Leif
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accelerated ignorization
September 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
accelerated ignorization
tomorrow at @c-base.org dissent-and-datalove.institute/events/2025-...
Playtest WEKILL//LEAKS 'Beta' @ c-base
WEKILL//LEAKS is a captivating beta-stage 2-players card game, comprised of two decks of 40 -rather splendidly illustrated!- unique cards, where “The Empire” and a mysterious organisation called “The ...
dissent-and-datalove.institute
June 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
tomorrow at @c-base.org dissent-and-datalove.institute/events/2025-...
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When we discuss Open Source AI, the devil is in the (unreleased) data.
January 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
When we discuss Open Source AI, the devil is in the (unreleased) data.
29 years ago Deep Space Nine predicted that today it would be 15C in San Francisco (✅), the US would have switched to using Celsius (❌), but would still be writing dates in M/DD/YY format (✅), and Benjamin Sisko will lead a large civil uprising this Sunday (❓) memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Ri...
August 30, 2024 at 8:44 PM
29 years ago Deep Space Nine predicted that today it would be 15C in San Francisco (✅), the US would have switched to using Celsius (❌), but would still be writing dates in M/DD/YY format (✅), and Benjamin Sisko will lead a large civil uprising this Sunday (❓) memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Ri...
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amazing how many different ways there are to be wrong
June 17, 2024 at 3:55 AM
amazing how many different ways there are to be wrong
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there is a lot going on but I'm having a hard time deciding whats the stupidest thing happening
May 24, 2024 at 11:17 PM
there is a lot going on but I'm having a hard time deciding whats the stupidest thing happening
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AI when humanity asks why AI is always wrong
Learned It From GIF
Alt: 80s anti drug commercial of a dad asking his kid where he learned about drugs and the kid says " you alright. I learned it from watching you"
media.tenor.com
May 24, 2024 at 3:15 PM
AI when humanity asks why AI is always wrong
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All the images in this thread are geographic features from the US National Map (apps.nationalmap.gov/viewer) whose names are officially recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names: www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-...
April 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM
All the images in this thread are geographic features from the US National Map (apps.nationalmap.gov/viewer) whose names are officially recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names: www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-...
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Moral consistency requires that if you say thanks to a chatbot you must say thanks to every object you use
February 13, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Moral consistency requires that if you say thanks to a chatbot you must say thanks to every object you use
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In a rebuke of surveillance technology, the city of Chicago is decommissioning its use #ShotSpotter and canceling its contract.
February 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM
In a rebuke of surveillance technology, the city of Chicago is decommissioning its use #ShotSpotter and canceling its contract.
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The thing about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce is that last week the NSA confirmed to me that the agency is buying up Americans' internet browsing data from shady data brokers without a warrant.
N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on commercial data brokers.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2024 at 4:35 PM
The thing about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce is that last week the NSA confirmed to me that the agency is buying up Americans' internet browsing data from shady data brokers without a warrant.
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Alas, we
Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness
Could not ourselves be kind.
But you, when at last it comes to pass
That man can help his fellow man,
Do no judge us
Too harshly.
— To Posterity, Bertold Brecht
Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness
Could not ourselves be kind.
But you, when at last it comes to pass
That man can help his fellow man,
Do no judge us
Too harshly.
— To Posterity, Bertold Brecht
January 14, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Alas, we
Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness
Could not ourselves be kind.
But you, when at last it comes to pass
That man can help his fellow man,
Do no judge us
Too harshly.
— To Posterity, Bertold Brecht
Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness
Could not ourselves be kind.
But you, when at last it comes to pass
That man can help his fellow man,
Do no judge us
Too harshly.
— To Posterity, Bertold Brecht
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Psyched to be doing a keynote at #37C3 on Dec 27th... I'm gonna talk about Psyops, Hypermemes, UFOs and generative AI. Also launching a CCC-specific instance of CYCLOPS, the CTF/ARG game we've been developing in the studio paglen.studio/37C3/
CYCLOPS
paglen.studio
December 8, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Psyched to be doing a keynote at #37C3 on Dec 27th... I'm gonna talk about Psyops, Hypermemes, UFOs and generative AI. Also launching a CCC-specific instance of CYCLOPS, the CTF/ARG game we've been developing in the studio paglen.studio/37C3/
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So great to hear you’ve decided to take a stand against book censorship. Does this mean you’ll be dropping your lawsuit against libraries, too?
