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And then of course the whole 'let's fk with library catalogue metadata' is capitalized upon by some gestural environmental politics that registers 'NATURE' as an artist to collect negligible Spotify payments. FFS

Infuriating when large businesses are this bad at their core business. Penguin Cafe Orchestra have a piece of music based on a 'traditional' tune, so Spotify offers other music by the artist 'traditional' because who-the-f-cares.

The rules.
My @smh cartoon.

Decision-based Evidence-making

the really fun thing about this is that even this text's seeming factual accuracy—it can't be called "honesty"—is *also* just a coincidental artifact of these glorified Markov chains being structurally incapable of differentiating truth from falsity and meaning from nonsense.

Blood in the Machine "The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how...

This is an entertaining and valuable book to read when referring to the Luddites: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian...

anti-expert populism... my local restaurant has superb for take-away, but no use to you, sorry www.kadmus.com.au

What's the best hummus? - CHOICE We taste test and review hummus from Aldi, Black Swan, Coles, Obela and more. Which is best and is hummus healthy? Plus a hummus recipe so you can make it at home.

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For the record, Abby Mellick Lopes and I ran a critique of Tesla Roadster (as reinforcing an individualistic car ontology) in the mid-2000s. There are receipts somewhere for us having been a now-justified hater from the outset.

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

Are there Muskovites who now feel betrayed, admitting that they fan-boy-ed someone very stupid and/or very evil? I would pay good money for thick descriptions of any of those kinds of people and how they are rationalising their current worldview. washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

Parola (Rework), by Donato Dozzy & Anna Caragnano from the album Variations

not my usual, but caught this on community radio in the car and it did stop me in my tracks: donatodozzy.bandcamp.com/track/parola...

AIchemy*

*(joke only works with serifed fonts)

"You can only be decent because we are horrible" is a very, very popular line of thinking among horrible people.

Icymi: bsky.app/profile/scho...

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

I mean it’s not like we can let a United Nations Special Rapporteur just rock up to a university! And give a speech about international law! It will be anarchy. Where will it end? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I would like every person who got on this site to explain how ackshually the water use of data centers is overstated and the environmental impact isn't that bad to listen to this episode in its entirety

Addicted products: The story of Brad the Toaster The final vision of my graduation project. It is the story of Brad, a toaster which is part of a new breed of products that love to be be used. It shows the…

been done already, no? vimeo.com/41363473

unashamed legacy trashing

just assign this film: www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/...

so the politicians who can't make a functional coalition want to scrap group work... www.9news.com.au/national/gro...

Bummer our whole economy is based on scambling.

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Will be tricky moving forward to differentiate these 'feels different' from
a) that there's an industry of people tweaking the interfaces to make those feels (without underlying infrastructure necessarily quantum leaping)
b) investment in use causes feels journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm just wondering about the value of bottom-up as a framing given that any user-led tech reconstruction will always still have all the top-downs, hyping or criti-hyping, in mind.

That adoption will still be in dialogue with non-adoption, especially if latter is vociferous? There's already a concealing or defensiveness or retreat to like-minded by those believing they're finding value; which is also a trying to convince themselves they're not just stochastic parroting.

You doing work in this space? Be interesting to compare notes.

Non-Users Also Matter: The Construction of Users and Non-Users of the Internet

Is refusal-to-use not also a kind of use? Why is adoption of 'criti-hype' (eg uncritical boosting of 'stochastic parrot') not also bottom-up? Or if also-ran criti-hypers are duped in their (non-)use, why might bottom-up muddle-their-way-through-ers also be duped? direct.mit.edu/books/edited...

how can it be highly capable if it's wildly unpredictable

you too can become a crypto-stakhanovite who becomes "more productive" by subtracting more of oneself from intellectual processes, and instead claiming a kind of vicarious relation to work: "I watched this work happen, so I in fact did it"

saying "the left" is always credibility-destroying