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The point of this post is not "AI is great, there's nothing to worry about." The point is, "the interaction between humans and prosthetic intelligence has some interesting and (for the moment) non-catastrophic elements.
Some sketches to prep for a project on Irish politics...
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Up late. Writing to try to make myself sleep...or wake up...
Not really a book review, but some thoughts about the codes that govern our lives...
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I wrote the first half of this months ago and only finished it the other night. Props to my editor at The Battleground for making it seem...coherent?
We can (and should) lament the passing of an order under which a lot of progress was made. But it pays to be realistic about what it actually was...
Reading Chris Wickham's The Donkey and the Boat. Because an 800 page book about the medieval economy is about 100 times less depressing than anything happening now...
Good news: Matt Gaetz won't be the AG.
Bad news: The replacement candidate is the prosecutor who decided not to prosecute him.
Same shit, different day.
The only beneficiary of the French government's collapse was Emmanuel Macron. @magadh.bsky.social, on why the Nouveau Front Populaire should hold together until the next parliamentary election.
Bad news Democrats: even after Trump voters aren't going to be all that enthused about billionaire liberalism.
Tfw the weather isn't shitty enough for my job to close but I have to fight through a frozen hellscape to get there...
The left needs more soundtracks. Yours truly, with this week's Battleground playlist featuring Goat, Sneaks, Slow Cooked, Under 45, Valentina Magaletti, Astéréotypie, Benefits, Zera Tonin, Ezhel, Murda, Aitch, Lvbel C5, Mdou Moctar and Elephant Stone.
Quite possibly the greatest misprint in newspaper history.
Americans voted against their own self-interest. @magadh.bsky.social, on Trump's victory and how rage at the professional-managerial social class helped make it happen.
I'm reading this post and I'm like, "Oh shit, what are they going to threaten to do?" Then I got to the end and I was like, "Well, really, that's not a bad solution." Thanks Bluesky...
