One of the classic blocks

April 8 2024 was my first experience of totality. I drove 15 hours in one day to see it with a clear sky, and the whole time there and back I was listening to a lecture series by Justin Sledge on the history of Jewish mysticism. Definitely lost my mind a little, great combo, A+ would recommend.

Damn right

Got an HP a while back and the power supply died after a year

If I need color for some reason I'll go to the print shop

"He was practicing politics the right way"

DFAMIL

Sometimes I think about the fact that we have less wildlife than at any point in human history but it is more photographed / documented than at any point in human history.

No cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist

Episode 035 – Sword in a Hole Liono reveals that he’s a coffee sniffer.

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Photography took roughly a century from the time people started using it to make "art" to it becoming broadly accepted as an art form. For me this supports the idea that cultural disavowal can be very durable, while also provoking humility as it highlights the cultural relativism of it all...

For real. But also I assume the 2% bump is on the marginal rate, right? In which case $0 extra on the first million—you'd need to be making $2m before you see a $20k increase

Is household@[familydomain] a shared inbox or does it forward to both of you? / Do your replies come from household@[familydomain] or from your individual addresses?

Will do, thanks! They weren't on my radar.

I think you can still find the wifi ones but I don't love buying into a discontinued product. They might be transitioning to a new version yet to be released? But also maybe just leaning into enterprise market. I'm definitely not going to get new Ethernet cable run to my door for that though.

I am also in the market for such a doorbell and landed on Ubiquiti for WiFi APs, and assumed I'd go for their doorbells too but they seem to be phasing out regular doorbell power supply + wifi in favour of PoE only? So I'm currently looking at Reolink doorbell + Synology NAS w/Surveillance Station 🤔

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

This is what broke me: her own words.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked

@attackerman.bsky.social's destruction of Bari Weiss here is so vicious because it is so spectacularly well-informed; this one is an earner, folks

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Group of people doing collaborative prompt engineering on the holodeck in TNG S6E05 "Schisms" "We've all been here before..."

Silly Computer put regular scissors on the robot arm

Computer couldn't put artists out of work if it tried, because space communism, we just need space communism

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Leopard
Orca
Blue Jay
Scorpion
Jefferson Salamander

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Zoe Keating
Kraftwerk
Vieux Farka Touré
Nine Inch Nails
Sylvan Esso

I love this

In 2023, David Chalmers, a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University who is one of the world's most prominent scholars in the field of AI consciousness, was firmly in the skeptic camp. That year, he published an essay, "Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?," in which he concluded that limitations in the architecture of LLMs at the time, that there was no discernible mechanism by which an Al could become self-aware. Yet he recognized that these machines were so complex, and developing so quickly, that he couldn't be entirely sure. He assessed the possibility at "somewhere under 10 percent." Today, he says, the odds have gotten significantly higher — though he won't put a number on it. "I don't know if I'd say that these systems are conscious yet," Chalmers says. "They might be, and this is important. People who are confident that they're not conscious maybe shouldn't be. We just don't understand consciousness well enough, and we don't understand these systems well enough. So we can't rule it out."

The article cites David Chalmers, who is literally the guy who first described the "hard problem" of consciousness. If you want Philosophy of Mind, you got it. That doesn't mean you have to agree with him, but 🤷🏼‍♂️

I believe experiential consciousness is fundamental to reality so sure, LLMs are conscious. As are traffic jams, thunderstorms, grains of sand, electrons, any system of interacting quantum fields, etc.

It's amazing! It also doesn't mean we grieve for every spreadsheet cell with a formula error 🤷🏼‍♂️

I believe experiential consciousness is fundamental to reality so sure, LLMs are conscious. As are traffic jams, thunderstorms, grains of sand, electrons, any system of interacting quantum fields, etc.

It's amazing! It also doesn't mean we grieve for every spreadsheet cell with a formula error 🤷🏼‍♂️

A Video About Digging A Hole YouTube video by Jacob Geller

Can relate. I greatly enjoyed this video from Jacob Geller on the topic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQ8...

Cover art for "Voltron, Defender of the Universe." Voltron's left hand, which is the gaping maw of a green lion robot, stretches menacingly toward the viewer.

Godrick from Elden Ring saying "Bear witness!" while his left hand, which is the head of a dragon, breathes fire.

Just realized something

Cover art for "Voltron, Defender of the Universe." Voltron's left hand, which is the gaping maw of a green lion robot, stretches menacingly toward the viewer.

Godrick from Elden Ring saying "Bear witness!" while his left hand, which is the head of a dragon, breathes fire.

Just realized something

AUTHORS!!

Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?

Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.

More here:

Almost like dem leadership saw it as a defeat

try again, but harder