Oh shit, Kenny Cheese got disbarred??? Dope.

Every fucking time. People don't bother (or even just refuse) to learn what words and phrases actually mean, and instead seemingly infallibly reach for their nearest digestible negative explanation. I just… Ugh. Anyway: Here is some information for you to use, if you did not have it already.

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

one of the best NYC mayoral subplots is the way Curtis Sliwa would absolutely rank Zohran second if they used RCV in the general

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

The most upsetting thing about the Alien: Earth series is watching examples of the vast preponderance of the adults of that universe turn children of that universe into new examples of the vast preponderance of the adults of that universe

"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."

Regular reminder that the literal 1st full conversation in ALIEN is a contract negotiation, & that everything that goes wrong throughout those movies happens because the Weyland-Yutani Corporation programmed all of its "AI" systems to put any possibility of profit over & above the lives of the crew.

Hey so how's discovery going in that Trump v. WSJ lawsuit?

MmmMMM, that's good lampooning!

I mean… how many ways do I gotta say it? You want it serious & short? muse.jhu.edu/article/916425 You want it serious & book-length? vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919... Serious & spoken? www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8JH... You want it funny? 'Cause I got it funny afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=5738

American Christian eschatology has always been wild, but damn

Yes, this is exactly right. In chapter 4, there, I go into the connection between the casting of things as "primitive" and as "unchristian" and how that supported and supports various supremacist projects

…and the intersecting projects of racialized whiteness, christianty, and various renderings of the concept of "purity" all come from and support that root, too. Again, i go into all this in the dissertation [and I'll expand on it in whatever the book becomes]. Check it out.)

(& as I said on twtter early in 2022: transhumanism, Singularitarianism, Accelerationism, longtermism, effective altruism, & Dominionism are all offshoots of the same root Christian Eschatology, even for the adherents who consciously believe themselves to be "secular;" thus they support each other…

I argue it does, yes. It's an eschatological frame, to be sure.

@wolvendamien.bsky.social does AI hype (“the world will be changed imminently, for all time, get on board or be doomed!”) qualify as millenarianism?

The End Times communities I grew up in has all kinds of doctrinal schisms but the anti-tech stuff cut across all of them. We didn’t have credit cards or computers and I didn’t get registered for a Social Security number specifically bc of surveillance fears and that was normal in those circles.

I would be genuinely happy to.

Could someone with the right background please explain to reporters how this is a very intentional attempt to reverse the traditionally strongly anti-tech and anti-surveillance aspects of Christian millenarianism, because I‘m afraid it may matter.

Shhh let them cook

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

"AI" has been an intentional obfuscation & an occultation for a long damn time— it's part of why you always see me put the term in quotes; but there's something worth understanding in & *about* that fact. WHY is it occulted? Who does that serve? And why do we keep falling for it? More on this here:

"Machine learning" is not unproblematic in either its principles or its applications but holy fuck it is not the same thing as chatgpt or midjourney

One of the main ways that "gen AI" bullshit and the bullshitters attendant thereto have fucked everything for everyone is that they fully succeeded in their attempts to obfuscate and occult what "AI" means, so now people hate the very concept structure of the term, even down to its far less bad uses

(Reminder that my wholeass dissertation is available to read online for free: vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919... )

…Seriously engaging with tools and concepts from religious studies, mythology, ritual studies, and the occult to help elucidate both major contextual cues about a LARGE swathe of past and present-day "AI" and tech culture, and also potential insights for how to both react to & shape those contexts.

Oh hey! If you wanted to check out my talk "Religious Belief and Practice in the Age of 'AI'" but were unable to attend in person, it's been published online! I hope you enjoy it:

So. Uhm. Yeah. Would you like to read several books and watch several lectures about this?

So what I'm seeing is that ICE facilities are death camps, basically

This was a great conversation, & i (hopefully) managed to end on an empowering/motivating, maybe even uplifting note, for a talk entirely concerned w/ really heavy ideas like dis-/misinformation, authoritarianism, generative "AI", & the stakes for consensus reality. I'll post the video when it's up

For several reasons in particular, here again is the video of my talk, "Misinformation in the Age of 'AI'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...

If you missed my Sonoma State University Center for Ethics, Law, and Justice seminar series talk "On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other 'AI.'" (or if you just want to dig into it again), the youtube link is now up: youtu.be/9DpM_TXq2ws

DHS itself has confirmed that the victims were detainees but Noem and Vance have already jumped to reframe the attack as anti-law enforcement violence.

Writing about this right now. We've had five-plus years of educators being ousted by MAGA. Can we go back and restore those folks' careers, safety, and peace of mind?

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use! youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

MmmMMM, that's good lampooning!

Um. Hello roughly 50 new people in the last hour. What brings you round these parts?

Hey so how's discovery going in that Trump v. WSJ lawsuit?

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28

Does this mean we're allowed to pet bats now?? 🦇😍

Welp, crying. "Mesa senior's kindness leads to dream concert experience with Nine Inch Nails" @nin.com www.abc15.com/news/region-...

Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

On Roadside Picnic in this semester's Philosophy of/in/via Science Fiction & Fantasy; a very good conversation on how everything we know comes at removes & in translation, & how working together to make knowledge is very different than claiming either 100% certainty or that knowledge doesn't matter.

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Welp, crying. "Mesa senior's kindness leads to dream concert experience with Nine Inch Nails" @nin.com www.abc15.com/news/region-...

One would say this is mob shit, except that a lot of mobsters would have higher moral standards.

Kleptocracies are bad, actually.