Prediction: within three years there’s going to be a major tragedy caused by someone using AI for a task it’s not suited for.

On one level, yes. On another, the number of times people seemingly reinvent a position that was justifiably criticised twenty years ago is legion…

For all of the issues #TheMightyBoosh has, “The Ballad of Mighty Joe” is a masterpiece

I find it very hard to believe that anyone on the left even likes cops, let alone loves them. Some people on the left might – at best – tolerate them, but even that must be through gritted teeth

Guess we're gonna get told that 'we shouldn't expect ministers to stay in backpackers' and that 'private sector executives also waste shitloads of money on conspicuous consumption'.

Watched #Backrooms last night. It’s good, although maybe not as good as the director’s YouTube efforts. But the film understands that trying to make sense of the Backrooms is a bad idea narratively

👨🏻‍🦰 “Claude, create a report based on this paragraph.” 👩🏻 “Adobe, turn this report into a podcast.” 👨🏻‍🦱 “Gemini, summarise this podcast as five bullet points.” 👩🏽‍🦱 “Copilot, create a report from these bullet points.”

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

@mrxdentith.com and I talk about the death of Scottish politician Willie McRae, without at any point lapsing into an insensitively bad Scottish accent. I don't use the term "hero" lightly, but I think the two of us qualify just for that. zencastr.com/z/qkdUAgmi

Some papers and chapters have obvious conclusions when you get around to writing them. This one does not…

Graphic design is my passion.

I've read many manifestos (Breivik; Christchurch shooter; etc.) & each has at least one interesting point. I bet "Mein Kampf" has one idea that many on the left would go "Unfortunately, he's right about that..." But at no point do you have to hand wave away that they are designed to legitimise hate

Prior to a) getting my current job and b) the pandemic (which lead to a lot more academic discussion about conspiracy theories) I was working on two or three papers on problems defining what is and isn't 'fake news.' I've decided to resurrect these for a few conferences later this year

The plan: forever warp the job market through taxpayer-funded subsidies of unsustainable AI businesses just long enough for all other companies to lay off millions of workers and reorient their work processes around proprietary technology and then once this is accomplished, raise inference prices.

It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.

So you not only stole other people's food to run your restaurant, you opened up an 8,000 square foot specialty joint on an expensive corner, with no savings. Not even *good* thieves.

I didn't miss something, right? Hipkins is drawing a line in the sand with the Greens saying he doesn't want to work with them at all if they try pushing their wealth tax, but he hasn't done the same on working with NZF over trans rights?

No, Live Translation, the party secretary did not say “Our aircraft carrier is too heavy” at the staff reception earlier today

This is the result of a conspiracy, by the way. A conspiracy that has been studied, the existence of which has been proven, and that barely did anything to hide its tracks.

Unbelievable! Fucken cop this! Babar – you know, the name made famous by the fictional African elephant king in the colonialist children's stories by Jean, Cécile and Laurent de Brunhoff – is a Persian name THAT MEANS 'TIGER'

I’m beginning to wonder if #StarCity is doing its own version of alternate history…

Who would have thought that once journals could charge an Open Access fee for every paper published they would turn off quality control and publish much more? Actually I did not predict this assuming there would be sufficient academic control to maintain standards. But those academics were fired.

In my experience, "I am very saavy I cannot be fooled" is very fertile ground for "ergo I am not being fooled and this is not a scam". And scammers can pick this up and run with it (via flattery) immediately. Of course, I am not vulnerable to this because I am very saavy.

Watched 24 hours of film from Friday night to Saturday night, and it was a rollercoaster!

#Paparazzi is basically a #Columbo episode where the detective lets the murderer get away with more and more murders

The most recent episode of #QAA features a story which so strongly suggests a man was murdered due to a Masonic conspiracy that it is astounding that the co-host telling said story refuses to countenance the conspiracy theory

Not only do I remember Ultraviolet, I just rewatched it a few weeks ago. It remains the best depiction of vampires ever, I think. I'd love a restored new release, but you can find the DVD for a couple of quid pretty easily (which I recommend you do!).

Starting a war to stop someone from doing something they weren’t going to do seems like bad foreign policy.

I feel like digital humanities was this great 15 year moment of techno-optimism that created solid resources and showed how old media connected to new media. Whereas AI is going to introduce a period of techno-cannibalism designed to devour digital humanities labor and anyone else in its proximity.

Ai is leading to new and exciting kinds of scabbing www.chronicle.com/article/im-a...

name a more classic duo than the spinoff & laundering rightwing & far-right personalities, especially when they're taking over institutions just utter dogshit & it's clearer every day this outlet was created as a vehicle to dupe liberals & their $$ into believing there was progressive media in NZ

I am running out of terrible things to say about this goddamn shit show of a stinking piss rag of a pretend govt. #nzpol

I’m not one to shame people about what they wear, but you’d think someone with at least the wealth of a Joe Rogan would go bespoke for a suit

Matthew Hooton appointed as editor of The Post, and as much as I believe it's important to support journalism, I just canceled my subscription to said publication.

The academic job market is so bad that recent philosophy PhDs have to become editors of regional newspapers instead!

this isn't even failing upwards, it's just pure corruption to promote partisan insiders who do your dirty work

So, newly appointed Post editor Matthew Hooton - a lobbyist & spinner with ZERO newsroom experience - hopes "the establishment" will be "unsettled" by his Bari Weiss cosplay. Stick a pin in that, hun, for when I stop laughing. Too deeply unserious for words. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.

Nothing reduces the mood of the film #Marama than saying “Featuring music by Supergroove”

Give it away, give it away, give it away now

In the same respect you’re not meant to know who fired the killing shot in a firing squad, you are not meant to know who got to the heroes who removed Trump’s name.

I want you to notice how this article, which took two journalists to write, doesn't even bother to seriously explore whether the claims being made by companies are true it's genuinely just not relevant to them

Always worth remembering how to categorise skulls in a non-phrenological manner!

Every paper I write leads to me coming up with several ideas for other papers, as *in the process of writing* I realise that I either misunderstood someone else’s view, or because I find there is much more to say about some ancillary detail. Using a LLM would deprive me of those revelations

The process of reading & writing stuff *myself* is so fundamental to my thoughts forming, crystallising, & being refined I genuinely don't understand how one can try to short circuit that front end & expect a similar result. Polish at the end, maybe (tho I wouldn't). But research & 1st draft? Never.

As I work on researching and writing a paper, my brain is fizzing with connections found in the work of others, ideas becoming concrete as I put them in paper in a really crap draft, becoming more refined as a revise a draft. It's difficult, it's hard work, and it's also exhilarating.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

I am not starting a blog but for academics who are, and who would like to avoid Substack, is there a splainer on all of the current alternatives, their features, costs/freeware issues, etc? Not sure which of buttondown, beehiiv, ghost et al to suggest

As someone who will never be a #DoctorWho showrunner, let me waste my idea for a continuation/reboot

I finally have a complete draft of a paper I’ve been working on since last August. The conclusion needs some work but the actual meat of the paper is there. One more read through and then it’s off to someone to hack it to bits