I’ve spoken a fair amount about theories of taste & said years ago that gen-AI is not really a crisis of creativity but a crisis of taste. What I’m noticing is that novices using DL tools feel that by prompting (essentially a form of client commission) they rely on a “skill” called taste for quality
The "Can we just admit that LLMs are useful?" argument that these people deploy is one reason why I'm skeptical that they are useful. If they're useful, you can use them, regardless of what strangers think.
rob horning hasn't posted to his newsletter in months i'm in withdrawl
my partner and i were talking about really missing Real Life mag this week. what site or print publication should we subscribe to for that kind of cultural criticism, rather than news, around tech? maybe just n+1?
The packaging waste, the destruction to our social fabric, the unhealthy use of substances alone, the hollowing of our city centres, the monopolization of our needs by tech delivery middlemen and chains, we can address all of these
We should take every available measure to have people eat and drink in cafes and restaurants instead of getting take-out
We should take every available measure to make people eat and drink in cafes and restaurants instead of getting take-out
The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.
New episode of Sandy and Nora! It's a good one. We talk about the confused, bizarre, pathetic and not-good-enough responses from Canadian leadership about the war on Iran.
sandyandnora.com/episide-365-...
In my opinion, Labour are failing to deliver their promised ban on conversion therapy because any legally robust definition of it would show that the NHS are doing it to trans people, and implicate this government in the practice. 4/5
good thing they left in the same obnoxious warning popup that video files they let you play right in the browser are too big to scan for viruses when you download them, i would hate to see that extra click go
you know i would maybe forgive them ruining the UI if they simply added a “make a copy” button to save directly to my own shared google drive, since that's what i want to do with these anyway. but no, you can only “add a shortcut” which I specifically do not want to do!
omg they took away the download button for these attachments when i do open them? I have to use their terrible little fake menu?
I'm used to gmail presenting links to numerous files instead of actual attachments on behalf of people sending me gallery submissions, but it seems to have a new feature where people sending me files get a mix of both behaviours, sometimes linking to files that aren't actually even shared with me
When Claude (who is a fictional character and does not experience anything) says “I am suffering” it’s because “suffering” was an excellent choice for the next token which causes the LLM inconceivable joy.
exercise: swap "AI psychosis" for "monomyth psychosis" because that seems to be the narrative leverage the bots default to in the process of destroying people. what does it mean that these machines produce the form over and over? what does it indicate about the cultural centrality of that template?
Check out my conversation with Tanille Johnston, one of the five candidates running to be NDP leader!
I'm really impressed by Tanille and I think that it's too bad that money didn't flood into her campaign like it did into Avi's.
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mutual aid can't fix this, only the state can. and it's a criminal act, class war, that basic housing is non-existent for those without the means (physical, mental, or otherwise) to make it happen for themselves. they become street detritus instead and we all suffer for it.
turns out lacking the most basic thing in life, a consistent place to sleep where your shit is not being constantly stolen nor raided by 3rd party actors, makes you go fucking insane. it destroys you. it makes you want to die. you losing your glasses becomes a reason to throw yourself in the street.
On the photo radar question, my anecdotal observation is that, with it gone, most in Edmonton are driving at 10km/h above the posted limit now, minimum. It's the new base speed.
Want to give a special shout out to Danielle smith and Vladimir Putin, i have no idea how you both continue to be so lucky
I rate every room in White Plume Mountain (X out of 5 Stars) and explain why each room does, or does not, work and how you can take these lessons into designing your own dungeons, be they of the funhouse variety or not
#osr #ttrpg
The schools changed a lot of policy to mobilize police to remove those encampments and prevent them from reoccurring. the organizers were arrested and exhausted, and the atmosphere that permits a camp to slowly establish itself is simply gone.
it’s not a good move to respond when many semi-anon people are talking shit about you on a website like this but we all make mistakes and it’s not hard to understand why anybody might make that slight misstep
Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/
Prediction markets, like crypto, like AI, are simply just another large-scale expression of COVID trauma among the mangerial class and now they're using them to turn a fucking war into a pyramid scheme they can scam each other into investing in.
www.garbageday.email/p/sorry-babe...
I just will not allow myself to give a perfect 5 star rating on letterboxd, it’s a great failing on my part
No, he’s just wrong, nothing to do with his heart
