Revisit the astonishing run of films that Rob Reiner made in his early career.
www.bfi.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Still processing the tragic news of the loss of Rob Reiner. I'm of the age when he was a huge part of my film-viewing in the 80s, and about ten years ago wrote a piece for the BFI celebrating to my mind some of his finest work. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-re...
leila and the wolves
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
leila and the wolves