i love the kinds of illusions that completely disappear as soon as you squint your eyes. they're like a tiny little light-hearted prank rather than complete destruction of everything you thought was real.

bigthink.com/13-8/nature-... by @adamfrank4.bsky.social

If you left Twitter for moral reasons, how can you stay on substack? Why i never will pay for a substack. @iandunt.bsky.social @naomialderman.bsky.social

Also, the article is paywalled and he’s oblivious to the irony.

As if normal people buy iPhones every day. Brought to you from the PoV where privilege is like water to a fish.

Kid Rock is exclusively for people who clap on the 1 and 3

I've been working on this one for a while. It's about how we got here, and where we're going. I hope you'll read it to the end. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Although the confidence that they can anticipate what we need for parliamentary democracy in 60 years is adorable.

Headline shows that decision making in this process is dominated by people who are either incompetent (there for the wrong reasons) or focused on maximising their benefit. Example for @iandunt.bsky.social next edition of www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/ian-d... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This should be reported as a bribe that makes Amazon money, not as a movie that loses Amazon money...

Exactly as predicted by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

it's funny how this article frames the issue as being that an ai will rebel against you, when the issue is that you've installed shitty insecure software and given it root access

Be totally consumerist (i.e. environmentally and socially extractive), so that you can then pretend that you exert pressure by acting responsibly for a short period of time. So, those of us, who for years constrained our consumption guided by social and environmental concern, have no power, again.

Adelaide and the crisis of free speech iandunt.substack.com/p/adelaide-a...

TFW the biggest reassurance that we're not completely fucked comes from the fact that all the Neo-royalist stand out at being totally incompetent leaders, evidenced by the fact that they remove anyone with competence from their clique (yes, including Xi). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

All organising is self organising, though we don't always understand the contextual self.

Our perishing at the hands Of AI is the new “fusion is always 30 years away” (now that fusion might actually really be 30 years away?). 😂

Pleasure to join the "Generals of WWII" Podcast and discuss the leadership of Admiral Nimitz. #NotAGeneral podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

The bigoted entitlement in the replies.. and I know such comparisons are fraught, but it is frightening to witness directly the first signs of what, last time around, allowed a world to be lead into, in one part to commit a holocaust, but also in many parts turn away and enable its scale.

I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology. And that's without a mass terror event four days ago

It's exhausting. I never thought I'd say this but feeling so bleak this morning, part of me wishes they'd cut the smokescreen and just admit they don't like Jews - in Israel or anywhere else. Embrace the racism. Stop pretending they're the good guys on the side of progressive values. Be honest.

At a certain point I think we have to move beyond saying things are "sociotechnical" and defining the actual socio- that we mean

sorry Leibniz, best of all possible worlds is any world as experienced by cats

@bsky.app Appears from today on iOS, the font size selection no longer works. I get the same tiny font whichever setting I am using. Please fix.

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

How it started (quote post) How it's going (linked article) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Peace Dealing: the practice of engaging in endlessly negotiating a peace deal in order not to be punished for continuing the conflict, also creates opportunities for bystanders to find exploits to enriching themselves.

Complexity thinking is not a thing

Who is agile 201 @somesheep.bsky.social : wants to be a different person at work www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Ii...

A designer posted this and all I can see is the pile of short-life things people put on the kerb on household bulky waste clean-up day. A career in landfill.

TFW confronted with journalists who have happily skewed the truth for their purposes now appealing to the public to care for preserving the BBC for its authenticity? Gaslight.

@jonahg.bsky.social feedback: “discovered” you on Call me back. Subscribed to your podcast after listening to the Henry George episode: excellent!

Is there a meme one could use on people who have a burning need to be seen as the smartest person in the room? Asking for a friend.

Exactly. They are the same project.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

So... we have a former prince but not a former Royal Society fellow, despite involvement in the same case and multiple current instances of improper behaviour, such as political interventionism, incitation to violence, etc. One can only wonder why, right?

There was a phase in the late 70s and into the 80s where a lot of good music (composition and songwriting) was “enhanced” with “new” synth sounds or effects. Most of it just sounds crap today, cheap, show-offy and arbitrary. Makes the music annoying! That’s the stage we’re at with using AI.

How can we make the walls of your bubble that silently polarises you thicker?

Expect Robert Jenrick to copy this joyousness in his social media pieces next. (No, only fools think this is authentic from Mamdani either.)

Well, guess I have a new favorite movie...

Hard to find a better illustration of why you should ignore everything before the 'but':

In case you needed another reason to sign the letter by @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social against "uncritical adoption of AI in academia"... openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Go glial cells! More and more evidence keeps pouring in that the cognitive brain is not just a neuronal network. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I think this is true in a deep and troubling way. I have been observing this too. I am getting old & maybe I’m wrong, but I really feel basic academic, critical and intellectual, attitudes that were normal and prominent 20 years ago seem to have eroded. I agree, we need to understand how and why.

It is a form of scientism to rationalize the course of scientific progress with plausible post hoc narratives and to try to establish the historical inevitability of scientific knowledge. This kind of scientism stands firmly against scientific pluralism. In that, I find Chang's work self-affirming.

There’s always one exploitative way of making money from early technology.

Altman: "Are you wearing something sexy?" ChatGPT: "Sure I can do that for you." Altman: "Describe it to me." ChatGPT: "Okay here is a list of 10 items people consider to be sexy..."

OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".