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you used it and it worked??? let me update my priors

If you're a writer or researcher who thinks AI is better than you at your job, I believe you. I just don't think you should pretend like your skill issue affects me

This is an essential read.

It's not the same thing, but I could not help but think of @grimalkina.bsky.social's Why I Cannot Be Technical:

www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot...

A holographic sticker with Native American designs that says "you cannot automate the human experience"

Oh hell yeah @telekitnetic.bsky.social

getting really sick of my friends telling me the cursed blade is warping my mind. it's LITERALLY fine. i can stop fucking using it whenever i want. i think they're just jealous. like they know it'd corrupt them but i'm clearly stronger than its influence. in fact, i'm stronger than all of them...

A bunch of deep sea fishes including a gulper eel and some angler fish.

Creatures from the deepest sea

Painting of my character, Pudgy Horse, a horse of baroque type appearance with luxuriant mane and tail, and deliberately exaggerated proportions, including short, slender legs with dainty hooves and an extremely generous girth; here painted in tribute to one of the famous horses in the Lascaux cave paintings using similar colours and simplified shapes.

A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.

Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃

#ArtAdventCalendar

Painting of my character, Pudgy Horse, a horse of baroque type appearance with luxuriant mane and tail, and deliberately exaggerated proportions, including short, slender legs with dainty hooves and an extremely generous girth; here painted in tribute to one of the famous horses in the Lascaux cave paintings using similar colours and simplified shapes.

#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.

#ArtAdventCalendar

Landscape gouache painting of some purple flowery fields under a cloudy sky.

back to gouache (it's hard T_T)

I think LinkedIn might be the only place on the internet where the widespread and unstoppable spread of machine generated text has made zero noticeable difference to anything

Great curated list of critical AI books from Prof. Dagmar Monett #AcademicSky monettdiaz.com/books-critic...

OK! I collected much of what I @spookyachu.bsky.social @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (and other collaborators not on here) have said on the Turing test (from critical, gendered, etc. angles) as it keeps being relevant: olivia.science/turing — hope it's useful for others too. Happy Sunday! 🤖💭

Digital drawing of a pink heart-shaped box that says “OOPS…ALL BUGS. assorted chocolates” on the cover with colorful bug-shaped chocolates inside.

got you some chocolates. don’t worry about the title

A cropped screenshot of a computer science assignment description with yellow highlights added to emphasize requirements to have a “back-and-forth” with ChatGPT as a mandatory part of the assignment.

I love when my University education is being graded on “the quality of my interactions with ChatGPT”

Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.

My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...

I needed a banner so I figured I might as well draw all of my favorite things ☁️🏠✨

I’m taking an undergraduate image processing class and this post is the reason I now know the history of the Lena image (which is crazy, cause Lena still gets used everywhere!)

The rocks always knew math, we just force them to perform for us

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

What is Nick Shirley? Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

a white cat, nuzzling up to the face of a woman, leaning back with her eyes closed.

computer graphics (1984) archive.org/details/1984...

Whether something is decentralised or not is a function of the administrative control of different parts of the system, not a function of the network topology.

Digital illustration made in Procreate depicting a warmly lit home office in the early 2000s. On the office desk is a teal and white early iMac G3. A black cat is half-crouched with the computer mouse in its mouth, staring at the viewer as though caught mid-hunt. The scene is littered y2k objects. The wall has a poster of Rihanna and of Britney Spears' "Oops!... I Did It Again" album cover. Items on the office desk include a blank CD stack, a pink lava lamp, a VHS on top of a Blockbuster case, and an old landline phone.

Professional mouser for hire! Inquire below 🐈‍⬛

Thoughts & Tidbits The blog of a very creative but also very odd programmer in New York City. Matters discussed may be technical or absurd. All are welcome.

I again am inviting you to write a post on my blog

it can be anything, leave poetry if you want

just visit here write something then hit publish

www.bobbby.online/editor

keeping it open til someone ruins it

Looking across a frozen pond to the trees on the opposite side. The trees are barely visible due to the morning fog. There's patches on the frozen pond surface where some of the water is warmer and has melted the fresh snow.

Was going out to meet a fried to see if there were any birds out this morning, but arrived to some fun foggy conditions after a bit of snow last night.

#photography #landscapephotography #ClassicMono

A card made with 19th century type that has the Guillermo del toro quote: the value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence. Card sits on top of the type form.

This year’s New Year mailing, featuring del Toro’s response to AI art. Feels appropriate to set in 19th century type & ornament given the unbelievable (and largely lost) skill needed to design & cast items with this level of detail. #letterpress

Extracting books from production language models Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...

"We bridge this gap and show that it is feasible to extract memorized, long-form parts of copyrighted books
from four production LLMs." arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671

Screenshot of class website, a grid with an image embodying the theme of each week.

Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2]

redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/