noel
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There are very few pieces of media that mean as much to me as this poem. Even if it's just for a minute, stepping away from the news and trying to find a moment of peace can be what we need to get through today.
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...
November 14, 2024 at 7:20 PM
There are very few pieces of media that mean as much to me as this poem. Even if it's just for a minute, stepping away from the news and trying to find a moment of peace can be what we need to get through today.
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using genAI models is training in obedience rather than "creativity"; the user cedes the capacity to imagine to the model and is taught how things are supposed to appear (by the corporate power concentrated behind the models)
November 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM
using genAI models is training in obedience rather than "creativity"; the user cedes the capacity to imagine to the model and is taught how things are supposed to appear (by the corporate power concentrated behind the models)
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on the surface, using an image generator seems like one is participating in power, at the level of infantile wish fulfillment, but in practice, prompting is more like begging than making or manifesting something
November 14, 2024 at 2:04 PM
on the surface, using an image generator seems like one is participating in power, at the level of infantile wish fulfillment, but in practice, prompting is more like begging than making or manifesting something
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A thread about feelings stuff around Our New Political Reality™.
First of all, as always:
eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back
The first three make an ENORMOUS difference in our capacity to grapple w/ All The Things; the last two are kind of The Point.
First of all, as always:
eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back
The first three make an ENORMOUS difference in our capacity to grapple w/ All The Things; the last two are kind of The Point.
November 12, 2024 at 11:41 PM
A thread about feelings stuff around Our New Political Reality™.
First of all, as always:
eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back
The first three make an ENORMOUS difference in our capacity to grapple w/ All The Things; the last two are kind of The Point.
First of all, as always:
eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back
The first three make an ENORMOUS difference in our capacity to grapple w/ All The Things; the last two are kind of The Point.
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Writing requires imagining an audience but that’s really hard, so most people pretend they are talking to “everyone.” But writers are never talking to everyone, so imagining how every last person might read a phrase, doesn’t actually help you communicate your ideas.
I'm really not wild about this practice of wishcasting how common idioms could theoretically offend imagined others. I have lost close family members to cancer and when people say "Donald Trump is a cancer on US politics" I don't wince. Words convey meaning within a context
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Unless you are writing about cancer, do not use the word “cancer.” Or tumor, malignant, or metastasize. Everybody has, has had, or knows someone who has, had, or died of cancer. Find a different metaphor to avoid sending your audience’s minds to an awful place. (4/n)
October 1, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Writing requires imagining an audience but that’s really hard, so most people pretend they are talking to “everyone.” But writers are never talking to everyone, so imagining how every last person might read a phrase, doesn’t actually help you communicate your ideas.
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I have honestly never met a man who made decisions off of logic. That's all. Have a good day!
October 1, 2024 at 4:06 PM
I have honestly never met a man who made decisions off of logic. That's all. Have a good day!
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If Window 11 is making you think about Linux, you're in luck. It is easier than ever to linux your computer.
Getting linux into your computer *used* to involve ritual human sacrifice. Now, it merely involves solving a lethal puzzle maze.
First, you will need to find the correct sewer entrance.
Getting linux into your computer *used* to involve ritual human sacrifice. Now, it merely involves solving a lethal puzzle maze.
First, you will need to find the correct sewer entrance.
September 25, 2024 at 10:58 AM
If Window 11 is making you think about Linux, you're in luck. It is easier than ever to linux your computer.
Getting linux into your computer *used* to involve ritual human sacrifice. Now, it merely involves solving a lethal puzzle maze.
First, you will need to find the correct sewer entrance.
Getting linux into your computer *used* to involve ritual human sacrifice. Now, it merely involves solving a lethal puzzle maze.
First, you will need to find the correct sewer entrance.
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The people defending Olivia Nuzzi also think transgender identity, all on its own, creates too much bias for trans people to cover trans issues objectively as journalists.
September 23, 2024 at 6:11 AM
The people defending Olivia Nuzzi also think transgender identity, all on its own, creates too much bias for trans people to cover trans issues objectively as journalists.
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We taught sand to hallucinate.
The fact that LLMs keep producing incorrect calculations is amazing, because computers... this is literally what we invented them for. They compute. We took their ability to do math quickly and consistently and layered enough garbage on to make them get math wrong in elaborately inefficient ways.
Yep! Which is inevitable because it only gets "better" by taking in more examples and having more variety in what it spits out. Give it ten times as many sets of calculations to look at, it will come up with a million things that look kind of mostly like they could be calculations
March 18, 2024 at 9:46 PM
We taught sand to hallucinate.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice.
August 13, 2024 at 3:09 PM
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice.
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"American suburbs are full of ugly, empty, liminal spaces: spaces you are not meant to linger in or enjoy. They’re the creepy hallways of the built environment, and you can’t feel comfortable traversing them unless you’re zooming past them in a car." www.strongtowns.org/...
American Suburbs Are a Horror Movie and We’re the Protagonists
Walking alone to the grocery store is, for me, like walking through a
creepy hallway at night. Why? Because America is filled with liminal
spaces.
www.strongtowns.org
July 26, 2024 at 11:30 PM
"American suburbs are full of ugly, empty, liminal spaces: spaces you are not meant to linger in or enjoy. They’re the creepy hallways of the built environment, and you can’t feel comfortable traversing them unless you’re zooming past them in a car." www.strongtowns.org/...
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Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what
I hope we all enjoyed our last Pride month in the US. Project 2025 will put an end to it
July 1, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what
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Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.
The war is over. The bad guys won.
June 28, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.
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today is my villain origin story
June 26, 2024 at 8:19 PM
today is my villain origin story
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I’m unsubscribing to things left and right. I don’t care if all I have left are a stack of paperbacks and a rotary phone. They’re stealing people’s work to replace them. I’m not participating.
Being “ai” free is already becoming a selling point.
Excuse Me, Is There AI in That?
Businesses and creators see a new opportunity to brand their work as 100 percent human-made.
www.theatlantic.com
June 13, 2024 at 1:01 PM
I’m unsubscribing to things left and right. I don’t care if all I have left are a stack of paperbacks and a rotary phone. They’re stealing people’s work to replace them. I’m not participating.
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New WaPo motto just dropped
June 5, 2024 at 4:45 PM
New WaPo motto just dropped
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The coverage of universities calling riot police on their students has been really feeble.
One of the first questions I’d ask is, “did you have a statement prepared in the event you killed one of your students?”
One of the first questions I’d ask is, “did you have a statement prepared in the event you killed one of your students?”
May 12, 2024 at 8:40 PM
The coverage of universities calling riot police on their students has been really feeble.
One of the first questions I’d ask is, “did you have a statement prepared in the event you killed one of your students?”
One of the first questions I’d ask is, “did you have a statement prepared in the event you killed one of your students?”
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I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder...
For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...
For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...
May 8, 2024 at 2:30 PM
I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder...
For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...
For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...
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“It is much easier to bring down the hammer on anyone bold enough to violate the rules than it is to wrestle with the knotty question of how much the rules deserve to be followed in the first place.” 👈
On knowing when the rules should be broken.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/rules-and-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/rules-and-...
Rules and Their Limits
Injustice is the space between the rule and the real world.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
May 2, 2024 at 12:02 PM
“It is much easier to bring down the hammer on anyone bold enough to violate the rules than it is to wrestle with the knotty question of how much the rules deserve to be followed in the first place.” 👈
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WHO IS BLASTING 4'33" OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT!?
April 25, 2024 at 9:13 AM
WHO IS BLASTING 4'33" OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT!?