Jason Wehmhoener

How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?

Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.

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Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
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I hate to give wired credit for anything whatsoever. You may be right but I also think the label (or something like it) would have emerged without them

AI rebrands humanistic skills like writing, drawing, creativity, which have all been *thoroughly feminized,* as hard and macho, letting bros who fear nothing more than the whiff of femininity and feminization access creativity without the stench of girliness

I need a way to refer to the place I go to rent a laser cutter. These days that’s called a makerspace.

Make: Community - Maker Movement Make: has been elevating makers, nurturing a global cultural movement, and celebrating creativity, innovation and curiosity since 2005.

Yeah they certainly want to take credit for things. Im sure it benefited them while it lasted. make.co/maker-moveme...

Wired was capitalizing on a term that existed previously.

Maker spaces went out of business all over the place, but a few still exist, and their denizens absolutely identify with the term. And many more crafters are doing more or less the same thing without the label. I don’t place a lot of value in identity generally though. You are what you do, imho.

It’s pretty low quality crap, even by Silicon Valley standards. I’m frankly surprised the money men thought we would be fooled. They really don’t think very highly of us apparently.

Especially since stack overflow still exists

I guess I just end up feeling like surface level answers aren’t worth the cost of the environment, our privacy, and our democracy.

No. Makers gonna make. Hasn’t died out in the slightest.

Problem is, is the temporary enervation just what it feels like to learn? To get the new facts under your skin? I worry that it feels easier because it is simply absorbed less. It’s the quicker, more surface level answer, rather than the deep understanding. But maybe that’s the goal at times?

Same.

Who knew ranked choice voting would be so heartwarming?

As usual, I learned a lot from this piece. Very important reading. Yes, it's lengthy, but it will reward your time.

Look at this pusillanimous bullshit. I voted for Katie Porter.

Posting for @acatwithnews.bsky.social, who is out in Paramount, CA, where federal agents reportedly are conducting ICE raids, and have completely gassed out the neighborhood

Photos from Sean, who understandably cannot post updates right away.

ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾

This was about an hour ago…

Heavily-armed DHS paramilitary forces in military vehicles fired dozens of stun grenades at a crowd of onlookers today in Los Angeles.

Woah. Hey @nathantankus.bsky.social is she dreaming or does this idea have legs?

Malls were such rad places for loitering teens to perfect their shoplifting skills. Ask me how I know.

More about the TESCREAL cult attempting to take over the world. Here’s a non-Musk-associated URL for the thread: xcancel.com/xriskology/s...

For those abstaining from X.

xcancel.com/xriskology/s...

Tudor Monastery Farm (TV Mini Series 2013) ⭐ 8.5 | Documentary, History 59m

Nadine and I have been watching this and we are just fascinated. The overbearing influence of the church would not be my cup of tea, but otherwise, Tudor farming life seems pretty decent! www.imdb.com/title/tt4103...

I’m @jasonw22@post.lurk.org if you want to find me there.

Mastodon is doing just fine! Y’all will come around someday.

Believe it or not, all three of these fish are the same species… the bluehead wrasse. Wrasses are protogynous hermaphrodites, meaning they transition from female to male over the course of their lives. Each phase can look radically different from each other as evidenced here #coralcitycamera

This is rough advice for those of us that aren’t terrific fans of showboats, peacocks, and gimmicks. It’s also correct. Contemporary politics are following the same script as professional wrestling. We don’t like it because we neglected journalism for 50 years and recoil at what it has become.

"Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry" - The Times

If your corporation's business model relies on lawbreaking, your corporation has no legal legitimacy.

We don't let narcotic cartels and trafficking rings list themselves on the stock exchange: why should OpenAI or Facebook be any different?