Bits all the way down.
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Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
The Melian dialogs still relevant after all these years.
And also, what Athens did at Melos directly contributed to their loss.
History as tragedy, history as farce, bah — history is a bit taken too far.
Can this be a solution?
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
Becky and Lloyd Didcot, 39 and 41, feel that an autism diagnosis carries too much stigma, so they prefer to talk about daughter Avery, 10, as if she’s batshit crazy instead.
The Elder Millennial urge to swim out past the breakers, watch the world die
⚠️ Anthropic:
“We cannot in good conscience accede” to the demands of the Department of War.
Concerns about the Department’s potential use of AI for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons have not been resolved.
I would be so good at this. This is such good bait.
This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.
I say this as someone who has strong leftist values and also works with and plays with LLMs.
The answer as ever is “well it’s complicated and there are real issues that we must choose how to engage with.”
Personally to me “progress” would be more a rise of local models outside of investor capture.
As a passing observer here, I’d like to offer the perspective that “development of LLMs” is not necessarily “progress”.
Progress can be measured along any axis. Investor-captured technological progress often encodes a conservation of extant power dynamics.
So in that sense, pro-AI is conservative.
As someone who was tortured in ABA over autism this push is pretty obviously about cleaving off a subset of the population to do more of that too. Or otherwise throw away. So 1) I don’t support it & 2) they said I had severe autism in childhood and so I still assert that label now to make a point
Thank you!
Anyone on my network familiar with social supports in Canada, specifically in Edmonton, where a disabled autistic guy might turn for help? He’s about to lose housing and internet access. He’s brilliant but physically hurt, and he’s about to be on the street in this winter.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
it's wild how big tech forced technology on us that
* doesn't work the way they say it does
*most people are ill-equipped to use, and
* induces psychosis in otherwise stable individuals
And all anyone ever says is "better get used to it, it's here to stay"
I'm speaking, of course, about printers
Wonderman is an autistic-coded work of art exploring the loneliness of giving a shit in a world that doesn’t, and telling a story about what it’s like to be hard-wired against defection.
I really loved it a lot.
You've got to entertain the dumb ideas. Otherwise they'll never invite their smart friends over.
In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
This is awesome and my mind immediately goes to, can we apply this concept to navigation in semantic latent spaces. Ima chew on this for a bit, thanks!
Oh cool! Enjoying this formulation, will dig in deeper soon but tagging @defenderofbasic.bsky.social in case yall have not crossed paths
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Any moots in Phoenix AZ?
Three people I really appreciate following right now are: @mekka.mekka-tech.com, @lookitup.baby, and @lizthegrey.com.
Love this. Magic system ontologically emergent from structure of the universe.
Answering earnestly:
Make time for Joy! Joy is a powerful weapon.
Some people will break down. Most won't.
I keep pointing out that what cops do to Black folk is measurably 10x to 100x worse than what ICE does to immigrants. And yet, we are still here.
"Strong Black woman!" is survivorship bias.
You don’t understand. I must eat gnomeshrooms.
I just thought everyone should see this
