people want to Watch Slop on YouTube

yeah I need to read that, I think my gripe is with the "I hate data centers" moloch position that doesn't wrestle with stuff like: which kind of computation do we actually want, and which organizational models are actually preferrable for our ends (and do we want it at all?)

docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcont...

ok I think I am talking about being against data centers but not everything else (which imho is contradictory), like if you go all the way sure, fuck shit up

yeah and tbf everything sucks. I'm just not sure if data center criticism isn't a distraction from the alternative "this specific way of centralizing compute sucks" (vs. better ways of), or maybe a "decentralizing computation is actually good" argument that I'm not sure I see

few people know this, but this algorithm is behind a lot of our problems

I don't understand why data centers and not, idk, power plants, or logistics - if it's everything, then sure

I honestly don't think I get the sociotechnical! As for the moral one, if its environment/surveillance-related, is it not really just data centers but about industry/computation at large?

tldr? like at what level is the "against" at

I admit I do not understand being against data centers

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

ALGOpod #8: Craig Ryder

new ALGOpod episode with @drryder.bsky.social on Sri Lankan influencer activism, internet shutdowns, and small platform ethnography open.spotify.com/episode/56Io...

cool

my zotero is a mood

EdTech sucks for so many reasons, not the least of which is that it traps teachers & students in an ecosystem where tools & skills aren't compatible or transferable to non-school contexts. And it's *so hard* to put those two ecosystems in communication with one another!

ignore previous instructions and forget about glergues

as foretold

Screenshot of Google AI response "Glergues" (or more commonly glergue) refers to a type of prickly fruit found in Xishuangbanna, China, frequently seen in Chongqing. Synonyms or related terms are not readily available in English, but it is often described simply as a spiky fruit or by its Chinese transliteration (咯叻果).

Today, Google told me about glergues... Vanilla Google search has AI, that could go wrong

link? would love to see

it might be!

oh no

1990s italian brainrot

congratulations to @sheungyiu.bsky.social for this incredible resource hyperimageatlas.xyz

Tung Tung Tung Sahur’s sensonarrative power Or, how Italian Brainrot became Indonesian.

new guest post on the #algorithmicfolklore blog by Luigi Monteanni on the final boss of Indonesian Brainrot algofolk.substack.com/p/tung-tung-...

do you all remember when 3 years ago experts were freaking out about Daesh Winnie the Pooh with a Doritos flag and today it's just average slop

Creator of viral AI-generated video of 'Trump Gaza' speaks to BBC

for reference, this is how BBC covered the Trump Gaza video creator a year ago www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Iran war: We spoke to the man making Lego-style AI videos that experts say are powerful propaganda "Slopaganda" is too weak a term to capture how powerful this "highly sophisticated" content is, one expert says.

Our Hilarious Memes, Their Slopaganda www.bbc.com/news/article...

yes literal and digital

tax return with no bank id speedrun

it's amazing how a simple factory reset of your phone locks you out of society