We found a stray dog that had been neglected and took him into our home. A groomer said he was neglected and likely used for breeding. The breeder is in our neighborhood, saw my wife walking the dog, and literally grabbed him away from her. He is likely using the dog to stud while neglecting him.
So a guy in a BMW followed my wife while she was walking this dog, got out and insisted it was his. She told him the dog was neglected. He fed her a bunch of bullshit and grabbed the dog. There is nothing we can do. Please get your dogs from a rescue and not from shitty fucking neglect factories.
Nice part of the Italian train ride is watching the sunset through the window, worst part is the minute the sun goes down and the window is just your face and awkward accidental eye contact with other people’s reflections
Before boosters get mad, I have no idea of the details of this case and am not saying they’d be found guilty. Only that it seems like a more appropriate form of legal process.
Criminal negligence is the correct crime but enforcing it is inconvenient to the people who own Florida’s government
A very shaggy and dirty dog in a street.
Story time. My wife was walking our dog and came across this dog wandering in the street with no collar and no tags. She took him in and he stunk real bad and had sticks in his fur and was quite matted.
Sorry but… *what* is this?!
How unique are hallucinated citations offered by generative Artificial Intelligence models? This is greatly useful by Dirk Spenneman on "the structure, recurrence, and onward citation" of "phantom references", using a paper I didn't write as an extended example arxiv.org/abs/2604.16407
(We will be launching a monthly seminar series too, watch this space.)
Tuesday 21 April (Online) Session V: Neural Models of History (11:00–13:00) 11:00–11:20 Geoff Cox (London South Bank University). AI Has No History! 11:20–11:40 Nicolás Marín Bayona (UCLouvain). Latent Times: Neural Networks, Melancholia, and the Historical Fantasy of a Timeless Other 11:40–12:00 Discussion 12:00–12:20 Yannick Nepomuk Fritz (University of Basel). Entextualization Time: Its Models and Medialities Between Human and Machine 12:20–12:40 Philippe Boisnard (Université Paris 8). Towards an Archaeology of the Computational Unconscious of the Present 12:40–13:00 Discussion
Session VI: Time in Neural Architectures (14:00–16:00) 14:00–14:20 Christopher Michlig (University of Oregon). Asleep and Dreaming: Hypersleep, Defiance, Trans-Species Capitalism, and the Myth of AI Autonomy 14:20–14:40 Francesco Agnellini (Binghamton University). Retrograde Futures: Backpropagation and the Cybernetic Temporality of Neural Networks 14:40–15:00 Discussion 15:00–15:20 Nina Beguš and Ramona Naddaff (University of California, Berkeley). Polychronic Models 15:20–15:40 Leonardo Impett, Eryk Salvaggio, Alessandro Trevisan (Machine Visual Culture). Closing Remarks 15:40–16:00 Discussion
Day 3! Our “Temporalities of AI” conference has its final session online today, streaming on Zoom! Full details and Zoom link here: www.biblhertz.it/events/45218...
It’s 100% my wife! She is a total badass when it comes to caring about things
Shaggy matted stray dog
Trimmed clean happy dog running around
Same stray dog, before and after.
My “policymercial” critique of OpenAI’s latest policy plan was mentioned in this short bit of reporting from San Francisco’s NPR affiliate KALW today www.kalw.org/bay-area-new...
Shaved dog, pre-bath, looking handsome on the grass.
We’re calling him Roman (to pair with our other rescue, Remy; as in Romulus and Remus). While we likely can’t keep this dog, we want to foster him and get him sorted, for, like, obvious reasons. This is him before yet another necessary bath.
A fully shaved handsome poodle
And then: surprise! He’s a standard poodle! Bad news: he was probably kept for breeding. The filth was an accumulation of at least one year of neglect or abandonment, the groomer guessed. Next step is to bring him to the vet for real. (No fleas, thank god).
Shaggy dog half shaved and finally showing a face
Today we hired a pet groomer to take care of his matted fur properly. We probably can’t keep the dog, but we’re invested because he seemed very sweet and we felt bad for him: was he abandoned? Abused? Lost? Anyway, look at this fur.
The shaggy dog, slightly less shaggy, surrounded by fur and looking friendly at us.
So my wife used my beard trimmer (RIP) to get rid of the worst of it on his body. He slept in the enclosed back (heated) porchy room because he smells very bad: wife says it smells like he’s been in a crate and neglected but he’s also very calm and friendly, not anxious, so maybe not?
The stray dog stunk real bad and his hair was matted and he was covered in mud and sticks but super friendly and calm. My wife took him to a pet shop and got him scanned but he wasn’t chipped. Posts to Reddit and Facebook groups didn’t turn up any leads.
Shaggy dog and a small brown dog playing on green grass.
She got the dog to follow her three blocks to our back yard by whistling and saying “here boy” over and over again while our very excited dog (Remy) tried to play with him.
A very shaggy and dirty dog in a street.
Story time. My wife was walking our dog and came across this dog wandering in the street with no collar and no tags. She took him in and he stunk real bad and had sticks in his fur and was quite matted.
Tag yourself I’m “I don’t have feelings or consciousness” next to a smiley face
If they can resurrect this monstrosity yet again they really owe it to the world to bring back Real Life Mag too
Brain/mind researchers: How do you think about terminology and how it maps to "theories of" {the brain/mind thing you're trying to understand}?
I'm writing & I'm checking in to make sure I capture the full spectrum of ideas out there.
To calibrate, let's consider 3 options.
/1
Nature is healing
Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.
Recently have been putting a lot of thought into what norms govern the movement between folk concepts and scientific concepts. What concepts are resistant to operationalization? Really interesting thread from a cognitive scientist on what concepts we can have “theories of.”
A very good summary of key issues relating to 'AI and Abstract Time' from Jens Schröter (University of Bonn) at this conference, organised by @eryk.bsky.social and others:
Session III: Visions of Time (11:00–13:00) 11:00–11:20 Jens Schröter (University of Bonn). AI and Abstract Time 11:20–11:40 Alexander Gerner (Universidade Lusófona). Where Does Your Hidden Temporality Lie? The Cut as Limit of Neural Network Video Systems 11:40–12:00 Discussion 12:00–12:20 Dasha Simons, Sal Hagen and Louis Ravn (University of Amsterdam). AI Timescales: Locating and Listening to the Rhythms of Deep Learning 12:20–12:40 Sabino Di Chio (University of Bari). Immediate Creation, Instant Tradition: The Temporal Stakes of Artificial Intelligence 12:40–13:00 Discussion
Session IV: Compression and Infrastructures of Time (14:00–16:00) 14:00–14:20 Rebecca Uliasz (Case Western Reserve University). Indeterminate Foundation (Models) of History 14:20–14:40 Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes (TORUS / Temporality Lab). Temporal Obscuration: How AI Systems Freeze the Past, Accelerate the Present, and Foreclose Decolonial Futures 14:40–15:00 Discussion 15:00–15:20 Renzo Filinich (University of the Witwatersrand). Unlearning the Mineral Mind: Algorithmic Shadows, Geologic Memory and the Plasticity of Intelligence 15:20–15:40 Catherine Wieczorek (Georgia Institute of Technology), Annabel Rothschild, Bard College. Dead on Arrival: Temporal Mismatch and Phantom Promises of AI Infrastructure 15:40–16:00 Leano Di Bello (University of Turin). BioSyntax: Cultural Time in Suspension within AI Systems 16:00–16:20 Discussion
Here is our schedule for Monday’s session (times are Roman, 11am is 3am New York, session 2 is 8am in New York).
