hopefully the whole endeavor isn't too embarrassing

hmm

Also!!! Professor Julia Roberts chugging a full fat Coke on a stressful day? Absolutely not. She’s drinking DC baby.

you can even do a public transit trip to port costa if you're committed -- amtrak to Martinez and then hike (2 hrs) or bike (30 min) to port costa. really fun if convoluted

oh yeah port costa is great and much more accessible than the delta. theater of dreams is very cute and iconic, and the Warehouse Cafe (a bar) is fantastic. the antique fair is maybe overhyped but still worth it!!

oh wow deep cuts! i haven't been to Bradford island but that sounds great (even the inconvenient ferry sounds fun). i've only scratched the surface, but am glad i at least made it to Giusti's before it burned down

100%!! do you have fave spots in the delta (that you're willing to share)?

She’s at Yale! And thank you - I don’t know anything about philosophy depts but her teaching texts - adorno foucault etc - seemed more like a comp lit situation

Philosophers weigh in - would prof Julia Robert’s be teaching the newer translation of minima moralia? Would prof Julia Robert’s be referencing Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics in her essay? Many questions.

Professor Julia Roberts working on a philosophy paper and typing the word “anthropocene”

My partner won’t read it bc he hates blood, so you’d be in good company to avoid it

literally!!! i still quote this song once a week

god i hope so

Yes and while I think this individual article is skeptical of EZ's brand of techno determinism (in which technology itself is a driving force with utopian potential, undermined by bad companies), Wired itself is historically is a vehicle for that same utopianism

For its faults, one of the themes of the Wired profile is ultimately this - the limitations of tech criticism grounded in a love of the game and belief in technological determinism, vs tech criticism based in values and materialism (as you describe above, & as in the David Noble quote in the piece)

the zitron fans slamming this piece for supposedly being pro-AI gotcha journalism are pissing me off too. learn to read

and i agree. surprised that so many people were apparently unaware that Zitron works in tech PR, which i don't think is an unforgivable sin (even for an AI critic), but the one-note anti-nuance anti-citational 9000 word newsletter style kinda is. www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...