I think I got radicalized at #atmosphereconf

The sun of agency an the moon of accountability

neiland's supper club sign, tigerton, wisconsin, 1988

Mary Heilmann, Tehachapi II, 1979 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137663

A technologically contingent institutional process

Nice

Trying to quantify pace of progress by counting the number of times I exclaim “what the fuck” in a given workday

Signpost

Is an intuitive understanding of nonlinear improvement even possible?

Signpost

There goes the ball game

Easily one of the top charts of all time

snappy web app, interesting data plot

Thickness, thinness, rate limiting factors, cognitive load, depth v. breadth tradeoffs, mechanistic understating of fuzzy stuff

From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?

Boy that divergence at the end just keeps going up doesn't it. fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1SjVQ

do you mean art as a business, art as a system of history, art as personal growth, art as subjective experience, art as behavioral technique, or art as summarized process and outputs of collective human achievement/failure

Verification Signals Rule Everything Around Me

“Nostalgia is not a strategy” is going to be annoyingly evergreen isn’t it

Clyfford Still, 1951-T No. 3, 1951 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135216

it feels like AI is the first time a widespread technology has advanced so much and so rapidly that you can literally see wide swaths of the population continually lose touch with what's possible in real time humans aren't accustomed to having to update their mental models of technology that often

The future becomes more unevenly distributed every day.

Looking out the window, signs seem to be flashing past more frequently?

Less of a vibe shift more of a phase change

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Lysander-1 by Jules Olitski, 1970 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137351

Actually mostly trail cams from here on out, I guess?

@cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social it was only a matter of time

sort of flat and lifeless

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

It’s a shame David Lynch isn’t around to see this

I do feel like the conception of agency is going to be a big part of whatever comes next

bring back the music video

Claude Code's ARR doubled from $500M to $1B between August and November (august number is from the sept fundraise announcement: www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...)

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

Mostly trees from here out