I was just thinking two minutes ago that of all the terrible things Israel has done in this war, this is the absolute worst, and it boggles the mind that we are letting it go on

That would be me…

It should be obvious, then, why hallucination was a useful term for the AI establishment: it naturalizes AI’s untruths and by extension humanizes AI. Except AI is neither human nor natural. AI hallucinations exist because people created AI. Then, like Frankenstein’s monster, it escaped their control

Apparently DCA aka Reagan was delay central again last night. Here’s what happened last week.
notquitesureredux.substack.com/p/delayed-at...

The NYT gestures toward the truth of the moment but refuses to accept it.

I started a substack by writing about Neil Gaiman…and Arthur Munby and Sue Miller, which I means you won’t think you already read this.

“we always had Beverly Hills, 90210.” Everything is terrible and this piece beautifully captures the terrible and offers a glimpse of possibility:

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could not walk down the road Britain walked down before us and thus not end up in the same swamp of deterioration they now have to climb out of?

Further evidence for my hypothesis that we don’t really need to worry about AI because everything internet gets worse instead of better. See, for instance, spellcheck, Google search, Twitter algorithm…need I go on? Except Spotify algorithm which is still scary accurate