#Sailor Koshu Inden Sayagata Deer Skin Urushi #fountaipens Friday

I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!" Nothing means anything! Yay! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This is from good 5 years ago. I would still recommend all five books, even if even more rxcellent books on the far right have been published since.

3776 Century Bourgogne GT 14ct Wonderful Japanese writing pleasure. #fountainpens Friday

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another." 🗣️📢 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

It’s my birthday… gimme a nice present

"Additionally, by accepting generative models’ normative rationality, the University reframes learning and research as essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs." @katschwerzmann.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513

So he’s gone. Cheney. It takes a lot of effort to try to avoid reducing him to the cynical war criminal who benefited from every bullet entering an innocent human being’s skull. And yet, there was indeed more to him. Whatever. Let him rot

You couldn't come up with a better visualization if you tried to!

Ouch… K-nock-out

lmao thank you president maduro

I don’t like the logo but I dig the shape. Nice work, #montegrappa #fountainpens Friday

An #Omas. Anyone who knows which one? #fountainpens Friday

“We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches…” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We’ve entered a second age of orality. The written word’s influence is fading, replaced by short-form video slop. But if smartphones are to blame, so are the elites: as Noah McCormack argues, the history of literacy is the history of class.

Bunch of hypocrites. Enjoying NSFW is every adult’s right, given that the content is within the boundaries of the law. I don’t need corporate interference, especially not from bankers. Go finance a war but stay out adults’ entertainment

New article on CogPGT, "the world’s most powerful genetic predictor of IQ," plus other examples of how influential eugenics has become in recent years. I also explain why I think "IQ" is an utterly meaningless measure of "intelligence." (Ever heard of the "BITCH" test? Lol.) What do you think?

> “Universities are not tech companies,” Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij, two computational cognitive scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands[.] “Our role is to foster critical thinking,” the researchers said, “not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Must read! @apache.be hits the nerve of a debate almost lost: keep that nonsense out of our educational structure. Why should we instruct our students how to adjust to these utterly ridiculous systems? Learn them to think instead, that’s why society pays us!

Take that look of your face - oh I didn’t know - ‘cause you could have known. This is being prepared over the last 20 years.

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Friday’s #fountainpens Montegrappa Elisir ''Glittering Blue''. Celluloid 18K

Trying something completely different… I stumbled on this Japanese, the #Wancher Sekai World Tree Sandalwood that looks great and is very affordable. Can’t wait to try this one. #FountainPens

Some say the pen is mightier than the sword…

#Marlen #Autentica, limited edition, guiloché, 18ct nib. Marvellous nib #fountainpens

#Omas Ogiva Cocktail Bellini RGT #fountainpens

RIP Diane Keaton, one of the fairy tales during my teens.

This is how it's done. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

#FountainPens Friday. Say hi to #Montegrappa’s Elmo 1 Caramello. Numbered Edition that never hit the market. I like pens that don’t exist.

Remember Y2K? #Delta did. Here’s the Trend. Nifty minimalist Italian. #fountainpens

Vertelde ik al dat @janwalraven.bsky.social goed is?

I know … barking to the wrong tree Read a lot of opinions about. Most forget to mention this: there’s life outside that asshole’s garden. Stop using it all. Sure it will take some time to reconnect to those you care about but hey… get the f*ck out.

M10 Blu by #Marlen The photo doesn’t bring its colours to life. It’s beautiful #fountainpen

@mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social heeft onze hulp nodig. Wij hebben MO* nodig!

"Tor does have limitations like anything, but if privacy is your primary concern, Tor is the king of the hill." Thanks DW (@news.dw.com) for the shoutout! 💜 www.dw.com/en/anything-...

@garymarcus.bsky.social on #AI Red Lines

“Het gelijkheidsteken tussen Poetin en Hitler is niet alleen het resultaat van luie analyse van historische parallellen, … het is een efficiënt middel om … de massale militarisering van het Westen het plubliek door de strot te rammen.”

Friday is #fountainpen day Say hi to the #Sailor 1911 #Realo 21k…

But don’t call it authoritarianism. POTUS is making something great again

Our latest Magazine is out now, featuring: Alice Bloch’s #UncommonSense revelations @alimeghji.bsky.social on W.E.B Du Bois Louise Rondel on nail bars and wheelie bins Samantha Wilkinson on fertility and the office Fiction & book reviews Girlbosses in space, in verse Read online buff.ly/5crknOP

Ouch

Is this real?

Beste B. De Wever, vermaledijd is wie uw politiek talent ontkent. Maar had u niet beter een echte acteur gevraagd om premier te spelen?

"correlation is not cognition" -- chef's kiss!!

Ready to move #fountainpens

Wrote an elegy for the man who liberated men from their harness and understood fluidity #rip #armani

I want it painted black #pelikan m805 #fountainpens

Dance for me #urso Art Deco #fountainpens