Júlíus Á. Kaaber
@juliusarna.bsky.social
Somehow a teacher and I'm told.... a museum piece. Sometimes writes things. Perpetually shifting into soup mode.
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The AI-response "Everything can be faked" discourse interests me partly by how much it leaves out of "everything."
AI might be able to fake a picture of a meal or video of a football match, but it can't fake the experience of eating or playing.
Being embodied seems like a kind of resistance.
AI might be able to fake a picture of a meal or video of a football match, but it can't fake the experience of eating or playing.
Being embodied seems like a kind of resistance.
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The AI-response "Everything can be faked" discourse interests me partly by how much it leaves out of "everything."
AI might be able to fake a picture of a meal or video of a football match, but it can't fake the experience of eating or playing.
Being embodied seems like a kind of resistance.
AI might be able to fake a picture of a meal or video of a football match, but it can't fake the experience of eating or playing.
Being embodied seems like a kind of resistance.
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
More Murderbot! Yay!!!
September 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
More Murderbot! Yay!!!
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Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.
Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
September 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.
Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
"The content team [...] gives each podcast a title, creates an outline of the podcast, with the content filled out by AI, and assigns it one of the personalities as a host."
So absolutely soulless and no reason to listen.
So absolutely soulless and no reason to listen.
Oh hey, some flat out evil to go with my coffee.
“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
September 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"The content team [...] gives each podcast a title, creates an outline of the podcast, with the content filled out by AI, and assigns it one of the personalities as a host."
So absolutely soulless and no reason to listen.
So absolutely soulless and no reason to listen.
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May 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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People are always looking for the Yellow Brick Road to writing success.
The secret remains intentional reading and intentional writing.
The configuration of those two depends on individual factors.
There is no formula.
The secret remains intentional reading and intentional writing.
The configuration of those two depends on individual factors.
There is no formula.
April 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
People are always looking for the Yellow Brick Road to writing success.
The secret remains intentional reading and intentional writing.
The configuration of those two depends on individual factors.
There is no formula.
The secret remains intentional reading and intentional writing.
The configuration of those two depends on individual factors.
There is no formula.
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All right. I'm off to the word mines. Keep looking up, fam.
March 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
All right. I'm off to the word mines. Keep looking up, fam.
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I love these genAI jockeys who speak of democratising art.
'Art' isn't this cabal with hidden techniques. Everything you need to know is in the open. Heck, composition alone is quite the multiplier for even modest talent, and you can learn it.
No, what needs democratisation is basic income.
'Art' isn't this cabal with hidden techniques. Everything you need to know is in the open. Heck, composition alone is quite the multiplier for even modest talent, and you can learn it.
No, what needs democratisation is basic income.
March 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I love these genAI jockeys who speak of democratising art.
'Art' isn't this cabal with hidden techniques. Everything you need to know is in the open. Heck, composition alone is quite the multiplier for even modest talent, and you can learn it.
No, what needs democratisation is basic income.
'Art' isn't this cabal with hidden techniques. Everything you need to know is in the open. Heck, composition alone is quite the multiplier for even modest talent, and you can learn it.
No, what needs democratisation is basic income.
I was two but still counts.
February 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I was two but still counts.
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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
What an absolutely fantastic opening line: "A ship glides through the night, behemoth mother, swollen with ten thousand human lives."!
Today's podcast is "Never Eaten Vegetables" by H.H. Pak (15,170 Words, Novelette)
Audio: clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_25b/
Text: clarkesworldmagazine.com/pak_01_25/
Audio: clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_25b/
Text: clarkesworldmagazine.com/pak_01_25/
January 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
What an absolutely fantastic opening line: "A ship glides through the night, behemoth mother, swollen with ten thousand human lives."!
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
Amanita fly agaric!
Porcini!
January 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Amanita fly agaric!
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It's so weird that in the end Twitter became state media
January 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
It's so weird that in the end Twitter became state media
SQUEEEEE!!!!!
I just received the full book jacket of The Martian Contingency from @torbooks.bsky.social.
Care to join me in squee-ing?
Care to join me in squee-ing?
January 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
SQUEEEEE!!!!!
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Reposting with alt text!
November 30, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Reposting with alt text!
Finally!
the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope
November 28, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Finally!
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Any fans of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence? We are giving away a T2 set to one lucky winner! 👀
Follow us and repost this in order to enter 💚
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November 22, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Any fans of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence? We are giving away a T2 set to one lucky winner! 👀
Follow us and repost this in order to enter 💚
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Elon Musk is leading the Department of Government Efficiency....DOGE... really? They're turning cost-cutting which'll affect millions into a pun? And such a lame pun at that. Christ....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump selects Elon Musk to lead government efficiency department
Musk and ex-presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to head up Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Elon Musk is leading the Department of Government Efficiency....DOGE... really? They're turning cost-cutting which'll affect millions into a pun? And such a lame pun at that. Christ....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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To my fellow dude creatives:
The war on women people said wasn’t happening is fucking happening out in the open. The culture war is raging, but WE ARE THE CULTURE.
Follow women creatives. Promote women. Produce their work. Hire them for your projects and rooms. Women can’t win this one alone.
The war on women people said wasn’t happening is fucking happening out in the open. The culture war is raging, but WE ARE THE CULTURE.
Follow women creatives. Promote women. Produce their work. Hire them for your projects and rooms. Women can’t win this one alone.
November 11, 2024 at 1:51 AM
To my fellow dude creatives:
The war on women people said wasn’t happening is fucking happening out in the open. The culture war is raging, but WE ARE THE CULTURE.
Follow women creatives. Promote women. Produce their work. Hire them for your projects and rooms. Women can’t win this one alone.
The war on women people said wasn’t happening is fucking happening out in the open. The culture war is raging, but WE ARE THE CULTURE.
Follow women creatives. Promote women. Produce their work. Hire them for your projects and rooms. Women can’t win this one alone.
“I’ve only ever had any success by doing my own weird thing, following the path that’s in front of me.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/b...
Susanna Clarke Wrote a Hit Novel Set in a Magical Realm. Then She Disappeared.
Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2024 at 11:01 AM
“I’ve only ever had any success by doing my own weird thing, following the path that’s in front of me.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/b...