Gordon Hundley

The core expert system they are utilizing in these chatbots married to inference engines and stolen data is an engagement model based on standard human needs and responses. Most people adapt well to an obsequious form.

You can see it on the fringes already. Declarations that a product was made without AI in order have any value in a critical market. I for one welcome our new punk publishing revolution.

Brian Eno's debut solo album Here Come The Warm Jets was released on February 8, 1974

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I'm fond of "The Machine Stops" as a metaphor for our isolated existences in a machine mediated environment.

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🧵The Forgotten Team USA

On July 3, 1936, a month before the Nazi Olympics in Berlin, a group of American athletes boarded a ship bound for Europe.

The US team included Black sprinters from Harlem, Jewish gymnasts from Manhattan, and a biracial boxer from Pittsburgh.

Up close, Cassini caught Saturn’s rings glowing gold from behind, the Sun lighting them in that eerie backlight with sharp dark shadows slicing through. Right near the top-center sits this little white spark—Venus, not some distant star. Shot November 10, 2012. From Earth Venus blazes like the brightest “star” in the sky, yet out there it’s just a faint dot. Saturn’s average distance—1.4 billion km—really hits you then. We feel so small.

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What is that tiny white dot, just above and to the right of the pic center?

It's about the planet Venus, imaged by the wide-angle camera from the Cassini spacecraft on 10 Nov 2012. 🔭 🧪

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Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

#planetsci #histsci #science

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it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

Which is way too far North, likely 'just' a large turkey vulture. They are more common here in Tampa, most days they are soaring. Some can be extraordinarily large.

I meant to say the nearest breeding to Tempe appears to be Flagstaff.

That would be a rare sight indeed - the nearest breeding prgram is Tempe. Cannot see a tag and scale impossible to tell, but if it was out of the order large, it's possible.

California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus), I'd guess.

One of the trademark components of successful descents into tyranny appears to be the introduction of benefits for the many at the expense of the few. Public works for full employment generally precedes conscription into secret police. This is a desperate race to subjugate ahead of a medical crisis.

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Germany in the 70s had Beat Club, France had Pop 2 (ou Pop Deux), while we were stuck with the shitty old Whistle Test. Look at this lot:

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Wow. Some familiar, much not. Thanks!

If you give people UBI not only will you not need the chatbot career councilor, the creative dividend released will bury the slop machines' generative market. UBI will be more tranformative than any stochastic parrot.

In the Ndisi Ocean, between the North Seas...

Ouch. I'd keep close watch on the Finnish and Estonian borders after that jab.

(seen a bunch of people sharing this/talking in general about how "normal" Mamdani is but imo this doesn't show a normal person, but an *exceptionally* skilled communicator - a normal person wouldn't react like that to having a speech interrupted by a child! give him his due!)

The domestic spirit of the gentry at the time was rum. Whiskey was often an act of rebellion against the excise men.

Even Scotch whisky imported by the wealthy would have been a light straw color at best - again not barrel aged, and they would have been unable to get the pure barley whisky from now illicit highland stills. Instead, Lowland whisky mixed with grain sprit to avoid malt duty would be the rich import.

Perhaps some may temper their desire for progress in one area with a yearning for progress in another? This seems to be an example of a poorly constructed straw man.

Messier 97 (Owl Nebula) planetary nebula
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Imaged: 5/29/2022

Unalive to rights.

Better unalive than a crimson hue signifying a means of worker exploitation not congruent with our own.

YouTube video by King Crimson King Crimson - Indiscipline (King Crimson In Concert - Live In Munich, 1982)

I repeat myself when under stress.

At a guess, because they don't have the money to finance it themselves and the hardcore plutocrats sit atop the boards of the venture capital firms.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Super interesting 🧵 on darkness and how we conceive of it (both legally and culturally). 🔭🧪

In an age of passive IR sensors, we can live without streetlamps for awareness and rely on portable lighting for guidance. Where lamps are needed, they can be tuned to specific spectra that allow filters to remove their effect. We all need more dark in our nights, for health as well as astronomy.

Excellent work Freya! 🛰️👩‍🔬

#CanSat

I'm glad the Dems continue to try and engage "the youth" using somebody who could be described as a "tail boomer". As a slightly younger "Gen X" still outside the executive age group this is quite discouraging. 😂