Bogdan Stanciu

We totally misjudged how lazy people actually are.

Did I sleep well because the 😈 checked out last night?

The WiFi password is kotlet, and the music is: Scorpions, Roxette, U2, and Simply Red.

Stifler's mom can't be proud.

AI promised efficiency. Instead, it’s making us work harder. AI tools were supposed to free up our time—but they’re increasing our cognitive load and making us less productive. Here’s what’s really happening (and how to use them without burning out).

Because you never work hard enough.
afterburnout.co/p/ai-promise...

They should let Dipsy from Teletubbies visit the Criterion Collection vault.

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

rereading this as it has resurfaced to see if i agree with past me's assessment that it hinged on characteristically reductive definitions of both "information" and "computer" aeon.co/essays/your-...

The brain is a computer is a brain: neuroscience's internal debate and the social significance of the Computational Metaphor The Computational Metaphor, comparing the brain to the computer and vice versa, is the most prominent metaphor in neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI). Its appropriateness is highly debated i...

This piece is also an interesting exploration of the brain-computer metaphor, more from the sociological perspective
arxiv.org/abs/2107.14042

"...where the only cultural advantage is that you can live in a democracy.”

No, seriously: if you're trying to write anything, take my workshop. It's amazing what a tight, small group dynamic can do for motivation and creative flow.

“Taking a writing course with Cintra is the best investment I have ever made in my career and myself."

— Amanda Nealon

Yes, cycles not circles.

Get into those BD cycles.

washing down my detox supplement with a beer

YouTube video by Stand up Geniuses VIGOROUSLY 😂 BILL BURR #shorts

The joke that popped after reading your message.
youtube.com/shorts/1rpl-...

This is why we don't see a lot of academics in The Mad Max series.

Can we still be comfortable with uncertainty?

wow! 😞

“Just as we now try to control atom-bomb fallout, so we will one day try to control media fallout. Education will become recognized as civil defense against media fallout.” — Marshall McLuhan (1964)

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy.

He went alone and beat the odds.

youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

"Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true." - John Kenneth Galbraith

And yet, I still consider it the privilege of my life: to have lived in both.

That's why the books (yours and Zinoviev's) ring so true to me.

We let the web rot away well before LLMs

This chart shows the percentage of links from all New York Times articles that still work. Over 60% of older links are now broken. And consider that social media posts are even more ephemeral

Likely only LLMs will “remember” the old web at this point.

What are you developing?

What movies have you been watching lately?

@cintra.bsky.social What a wonderful book you wrote. The Western equivalent of Alexander Zinoviev's Homo Sovieticus, imo. 👏

And you'll know that you are still alive. ❤️

Imagine losing 210 followers.

"It could ruin your career."

This is why I put everything in quotes.

And then they are told to make "better decisions."

Venture gets a rare Native American-led fund in Betsy Fore's Velveteen Ventures | TechCrunch The firm will look to invest $500,000 to $4 million in 15-20 seed and Series A companies in the healthcare, climate, consumer, and community sectors.

Venture gets a rare Native American-led fund in Betsy Fore’s Velveteen Ventures

Why Technology Won’t Save Us Unless We Change Our Behavior | TechPolicy.Press We can design greener tech and smarter AI, but unless people use them and trust them, they won’t matter, writes Frenk van Harreveld.

The missing piece in climate and health policy isn’t innovation.
It’s human behaviour.

Here’s why we need to rethink how policy supports action—not just invention.

www.techpolicy.press/why-technolo...

#BehavioralScience #PublicPolicy #TechForGood

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