Stav Zeitouni

And when, by dint of a considerable effort, I managed to switch on my attention again, the phono-lecturer had already gone on to his main topic: our music, mathematical composition. (The mathematician as the cause, music as the effect.) He was describing the recently devised musicometer. "Simply by turning this handle, any of you can produce up to three sonatas an hour. Yet think how much effort this had cost your forebears! They were able to create only by whipping themselves up to fits of 'inspiration' - an unknown form of epilepsy. And here you have a most amusing illustration of what they produced: Scribian, the twentieth century. They called this black box" (a curtain parted on the stage, revealing their most ancient instrument) "a 'grand', a 'royal' instrument, which only shows once more to what extent their entire music..."

From We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, written in 1920 (this copy translated by Mirra Ginsburg) - a description that is only slightly removed from some genAI adcopy.

It would be great if it didn't feel like we were cycling through the greatest hits of early 20th century dystopias.

Copyright law amendment that requires the holder to condemn their soul to remain tied to Earth for the n years in the death + n

Lol

We are all realists* now

*Living out legal hypotheticals in reality

Finished Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li on audiobook this week and enjoyed it a lot!

I can't believe we're doing this again. An endless march of folly.

Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.

Most of the footage should never leave the user’s device. But of course the worst company doesn’t do privacy.

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
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Ah, sorry, didn't follow the looping post thread 😅

Isn't his stepbrother a JPost editor living in Jerusalem?

אמיתי לגמרי, אני נכנסת לפיד שלך כל פעם שאני צריכה זריקת עידוד. כפרעל פולי.

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at hig...

Oh dear.

arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

מזל טוב!

It's this, all the way down. AI frequently feels like it's wasting my time as a user, whether it's on websites or on endless phone trees or chatbots that rarely provide the exact information you asked for. I remember when interactions felt efficient and useful, it wasn't that long ago!

Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year.

Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

If all we needed was one schoolhouse rock song, why did YLJ & HLR collectively chop down a forest to explain this smallest of contributions to legal knowledge

Oh my god the replies

More pointedly, I'm not sure what the authors of this piece were trying to say about present genocides (though I agree that it's ridiculous that they were asked to omit the word from a poster discussing post-Shoah literature)

I don't mean this as a gotcha. I just think that comparisons are deployed in order to learn *something* and we should be talking about when comparisons are useful and when they are not, rather than arguing that they are always relevant or never relevant.

The article claims (correctly mo) that "destruction leaves residues that often cannot be transformed into lessons or triumphs."

If we are not in the business of lessons, what use can be made of the comparison? In what way does the past "name" the present?

Nuanced comparisons are useful and there have been times where I've seen them deployed successfully. This piece nevertheless highlights a contradiction in how we talk about these comparisons -

Didn't ACB go on a book tour while serving and hearing arguments?

כל כך הרבה תפניות לא צפויות במשפט אחד!

Kindergarten teachers have the best outfits! Colorful dresses that are also comfortable enough to run after 5 year olds in? Sign me up

Zero interest in joining the Discourse on antisemitism on the left that has popped up on my tl in the last few days. Every time it starts being discussed I am reminded anew just how unsafe most left spaces are, and honestly makes me never want to engage.

The outdoors always proves that common sense isn't particularly common 😅

Maybe! But I feel like there have always been hikers who don't know what they're doing (see: Cheryl Strayed's Wild, my personal pet peeve of a blockbuster book/movie on thruhiking) - I'm not convinced influencers are making it worse. At least now hiking is more accessible/diverse 🤷

But the ecosystem also supports creators like MyLifeOutdoors, who do serious gear stress testing that was not half as accessible pre-backpacker digital influencers.

The CI symposium, Illinois campus with the symposium logo

THE 8TH ANNUAL PRIVACI SYMPOSIUM

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We are pleased to announce the 8th annual PrivaCI Symposium, which will take place on June 24-25, 2026 in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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I don't think there's a settled argument on it in his petition is what I'm trying to say. It's deliberately ambiguous on the question of which human the work could be assigned to (with some preference to machine owner)

That's true, but his claims going all the way back to exchanges with the copyright office leave the door open for users or programmers to be the alternative owners - so, at least on its face, he should be comfortable with the user being assigned ownership of a Midjourney creation.