Nostalgia's okay, but it used to be better

Worrier ethos

A lot of people are saying cinnamon will make you artistic, so we're going to be looking into that

I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2024 is Johanna Rodehau-Noack for her article ‘Counting bodies, preventing war: Future conflict and the ethics of fatality numbers’. 🎉 Congratulations to Johanna!

For anyone who is interested in this but doesn’t have institutional access (unfort. we couldn’t get the monies for OA): email the authors, we‘re happy to share!

we all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure @meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article/...

I am almost 37 years old, it is obscene that I have to spend this much time worrying about the computer

My resolution, and I think it’s doable, is to run so fast into a chain link fence that I come out as cubes.

ZIZEK: that Al will be the death of social media & so on; to this, I say NO! The AI user shares content, which has been created by AI, other AI users like and comment & we are free! While the 'socializing' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to do whatever we want

It would be fun to have sideline reporters at academic conferences. Reporter: "Prof. Rothman, how do you come back from such a devastating Q&A? They really hammered you out there." Me: "All we can do is go back to the archives, find more evidence, and then just trust the process, Helen."

consider this

michel foucault [in thought, wearing a santa hat]: technologies of the elf

you’ve heard of the Elf On A Shelf, now get ready for death

2am going back to the computer for more pdfs

i once fought the law. guess what happened

i personally would never make a social media account. i don’t need this kind of attention

Life Hack: To avoid awkward small talk this Thanksgiving, prepare a few icebreakers to start the conversation, for example: “What’s your favorite area denial weapon?” “Did you know the velociraptors in Jurassic Park are actually deinonychus?” “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?”

some goober in mesopotamia invented agriculture and now I have to have a credit score, how is that fair

[toothfairy dumping a bucket of teeth into Coinstar machine]

Peacekeeping Thermonuclear War ———————————————> ? <—- Posting —-> ?

Dusting off my best work

i for one am just here to cause chaos

This has to stop

Once again mannequins are perpetuating impossible beauty standards

hi bluesky, so nice catching up just now. see you again in 6 months i guess

Academics will post stuff like “Job alert 🚨 Come work with me 🤗" and then it’s a five-minute fellowship that requires the application to be written in dragon blood and is paid in woims

Next week: "Scientific Machine vs. Power Politics: Conflict Anticipation and the Black Box of AI" with @jrodehaun.bsky.social RSVP here⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/scien...

"Overemphasizing speculative dangers of superintelligence jeopardizes urgently needed efforts to regulate AI with a view to the systemic impacts of actual and emerging capacities," writes CISAC fellows @jrodehaun.bsky.social and Dan Zimmer for their latest in @bulletinatomic.bsky.social

Barack Obama’s Favorite Emo Tracks to Scream into a Pillow to of 2023:

I’m hearing reports that this where, and I quote, “they’re livin’ it up”

‘tis the season

Academics will post stuff like “Job alert 🚨 Come work with me 🤗" and then it’s a five-minute fellowship that requires the application to be written in dragon blood and is paid in woims

you‘re laughing. all his grok‘s woke and you’re laughing

Tonight’s going to be an absolutely insane night on social media

who you gonna call

“Are you enjoying Duo Mobile” Yes totally, 2FA is the best part of my day thanks

wow he really will steal anything

so close! that is a possessive apostrophe 💕

free story idea: a cat visits two bored children on a rainy day and then wreaks havoc in their house but miraculously tidies up before the parents come back. perhaps give it a fashion accessory as a little extra. you could call it feline with a fedora

things need to stop happening so i can catch up on all the reading i need to do to understand the things that have happened

hey guys check this out

Reminder that the Sneaker of the House does not have to be a member of Congress.

free story idea: a cat visits two bored children on a rainy day and then wreaks havoc in their house but miraculously tidies up before the parents come back. perhaps give it a fashion accessory as a little extra. you could call it feline with a fedora

going to the job market, anyone need anything?

This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

has anyone checked the WarThunder forums for the F-35?