Matthew Noe

There's something... nagging me about LLMs and predictive gambling rising alongside each other and both defending their necessity with similar language...

MONGO IS APPALLED

That’s it. Mind you, the right is incredibly good at spinning personal responsibility myths so we will see. But so far people can’t square their increasing utilities bills with moral virtue. It’s the rare spot of possible alliance.

yeah, the fact this cannot be "personal reponsibility-ed" into irrelavence is going to spread the tent over the type of people who read fine print and will relentlessly persue policy objective through the local bureauarcy

I did the math and for the last year every month we have used less electricity than that month the year before. Bill still up 30%.

And things like this:

"Your electricity use [in February] is projected to be 35% higher this billing period [compared to last year]"

Except that isn't actually possible because nothing we do at home has changed

And our heat is gas, so it ain't temperature related

(I did read them all)

False information about teacher salaries and workloads has to be among the most successful disinformation campaigns in US history

Do not read FB comments about this unless you enjoy seeing people continue to claim this is fine because they "don't work all year anyway."

Did you forget about those Left Behind books?

Did you not have a high school library full of that kind of fiction? 😅

Did... did y'all really not know large swaths of US Christians are cheering for Armageddon?

People are going to ruin their lives listening to these grifters

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

-Terry Pratchett

#booksky #skybrarian

There's always a Pratchett quote

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

Peep show in a small box (about the size of a large index card, showing an author in a red coat, manuscript in his hand, dog at his side surveying the workings of a print shop.)

Today, thanks to the Houghton Library, I got to introduce students to an #18thcentury German peepshow showing the interior of a printing house. Take a peek! (It was hard to photograph & the photo fails to include the cat who joins the dog in the foreground as 1 of the spectators.)
#BookHistory

Anyway, this is the climate crisis.

For real.

You absolutely do not have to hand it to Anthropic.

They are still a trash company who should not exist.

One good call does not negate all of the other problems.

"[AI] generated art will not be permitted at TCAF. As an independent, nonprofit festival committed to platforming and promoting the creative comic arts, TCAF reserves the right to request immediate removal of any AI generated art exhibited at the festival."

www.torontocomics.com/policies

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

Something good: your AI slop is not a human creation, copyright requires a human, therefore you can't copyright it.

Get fucked.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

There was a fair amount of heavy snow. Now it is straight up sleeting.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Easily a top 5 best thing about our apartment: these Belle-observation windows

Audiobooks don’t really count as reading? Think again. — Harvard Gazette Education scholars say rigor, learning same as paper, stigma an unnecessary hurdle.

"Not only does the brain operate the same when reading print books or listening to audiobooks, Gaab said, but the learning process is also the same."

📚

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

There are hundreds of really good reasons to fund larger, better public transit systems, more pedestrian friendly streets, and cities that encourage slowing down.

This is a really big reason.

Will we act before it is too late?

We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop. As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

"It is inevitable: Take 70 million aging baby boomers and put them in big SUVs and pickup trucks on North American roads, and you have a whole lot of accidents waiting to happen."

lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-may-soo...

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Did you miss our event with Rachel?

You're in luck!

We were able to record her talk and you can view it now on our @countwaylibrary.bsky.social Author Series page:

countway.harvard.edu/events/autho...

#GraphicMedicine

I... don't know how to respond to the regular reminders to build good relationships with local law enforcement and to call them if ICE shows up.

Y'all.

The local police in Worcester literally collaborated with ICE and have a vendetta against anyone who tried to stop them.

They aren't allies.

EBSCO is trying to nudge all of their publishers to agree to LLM training.

Shoutout to @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social for saying no and for being transparent with these messages.

litwinbooks.com/ebscos-publi...