bluesky branding refresh unveiled

im a staunch EU supporter but I also want to die chateurope.eu/en/

One Battle After Another was... fine?

mmmm slurms

shout out to Ginkgopolis one of my favorite games

its crazy that chatgpt is still vulnerable to this, at this point the should just put the system prompt in clear

there is one way in which synthetic media is like music synthesis: the easier it becomes to twist some knobs and output decent stuff, the harder it is to convince people to pay attention to it

my main experience of my birthday is receiving birthday greetings from dear friends and feeling guilty because I never remember their birthdays, an interactionist nightmare

Large Weather Models just predict the next droplet they don't know when to plant crops

Facebook keeps recommending me this profile of an obviously AI-generated book author which is one-shotting boomers on an industrial scale

Sorrentino w

mood

my bday is this week if you want to send gift I'd appreciate pdfs of this issue www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/2...

post-bubble predictions: 1) national/corporate model mainstreamed vs. community alternatives (unsuccessful except a few fringe cases) 2) neo-artisanal aesthetic renaissance, return of bespoke media, data barter economies 3) Gen β ushers in next AI winter by declaring it cringe

this stuff hypes me so much, open-source bookmarking tool yes please monomarks.at

I am sitting in a Chinese room different from the one you are in now

all good in AI and the humanities papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I am all for rejecting AI in the university but can we then be consistent and also ban dashboards and CMSs and online courses and

Can the Humanities Save AI? Will AI Survive the Humanities? AI in the Age of the Humanities

I know it's weird for me to ask this now, but... what is the mutual shaping of technology and society. I don't actually know

set them free

my laptop just turned itself on after being off for like 6 days and it was legit the creepiest thing

phantom limb generative fill feedback til the function failed

the 38 year old urge for a Freitag bag

eat it up eat it eat it eat it eat eat it up

President Xi please send Hexie Hao high-speed train infrastructure to EU and liberate us from airline companies

really great "Geister/Ghosts" exhibition in Basel, thinking a lot about supernaturalist epistemology

two genders (pissing goblins, everyone else)

there's literally no flight KLM does not cancel

so when do we reclaim the university

swiss brr brr patapim

I think at some point I must have dreamt about a paper written by Noortje Marres that I have quoted three or four times in talks but doesn't actually exist

me and who (at MIT) www.uib.no/en/fia/16476...

Xi decapitated military leadership China stockping gold and rare earths let's go

new ALGOpod episode, a great chat with @gurotekopp.bsky.social on digital folklore, algorithms, animal studies, and more open.spotify.com/episode/7rCh...

do you remember the couple of years when we said stuff like "blogosphere" with a straight face

writing something I'm relatively hyped about (rare)

You can't beat this with discourse

Neon Genesis Evangelion might be the closest we have to canon in our age

Athens is wild ngl

my current take is that LLMs are great to automate bullshit labor but do we really need to spend money on automating bullshit labor when we could just do away with it? the eternal question

Is this where the eyeball scan comes in.

they put up a Nick Land bust in Warwick thats crazy

my current 2-year forecast is that LLMs will be easy to run, finetune and perhaps even train locally; casual users will stick with platform ones for trivial tasks, apps will offer customized models and data privacy options for cheap, and chat interfaces will slowly be reabsorbed

I'm this close to never doing any academic publishing anymore ever

the industry is folkpilling itself open.substack.com/pub/importai...

tempted to argue that Blinkenlights is the earliest example of #algorithmicfolklore

cited here www.vg.no/dinepenger/j...