I have never run more than 5 miles and have gotten runner’s high more than once. It is like a creeping & then sudden bodily euphoria that makes you feel you could run indefinitely. Still never made it past 5 miles though. It is a stress response in the brain and probably a bad thing to have happen!

I’ve just eaten a braised chicken thigh and a fried wing at hat yai with extra pickles and I feel compelled to tell you that you buried the lede!

DOGE is assembling a master database of personal data from across the government -- including tax records, social security files, immigration dossiers etc.

This cross-agency master database is exactly what Congress tried to prevent when it passed the Federal Privacy Act of 1974.

A centralized database will be "ill-equipped to correct errors, allow for extenuating circumstances, or bring facts up to date," warned Vance Packard. "The notion of the possibility of redemption is likely to be incomprehensible to a computer."

Big fan of friction, myself.

Reading them next to each other tbf but also rhymes with Postman’s critique of “entertainment” as something that helps with education.
“…conceived by someone asking What is the television good for? Not what is education good for?” could easily be about AI…

An unforgettable, excellent, and timeless article!

This is, the therapists say, very dangerous—the algorithm doesn't know how to detect nuance, or when to ask follow up questions, for instance, and may be turning away people in genuine crisis. Algorithmic triage, they say, has been a disaster, and they've fought it since its inception.

i'm ambivalent about litigating algorithmic fairness and accuracy; this is why. negotiating administrating this system fairly or accurately is nonsense. there's no running a colony ethically, or an empire in a human-centered way. you can make up bullshit and hit those targets, but they mean nothing.

Evidently rich terroir 💫

Genuinely weird bit of resonance for me here. I have just booked my first ever trip to Portland and am naturally already looking for food. In immediate succession I encountered this place on the map near my hotel, bookmarked it, and then switched over here to find this at the top of my feed…

whose future is not only a space of problems to be solved, but also circumstances to navigate in community with one another. Through this lens, choices become not just good or bad, true or false, left or right, but assessed against their potential to cultivate the conditions for right relationship.”

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