I, BS

JFC. Guess I do still have the capacity to be shocked by the IDF.

I think the source she was actually looking for was Trinidadian musician Anslem Douglas, from a song later made famous by the Baha Men.

YouTube video by Merriam-Webster LLM

Well done Miriam-Webster, you had me sweatin' there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvQn... #LLM #ActualIntelligence

Get Jason Gunn and Lana Coc-kroft spinning a big ol' "Wheel of Nationalisation". It'd kill in the ratings.

Though it would be pretty funny if he saw a bunch of drunk American sailors and was like "fuck if I know what they're saying, but they're just like me!"

As someone who lived in Bahrain for a couple of years, I can say pretty confidently that if he was "at a bar" he was probably not watching interactions among "locals". Most bars are full of Anglosphere migrant workers or members of the US fifth fleet.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

I tend not to subscribe to conspiratal "powerful men working in the shadows to mold the world according to their esoteric philosophy" narratives ("they're greedy and morally malnourished" usually does the trick) but this is a pretty compelling picture www.wired.com/story/the-re...

What if I'm active in large part *because* I'm disorganised?

New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it....

New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice

Star Wars: A cautionary tale of the chaos that ensues when a son and daughter disobey the edicts of their father and join indigenous terrorists to conspire against their homeland.

Posted a response to this to on LinkedIn from the perspective of power demand in Sri Lanka. For those in New Zealand, the total power generation capacity in 2021 was 10,080MW, which is what just the NVIDIA GPU's at OpenAI propose to use up. From either country's perspective, this is mind-boggling.

Map of countries that have recognized Palestine (the majority of the world). New Zealand has not recognized Palestine.

Maps without New Zealand (derogatory)

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This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Perhaps systems don't have boundaries, but each of us has a (potentially idiosyncratic) bounded frame of perception/understanding of that system.

Not one futurologist predicted how dumb things were gonna get.

One big problem is that to truly understand what the internet is doing to people, you have to be on it too much to play any useful role in society

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

A photograph of the inside cover of a book. The title is "The Force of Nonviolence: an ethico-political bind" by Judith Butler

Anyway feels like as good a time as any to finally (performatively) read this.

Waking up every day to like "croutons aren't the problem here people, and it says a lot about you if you think they are"

Being a bsky user outside of the US timezone is a daily exercise in trying to infer wtf is going on based on reactions to the reactions to that thing.

2035: Hereditary CEO of the Confederate States of America Barron Trump marries Charlotte Windsor, the Princess Royal. The revolution has failed. Reports on Truth Social awash with photos of clouds that look oddly like a smiling King George. Brittania rules the waves once more. (They're warmer now).

More of these stories please

All the space all the time is his whole thing

This guy loves to do that, mostly while I'm in meetings

when you think about, it's actually kind of impressive to make a computer innumerate. like that's its one job. it's in the name.

A close up on a dog's paw, that is stomping on some small fungus that were the actual intended subject of the photo.

Me just trying to take my silly fungus photos, and Ed the dog with perfect timing to come see what's going on. #fungusfriends

An image of the front page of a masters thesis titled "Missing Links: Supporting access to social connection in the wake of mental health challenges"

Done. Now sleep.

Heigh!

Intrusive thoughts: "Okay masters thesis is due Monday, but I think I can still work this into the conclusion if I skip the last formatting pass and I just re-write the part where... "

This fucking thread