Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.
It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay
This. It was always the goal not to ease our labor but to devalue it.
When they claim autistic people don't have theory of mind I'm like - sorry sir, but actually I, as an autistic, have had to huff the entire canon of cognitive, anthropological and sociological sciences precisely in order to theorise your mind cause you're WEIRD (niche pun intended).
I recently had to flee my flat in the middle of the night due to living with a racist flatmate. After bringing up the racism, a copy of a book called 'conflict is not abuse' appeared on the table. This place was a horrifically perfect example of weaponisation of therapised/care-politics language.
I have become deeply of critical the circulation of therapy language outside of the therapeutic context. Terms like 'self-sabotage' and 'avoidance/t' have pretty nasty effects when it comes to 1) obfuscating structural inequities 2) disciplining the emotional potential for resistance due to (1)
These are the words of a dying ideological sect.
I think I know why Bionicle is getting a bit of a resurgence. Something to do with the intersecting of upswings in esotericism interest and trends in the social relations of computing... being a spiritual machine something something ... 90s (ish) nostalgia ...
Omg guys we're literally donning the personae of Asimov's 'I, Robot' -- I'm really enjoying the unironic upsurge in people using "clanker" as a luddite swear at the machines.
I read this as "chasing down protesters and *tasting* them" which is a future I can get behind 🤖🧑🍳
I like asking the question of the thing that seems obvious and uninteresting b/c it's often the opposite. This is hermeneutics of suspicion (sans Nietzsche) via the Hegel-Freud-Marx-via-Zizek pipeline. It's what makes STS fun.
I haven't yet come across a piece of critical scholarship that historicises the LLM interface: why the chat UI? I'm 90% sure this is something already researched, its just I've been out of the game for a while. So would appreciate any references.
The US having its ass handed to it and damaging relations with it's allies drives us towards multipolarity. Doesn't matter what you think of the opposition.
A useful way to refute the claim that there's a selectivity problem with anti-imperialists just doing 'america bad' and 'not opposing all imperialisms' is to recognise it as a straw man. The point is to drive towards multipolarity, rather than the monopolar hedgemonic system we have today.
Forthcoming workshop in Durham on ‘Historicising the China-Africa relationship’, taking place on August 26th.
The whole Hasan Piker debacle is a very positive belweather for the prospects of the left and anti-imperialist politics (irrespective of ideological differences)
If we can open we mean to do much more of this kind of thing!
I have like, no pennies atm but this piqued my interest - we need more non-higher ed teaching institutions
FYSA, the lead story is not "current GenXers brains are bad because lead", it's that lead poisoning disproportionately impacted poor and minority communities and those voters died younger.
Also AIDS killed a lot of young progressive GenXers.
Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning
American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV
french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts
British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault
Mel on point
Not to make anyone feel old but I've just seen that covid is on the twins' history GCSE spec.
Love old school scientific illustration www.scientificamerican.com/blog/sa-visu...
Beeple
There's loads of things I love about the UK. Particularly the rave and underground music culture. There are a lot of lovely people here. But there are also a lot of extremely nasty folk.
AI backlash have problems
In a Python REPL, the following code is entered: '🍎' > '🍊' The result is True
People say you shouldn't compare apples and oranges but it seems to work fine for me in Python 3.14, I don't see what the issue is...
Of course. World-historic minds have shared superlative stationery taste
This pub I go to to work has probably the most decadent pub meal I've ever come across. This is called Cheesy, hammy, eggy" and it's literally cheese sauce, ham, and eggs on toast and it's delicious.
