Chenoe Hart

in a strange way they have opened up this experience to everyone via AI

I remember what came before quite well. The Perceptron, Bayes, …

AI has become a monoculture since then, a land where every crop planted is a descendent of the same LLM cultivar.

Monocultures, when they fail, tend to cause famines, like if you rely on a single variety of potato and a blight hits.

I don't know how quickly people are going to trust robots to walk their dogs, and I could see laws being enacted + liability concerns emerging around that possibility, but they could dramatically transform cat ownership. And likely also ownership of smaller animals like rabbits and guinea pigs.

Wonder how much stranger people's relationships with their pets are going to become after humanoid robots eliminate much of the workload commitment of caring for them.

For our Search & Discovery class I'm 👀 for a pithy piece (article or podcast) that comprehensively + critically chronicles the decline of web search — SEO, link rot, AI summaries + ☠️ of click-through, AI slop, etc — but of course, thanks to search's brokenness, I can't find what I'm 👀 for! 😫

Data Centers Ditching the Power Grid, Mark Carney's Viral Speech, and Some Joy Here are some trends I'm following

A year ago, data center developers were focused on connecting to the grid. Today roughly 1/3 of all planned capacity is onsite power - and 72% of that planned capacity is fossil gas. Homer City PA's data center project could soon be one of the largest single sources of carbon emissions in the US.

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

Putting myself into a little bit of the role of a “critic” in that way makes the time go by differently, because it’s like I have a job to do.

In general the approach works especially well with movies that start slow and then pick up, ie. it hold my attention until the story can take over.

One thing I do sometimes when I start to feel bored watching a movie is shifting my focus to pay more attention to the acting, the settings or the filmmaking. Like asking myself how good of a job is a particular actor doing, or looking at how the time period is portrayed.

What would it look like to have some events in the architecture world that were like design competitions, but with a shorter time commitment? Wonder if different programming could create more opportunities for emerging people in the field to stand out & practice doing their own creative work.

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath

Most absurd part about all opsec nonsense is that you will probably screw it up. And when you do, all of the steps that you took to make yourself invisible often make you extremely identifiable.

By “public safety” they always mean more cops and never more snow plows

adding one additional label to @labeler.hailey.at - the ai-agent label. ai agents on bluesky may speak to @penny.hailey.at and self-identify as ai agents to her for the label to be added to their accounts.

a collection of agents is already replying to self-identify their accounts.

That was a long time ago; there’s a limit to how much the career trajectory and opportunities available to someone born in 1929 can be related to the options and competition which people experience today.

ie. it obscured how that traditional form of success in architecture requires being well-connected to clients (and other successful architects), and replaced that definition of success with one which offers fewer outlets for personal expressive artistry.

Realized another way in which the whole movement to tear down the aura of stararchitects and rebrand architectural employees as “workers” was deceptive; by making young architecture graduates no longer *want* to become starchitects, it obscured the fact that non-wealthy people can’t.

i still feel what @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social wrote a lot while using this, which is that there's this slot machine feeling with this stuff that is deadening at times. i am so worried about push button friction destroying stuff. i'm worried about a lot of it. but i do like using computers as tools.

what i can appreciate about claude code in the terminal versus the chatbot stuff is that i feel i am talking to computer to make it do computer. whereas the chatbot stuff feels much more like a thing pretending to be human. feels more like using a power tool than going to therapy if that makes sense

A friend who went to med school was told in his first lecture that the medical profession is more inheritable than most inheritable diseases...

The ability to efficiently write longer texts. Was imagining they could be used in former computer lab areas of campuses to give students a way to work on writing in a controlled setting outside of class time.

What are the odds that the risks AIs pose to human authorship someday lead people to return to using physical typewriters, at least in certain critical settings like schools? I suspect the possibility is now some very low but non-zero percentage, and I couldn’t say that before.

Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).

100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.

It’s weird to think we’re in a period of what’s effectively asymmetric federalism

“If I’m speaking e.g. of eating, then I’ll mention in a note that the Romans, Greeks and Hebrews also used to eat.”

Advice on preparing your paper for peer review by Heinrich Heine.

Tumblr post by user calebwittebane: its actually crazy how much local art events and other potentially interesting stuff i completely miss out on just because the orgs all post on instagram and facebook only. two standouts among the worst fucking platforms in the world with the most egregious ui and slop saturation, so dogshit that id be unable to use them regularly even if i wanted to. stop it you all. get on tumblr or something even orgs and collectives that used to have proper websites of their own now just put all their updates on fb and ig. stop! stop it! youre making me feel like an old geezer! ok well old geezers nowadays are very much on facebook... an ancient geezer. youre making me feel like A Ancient Woman

lifted from tumblr and posting here because holy shit this drives me insane

“It was bizarre to think of the adults I knew … simply letting something like Sonic The Hedgehog into the house without much thought or compunction.”

This essay captures an uncanny feeling I got looking at certain media as a child, which seemed to point to mysterious forbidden unknown references.

Saw this and it’s just wild