Eryk is as usual onto the good stuff here. There’s a lot of yardage you can get in AI discourse by taking seriously that language production isn’t evidence of a mind. And you have to make that distinction over and over and over.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

I just feel like we all deserve this this weekend.

BBC Model Linear B

Cool performances BEFORE I get to NYC later this month, and cool performances AFTER I leave. Why can't everyone magically know my travel schedule and book shows accordingly.

It's a new story day! "In the Void Behind My Deaths" is free to read at @factorfourmagazine.com See what happens between death and rebirth...and what it means for the whole universe share.google/SYcRA61Zkrz7...

There's a mistake people make with understanding what LLMs mean that I've been thinking about. We're used to believe that "where there's smoke there's fire." That is to say that the existence of writing, or code, implies that there was a thinking mind out there somewhere.

Love how this is wrong in like 4 discrete ways

The Feed that SB Nation is launching seems really smart. Also great to see an internet victory lap for @losowsky.com , an old magazine collaborator who was the entire target audience for my reference to I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue in an American magazine. Congrats, sir.

Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.

Who’s gonna be the one to write on LinkedIn what Eurovision taught them about B2B sales?

if you've ever heard me mention @adapalmer.bsky.social and @jowalton.bsky.social's Papal Conclave 1492 reenactment ("pope larp"), this is what's up with that. i played in 2022 and i help by writing letters as npc historical figures now, it's dope

I copy the text of this article any time I need to test a field in some software.

Sandbox Percussion are totally awesome, and now they have a tinydesk concert! Also I'm on their board now - they're a GREAT team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Dv...

New novel idea: Murder at Hilbert’s Hotel.

Guess whatttttt I'm hiring engineers for my team (accessibility engineering) and one of my immediate peers is also hiring for Primer, our design system! We are looking for earlier-in-career folks as Software Engineer IIs, to best complement and round out our teams. githubinc.jibeapply.com/jobs/3987

From 13 years ago, here’s me speaking at Harvard about how public access to information and government services can’t require agreeing to the terms of service of networks like Facebook and Twitter. anildash.com/2012/12/13/t...

Why sholde you care about the fate of Sonoma State, a pluckye regional public liberal arts & sciences CSU campus yn Northern California? Because California once had a commitmente to public higher ed, and it could once agayne. Because Sonoma State ys a place to believe in. The tide kan turne heere.

A thing I’ve been saying for a while but have not had a chance to write about is that Yahoo Pipes in 2007 (especially in combination with their related product YQL) could do a great deal of the “wow” stuff people want to attribute to GenAI. Much of the “breakthrough” isn’t LLMs but structured data.

Ok Jersey City friends — I try not to hype my newsletter here but if you’re looking for a really easy way to support our schools, I address that here neighborhoodcharacter.substack.com/p/issue-182-...

GlobalFEST NYC tonight at Lincoln Center 7pm-midnight. 10 arris on 3 stages. Zar Electrik, Maruja Limón, Bamba Wassoulou Groove, Hazmat Modine,, Mireya Ramos and the Poor Choices, Ghazi & Boom.Diwan x Arturo O’Farrill, Akshara Music Ensemble, Paul Beaubrun, Rebolu, and Elida Almeida.

Boosting this post from my pal Jeff Russo. ATTN LA Music industry folks: Musiccares is offering immediate financial assistance and food vouchers to anyone who has worked in the music biz for five years or longer. Write to [email protected] or call 800-687-4227

We’ve been watching the Watch Duty team do absolutely *unbelievable* technical work all week (they’re members of our Fast Forward open source program), handling a surge of millions of people trying to see where the fires are in real time. There are still people who do such good on the internet.

Today was the first meeting of my AI and music class, and in the first hour we drew a direct line from AI slop Xmas music to the wildfires raging in LA right now. If you teach AI and don’t discuss its immediate climate impacts, you need to start doing it. Every single day. Here are some sources (🧵):

there will come a time, by my calculations 203 years from now, when inflation will be such that $20 can no longer by many peanuts, but only a few or even a single peanut. at that point this classic Simpsons sketch will become hopelessly dated: youtube.com/watch?v=zjlW...

I basically only use Amazon to shop for the papal election simulation I run for my students, so Amazon's impression of me is... well...

Few things show the true teamwork and labors of love good fiction inspires like the meticulous efforts to deduce the location of Miss Marple’s fictitious home town St Mary Meade (represented in the BBC version by the *real* yet less plausible town of Nether Wallop) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary...

He just wants to ask you a few questions.

Update: Alive and well

I can’t go to this show in NYC this Saturday, but you should go: www.eventbrite.com/e/wet-ink-en...

a thread: korean protesters bringing random flags--this started years ago to show that protesters were just normal citizens with various interests because they were accused of doing some sort of political agitation and now it has just become part of the protest culture and i love it

If the phrase “weird ducks” is the only thing that I leave behind on this Earth*, I won’t mind at all. *Not when I die. When the surf scoters carry me off to their home planet

PSA: I haven't posted about this on *this* platform yet, so here we go: If you've just seen a person/people perform something they rehearsed for any length of time and you find yourself disappointed by some aspect(s) of it or see a way it could be improved, DO NOT TELL THEM RIGHT AFTER THE SHOW. 🧵

My translation of "Seafarer": profadamroberts.substack.com/p/seafarer

A pantomime horse costume where one person is the left half and the other is the right half.

these are in fact the reasons I like that song.

skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time

USDOT just published a Climate Strategies that Work Playbook. Looks pretty good. Topics covered include road pricing, parking reform, and transit system integration. For each one, USDOT summarizes research findings and suggests federal funding opportunities. www.transportation.gov/climate-stra...

me: searches for a single, physical address google: would you like results closer to you? me: _stares directly at camera_

For sale: baby shoes, questionable provenance

well this one saves me some time.

welcome to self-cloning club... first of all, make yourselves at home

In Vancouver for a few days exploring Canadian advances in Thanksgiving food technology.

Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur." I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.

Fun Tariff Facts: Mexico Fresh fruits and vegetables Mexico is the leading foreign source of fresh bell peppers, cucumbers, squash, and snap beans. Up to half of the tomatoes, lettuce, watermelons, avocados, and strawberries grown in Mexico are exported to the US. Get those seeds!

it’s actually very easy to give people earworms, or at least that’s what someBODY once told me

It's a me. The problem.

"Elon Musk, whose companies have received nearly $8 billion in government funding through an assortment of federal grants, tax breaks, government subsidies and contracts, proposed today that senior citizens need to 'tighten their belt' to help balance the national budget." See? It's not hard.

PSA: Because Internet is on sale! I think the description of Old Internet People vs successive generations of internet users in chapter 3 is particularly relevant to explaining the dynamics of bluesky 🦋