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This episode is 33 years old www.youtube.com/watch?v=yujF...
you can't surge price without making the user restart the session
Ns surprise that a Secretary of Defense who gets his Bible verses from "Pulp Fiction" gets his military strategies from "Catch-22".
Willful misunderstanding, but you do not gotta 'say it louder for the people in the back.' Those people struggled to get there; 'standing room' means they know already. You gotta 'say it louder for comp'ed people in the front' – so loud that they get scared and look around at the crowd behind them.
reminds me of Edgar Schein's early work on 'coercive persuasion' (aka 'brainwashing'):
1) subject must feel existential threat if they do not change
2) subject must see examples of those who have changed
3) subject must feel safe to try out the change
archive.org/details/coer...
I must let my DVCR know about this new knowledge exchange research translation impact pathway.
‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’
In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years
Bruno-stagecraft-is-essential-to-tehcnoscience-Latour nods knowingly in some after-life next to his pal, Louis Pasteur
The background almost makes it a mug shot
reads: Introduction In March 2026, an Anthropic employee released the source code of Claude Code, a wrapper around their large language model that is widely used to generate code in programming tasks. Its thousands of lines of Typescript code contained many hopeful prompts and in cantations to shape Claude’s behaviour. Here are some examples: “Report outcomes faithfully”; “Never characterize incomplete or broken work as done”; “Be careful not to introduce security vulnerabilities ” (prompts.ts in Anthropic 2026) . There is more than a passing resemblance here to the Azande witch -doctor apprentice who, while stirring the medicine, utters: “You medicine which I am cooking, mind you always speak the truth to me. Do not let anyone injure me with his witchcraft, but le t me recognize all witches. … Let me be expert at the witch -doctor’s craft so that people will give me many spears on account of my magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 93). In the case of Claude, the incantation s appeared insufficient: analysis of the codebase, which according to a company executive was “pretty much 100% written by Claude Code ”, revealed severe security vulnerabilities (Townsend 2026).
what an introductory paragraph!!
The question the entire world is asking. 😳👇
(Maybe it'll be different for subsequent generations:)
Nothing says 'We utterly refuse to start with what the user loudly declares they actually want' like 'tech for ageing.'
Let me know if you ever hear an older person saying 'let me age with tech, much better than people.'
watching Sydney's entire 'tech central' plan sink slowly into a colonial era cemetery
Amongst the very very sad things about the apparent total failure of uni Councils to govern their institutions is that the country has a surfeit of very qualified unconflicted people who'd do the job (very well!) on a Council for a cup of tea and a library card.
New Labor Right think all that is 'commie' (www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...) - which is also why Clare and the state Labor education ministers don't give a stuff about universities except as trouble-makers needing TEQSA parenting to be seen-and-not-heard
Difficult to believe a firm that puts out an image that has a man walking into a pole...
It is 'Wag the Dog' though (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the...). See also this conspiracy theory. www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/looks-like...
Takes a lot to truly unnerve these days but the "a whole civilization will die" line is a new plane of horrific. Even if it is just rhetoric, which I would not bet on, it feels like a sign of some last vestige being blown away. The US openly and eagerly announcing itself as monstrous
Being a coward about being genocidal is still being genocidal.
great diagram - small typo ('is') bottom right
great minds think a century apart
I was wrong bsky.app/profile/plan...
There is no reason to speed up things like this FFS
If this is your president you live in failed state run by the worst person in the world people.com/trump-ramble...
Remember how there was a concerted fight against profiteering academic publishers paywalling public research so then the publishers said, 'fine, you can have open access, but you must pay us a couple of thousand dollars for each open access article' and everyone was, 'great, let's do that.'
"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually
oof
I asked this elsewhere: has anyone ever seen any research by consultants or the uni managerialists who hire them into what prospective, current or recently graduated students feel enjoyed or feel they needed from a uni education? The voice of the so-called customer is completely absent.