Actually, rereading this @adamserwer.bsky.social piece, maybe we should call it “No Chickens.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I love all of this.

Yeah! Agreed. Much appreciated @alexfalcone.bsky.social. The Wikipedians will be delighted to hang with you.

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

So much love for the matcha and sakura sake flavors.

U2.5

Hard agree!

Whaaaat? We must agree to disagree. You don’t find the slow mystery of it all entirely gripping? I love the way Clarke totally marinates all her characters in the environment. And the metaphor! All the metaphor!

youtu.be/TsdY2tccB0w

Oh joy. Can’t wait to see how many vehicles pile up in this particular car crash. Is there even anyone left to do the work?

Ohhh this is good to know! Thanks for the pointer. I was a little sad about losing Arc, Dia is super-uninteresting, and really didn’t want to go back to the regular browsing model.

Counterfactual pseudo-history is the default mode of AI slop. The latent spaces of #genAI are free of chronology, causality, or historical time. All visual patterns exist here simultaneously as equally accessible & exploitable resources, organized by similarity & ready to be endlessly recombined
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and I think it symbolizes a lot about why tech progress right now feels so strange and perverse, you have people promising that things like this will lead to a new gold rush while much of the actual foundations of American scientific and technological superiority are being burned to the ground