And speaking of @doctorow.pluralistic.net, I'll be speaking on a panel with him, @jomc.bsky.social, and Lucas Cantor Santiago at the LA Times Festival of Books THIS SUNDAY! Come see us talk about AI, creativity, and the future of art. www.latimes.com/events/festi...
screenshot of quest diagnostics web portal that says it created "Your direct address joannemcneil@directmyquest.cm"
and somehow its website is even worse than the waiting room. why is it creating an *email address* for me that I can only access through the web portal lmao
screenshot of a list of posts from 3/99 from the usenet archive talk.bizarre from google groups "unread, Iris Murdoch memorial haiku, or two When Plato banished the artists, what then? They slipped right under the net. Rationality never 3/2/99 sho...@home.com's profile photo sho...@home.com, … Anthony Garcia6 unread, what's going on? What's going on? I am new here. Whatever you decide "here" means, will be accurate. 3/2/99 Rollin Thomas's profile photo Rollin Thomas unread, The First Candidate. This world is a red world, and it is red because of the iron, which is special, at the peak of the 3/2/99 Ward's profile photo Ward, AjD3 unread, Test - pls ignore Never mind me, just working out my .sig Ward wrote: > -- > ------------------------------------ 3/2/99 Andrea B. Previtera's profile photo Andrea B. Previtera unread, E^pi*i=-1, and a strong moisture on the bench. I remember those afternoons at the end of winter, when the coriander seeds increased the details of 3/2/99 Ken Johnson's profile photo Ken Johnson unread, Football Result After Lagos Rovers defeated Ogoni Wednesday by 73 goals to 2 in the Shell Oil Championship Quarter 3/2/99 Felix S. Gallo's profile photo Felix S. Gallo, Blair P. Houghton2 unread, the original celebrated curiously strong cthulhu this time we made it past the tiled wading pool. We did it by being careful to move our feet only 3/2/99 Pima's profile photo Pima, … Rollin Thomas24 unread, Alloy wheels Have you ever thought on how stupid are people buying alloy wheels just to have a nicer car? I mean 3/11/99 Unknown Quantity's profile photo Unknown Quantity unread, anchor escapement This one's for G, P and Ilana. 1 (thieves) on stolen time you met strangers with rough hands 3/2/99 Earle Jones's profile photo Earle Jones unread, Proof! In article <academias.neutronium.51@neutronium.unl.edu>, Academias Neutronium <academias. 3/1/99"
never not blown away (almost to tears) by the creativity, vulnerability, openness, humor, and searching kindness that you can find trawling deep in old usenet archives. people really used to bare their souls through networked machines
Quest Diagnostics is now such a living nightmare that if investors gave Elizabeth Holmes a second shot I might not even mind
Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse.
The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Remembering @jomc.bsky.social's line about how social media pushes users to issue a press release every time anything happens, ChatGPT3 allows everyone to have their own personal PR rep massaging everything they say into formless cud
a fantastic book, and an actual example of a "mechanical turk"
Once again I’d like to recommend @jomc.bsky.social’s novel Wrong Way:
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Read @jomc.bsky.social’s novel “Wrong Way”:
www.mcdbooks.com/books/wrong-...
Waymo money, Waymo problems… nyra.nyc/articles/way...
An 8-bit video screen shows a group of donkeys running along a dirt road lined with trees.
For this week's @kcrw.com Art Insider, @jomc.bsky.social writes about a seven hour video game/performance about donkeys that fuses "rhythm game challenges to retro arcade shooters, suggesting a history of the Luddite movement as told by Donkey Kong."
Sold.
email.kcrw.com/asses-masses...
