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What if these are just being produced by some Macedonian teenager who scored a great repeat customer on Fiverr and he has no idea what it’s being used for?

I’m reading about transgression and resistance (Christina Foust, who has a great name, wrote a pretty great book about it a while ago). And maybe it’s just an impression but it seems like marches do less now than they did in the 20th century? Timeline in the next post. Is this just a recency bias?

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

I agree. Being dogpiled sucks and we should take it more seriously and work on reducing it… …The thing is, when you deliberately troll people, as Alex did, and brag about being antagonistic to people you dislike now that you have tenure, as Alex did, I find it hard to take seriously his complaints.

Over the years I paid for Good Notes (4 and 5) and Notability, and now both are asking for a subscription that includes AI features in order to edit my own notes from before there was a subscription. This is really hostile, and does not improve my impression of either app. It’s scammy and rude.

This snippet from Videogaming & Computergaming Illustrated describes the real issue with the 83 crash. Nothing about game quality so much as retail stockrooms being so full that they couldn't really get new stuff, and what they did have had to be discounted or sold back to publishers eventually

This dynamic isn’t discussed enough about schools, even ones aimed at creating skilled professionals (and not only well-rounded intellectuals). There is a huge difference between gatekeeping success and educating people, and prestige-y things weed-out classes do the former but not really the latter.

Kinda shocked this one hasn’t shown up yet but I guess making slopaganda is its own message too

Kinda. One thing that I don’t think he gets enough credit for is that modern man would get seduced by AI and Algorithms offering to think for them.

And a $1.5 trillion defense department!

You've heard of proteinmaxxing and posting on incel message boards, but have you considered majoring in English instead

This is funny on one level, but on another it looks like JD Vance is trying to SEO bell hooks out of discoverability by cannibalizing her search strings. If you search for these term now Vance will come up first in the results, not hooks, despite hooks being far more influential.

Flashback to the time I created Judith Butler as a custom wrestler in WWE 2K24 (complete with a ring announcer call-out). Straight from the WWE Gender Performance Center!

😮 Video games as resistance: "The estimated 1 million gallons of sewage such a facility would need calculates to 150 poop trucks a day, the group estimates, & its launched a video game in which you can attempt to drive those poop trucks past deer & state DEP inspectors"

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

Around 15 years ago, on a research trip to southwest Kyrgyzstan, I stumbled upon “Cafe California,” which served something they thought were burritos. Inside, they were playing the new LMFAO video, “Sexy and I Know It,” as I was, somehow, expected to explain and/or justify it. Reader, I could not.

I think it’s neat that schools everywhere are cutting back on academics while making (often revenue-negative) athletics the entire brand of their school because it gives administrators an easier way to claim fundraising targets to their boards (that still don’t cover academics).

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone https://alecmuffett.com/article/153062 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #irony #surveillance

The Southeast Asia Research Group is pleased to announce a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support scholarship on Southeast Asia. Along with our ongoing programming for early-career researchers, we're adding a postdoc program and grants for mid-career scholars! read more 👇

I’m reading Children of Strife and man, @aptshadow.bsky.social is such a mindfuck. Really really interesting stuff in that book.

I genuinely adore writing. I love the drafting, the research, the editing, the whole package. There are bits that are hard, but the sheer joy of overcoming the obstacles is a delight.

“Sure all those people would still be alive, but have you considered how I would have felt bad about myself for filling the little bubble on the private ballot next to the person who I find imperfect”

Look, the guy who said he uses AI to write his blog posts and hinted he also uses it for scholarship (and blocked me for calling him on it) is doing late-2000s National Review “stop hitting yourself” nonsense at The Atlantic now! There’s always upward mobility in punching left, no matter the topic.

Inspired by McArdle, I asked Claude to estimate her writing output since 2002 and got the following, based on an estimate of 7,700 individual pieces of writing. This corpus is more than sufficient to train an AI to replicate her writing with high fidelity. Why does the Post need to pay her, again?

sometimes people ask me "how do i study/learn how to do this" and the only real advice i have in this instance is "read a lot of comics" + "make a lot of comics" haha. it's like learning a language--you have to both listen and speak

The answer to SO MANY THINGS is “read a lot, try doing it yourself, fail a lot, and keep doing that until you get better.” That’s the secret, it’s not a boot camp or an innate talent or anything. You just gotta do it (and read, you have to read).

Ahh, jolly good then

Good.

Can you imagine how much worse Apollo 13 would have been if they had to also deal with Office 365

Oh, the poor dears, how will they ever make money if their IP is being violated so much?

Jokes aside, if European leaders aren’t at least thinking about decoupling from US tech, they are being negligent.

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

As per usual, Faine is the ideal power-user of this platform

What the FUCK is that framing

We just don’t appreciate the Game Boy enough

More convinced than ever that Taylor has convinced herself she is the modern Andy Kaufman. Because, otherwise, all she’s just doing is an old dril tweet, and someone THAT online has to know how that looks.

I really wish more people understood Cyberpunk 2077 was a dystopia

If you view the warm welcome that buffoonish figures like Phillips receive in Trumpland as way of providing cover for and distraction from the insidious moves by industry operators like Szabo to nerf safety and health regulations, some of the contradictions in the regime start to make sense.

nailed it lol. “Reviewers and editors of independent media would not serve as stenographers for my smear. Fact-checking my lies is censorship. Taking away my review was literally persecution.” -Jacob Siegel A correction is counterspeech, you muppet. I look forward to TFP running my response.

My controversial take is that this is more about the pressures of working freelance than specifically reporting. I am not endorsing this, but AI use is widespread in environments where production outweighs aesthetics, and that includes reporting. It’s a systemic problem we are individualizing.

As per usual, @jamellebouie.net is surgical, even brutal, in exposing the intellectual fraud animating the conservative movement

The only living human Sontaran is losing faith in Trump?!?

"...even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right."

Again and again, executives don’t want AI to enhance work, only to replace workers, while telling us it will enhance work, while the AI vendors say “this is your problem if it screws up.” They seem to think we don’t notice this. www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl... Warhammer 40K the Musical. How the hobby has come on!

This is incredibly important. The Trump Administration's pullback from treating and preventing HIV at home and abroad is a travesty. So much needless suffering and death will result.