Authors & publishers posting abt illustrated books: pls credit the ILLUSTRATOR. Not only are helping to boost them, but also shows people that you or your publisher hired a HUMAN artist. #PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #KidLit

This is a really interesting take that I need to study a bit more on, but I love that it lines up with my push get capitalists to actually read Adam Smith. At the very least, his take on why limited liability for corporations was a horrible idea and would lead to all this *gestures at everything*

Recently widowed woman in our neighborhood turned 90 today. My wonderful wife organized a couple dozen neighbors to surprise her & sing Happy Birthday on her front lawn. Every single person involved had their day made. Get to know & look out for your neighbors. Human connection rules. Fuck AI.

prepare for what follows

I basically hate everything about this idea. I'm well aware that I'm always the "NASA engineer" to other people's "cowboy", so I'm amenable to a middle ground, but I think this kind of development is bound for burnout at a breakneck pace. Or you have to truly not care about your product. 🧵

Wish him well, but this is a bummer. After losing Bob Uecker, now my second favorite radio voice will be off the air.

I still get thrills seeing books, movies, and albums that I own on other peoples’ shelves. They’re micro-discoveries of found-family ties, shortcuts to shared connections, and a granting of permission to peer into someone’s brain and ask questions. #physicalMediaRules

Someone should tell these guys to smile more 😂😂😂

Might be a good sign overall, but I'm wondering if we're seeing any "Anti-AI Psychosis" I hadn't watched the original video yet, but as someone with a long history in global illumination, I thought the lighting on the DLSS versions was obviously better. 🧵

Still think the DR vs Venezuela game at the end of pool play was my favorite of this WBC. Both teams really epitomized what I like best about WBC: the focus on having fun. Was really hoping for a rematch in the finals.

Not me. I'm walking in 10 runs because of pitch clock penalties because I refuse to close out a Team USA win until they play all seven minutes of "A More Perfect Union" by Titus Andronicus

Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.

It's so funny the asymmetry of understanding these guys betray. They have so little understanding of things that they assume we must all have the same lack. While the rest of us, who've read a couple books in our lives, can trivially point to 5 counter examples to their stupid statements.

But Dems are gonna get outflanked on supporting Israel's wars by Tucker Carlson. Dems think their own version of the stupid "no tax on tips" is what will swing the country to their side 🙄

I wrote something (not directly about AI) on cryptogyny — sorry still depressing, BUT ☺️ I do end on actionable things and some fun examples along the way, such as "Comparing [the 108 women scholars until 1800] with 58,995 [men], we find that they were on average better"‼️ olivia.science/cryptogyny

Just heard an audiobook reader have to stifle a laugh at a joke in an academic history book, and can you imagine how pleased that historian is?

everyone is going to be assigned Deleuze and Guattari readings until we figure out what is going on

"Are the mass media on the side of power in the manipulation of the masses, or are they on the side of the masses in the liquidation of meaning, in the violence perpetrated on meaning, and in fascination?" - Simulacra and Simulation

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Because one did survive the wreck.

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18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director: Baldwin Coons Cortez Masto Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Peters Reed Rosen Schiff Shaheen Slotkin Warner Whitehouse

In my U.S. Civil Rights Movements class, we spend a lot of time thinking about historical memory. When movements get reduced to a few iconic leaders, the collective labor that made change possible disappears from view. It also obscures an important lesson: collective action is effective & difficult.

Serge Zaka: Over the past ten years, the pace of warming has reached about 0.35°C per decade, compared to about 0.2°C per decade between 1970 and 2015. The corrected data show that an acceleration in climate warming is now detectable since 2015, with a statistical certainty greater than 98%.

Even if you accept their framing, an echo chamber of my own making seems significantly better than one made by some billionaire.

bsky.app/profile/leop... baudrillard and virilio talked like they were insane in part bc the world that was coming was insane

Hey all, sorry to say this, as I think I have well-intentioned friends who signed, but this "declaration" means nothing. Because Steve Bannon signed it, and he wants my family dead. So if you can sign along side him? At best, you got played. He's the "humanity in control". humanstatement.org

Wisconsinites should not be one bad slip on the ice away from bankruptcy. Badgercare public option is the right thing to do for our community and is a first step towards true universal healthcare for all in Wisconsin and the United States.

Does "teaming up with" mean anything other than "taking money from"?

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

We're literally at "No War For Armageddon"

So... why not just bring out the nukes? Unsurprisingly, they don't have the courage of their batshit convictions.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

As I finally get around to actually reading Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil), I'm struck by two things: 1) How much fun it must have been for him to rail against the established philosophic order in the first chapter, and 2) How much the first chapter refutes most lay interpretations of his work.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Anyway today one of the hard news reporters on the President's beat characterized the statement 'it is what it is' as 'expressing condolences' and ya'll are free to just take from that what you'd like

900 wouldn't even feed my neighborhood

1/4 This actually might be the best way to think of the so-called "left-right divide" in a country with almost no actual left representation. The "left" represents small exploiters, the right represents large exploiters. 🧵

They'll never read the whole thing, let alone quote it. Applies to eve try thing they do.

The NYT style guide

That entire standard is just made up! It's not real. Journalists are like you can’t say Macbeth in the theatre and we’re all supposed to buy into their delusion. www.welcometohellworld.com/youre-perfor...

Any politician or government that supports this illegal and catastrophic escalation into war is affirming their own disregard for human life — American and otherwise. We grieve for every innocent life lost today, and we will hold accountable every leader who chose bombs over diplomacy.

his morning, U.S. and Israeli airstrikes killed at least 80 girls at an elementary school in southern Iran. Trump and Netanyahu will call this an acceptable cost of war. We refuse to accept it.

I do not understand Dems attacking the regime, uniquely branded for illegality, for an "illegal" war. The legality is not THE problem. The attack is. The illegality is a symptom of congress' ineptness. Are they just mad they don't get to vote "YES"?

A test of whether there is an opposition party in your country is whether you notice that a lot of people are sharing the words of any elected leader at times like these.

I am 5 years old and the US is bombing the middle east. I am 15 years old and the US is bombing the middle east. I am 28 years old and the US is bombing the middle east. I am 35 years old and the US is bombing the middle east. I am 50 years old and the US is bombing the middle east.

Welp. From last week’s @washingtonpost.com: