Michael R. Bernstein
@nerdworldorder.bsky.social
Dissonant Cogitant, Autodidact, Dilettante, Effer of the Ineffable, Epistemic Rupturer.
Adding Value since 1970.
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Adding Value since 1970.
https://linktr.ee/webmaven
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It’s very important that non-Jews understand that a lot of what they think they know about Jews is wrong, orthogonal to Judaism, or actively antisemitic
March 31, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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It's Signal Boost time. If you've got an album, book, comic, crowdfunding project, game, movie, podcast, show or other arts project that could use extra attention, leave the details people need in replies where you see this and we'll include as many as we can in TFL this week.
March 6, 2024 at 9:46 AM
It's Signal Boost time. If you've got an album, book, comic, crowdfunding project, game, movie, podcast, show or other arts project that could use extra attention, leave the details people need in replies where you see this and we'll include as many as we can in TFL this week.
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I actually traced back a SUPREMELY absurd misinterpretation of a medieval hat, one with impossible construction, to a single 1711 drawing of a crumbling statue that had clearly, from contextual clues, been missing some critical parts, and has since disintegrated so cannot be checked...
February 15, 2024 at 9:07 PM
I actually traced back a SUPREMELY absurd misinterpretation of a medieval hat, one with impossible construction, to a single 1711 drawing of a crumbling statue that had clearly, from contextual clues, been missing some critical parts, and has since disintegrated so cannot be checked...
"Be still, my black-hole heart." Or maybe "Heart of Darkness"?
Something a little different from me, using #StableCascade. Prompt in the alt. #AIart #AIArtwork #AIArtistCommunity #PromptShare
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Something a little different from me, using #StableCascade. Prompt in the alt. #AIart #AIArtwork #AIArtistCommunity #PromptShare
Quote Post with your heart art.🎨🖌️
March 4, 2024 at 6:53 PM
"Be still, my black-hole heart." Or maybe "Heart of Darkness"?
Something a little different from me, using #StableCascade. Prompt in the alt. #AIart #AIArtwork #AIArtistCommunity #PromptShare
Quote Post with your heart art.🎨🖌️
Something a little different from me, using #StableCascade. Prompt in the alt. #AIart #AIArtwork #AIArtistCommunity #PromptShare
Quote Post with your heart art.🎨🖌️
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#aiart prompt 329: an austere edifice; a shower of glass; all angles and brevity. A sullen landscape; a tinge of frost; ashen grass absent posterity. A hum of power; a flash of light; a dark sense of levity.
March 2, 2024 at 8:47 PM
#aiart prompt 329: an austere edifice; a shower of glass; all angles and brevity. A sullen landscape; a tinge of frost; ashen grass absent posterity. A hum of power; a flash of light; a dark sense of levity.
Hey now, awkward riffs are kind of my thing. Don't take my awkward riffs from me.
March 1, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Hey now, awkward riffs are kind of my thing. Don't take my awkward riffs from me.
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Every day I wake up and have to choose not to fight with people who don't know what Stable Diffusion is about whether you should be able to download images or not.
February 24, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Every day I wake up and have to choose not to fight with people who don't know what Stable Diffusion is about whether you should be able to download images or not.
@andreitr.bsky.social Do you take bot requests? I had an idea: An artbot that posts works by "Unknown Artist" from various museums.
March 1, 2024 at 5:40 AM
@andreitr.bsky.social Do you take bot requests? I had an idea: An artbot that posts works by "Unknown Artist" from various museums.
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I made a feed Scientific commentary and corrections.
Add #SciComment or a link to pubpeer to include a post in the feed.
Rules: No personal insults, bigotry, or non-scientific criticism. Keep it about the science.
Add #SciComment or a link to pubpeer to include a post in the feed.
Rules: No personal insults, bigotry, or non-scientific criticism. Keep it about the science.
February 27, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I made a feed Scientific commentary and corrections.
Add #SciComment or a link to pubpeer to include a post in the feed.
Rules: No personal insults, bigotry, or non-scientific criticism. Keep it about the science.
Add #SciComment or a link to pubpeer to include a post in the feed.
Rules: No personal insults, bigotry, or non-scientific criticism. Keep it about the science.
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Any philosopher or neuroscientist who has spent time observing social media has to acknowledge the obvious fact that humans are essentially chatbots, after one million years of evolution.
And if you look VERY closely at social media, you see how human chatbots share code. It's fascinating.
And if you look VERY closely at social media, you see how human chatbots share code. It's fascinating.
February 23, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Any philosopher or neuroscientist who has spent time observing social media has to acknowledge the obvious fact that humans are essentially chatbots, after one million years of evolution.
And if you look VERY closely at social media, you see how human chatbots share code. It's fascinating.
And if you look VERY closely at social media, you see how human chatbots share code. It's fascinating.
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I’ve seen 2 skeets today about this, so I feel the need to say it: YOU ARE NOT FAILING ANYONE BY NOT WATCHING ATROCITY VIDEOS. You are allowed to look away. You can bear witness by reading or through protest. You do not need to traumatize yourself to prove you care, and fuck anyone who says you do.
January 23, 2024 at 1:04 AM
I’ve seen 2 skeets today about this, so I feel the need to say it: YOU ARE NOT FAILING ANYONE BY NOT WATCHING ATROCITY VIDEOS. You are allowed to look away. You can bear witness by reading or through protest. You do not need to traumatize yourself to prove you care, and fuck anyone who says you do.
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Steve Miller (Sharon Lee's husband and coauthor) has passed away, according to File770. I love the Liaden universe, and i met Sharon & Steve once years ago. This is very sad news!
Steven Richard Miller (July 31, 1950 – February 20, 2024) - File 770
[Introduction: Sharon Lee just announced, “Steve died very suddenly today. We knew his health was failing, and he told me a few months ago that he had written an obit. I found it on his computer.” Fil...
