“The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness
And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour.
And for me, now as then, it is too much.
There is too much world.”
- Czeslaw Milosz
File under “all timer”:
my problem with Karp is that he's an embarassment to Mad Scientists everywhere by seemingly reducing the archetype to the Scheming Vengeful Graduate Student, its most embarassing form
new right-wing misogynists are, in the end, playing with feminist fire; as they f around, I trust, soon enough, they'll find out
This is right up there with "Hitler Tamed By Prison"
the sultans of swing are right
when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people
i cannot believe we are into year 2 of the groyper regime, the camps are open and the state is revoking id's, and we are still getting "oppressed minorities are kinda rude on the internet :/" hand-wringing
yeah we're a little tense right now, believe it or not. fucking shut the fuck up about it
Excellent essay by Matthew McManus pitting Charles Taylor against the postliberals. Given how many postliberals like to cite Taylor as an ally, this deserves a wide reading.
www.illiberalism.org/charles-tayl...
Find out what happened when we replaced Gwen Stefani with an ear of corn
make of it what you will.
doing so would be like giving over my ^self* to the bot, a self I discover and cultivate in that very process of writing, and yet! despite such diligence I find myself getting stupider and lazier as a result of even the most bullshit, minimal level of LLM use.
I use LLMs at work for marketing and comms copy they pay me to and because I hate my job and would rather not do that work ‘so sure go ahead do it, bot;‘ and I’m pretty disciplined about not suing it in my own writing, the writing that matters to me because
we used to have dine-in Pizza Huts in this country
The pile of leaves that Frog had raked for Toad blew everywhere.
The pile of leaves that Toad had raked for Frog blew everywhere.
What if the real mind viruses were the "objective" LLMs the reactionary plutocrats created on the way toward their goal of destroying the "woke mind virus."
Republicans can’t be doing this when they’re walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they don’t want the Mad King to yell at them bsky.app/profile/tito...
our boy's on it
And all the next day Toad read poems to his seeds.
can’t wait to see how exilio Miami’s mental gymnasts backflip when we get an Obama-era deal
ugh I can’t get the chatbot to pray for me
that AI v Human writing quiz in the Times is premised on such an impoverished view of reading and writing, and it's no wonder testing via passages in schools has been destructive to developed literacy, the epistemic results of which we're all suffering through.
the era of slopulism is upon us
New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:
christians looking for jesus in every war we start, every missile we fire, every conquering despot we crown, and never in the one place jesus promised he could be found: among the poor, the starving, the oppressed.
international women’s day
