I’ve started to appreciate token limits. They force you to curate context and think strategically about your workflow.
Limits are also the best defense against producing AI slop -- verbosity can be expensive. As always, less is more.
Trump’s speech-generating abilities equal a local LLM I am trying to run on my not-so-young computer
An essay I am waiting for to read: The Transformation of Twitter into X: An Allegory for the Recent U.S. Political Derangement
My thoughts exactly
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine?
Hear me (a guy from Eastern Europe) out: it looks like the USA is in the process of fast-track Orbánization; in other words -- you are living in a prequel to Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
Excellent conversation. Prof. Snyder is among the few Westerners who 'get' Eastern Europe, and all democracy-loving Americans can learn a lot from our experience (which brings some hope).
Vladimir, STOP!
I remember watching it during the peak of the far-right rule in Poland, and it was the only American show that felt relevant to me back then.
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
Everyone who quotes the words of John Paul II “BE NOT AFRAID”, should remember that they were meant to strengthen the Polish nation in its resistance against the Russian domination.
"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I am a Pole old enough to remember the fall of the Soviet Union. Believe me when I say that the United States is collapsing much faster.
Smutna prawda.
The American right has turned to Hungary to learn how authoritarians consolidate power.
The American left should look to Poland to see how a big-tent coalition can defeat authoritarianism. It involves multiple parties appealing to different voters.
📆 On 1 January, Poland took over the EU presidency from Hungary.
John Chin & Ellie Kim outline the stakes for Europe, and the imperative of promoting a democratic U-turn ↩️ in central Europe, and Poland itself, after years of democratic backsliding.
👉 bit.ly/4gsrCIc
When I was growing up in Poland, the communist government banned the word "elite" (because it was used by Djilas) and "bureaucracy" (because it was used by Trotsky.h
Elon Musk + AfD = Ferdinand Porsche
Wow! This book is just amazing.... Much more balanced than the cover or title suggests, but all the more chilling in its conclusions. I don't think there is an equally good position analyzing the political consequences of the development of Big Techs.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...