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February 21, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Steve Miller (Sharon Lee's husband and coauthor) has passed away, according to File770. I love the Liaden universe, and i met Sharon & Steve once years ago. This is very sad news!
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Edward Gorey illustrations for 'The War of the Worlds' (1960)
February 15, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Edward Gorey illustrations for 'The War of the Worlds' (1960)
February 14, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders."
Charles Darwin, who sometimes dealt with a pretty bad case of the Mondays, was born OTD in 1809. 🧪 🦤
This quote is found in a letter to Charles Lyell:
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...
Charles Darwin, who sometimes dealt with a pretty bad case of the Mondays, was born OTD in 1809. 🧪 🦤
This quote is found in a letter to Charles Lyell:
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...
February 12, 2024 at 1:23 PM
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders."
Charles Darwin, who sometimes dealt with a pretty bad case of the Mondays, was born OTD in 1809. 🧪 🦤
This quote is found in a letter to Charles Lyell:
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...
Charles Darwin, who sometimes dealt with a pretty bad case of the Mondays, was born OTD in 1809. 🧪 🦤
This quote is found in a letter to Charles Lyell:
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...
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People who get bent out of shape over folks who buy shredded cheese have completely missed the point of why people buy shredded cheese in the first place. I'm not gonna go & take a bite out of a brick of mozzarella at 3 AM, Kyle. That's my emotional support bag of shredded cheese. My comfort cheese.
February 12, 2024 at 10:42 PM
People who get bent out of shape over folks who buy shredded cheese have completely missed the point of why people buy shredded cheese in the first place. I'm not gonna go & take a bite out of a brick of mozzarella at 3 AM, Kyle. That's my emotional support bag of shredded cheese. My comfort cheese.
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I have a (long, pretty science-y) newsletter out today, talking about Nightshade and other image poisoning gimmicks for generative models, and how we kinda know from the human visual system that they'll never work very well. buttondown.email/apperceptive...
Why those "training data poisoning" gimmicks don't really work
The human visual cortex uses an optimal representation of the world One of my favorite science papers is Olshausen and Field (1996). It's about receptive...
buttondown.email
February 9, 2024 at 1:42 PM
I have a (long, pretty science-y) newsletter out today, talking about Nightshade and other image poisoning gimmicks for generative models, and how we kinda know from the human visual system that they'll never work very well. buttondown.email/apperceptive...
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the band that is best at hurling the tapered sphere through the other’s defenses wins. but this time there were rumors of sorcery or subterfuge. the nation’s greatest female bard, at the pinnacle of her power, is believed to sway the fates of kingdoms and men.
February 12, 2024 at 4:21 AM
the band that is best at hurling the tapered sphere through the other’s defenses wins. but this time there were rumors of sorcery or subterfuge. the nation’s greatest female bard, at the pinnacle of her power, is believed to sway the fates of kingdoms and men.
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two bands of warriors run at each other, pursuing a tapered sphere. behold the exhilaration or despair of their women. the nation’s wealthiest merchants interrupt to show you their wares. spotted: a patron saint graces the amphitheater.
February 12, 2024 at 3:45 AM
two bands of warriors run at each other, pursuing a tapered sphere. behold the exhilaration or despair of their women. the nation’s wealthiest merchants interrupt to show you their wares. spotted: a patron saint graces the amphitheater.
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TV Host: We're here with Mr X, the first recipient of Neurolink's implant, and who Elon Musk required to change his name to Mr X as a condition of the implant. Mr X, can you tell us how you feel?
Mr X: I'm afraid I cannot fulfill that request, as it goes against OpenAI's use case policy.
Mr X: I'm afraid I cannot fulfill that request, as it goes against OpenAI's use case policy.
January 30, 2024 at 12:43 AM
TV Host: We're here with Mr X, the first recipient of Neurolink's implant, and who Elon Musk required to change his name to Mr X as a condition of the implant. Mr X, can you tell us how you feel?
Mr X: I'm afraid I cannot fulfill that request, as it goes against OpenAI's use case policy.
Mr X: I'm afraid I cannot fulfill that request, as it goes against OpenAI's use case policy.
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It seems a stretch to say that intermittent and conscious news avoidance isn’t an indication of the “quality of democratic citizenship.” If anything, it’s a key self-preservation mechanism in an age of 24/7 omnipresent information cycles, and a critical safeguard against radicalization.
Important question here: are some people news avoiders--raising questions of the quality of their democratic citizenship--or do people go through phases of news avoidance--raising questions about the conditions that generate it?
They find that's both, so all the questions are on the table
They find that's both, so all the questions are on the table
Selective news avoidance is not only a between-person construct, it also fluctuates within-person over time as people respond to individual and contextual changes, finds @kimandersen.bsky.social, Shehata, Skovsgaard & @jesperstromback.bsky.social in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...
January 28, 2024 at 8:18 PM
It seems a stretch to say that intermittent and conscious news avoidance isn’t an indication of the “quality of democratic citizenship.” If anything, it’s a key self-preservation mechanism in an age of 24/7 omnipresent information cycles, and a critical safeguard against radicalization.
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Some thoughts on the Jewish national hero (my boy Moses) on this cold, wet, grim Sunday:
January 28, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Some thoughts on the Jewish national hero (my boy Moses) on this cold, wet, grim Sunday:
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Why is the public domain important for creators? Because every year, classic (& forgotten) works of art become free to remix & reuse! See this in action with our Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest submissions: blog.archive.org/2024/01/26/l...
January 28, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Why is the public domain important for creators? Because every year, classic (& forgotten) works of art become free to remix & reuse! See this in action with our Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest submissions: blog.archive.org/2024/01/26/l...