i tuned in and caught @chanda.blacksky.app setting the record straight: 1) Michael Burnham did not start the Klingon-Federation war. 2) Yes she went to jail but that was for mutiny.

this is a lot of surveillance

Capable of anything, responsible for nothing

RELEASE NOTES "for sale: baby shoes, never worn" is officially deprecated the new six word tragedy is "i only use it for summaries"

As @abeba.bsky.social was just saying yesterday: they're not actually good at summarizing

"A Short History of the Public Restroom" "As Baldwin notes, a 'consumer model of privacy, which preserved class privilege by excluding the less affluent,' won out." daily.jstor.org/a-short-hist...

a quick note about this: not every reframing is (or has to be) a kirby frame! The kirby frame is specifically a tool to 1) avoid engaging with a bad faith argument 2) change the focus to the person making it this makes the most sense when that person has power or represents it

If you're thinking about the BAFTA situation and trying to navigate the intersection of Disability, Race, and systemic rather than merely individual anti-blackness, I highly recommend watching this video (part two as well), from @jumaane.bsky.social D. Williams.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus. FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

This is zone policing and we’ve grown far too comfortable with it as a practice.

possibly should have gone with Shovel The Sidewalks

i just remembered this account exists

to quote @ali-alkhatib.com: "I think we must forcefully put on the table the possibility that we will destroy systems that fail to make a compelling affirmative case for their existence."

the runner up suggestion, "Abolish the fusion center where the city collaborates with DHS" was disqualified for being "too long" and "something the mayor could actually do"

performance for performance sake the mayor still runs a chicago police department that collaborates with the department of homeland security in the fusion center we could shut down the fusion center

the premise of the "purity test" discourse is that you are being impractical by excluding people **who share your political goals** if they do not share your political goals IT IS NOT IMPRACTICAL TO EXCLUDE THEM

feels like so much of everything is about people wanting to meet power on its own terms. like they can imagine themselves sitting behind the steering wheel but they can't imagine a different vehicle

This sounds right, no idea where I saw it

my searches for "french didn't want telephone" "why should i answer the phone" "answer when it rings why should i french" were ineffective

okay this worked for the chicken KPI so let me try and source another anecdote: an old (maybe French?) artist / intellectual finally agrees to have a landline installed at his place, and the person setting it up is like "then it rings and you come answer it" and guy is like WTF why it's not my boss

modern upton sinclair: it is difficult to get someone to recognize their bad take when their salary depends upon them having a bad take about it

my main concern is the harm rather than the output, so i don't really need to hear a product testimonial from someone who found it useful. because i don't care

i almost replied to somebody who is obligated to have bad takes by their economic interests

Honestly when you add in the harms of giant warehouses for distribution it kind of seems like we shouldn't allow warehouses of this scale to exist at all

this is a bad frame

This does a great job untangling threads that are usually implicit in these discussions. Doctorow is sort of incidental, bc the bad frames @tante.cc identifies didn't start with (and aren't limited to) him

great turn of phrase. Also his network literally funded a lot of this. AI is Epstein tech

this one should already be a meme

i wish avenue 5 had gotten a third season

computer, what is the opposite of a nightmare blunt rotation

they always do

How we measure things matters

Oh no an improv troupe of large adult failsons @anthonymoser.com

I am still working my way through Discworld and I'm currently on "soul music" or "ankh morpork goes to the sock hop"

wtf

Idea of an MAIHT3k transition to the "Fresh AI Hell" segment: you're at a Wendy's drive-thru and I'm a horrible order-taking robot.

once again going through the Wendy's drive through thinking of @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social and wishing i had a sticker that just said HELL

We now go to chuck schumer

dedicating this one to @adambecker.bsky.social for sharing the "ai is like an improv comedy group" bit on the most recent episode of The Data Fix with @melhogan.bsky.social

i'm a lily pad floating on the surface of your takes

I plan to try to do this audio recording for more essays when I can find the time, especially 5-10 minute lengths. If you have suggestions (especially if you are the author and would like me to record an audio option for your written work), please message me!

i appreciate having new ways to share this right now. partly bc it's cool! and accessible in a new way! but also recent discourse makes me feel like i'm talking in circles and it's infuriating. i already said what i mean. i am still an ai hater.

lol @anthonymoser.com's "improv troupe" remark has legs

Every tooling team is brought low by a premature attempt to make the tool infinitely flexible, before it is capable of doing the one thing required of it. The result is always that it can do 90% of everything, but not 100% of anything, rendering it useless.

paired texts part one

Boosters want to reduce the discussion to evaluating the performance of tasks, bc that discussion never ends: just release a new model or redefine a task and take it from the top The real and unanswered criticism is that this tech *implies and requires* a social arrangement that is deeply harmful

Politicians largely aren’t chasing public opinion on ‘immigration,’ they are actively constructing narratives that justify their policy commitments.

I'm making a Charlie Kelly board with very short pieces of string

seize the means of star production

I'm a big fan of buses