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
![Screenshot of Grokipedia text, “ Residence and Lifestyle
McNeil, who grew up in the working-class city of Brockton, Massachusetts, later sublet an apartment in West Harlem, New York, as of 2020, reflecting a flexible, nomadic phase suited to freelance writing.[5] She has since relocated to Los Angeles, where she maintains her base as of 2024, enabling a remote lifestyle that aligns with the demands of independent journalism and book projects.[1] This shift from East Coast roots to the West Coast mirrors patterns of displacement common in precarious creative professions, informed by her Brockton upbringing in a community of modest means.[4]
Her habits emphasize frugality and self-reliance, habits traceable to early experiences with limited resources, such as family use of dial-up internet in the 1990s, which fostered a cautious approach to technology and consumption persisting into her adult life in Los Angeles. Recent activities, including a 2023 interview with the Los Angeles Public Library, confirm her ongoing presence in the city, where she balances writing with minimal public disclosure of personal routines.[43] This low-profile lifestyle prioritizes productivity over ostentation, avoiding the excesses associated with tech hubs while leveraging LA's networks for occasional engagements.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rpoqkcll7jbm6skbis22i5ww/bafkreicglxlr6onifhxevzwahh4uam6nupwe5ixi3uluasnwljkkqwc3eu)
Screenshot of Grokipedia text, “ Residence and Lifestyle McNeil, who grew up in the working-class city of Brockton, Massachusetts, later sublet an apartment in West Harlem, New York, as of 2020, reflecting a flexible, nomadic phase suited to freelance writing.[5] She has since relocated to Los Angeles, where she maintains her base as of 2024, enabling a remote lifestyle that aligns with the demands of independent journalism and book projects.[1] This shift from East Coast roots to the West Coast mirrors patterns of displacement common in precarious creative professions, informed by her Brockton upbringing in a community of modest means.[4] Her habits emphasize frugality and self-reliance, habits traceable to early experiences with limited resources, such as family use of dial-up internet in the 1990s, which fostered a cautious approach to technology and consumption persisting into her adult life in Los Angeles. Recent activities, including a 2023 interview with the Los Angeles Public Library, confirm her ongoing presence in the city, where she balances writing with minimal public disclosure of personal routines.[43] This low-profile lifestyle prioritizes productivity over ostentation, avoiding the excesses associated with tech hubs while leveraging LA's networks for occasional engagements.”
surreal and infuriating to encounter my Grokipedia bio. Feels like a personal brand was forced upon me by generative AI, eg “low profile” as lifestyle trend rather than an inclination
hi! he was going to Tulum on vacation and rented his room out on Airbnb. I didn’t realize that’s the word for partying in Bosnian/etc! thanks for reading so closely!! love this kind of question xx
My mistake. Deleting
PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places.
No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages.
CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).
Everyone treats "autonomy" as a singular technological problem, that once "solved" will simply create a profit-generating machine, but the hard reality is that this technology is a constant negotiation between profits on one hand and the level of safety and behavior society will tolerate on the road
Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
by now, there must be more stories about people who fell in love with chatbots than actual people who fell in love with chatbots
and no, you won't going to get away with a New Directions book in translation or NYRB reissue (both of which sold 10k copies already) on your best of list as a wildcard anymore
if you are among the few staff critics reviewing books, films, music, art, &c, it is your professional duty to take a chance on things. Attend a random screening, pick up a self-published book, follow whims and offer full-throated generous praise for anything that makes an impression on a shoestring
they did get 6 figure salaries for working part time. presumably their oversight didn't extend to the deplorable conditions of content moderators
And the people who should have been criticizing its formation were instead scheming how to get on that board. where are all those "data ethicists" now?
thinking back to when Facebook launched its Oversight Board in 2020—a transparent move to defuse crises on its own terms, a fig leaf to evade external audits and appeal to the technocrats.
"Self-regulating" trillion dollar company is now a model for AI firms to playact as their worst critics.
I was on @techwontsave.us talking about the human labor Waymo depends on and disavows. And how the charade launders accountability for its mistakes, scapegoating everyone and everything but the machine.
www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
jaywalking pedestrians, your destiny awaits
reddit comment on article about waymo hitting a dog " hsgual • 2d ago I mean.. why was the dog around in the street or off leash? Like, I get it, Waymo could likely do something to not have this happen… but we also need people to be responsible with their animals. 63 u/braveNewWorldView avatar braveNewWorldView OP • 2d ago Yes, but this was a toddler sized dog. Neither should be in the street. A distracted driver might do the same but average driver would have slammed on the breaks.. -19 u/sanfrangusto avatar sanfrangusto • 2d ago Toddler sized? Is kinda a big dog. Elsewhere you say kinda small. Like a german sheppard? Or chihuahua? 14 Educational_Put_2276 • 17h ago Did you Waymo slam the brakes at all or just go right over it? And it didn’t stop after the collision? If it never slammed brakes or stopped, that’s pretty disturbing! 2 PersonalAd5382 • 1d ago"
going get wild when Waymo transitions out of the "good to users" stage of the enshittification cycle
www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comm...
not to put too fine a point on it but every one of these people—lizza and nuzzi, obviously, but also sundberg herself—are symptoms of the same problem, which is that larping as a journalist is orders of magnitude more lucrative than actually practicing journalism
