call me if utopia d comes back

time to deactivate. stem majors are trying to reinvent dick hebdige arguments from first principles.

I think I would have been unprepared for how much things look exactly like the Bush years.

you're telling me a cat licked this church

gone for good?

i don't agree. running a diffusion model is expensive in terms of time, in terms of token cost, and in terms of compute in ways that scale arguments either ignore entirely or invert.

this was my entire personality.

The primary social "impact" of generative AI so far has been making extremely precedented things look unprecedented.

People who want to draw a hardline between the AI fakes of today and the photoshop fakes of 20 years ago know nothing about either. But especially nothing about the frequency and scale of abuse back then.

There was no shortage of bullshit before 2023. if anything there has always been more bullshit than people available or willing to consume it.

If anything, it feels like the the barriers to entry are slightly higher now. you need a credit card or a graphics card and a lot of iterative prompting time, whereas before all you needed was a trivially obtainable pirated copy of photoshop, something I was capable of as a 12 year old in the 90s.

Robert Darnton-ass future, in a lot of ways. Hard to see anything generative AI "does" as amounting to a rupture.

i've been very online for a very long time, and I feel like the amount of shit like this I end up seeing has proven remarkably stable over the last 25 years. the quality has dropped though.

i can't believe we created a david dees machine

a doctor, you say.

when i was talking about it endlessly six or seven years ago, i didn't think deglobalization would proceed so quickly.

neoliberalism won't be truly dead until we can talk about the failures of market optimization without articulating it in the logic of national security.

there are good reasons why it makes sense to have domestic chip production capacity, just like there are good reasons it make sense to have domestic steel production capacity. but the US can't talk industrial policy without shunting it into an arms race frame.

moronic "gap" logic resurrected.

great power competition theorizing about LLMs is some of the most warmed over trash i've ever encountered.

contemporary american protestantism is about as anti-puritan as it gets, but that'll never stop people who think the term means nothing but a certain victorian prudishness about sex.

american protestantism is a lot of things, but "puritan" it is not.

not enough trump religious art in the lds style.

my accent is so completely unstable that I never hold it against anyone else for misclassifying it. i don't even know what it is.

maybe texas truly is like a whole other country.