This. But also they are a cult. They can’t say no to Dear Leader. (I honestly wonder if he checks if they’re wearing the exact shoes!!)
That tone has become a red flag in itself before the rest of the conversation even starts, and I hate it.
In that tone there's an embedded hopefulness, but also a blankness. The speaker has no idea how AI will actually solve this task, and doesn't care. The speaker is very excited that this is the main thing we should try because they are fully sold on AI being a magic wand to solve all things.
I am starting to develop a physical cringe reflex to the way some people say "AI." There's this noticeable open-throated California-rooted upturn with a trailing clarion question mark. "What if we could do X with... AI?..?!"
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
Whoooof
Made it to Friday but at what cost
One was a cab driver and then NYPD. The other was a neighborhood pharmacist. They couldn’t have been more opposite!
Oh hell yes 🔥
new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...
I am capable of object permanence and am able to be enraged about, it turns out, hundreds of things simultaneously.
Suddenly thinking about Rome at least once a day..........
Can we just not
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
I ❤️ Brooklyn
Best episode of Muppet Babies ever!
I'm also convinced this is why we saw such an escalation of turnstile-jumping. Once the MTA made a big deal about it, more guys realized they could get away with it. Why pay the fare if other guys are not paying? And that's how you get dipshit Park Slope finance bros in Patagonia hopping the gate.
The broken social compact escalates so quickly! There are too many people who see one guy getting away with something so they figure it's OK for them to get away with it too. Why bother being decent if your neighbor isn't bothering? (........BECAUSE IT'S BASIC DECENCY, DIPSHITS, THAT'S WHY)
i read that stupid blog about the left "missing out" on AI and got big mad aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...
(American Medieval has been making my lapsed medievalist heart so happy! It's been really cool to see how the field of study has evolved so much since I was in college hyperfixating on Arthurian retellings but not really sure how to explore that in a modern way.)
This episode on "crusadercore" and the fetishization of medievalish stuff going on in current pop and political culture is terrific and fun and chilling all at once.
The tech dystopia being pushed on us is one where we never leave our insulated bubble—an isolated house, a self-driving robot car, increasingly automated work, ghost kitchen food delivery, and all entertainment just auto-generated slop. An utterly frictionless, interactionless life. No thanks!
Random discovery is so important everywhere in life! A song in a genre you never normally listen to, a book on a display at the library, an old movie on the TV in your neighborhood bar, someone on the train wearing cool boots you suddenly kinda covet...life becomes so flat without these encounters!
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
Gung hay fat choy! May the Fire Horse trample all of the injustices and abuses that slithered in with the snake year.
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
We don’t have a GREAT track record with this tbh but I was delighted to see it happen here
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