💥BANNED BOOKS NEWS 💥
Penguin Random House sues Iowa in an effort to halt censorship in America.
Learn more here: bit.ly/3uvWB3R
#BannedBooks #ReadBannedBooks
Penguin Random House sues Iowa in an effort to halt censorship in America.
Learn more here: bit.ly/3uvWB3R
#BannedBooks #ReadBannedBooks
December 1, 2023 at 8:59 PM
So great to hear you’ve decided to take a stand against book censorship. Does this mean you’ll be dropping your lawsuit against libraries, too?
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Upon the passing of Don Joyce, the master tapes and tape loops of Negativland were housed in our Physical Archive for safekeeping. Now they've gone out for being fully digitized. Here's the photo gallery of what has gone:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72177720309833370
https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72177720309833370
July 24, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Upon the passing of Don Joyce, the master tapes and tape loops of Negativland were housed in our Physical Archive for safekeeping. Now they've gone out for being fully digitized. Here's the photo gallery of what has gone:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72177720309833370
https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72177720309833370
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Berlin! Super psyched for July 25, where I'll be in conversation with @harikunzru.bsky.social, Mark Pilkington, and Carly Busta about AI, UFOs, "Mirage Men," and all sorts of weird stuff on the occasion of my exhibition at NBK https://www.nbk.org/en/diskurs/panel-discussion-paglen
n.b.k. – Podiumsdiskussion
Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein ist ein 1969 in Berlin gegründeter Kunstverein, der sich der Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst widmet. Der Verein hat feste Ausstellungsräume in der Chausseestraße in...
www.nbk.org
July 14, 2023 at 12:21 PM
Berlin! Super psyched for July 25, where I'll be in conversation with @harikunzru.bsky.social, Mark Pilkington, and Carly Busta about AI, UFOs, "Mirage Men," and all sorts of weird stuff on the occasion of my exhibition at NBK https://www.nbk.org/en/diskurs/panel-discussion-paglen
computers today remember things they should forget, forget things they should remember, and tend to have entropy in all the wrong places
June 28, 2023 at 4:01 PM
computers today remember things they should forget, forget things they should remember, and tend to have entropy in all the wrong places
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👋 Heads up — we're releasing a "developer sandbox" for devs to test out the technical bits of federation, like running their own server!
This is a big part of Bluesky's vision of an open ecosystem, but for now, none of this will affect your experience here.
Let's explain what this all means:
This is a big part of Bluesky's vision of an open ecosystem, but for now, none of this will affect your experience here.
Let's explain what this all means:
Developers, the sandbox environment for federation is now ready for you! Help us test out the technical infrastructure for federation 🪄
Please read our sandbox guidelines and instructions here:
https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox
Please read our sandbox guidelines and instructions here:
https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox
Federation Developer Sandbox | AT Protocol
We're releasing a developer sandbox for federation. Read our sandbox guidelines and set up instructions here.
atproto.com
June 20, 2023 at 6:51 PM
👋 Heads up — we're releasing a "developer sandbox" for devs to test out the technical bits of federation, like running their own server!
This is a big part of Bluesky's vision of an open ecosystem, but for now, none of this will affect your experience here.
Let's explain what this all means:
This is a big part of Bluesky's vision of an open ecosystem, but for now, none of this will affect your experience here.
Let's explain what this all means:
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for anybody that doesn't totally understand what the "federation sandbox" means yet, here's an easy-to-understand explainer:
you know technology right. now imagine even more technology
June 20, 2023 at 10:01 PM
for anybody that doesn't totally understand what the "federation sandbox" means yet, here's an easy-to-understand explainer:
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Yes, yes, everyone has now heard about the lawyer who used ChatGPT and had it hallucinate cases that never existed, but did you look at the details? It's even crazier than it seems. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/30/perhaps-gpt-is-not-ready-for-the-supreme-court/
May 30, 2023 at 10:51 PM
Yes, yes, everyone has now heard about the lawyer who used ChatGPT and had it hallucinate cases that never existed, but did you look at the details? It's even crazier than it seems. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/30/perhaps-gpt-is-not-ready-for-the-supreme-court/
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After analyzing all 389 posts on Bluesky made over the past 10 minutes, here are Bluesky's Currently-Trending Words:
May 28, 2023 at 10:07 AM
After analyzing all 389 posts on Bluesky made over the past 10 minutes, here are Bluesky's Currently-Trending Words: