It's on!
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

New cognitive test dropped:
- Dr, or
- Lord&Savior

"it writes itself"
Derrida

Picture of tick in a person’s hand. The person asks “is this a tick?”

Nextdoor has the juice

I grew up with one of these parked in the back yard. Over time a garage grew up around it.

This Nature opinion piece, like most opinions about “intelligence”, assumes that “intelligence” — whatever it is — presents itself in “levels” that express a natural hierarchy. Why?

Krugman: There was a comment by Adam Serwer, I think just a day or two ago, that Trump doesn't understand people who act on principle, that the Venezuelan regime was just thugs. It was just a mafia. The Iranians are thugs, they're horrible, they're murderers but they actually also believe in something. They're genuine religious fanatics and that actually seems to have completely caught Trump and his people off guard.

This is the wrong distinction. The mafia also acts on principle. T doesn’t understand people whose principle for action isn’t always-be-richer.

This distinction is tricky because it undoes itself at every turn. There is a difference but it’s not the one or the kind you want. Maybe it’s like the difference between coloring and color-by-numbers. Wandering an open trail and a walk in the garden. (Ofc you can still walk forever in a garden)

Looks like this might happen!!

The #AI critics are right about this much: #LLMs do not know what they are talking about, cannot understand the meaning of the linguistic tokens they stitch together, and have no access to real world embodied referents. BUT that is not a bug; it's a feature. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Drambuie on the rocks is underrated

reports of shaking in ny

wtf was that?

It’s a trick question, as the post clearly demonstrates that consciousness doesn’t always work

The Center for the American Experience Explores the Actions and Ideas that Shape U.S. History - The New School News What is “the American experience,” and who gets to define it? Whose actions, ideas, and aspirations have shaped American history? Which responsibilities does this nation hold to the broader world […]

Huh.

blogs.newschool.edu/news/2026/03...

The primary development is that the LLMs have been trained, using a variety of techniques, to reliably output strings of text that can be interpreted by the code managing the LLM as a signal to run a command or function. There's no magic here.

Given the marketing around "AI agents", there is some confusion about what this new offering actually represents. These are not AI models that suddenly have agency. They are not autonomous and are not approaching autonomy. The "agency" is old-fashioned software interpreting LLM outputs ...

Forgot @themountaingoats.bsky.social was on this comp!!

It's interesting, if not surprising given the training data, that image generation models struggle to produce images that aren't representational in some way. There is a strong bias toward 3d space, material texture (e.g., paint, fabric, concrete), landscape, etc.

“Our time is a time in which the mafia and the oligarchies remorselessly chase out the bourgeoisie-a bourgeoisie that, although it is philistine, is still too cultivated in their eyes."

Stiegler 2017

hello nice people of the internet. please insert some random code into my systems. what could go wrong?

i mean who doesn't love some Totfinder?

Lumptronic 2 music compilation cd

Another old treasure

WPRB compilation cd “dog so large i cannot see past it”

Oh wow look what I found #wprb

Cf The Ecstasy of Communication

One would need to factor this new interactivity into the equation

It seems obvious that Trump is the Baudrillardian President. No less obvious is the fact that there is a real geopolitical agenda at work in the effort to decapitate Iran. That geopolitics may be that of Netanyahu, but it is nonetheless real. At least as far as the Middle East is concerned, there is an inveterate revisionist strain in US policy which became apparent with Biden. But what I am not sure of, is whether the broader framing of Baudrillard's analyss is any longer relevant. This may be unfair, Baudrillard specialists feel free to weigh in, but his framing seems basically functional. He was explaining how a system cohered. In 2026 does that presume too much? Do we live in a world in which the question of popular legitimation for war, or the legality of Trump's actions - the classic questions still posed by war-making in the period between Vietnam and Iraq and implicitly answered by Baudrillard - still matter very much any more?

Great question posed by @adamtooze.bsky.social in his chartbook this morning.

How do I still have this?

Cdrom Macromedia Freehand

In the year 2000 …

Fuck this