Abstract Tesseract

a drawing of a goose holding 3 balloons

be a silly goose

I appreciate this episode so much, especially in this specific moment when discussions around "AI" are making me feel really burned out from figuring out how to deal with value conflicts and what it means to meet people where they are

That little sigh that dogs give out when they curl up next to you?
That sigh as if they’ve spent the whole day working down’t the mine but also the sigh that says they’re right where they want to be, and they’re just happy?
That sigh.

YouTube video by CogSci: Interdisciplinary Study of the Mind Resisting dehumanization in the age of AI - Emily Bender

On how it's dehumanizing:
faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape...

Or if you prefer video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-...

when you start planning a new novel the most important thing is how many lesbians you're gonna put in there. triples is safe, triples is best, but more really can't hurt

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

"Training on data analytics" graphic, cropped so it says "data anal"

I really feel that the centrist Having Conversations Industrial Complex is simply not up to the challenge of dealing with influential people who have an endless capacity to spout magical thinking nonsense couched in the language of liberal "data-driven" debate

The motto of the modern tech industry is "You can just do things to people"

remember there is an army of HUMAN BEINGS out there doing "ghost work" to prevent even worse responses from reaching the public

and the only tool they have is effectively a "wrong answer" buzzer because you cannot teach it why the answer was wrong BECAUSE IT DOES NOT KNOW THINGS

YouTube video by Dr. Pez - VGM The soundtrack of Ocarina of Time, but it's a prog rock concept album

This popped up in my YouTube feed, and it's an absolute masterpiece youtu.be/pDH3g6rRjM8?...

7pm GMT tonight

How am I supposed to mold the wet clay of my code if the world is made of pudding

As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.

THREAD.

3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022

Just finished reading and I can confirm that the book totally blew my understanding of the tarot wide open in a very good way. Already changed how I'm doing readings, and helped me have a different understanding of past readings.

there is no opposition party in the U.S.

I think a lot of us who teach have also lost this, for various reasons, from cynicism, to burnout, to some not liking teaching, etc etc. Every semester, I try for this, to instil that joy for learning in my students. Im not sure the world allows for/wants it any more, though. Even if students do.

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

People often defend Grammarly when I lump them in with the rest of the LLM crowd, but this is why: their model of consent is no better than OpenAI's or Anthropic's.

We knew they were doing this at the time, which is why you saw grants elsewhere that mentioned things like “biological diversity” get cancelled.

I’m horrified at how bad these people are, but I’m astonished at how lazy and incompetent they are at everything.

imagine being such an incompetent researcher that you think an llm can write your literature review

in case people thought this was hyperbole

They should invent a way out that isn't through

Big Thumb Guy meme, the guy getting dismissively thumbed-up is the skeet from @stephangeering.bsky.social‬: "Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works."

Not expecting intellectual honesty from EAs, and with the caveat that "AI" would be bad even if it increased the drinking water supply, but it sure seems like something that companies fight to keep their numbers secret, and the numbers we *do* get to see are immediately spun into "not that bad"

YouTube video by FrenchMontanaVEVO French Montana - Unforgettable ft. Swae Lee

Thinking back on that time French Montana wanted to make a song with Swae Lee so he flew him out to Kampala, Uganda & said ‘you got it from here let me stay out your way’.

Most because it was the best musical decision he, or perhaps anyone has ever made.

Beautiful video too.

This! Turnitin has twisted our concept of plagiarism, and encourages meaningless paraphrasing.

The convergence of fascist state capture with the creation in AI of an aspirational unwaged labor machine really emphasizes the underlying desire to eliminate the rest of us.

again and again... there is NO SUCH THING, no such thing, NO SUCH THING as automation as presented by AI companies!

1/n

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