I recently rewatched a few episodes of The Closer, and it's striking how obvious it is that Brenda Leigh Johnson and the cops in general are the bad guys despite the show wanting you to think they're the good guys
Are you guys aware of the Les Mis japanese fighting game where the personification of judment is a fighter? No? Well because it's time.
when i explain adversarial audits, people sometimes ask me if i also do”positive” audits that confirm positive claims about vendors. i am not sure how to put it politely but that’ll doing corporate pr, which many journalists already do when they parrot what a ceo has said without critical scrutiny
when my bank notified me "EFT received" I didn't think this is what they meant but I'll take it
they are designed for shareholders asking "so what are you doing with AI" who are generally not your customers, but incentive structures being what they are...
tbh I've been thinking a lot about your observation at the end of your Data Fix interview about how doing one's work well is a radical act!
So when you see stuff like severely over-written Andy Masley substack posts about how GenAI is like 10 seconds of Netflix, remember that the comparison is never to *what its replacing*.
Everyone in the world replacing the timer app with ChatGPT = a HUGE net increase in energy consumption.....
Responses demonstrate the problem of our times -- principles and integrity are meaningless once one buys into the industry narrative
It's the conservative "I've been canceled" media tour. Standard grift
This also reminds me to say that AI is opposed to all literacy it's anti intellectual and destroys all learning if we allow it to
Exhibit A
bsky.app/profile/oliv...
"Men don't like kids" is a weak take from someone doubtlessly unloved and without skill, but it did remind me that you can make friends with anyone under four years old by throwing them into the air twice
maybe people have been talking about this, but i haven't been seeing it discussed much on here; i would really like to see an investigation into whoever at apple was involved in the decision to erase villages from southern lebanon in apple maps recently.
some people get nori leaf
AI 🤝🏻 air pollution
knowledge of harm
does not prevent it
i have a hot take about "literacy" that's related to this thread (which i have nearly retweeted comprehensively already lol)
i think people understand AI plenty already. i think formal auditing tools & CS degrees are pathologically revered. i think you can understand automation as a worker!
Just fixed one small thing.
2.6 The Fallacy of Computational Emergence When confronted with the distinction between simulation and instantiation, functionalists tend to retreat to complexity theory and emergence. They argue that just as "wetness" emerges from the interaction of water molecules, consciousness will emerge from computation once the system crosses a threshold of sufficient complexity. This objection fails because it conflates weak physical emergence with what we term the fallacy of computational emergence. • Weak Emergence (Physical): Macroscopic properties (like wetness) supervene directly on the intrinsic causal dynamics of the microscopic physical substrate (e.g., H2O). • Computational Emergence (Abstract): The claim that an abstract description of a process (the map) can, solely through a massive increase in syntactical complexity, transmute into the physical process itself (the territory). Functionalists insist that consciousness is a unique case because it is purely "substrate independent information". But this argument assumes its own conclusion: it presumes the mental state is the abstract information (A), completely sidestepping the physical reality (P) that generates it. As we have established, syntax (A → A') possesses no intrinsic causal power; it is a mapmaker's attribution. To claim that an abstract syntax somehow "emerges" to become a physical cause falls outside scientific hypothesis entirely, as it requires violating the causal closure of the physical world
RIGHT HERE! YOU HAVE IT RIGHT HERE AND YOU STILL PERSIST
cryptocoin named Dukat (no no no, see, it's supposed to be pronounced like the coin, get it?)
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
You guys, look at this thing. You just jam a whole stick of butter in there and it melts it and you can just spray hot liquid butter on whatever. The 80s really was the decade of insane kitchen appliances.
"It is irritating that bosses so obviously think they’re oh-so-fucking clever. They mansplain the university and think their clever phrasing is all the public should need."
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
A SKLETEN WHOSE HIGHER THEN A FUCKEN MOUNTAIN HOLDIN A BIG JOINT "ITS 420 TIME TO GO TO THE SPENSARY THAT LOOKS LIKE A THERAPISTS OFFICE AND GIVE A GUY WITH AMUSTACHE 62 BUCK'S " - SAY WHAT U WILL ABOUT TURNING A BUNCH OF PLANT'S INTO A NEW KIND OF STORE WHERE THEY PUT A BUCH OF HEXAGONS ON THE WALL EVERYWHERE FOR NO REASON BUT AT LEAST YOU DONT HAVE TO GO TO "A GUYS HOUSE" AND WATCH JEPARDY WITH HIM , I HATE COPORATIONS BUT I CANT BE WATCHING THIS MUCH JEPARDY - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
HELL YEA - dashare.zone ADMIN
This is what "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" thinking gets you: a leader fundamentally incapable of acting in a way suited for the times, and scrambling to worsen fossil fuel reliance rather than decouple society from it
Reactionary centrism always ends up as a pro-fossil ideology
Personally I mostly tried shifting to "digital agency" ("digitale Handlungsfähigkeit" in German) because it talks about what it's about rather than pointing at the "evil other"
VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
Silksong music making me miss playing Silksong just goes to show why I went back to toxic relationships in the past smh
