Just the other day I was talking about how music production YouTube is better than other YouTube, but... www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5xy...

In general, if people are purporting to solve a problem with ML that has previously mostly been claimed to be solved by hucksters at county fairs you should cast a skeptical eye.

like which democrat is he talking about even? none of them do this! They all say the same thing as him about it and still nobody likes or votes for them

i talk about this when I do workshops for faculty on public-facing scholarship - that they do this ALL. THE. TIME. you describe a concept differently to: - intro undergrad (gen ed) course - undergrad course of majors - MA seminar - PhD seminar - general disciplinary journal - disciplinary journal

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Much like I say normal libs cannot allow themselves to imagine a better world, Dem politicians cannot allow themselves to state plainly what the problem is. "You are getting fucked." They can dance around it but they can't name the villains, and there are villains, because they want their money.

Riding my carousel horse with absolute conviction that I can overtake the other horses if I just believe hard enough

Anyone who thinks that you can adjust your behavior so that it won't be demonised fundamentally lacks respect for the intelligent and hardworking professionals whose job it is to demonize you.

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The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse.

As I wrote last week, the warehouse concentration camps aren’t happening The people win. Again

There's nothing reactionary centrists love more than describing someone participating in debate as "shutting down debate." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Which I would argue actually makes them far greedier, as the biomedical industry does actually make useful things

It's easy to say "we shouldn't overreact" or "the law is reasonable" or "the sky just is." And yes, it's easy to say the legal system has always sucked. But if the sky turns green, sometimes that means a tornado is imminent. Sometimes a destructive system CAN get worse.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

I am so tired of tools promising to "fix accessibility". I thought we were already past that? seeing how much of a failure accessibility overlays have been. Not a single tool I that promises accessibility without people has actually delivered on its promises. At least none that I know of.

Really sums up a favorite right wing grievance: what's offensive here aren't my actions, but your accurate descriptions of them

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

The media used all three names to ID assassins -- Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, etc -- as a way to make sure innocent people with first and last names weren't mistaken for madmen. And then a new generation of Hot Take Guys started using all three names too, apparently for the same reason.

Must-read by @hurwitz.bsky.social: "Where are the protests? The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do."

I've been booking diy shows on and off for 15+ years and I think last night was the first time I brought a boombox and a stack of cassettes for the house music between bands. highly rec

For some reason this post really took off again while I was sleeping. Bluesky works in mysterious ways.

mafia loan sharks don't have juice this high

I just had to translate an email into Quaker. Take out all the metrics, bullet points, sharp and shiny action items. Quaker process can be maddening but at least you can use complete sentences and big words without fear.

Jeremiah Dixon was an English Quaker surveyor and astronomer. He was written out of Raby Meeting in Durham in 1760 at the age of 27 with this minute: “Jery Dixon, son of George and Mary Dixon of Cockfield disowned for drinking to excess.” (Continued in the thread...)

I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.

this is the precise sense in which "technology is political"

Feels like “steal non-white children from their parents and give them to new parents” has been tried before and deemed a massive human rights violation but what do I know

I just keep thinking of 'Wile E Coyote, Super Genius' getting tricked by that exploding lady coyote windup figure

They filmed it. They laughed. He never got up. The last thing 45-year-old Peter Bennedum saw was a group of teenage boys closing in, their fists and kicks turning a quiet downtown street into a crime scene. Police found him unconscious on Carroll and Henry streets, whstle.site/ttyyu

When a cop or prosecutor asks if you want to press charges, they're asking if you want THEM to file charges. And not only are they not bound by your answer, they're free to ignore it.

My thoughts are that this prediction is not looking great.

Just thinking about how in 2002 my housemates and I had this Swedish band sleep in our dining room in exchange for five free wristbands to the whole festival, and how far SXSW (and Austin in general) has fallen from that DIY community ethos.

the thing about with every ~celebrity's approach to LLMs is that they approach the form of the thing with zero care and then take its output with utmost seriousness and the result is a high-speed conveyor belt of people flying directly off the rails and making cartoon-whistle sounds all the way down

No longer will people be bound by their big box stores and the whims of record stores! The world of music was open to them! If they want to pursue the discography performance artists from the former Yugoslavia, they can! And then boy bands rose up again. Poppy pop was bigger than ever.

I’m reading chapter in a forthcoming book about Timothy McVeigh, his ambition for race war, “propaganda of the deed” per racist Turner Diaries. & thinking of current moment, decades on, SCOTUS, & realizing that fascist idiot got so much of what he wanted.

like simply put as a person who makes software i'm not gonna make it do something that contravenes my own agenda, and a lot of vendors load as much of their own agenda into their products and infrastructure as the other sides* are willing† to put up with * two-sided market † monopoly conditions

and i think that language ("our product lets you…") is extremely fascinating because it betrays what vendors think about their customers/users, like the latter are helpless rubes and isn't it so great and magnanimous of us to bestow this capability upon them the reality is a lot less impressive

from this morning: the language of software vendors and how their products "let" users do this or that maybe instead of praising companies for what their products "let" us do, consider all the things we *could* be doing that they're holding out on youtu.be/VuJmz-H0pE8

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

Every damn book, conference, big money fellowship has been about reducing polarization. Many knew the real issue wasn’t polarization, but that polarization was the only politically correct proxy for the real problem. What a joke man

100% correct. My coda is that political polarization research, especially online and on social media, gave cover for tech oligarchs who consummately don't give a shit about democracy.

thinking about the rod dreher illusion in light of the tucker carlson news. these guys only have the appearance of popularity because of a small number of rich patrons behind the scenes. they’re loud, they’re everywhere, but their ideas aren’t as popular as they’re made to appear.

“After enduring nearly a century of systematic resistance to the Fifteenth Amendment,” the Chief Justice wrote, “Congress might well decide to shift the advantage of time and inertia from the perpetrators of the evil to its victims.”

A week after Selma, Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress. It was one of the most important speeches of the 20th century, and made the moral case for the VRA

But at the end of World War II, Black veterans were finished fighting overseas for democracy, and returned home to a racial apartheid state. Maceo Snipes, and others, demanded the right to vote. Maceo Snipes, and others, cast a ballot. Maceo Snipes, and others, were murdered for doing so.

After Mariela's daughter was detained, she reached out to what she thought was a Catholic Charities Facebook page, only to lose $18,000 in a scam involving a fake priest, a fake judge and another man impersonating an immigration lawyer.

Spot-on from @willbunch.bsky.social here, but it's not just Boomers. As a Gen Xer, I feel this deeply, as to many of my peers.