Curiously, caustic engineering - designing the shape of a surface so that light refracting through it creates a particular pattern or image - has a lot of similarities to AI training algorithms. This implies that maybe you could create an AI out of layers of clear plastic with light as the I/O.

In 2014, the @latimes.com reported that Border Patrol agents were intentionally stepping in front of cars and positioning their hips on the corner so that if the vehicle moved, they could claim the driver tried to run them over in order to justify deadly force. www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...

@harry-mack.bsky.social do you ever catch yourself rhyming in conversation without meaning to?

@aspenideas.bsky.social has been reputation washing for billionaires and executives for decades. I wonder if the workers who had to import that title into the website, make the programs, and set up the space were pissed, or if they let themselves believe they were talking about someone else.

I don't know what either of these are supposed to mean, but they captivated my imagination on the way home tonight.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family didn't pass down the skills, traditions, and passions of their musical heritage FOR 600 YEARS so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable". www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfE...

"Small potatoes fry easily" a phrase a tax client just made up talking about why the IRS cares about such small potatoes. I love it.

What if squirrels and other animals that bury seed caches aren't forgetting them, but are purposefully burying more caches than they'll need to collect? Has anyone studied whether squirrels recognize that they planted the seed that sprouted into a plant or tree?

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

If AI was as game changing as the industry keeps insisting it is, they wouldn't have to force everyone to adopt it, sneak it onto our devices, or unnecessarily replace cheaper effective alternative technologies with it.

I'm surprised NASA didn't get get DOGEd to bits the way they're pushing woke gender ideology on entire planetary bodies and naming the mission after a notorious Lesbian.

One time, Trump witnessed a car accident and there was an injured woman in labor trapped in the burning vehicle and he ripped the door clean off with his bare hands and delivered the baby himself right there on the street. Grown men were weeping in the streets. It challenged a lot of assumptions I —

This is some of the coolest music I've ever heard. IDK what to call it, maybe dada microtonal prog rock? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

When you discover a typo in an email to a client that's close enough to a real word that it looks right and also unfamiliar and you have a moment of panic that you accidentally wrote some crude and maybe offensive slang to them.

#pixelart #ドット絵 #1bit #oc

And then their reaction when they learn that he shot 43 free throws and played for 42 minutes in a game they won by 21 points. All time stat padding effort by the Heat.

C. Thi Nguyen's (@add_hawk.bsky.social?) book "The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game" is a brilliant book on the beauty and terror of games, scores, and metrics. As a former teacher and a game designer, this book captures so much about my life and the world.

Check this out

Hillary Clinton: "It then got quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and Pizzagate"

This guy gets it.

This is why "fact checking" right wing people is largely a waste of time. If they cared about the facts, they wouldn't be right wing in the first place.

If transphobes actually cared about "the science", they'd stop cutting funding for research. Remember not to debate people on the terms they've stated when it's clear they're just a cover for something else. Don't respond to arguments you know are irrelevant to their real motivation.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

AI is more useful than 90% of executives already. We should replace them.

"sometimes even good things are scary." - my coworker

If we lived in a world where workers all acted on their self-interest, we would have solved most of our problems already. Scolding the voters for not doing what you think they should have done misunderstands the basic job.

Fuck the algorithm. Reply with your favorite RSS feeds.

I started searching for good rrs feeds and immediately fell into such bizarre hyper-niches that I needed to look up explanations for the terms used to explain the explainations.

"Cole Wehrle is not fuckin around... The Company's economic failures and triumphs will both entail ending innumerable lives.... The Company has its head so far up its own ass that it comes back out the mouth just so it can suck itself off. In a sober reminder: that's us." youtu.be/mm_lgDLICPY?...

It kind of surprises me that #Lego doesn't officially support #MobileFrameZero. It seems like an easy win.

Here's a fun little riddle I just made up: What does an ice pick axe, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Large Hadron Collider, and the tiny Ascobolus immersus fungus have in common?

@rossbryant.bsky.social YouTube's got you in some prestigious company in this rap playlist.

"CATAN trades timber for Wolves" what. amazing. www.nba.com/timberwolves...

~"The art we create is only the receipt of our process of growing into the people we're trying to become. AI doesn't care, it's not trying to become anybody. And that's why AI cannot create art, it only fakes the receipts while stealing the process of becoming from us."~ youtu.be/mb3uK-_QkOo?...

In an attempt to read more classic sci-fi, I read Larry Niven's "Ringworld". The narrative centrality of casual sexism made it almost unreadable. I get that it was the 70's but even by those standards it's unacceptable. Both female characters' main features are being hot, available, and dumb.

Damn, if this shit keeps up, people might start thinking billionaires are unethical.

In a weird way, Spencer Jones being able to deliver huge value as a starter on the Nuggets should also remind us that it's absolutely fine if CB doesn't average even 10ppg when he comes back as long as he plays aggressive, energetic defense, hustles, screens, and stays active.

And now some "farmer" like Scott Bessent will buy up this guy's land at bankruptcy prices. And he will have an in with the regime that allows him to bring latino farmworkers hassle-free onto *his* new property. And if FAFO Farmer is lucky, he'll get to manage them on the farm he used to own.

Why is the YouTube algorithm feeding my anarchist Jewish atheist teenage son a staggering amount of church services, Bible studies, and right wing comedy?

@ryanblackburn.bsky.social I get you need presence on the fascist child porn bot site for professional reasons, but can you also cross post over here?

ICE on ice violence www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

"As the Ministry of Enlightenment outlines its propaganda against Gorman, it's likely that we, the audience, have been exposed to exactly this kind of propaganda against foreign states when their resources were needed by capital." DaMo youtu.be/y7zj0QqVruc?...

One of the many ways AI is making everything worse is that once companies have an AI product, they rebrand features they already had as "smart" and make you use their dumb AI if you want to keep using it.