"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
Does anyone else feel sick of it all? Wrote for the Star about Toronto Police, Open AI and everyone in power who deserves a public shaming. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Whole thread, but especially this part
it’s *all* running on oil
"Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time on Tumblr, a site that, like Transformers 2, may very well be the future of pop culture." — Nav in 2009
It's true, I saw a large bunny in our apartment courtyard this spring, and I live on a very dense downtown block. Didn't think anything of it at the time
Email subject line reading "Welcome to being normal"
Subscribing rewards you with a hell of an email subject line 😅
So thrilled for you! Well deserved 🙌
Very honoured and touched to receive this award. Thank you @canadamediaawards.bsky.social! Thank you also to @gfscott.com for nominating me and to the lovely people who wrote letters of support. This means so much. Thank you!
Brutal
Two problems with the contemporary ultrarich, compared to their 19th century counterparts, is that they have no taste and they don't fear god
Really solid post from @himself.bsky.social that takes the side of "misinformation isn't the problem" but in a smart, interesting way that suggests one problem with social media is not that it indoctrinates, but changes what *we think other people think*. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
Whoops, didn't make it public 🫠 Should work now!
Finally nuked Twitter for good, but because I'm both sentimental and a sicko, I made my own personal Twitter archive: twitter.gfscott.com
And you can too! It uses @11ty.dev to process a `tweets.js` file into a static site: gfscott.com/blog/elevent...
I wrote a sternly worded letter to the government, then compounded my humiliation by blogging about it:
gfscott.com/blog/bill-21...
You can do this! Also, I guarantee your editor wants you to succeed, and it's their job to help you do so!
100% serious that the only way to actually change public policy anymore is to fuck up rich people's cottages
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/o...
Meadow leading to sheer cliffs, Gasadalur, Faroe Islands
Gasadalur, Faroe Islands
An alphabetical list of websites where I used to have accounts or profiles, including Blekko, Ello, Glos.si, Google+, Hunch, and Protocol.by
Updating my list of all the services where I once had profiles. My own version of those still-life paintings where they added a skull to remind you that you're going to die
Fireworks with people holding up their phones to take photos of them
Everyone creating Fireworks Content
Morning view of some Wenatchee River rapids, the banks lined with fir trees
Leavenworth, Wa.
