“If the border is everywhere, then what exactly is the border? It is best understood not as a fixed line, but as an ordering regime of human immobility and labor discipline thickening across space and time to reproduce a global colonial order and stabilize racial capitalism”

Burnt out? Grill issue.

Many software authors seem to think software is intrinsically objective because it involves ✨technology✨—as if the scientific underpinnings of their tools of trade rub off on to the trade itself—and thus believe they are immune to confusions like this.

👍⬇️ Polysemy is a real roadblock to dialogue, and while I am no ambassador, technical meanings are distinct from their commonly understood meanings. But that slippage goes both ways, and is precisely why we should avoid terms like "reasoning," "intelligence," "creativity" in the first place

interstate high speed rail compact when

welp, I got laid off. if anyone you know is looking for a slightly-used computational linguist -- remote or in #Syracuse, NY -- get in touch. I'm also open to "data science" positions if they're "languagey"

Me: it can’t count Me: it can’t count Me: it can’t count Me: it can’t count Me: it can’t count Me: it can’t count Me: it can’t count Me: it can’t count Me: it can’t count Me: it can’t count Starbucks: let’s have the ai count Starbucks: utoh www.ibtimes.co.uk/starbucks-ha...

the only way i experience baseball is through people i follow on this website those people are nearly all mets fans, and it doesn't feel great

idk if birds are having fun or if they're stressed out all the time

Making a thread of university commencement speakers getting booed for evangelizing "AI" because you gotta get your dopamine hits somewhere in these dark times

found this post the NPR segment might have referenced, and the turn in CS is even more apparent relative to others www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/p...

Every time I go to Boston, there’s a place called Star Market, and I can only pronounce it as [staː maːkət]. I simply can’t produce it any other way. It’s bait.

Iran’s Fars News: “It should be noted that American officials have acknowledged in multiple messages to Iran that Trump's tweets are primarily for promotional purposes and media consumption within the United States, and they have recommended that no attention be paid to these statements.”

This is how you know they’re doing it themselves.

It feels like at the heart of things, we have to decide if we want society to be a garden, or a prison.

There were two possibilities: 1) Colbert would fade into the aether 2) he was too comfortable, is liberated now, and is going to make some of his best content yet Looks like we might get 2

There’s something about this, looking at Trump’s sneer that now no one is watching Colbert, the realization that there are a lot of people in power who don’t understand the pleasure of doing something because it’s something you enjoy doing and do well, as opposed to getting more power.

Nuclear Scientists Fucking Around In Friend’s Backyard Run Away After Stuffing Fission Bomb Into Coke Can

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

Study Finds Gen Z Adults Moving Home For Better Access To Triscuits

just reading a story about a guy who liked to put his name on everything

anyway, if anyone wants to start a search engine, dm me

TIL the Roman sewer was called the "Cloaca Maxima," which was named after Cloacina, a deity of purification, and "cluere," which meant "to cleanse." This is where we get the word "cloaca" from. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_...

Our imagination is so impoverished we cannot imagine a better way to live and take care of each other and so we have to hope that we can imbue the machine with enough desire to care to make up for our own shortcoming.

This gave me chills. Watch.

2 days in and people are still pretending that somehow in their field it's ok to cite papers without reading them or even make sure they exist

No one is asking anyone to read all the papers. They’re asking to verify the paper exists. The threshold for that is extremely low. I don’t see how this happens; why aren’t people using BibTeX.

You’re trapped in the last TV show you watched, where are you? Well, on the plus side, I studied Latin, but on the minus side, I've never really spoken Latin, and also I know enough to know 20 BC is pretty terrible for most everyone.

Bruh I think your gold and silver might be getting cankered. They might even be a witness against you.

by the time I was finishing my diss, many papers had these shallow lit reviews that were largely symbolic: half-assed, vague mentions rather than creating a reason for being. the notion of grounding research in a discourse was essentially absent On that trajectory, this result isn't surprising.

really sad to have a commencement speaker that just gives an advertisement for slop generators

« A computer simulation of a hurricane doesn't create real wind. A computational simulation of a black hole doesn't suck the earth into its algorithmic singularity. Making those simulations more detailed can make them more useful but doesn't make them more real. »

I’ve never seen Elon near one of his own cars except on stage and in that pathetic White House “everything’s computer” event. You’d think he’d promote them by driving them—like, that would be an image I’d have in my head. But they’re just always on display.

as it turns out, millions of peaches were, in fact, not free

My daughter has just shown me a group chat that she has with her friends called “Facebook Moms” which consists entirely of awkward selfies that they’ve sent each other from different mundane locations, grinning like absolute maniacs.

every one please vote for me to be the next james bond and if you are in line stay in line

Spotted on Tumblr…

INLAND EMPIRE - The encroaching doom is golden red. It is inside you, but also outside, on the horizon, by the water's edge. Innermost but yet to happen -- things make sense from that angle... INLAND EMPIRE - You're *Tequila Sunset*. You have been Tequila Sunset for a long time now.

I thought this was The Onion

Phobos over Mars! Yes, that's also Olympus Mons... The full size image is 140MP: flic.kr/p/2qdsc1g Credit: Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY Raw data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin 🔭 ESA Mars Express 2024-07-13

Every time someone claims they “vibe coded an app,” at least one of the following is true: - It’s completely worthless garbage because the software is unmaintainable slop. - It’s of marginal commodity value because it can easily be copied by someone else vibe coding. - They’re lying.

the more frayed our nerves, the more important our solidarity. none of us wins alone and all of us are kind of annoying

The left and our movements actually have a media ecosystem that does incredibly important work. People have a lot of ideas about how to make something that already exists, or how to make it more successful, when most have never put any real support behind what's already been built.

I’m mad that Kash Patel and I drink the same bourbon, though I’m certain he drinks far more of it than I do

If you think Victor Orban’s defeat blew a financial hole in the right-wing media ecosystem, wait until the fossil fuel companies are strapped for cash.

You can tell the prompts ain’t worth anything because they just give them away

Fun fact: The Titan missiles were later repurposed for heavy-lift space launches. This is the Titan IIIE-Centaur launching, and the launch that James Burke perfectly slides into, via a 13 second launch, is Voyager II.

The GreatWall of China may not be visible from space but Almería's greenhouses certainly are. Essential piece in European supermarket supply chains, migrant workers toil in their heat to keep our tomatoes cheap. Illegal wages+slums without electricity, running water or sanitation

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)