Jackson Stephenson
@kittayamari.bsky.social
PhD at UC Santa Barbara. Sanskrit and Apabhramsa poetry, and also Art and Star Trek.
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Happy Cinco de Mayo to those who celebrate
May 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Happy Cinco de Mayo to those who celebrate
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590nm infrared on a cloudy day, shot with my lovely ltm voigtlander color skopar 35/2.5
May 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
590nm infrared on a cloudy day, shot with my lovely ltm voigtlander color skopar 35/2.5
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Chess is woke because the pawns become queens
May 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Chess is woke because the pawns become queens
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Capitalism didn't give us the internet.
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Capitalism didn't give us the internet.
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
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No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.
April 30, 2025 at 4:56 AM
No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.
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'Owl Lady of Guadalupe' 🤍🌀🌒
#OwlishMonday 1/2
#OwlishMonday 1/2
April 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
'Owl Lady of Guadalupe' 🤍🌀🌒
#OwlishMonday 1/2
#OwlishMonday 1/2
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Every time a student sends their art history professor an email saying, "I was in X museum and saw that work we discussed in class!" a puppy smiles, angels sing, and a double rainbow irradiates the horizon.
April 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Every time a student sends their art history professor an email saying, "I was in X museum and saw that work we discussed in class!" a puppy smiles, angels sing, and a double rainbow irradiates the horizon.
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This is it, I think: Wikipedia is the fruit of conscientious, imaginative humans working for decades. AI is a couple of nanoseconds of pattern recognition pulled out a virtual arse. Wikipedia is free, AI has subscription tiers. Wikipedia is the opposite of AI - it's good, free, and works.
I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is it, I think: Wikipedia is the fruit of conscientious, imaginative humans working for decades. AI is a couple of nanoseconds of pattern recognition pulled out a virtual arse. Wikipedia is free, AI has subscription tiers. Wikipedia is the opposite of AI - it's good, free, and works.
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FFS, those of us who have been sounding the alarm aren't just luddites. The problem is LLMs DO NOT "UNDERSTAND" ANYTHING.
LLMs are statistical MODELS OF LANGUAGE. They are not "reading" what you write any more than autocomplete does.
Hallucinations are BAKED INTO THE TECH.
LLMs are statistical MODELS OF LANGUAGE. They are not "reading" what you write any more than autocomplete does.
Hallucinations are BAKED INTO THE TECH.
April 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
FFS, those of us who have been sounding the alarm aren't just luddites. The problem is LLMs DO NOT "UNDERSTAND" ANYTHING.
LLMs are statistical MODELS OF LANGUAGE. They are not "reading" what you write any more than autocomplete does.
Hallucinations are BAKED INTO THE TECH.
LLMs are statistical MODELS OF LANGUAGE. They are not "reading" what you write any more than autocomplete does.
Hallucinations are BAKED INTO THE TECH.
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I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.
So cool that AI is cooking the planet all to give managers and CEOs even more opportunities for sexual harassment
April 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So cool that AI is cooking the planet all to give managers and CEOs even more opportunities for sexual harassment
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Joseph Mugnaini
April 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Joseph Mugnaini
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Larry David skewers Bill Maher here.
"1Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, ..."
"1Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, ..."
April 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Larry David skewers Bill Maher here.
"1Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, ..."
"1Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, ..."
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Gustav Klimt
April 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Gustav Klimt
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Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
April 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
Walter Minus exhibit in Brussels
April 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Walter Minus exhibit in Brussels
Hamburg streets
April 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Hamburg streets
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Up at 2:30am on Easter Sunday wondering if it would be funny or genuinely pretty to get an art nouveau scroll tramp stamp tattoo
April 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Up at 2:30am on Easter Sunday wondering if it would be funny or genuinely pretty to get an art nouveau scroll tramp stamp tattoo
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Me and my wife don’t keep any secrets from each other either.
Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
www.nytimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Me and my wife don’t keep any secrets from each other either.
Missing Paris pastries rn
April 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Missing Paris pastries rn
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
Blutengel, April 5 in Hamburg
April 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Blutengel, April 5 in Hamburg