If I get asked to stop chewing my nails
“The division of labour in the production of goods only serves to brutalize the workforce. If to produce cheap and excellent nail scissors, we have to reduce the workers to machines, we would do better to cut our finger nails with our teeth”.
A huge Dub for the BDS movement in Aotearoa NZ. Tip of the hat to comrade Minto www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Israelis really do things like name their unit 8200 cyber security companies “Check Point”
Attn #FilmSky my department is hosting Dr Sophie Gilmore (Harvard) for a seminar on "Algorithmic Hollywood". You are welcome via Zoom to attend (April 14th 10 am NZ time, April 13th 6pm EST). Registration Link follows.
Episode 16 of the @proteanview.muftah.org podcast: Venture Capitalism and Tech Utopianism with, in which I speak with @ojutel.bsky.social
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I did a podcast with Dr Mohammed El-Sayed Bishra from @muftah.org on VC accelerationism, Marc Andreessen and Israel
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We chat with @ojutel.bsky.social about why Marc Andreessen lacks "introspection" and what that has to do with the crisis of over-accumulation, accelerationism, and the utopian delusions of our tech overlords.
Enjoy!
I did a podcast with Dr Mohammed El-Sayed Bishra from @muftah.org on VC accelerationism, Marc Andreessen and Israel
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
Attn #FilmSky my department is hosting Dr Sophie Gilmore (Harvard) for a seminar on "Algorithmic Hollywood". You are welcome via Zoom to attend (April 14th 10 am NZ time, April 13th 6pm EST). Registration Link follows.
WW3 anguish skate. Glory to the resistance. Long live the martyrs. Free Palestine and Lebanon from the demonic entity.
Take the L or do you want more war and global catastrophe? Also do something about Israel while you're at it
WW3 anguish skate. Glory to the resistance. Long live the martyrs. Free Palestine and Lebanon from the demonic entity.
My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."
Microsoft: LOL
Nate Fisher is the genius behind a Christian Dominionist Network Stae project
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Ontology, a term popularized by Palantir, originally comes from philosophy: it is the traditional name for the branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of being, existence, and reality. To define an ontology of something is to assert its fundamental structure.
this is HILARIOUS
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its clear that the international crises will be managed in the Trumpian terms of internal polarisation and culture war. All for USrael.
To care about international law, NZ's global reputation is negligible Trump and Israel can apparently be trusted. To care about Palestinians or the Lebanese is to be woke and gay, As he puts "Palestine and Pronouns".
NZ's foreign minister views the forthcoming energy and economic crisis and USrael's deadly flipping of the global chessboard as a distraction from the real problems at home.
My kids got HP but also a Talmudic education in the first 12 seasons of the Simpsons
A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!
My university has inked a deal with an Israeli cyber war giant. What a Shonda
www.odt.co.nz/opinion/otag...
My university has inked a deal with an Israeli cyber war giant. What a Shonda
www.odt.co.nz/opinion/otag...
Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers.
(video shared directly with me)
"Check out this epic car crash" intrepid WW3 journalism
Jaded doesn’t even start to describe where I’m at, but yes you’ve described the minimum and no one is interested
Don’t know about Apertus but ring fenced for purpose models is the way, they’re just not lucrative for VC
Not really. Sovereign AI is a scam, it sounds like the kind of thing you’d want but it’s all based on what Morozov calls the AI-Dollar. @edwardongwesojr.com just wrote something about Pax Silica which captures this.
Sovereign AI actually, I did the OIA. Sovereign means buy NVIDIA chips and run Claude products in all govt depts. you know ‘sovereignty’
