Stephen
@stephentorrence.com
Building a Mindful City 🇧🇹 Amplifying Wise Connection in a Complex World 🙏 Repairing Relationships 💙 Amplifying Awareness ☀️
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January 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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December 27, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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"I want to say it again and try to say it more clearly: ***AI is developmentally biased*** and this shapes how information is framed and understood in a way that is mostly invisible to most people—emphasizing pluralism, egalitarianism, and relativism, while often missing or even dumbing down… 🧵1/x
December 21, 2024 at 12:19 AM
"I want to say it again and try to say it more clearly: ***AI is developmentally biased*** and this shapes how information is framed and understood in a way that is mostly invisible to most people—emphasizing pluralism, egalitarianism, and relativism, while often missing or even dumbing down… 🧵1/x
I’m just a simple guy trying not to bawl my eyes out every time this Bhutanese yak herder sings about the Pure Heart. Wbu?
December 11, 2024 at 3:48 AM
I’m just a simple guy trying not to bawl my eyes out every time this Bhutanese yak herder sings about the Pure Heart. Wbu?
The tiny nation of #Bhutan is losing their youth at an alarming rate since the success of Gross National Happiness. They're all smart and socially mobile now, but there are no good local jobs.
So the King is launching a radical plan: build a CITY to lure them back.
I wanna help. But how? 🧵 1/x
So the King is launching a radical plan: build a CITY to lure them back.
I wanna help. But how? 🧵 1/x
December 6, 2024 at 10:51 PM
The tiny nation of #Bhutan is losing their youth at an alarming rate since the success of Gross National Happiness. They're all smart and socially mobile now, but there are no good local jobs.
So the King is launching a radical plan: build a CITY to lure them back.
I wanna help. But how? 🧵 1/x
So the King is launching a radical plan: build a CITY to lure them back.
I wanna help. But how? 🧵 1/x
Neither Nativism
Nor Colonialism,
But instead,
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Nor Colonialism,
But instead,
____________.
December 4, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Neither Nativism
Nor Colonialism,
But instead,
____________.
Nor Colonialism,
But instead,
____________.
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I think I just found my retirement plan.
Buddhist Bhutan to build 'mindfulness city' to woo investment, create jobs
The "Gelephu Mindfulness City" (GMC) will lie in a special administrative region with separate rules and laws that will aim to be an economic corridor linking South Asia to Southeast Asia, officials said.
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November 30, 2024 at 3:36 PM
I think I just found my retirement plan.
Prompt: minimalist ink illustration, we become permeable to each other, black and white, on a white background
(Inverted colors for post)
Model: Flux Dev
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Model: Flux Dev
November 25, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Prompt: minimalist ink illustration, we become permeable to each other, black and white, on a white background
(Inverted colors for post)
Model: Flux Dev
(Inverted colors for post)
Model: Flux Dev
Reposted by Stephen
In principle I’m in favor of teaching “AI literacy,” but watching the seven contradictory kinds of received wisdom about AI circulating among college profs rn makes me worry a little about the uninformed leading the uninformed. Model capacity is changing more rapidly than ppl update their opinions.
November 25, 2024 at 3:15 PM
In principle I’m in favor of teaching “AI literacy,” but watching the seven contradictory kinds of received wisdom about AI circulating among college profs rn makes me worry a little about the uninformed leading the uninformed. Model capacity is changing more rapidly than ppl update their opinions.
I think we *thought* we knew what we were doing, and that’s how we sleepwalked into this mess. Hubris.
Idk if this is just me, or if it's historical.
Does anyone else feel that in the 90s we knew what we were doing — whereas now we're all operating at the edge of our capacity to handle (social, technical, &c) change, and it's very exciting but also a bit like ice skating down a steep hill?
Does anyone else feel that in the 90s we knew what we were doing — whereas now we're all operating at the edge of our capacity to handle (social, technical, &c) change, and it's very exciting but also a bit like ice skating down a steep hill?
November 23, 2024 at 12:47 AM
I think we *thought* we knew what we were doing, and that’s how we sleepwalked into this mess. Hubris.
Back on BlueSky, as it appears Threads is close to enshittifying itself.
Hope is still alive here in Asheville NC two months after the Storm.
Next stop, #Austin…
Hope is still alive here in Asheville NC two months after the Storm.
Next stop, #Austin…
November 20, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Back on BlueSky, as it appears Threads is close to enshittifying itself.
Hope is still alive here in Asheville NC two months after the Storm.
Next stop, #Austin…
Hope is still alive here in Asheville NC two months after the Storm.
Next stop, #Austin…