Electric Volvo 240 would instantly replace Teslas in all liberal enclaves

I think about writing like sculpting, except first you need to also create the block of stone. A lot of writing is really editing, which means chipping away, but first you need the raw material to work with.

Just in my thirteen years in NYC, I’ve seen a lot of public or semi-public space slowly get more and more restricted, surveilled, and delimited

Was also talking to my students about how many of NYU’s privately owned public spaces have been closed or severely limited for years now (since our comparatively mild Gaza protests); many were shocked to hear how it used to be. Juniors and below have only really known Gould plaza as a walled zone

this is actually not a terrible idea

The cost per post is still a lot less than the time commitment though, so it’s a much bigger cost for bots than for humans. You’d have to write a massive number of posts for the cost to be an issue.

It is an astonishing—maybe welcome, in some ways—own-goal by google and MSFT that not only did they embed these things in all kinds of places where they’re unnecessary, they also had to do it with super cheap and thus ineffective models, and then failed to make that distinction clear to anybody.

Being anti-middle management is one of the dumbest positions that smart people take. I'm in an organisation that slashed middle managers and nothing gets done because execs are swamped with paperwork and there's no resilience when someone senior resigns

I mean that’s been the argument for why designers do it for a long time, but functionally speaking it’s not very pedestrian-friendly to have the building take up such a long block with no apparent public means (like a street) of passing through from one side to the other.

They aren’t comparable to human drivers in terms of their impact on pedestrians though, given the difference in safety statistics. Can see how they could still have indirect negative impacts by incentivizing the persistence of automotive infrastructure.

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!

Park Circle became Park Oracle. Patterson Park became Pattereon Park. Alan Wright Park became something that cannot be pronounced by humans.

tried Photoshop's new upscaler for a map that's getting printed and... it renamed all our streets and parks

Your average generic developer apartment building, if such buildings existed in the world of a science fiction dystopia.

it's funny how our technology is being oversimplified by the replacement of desktop applications with browser-based applications at the same time that it's also happening by replacing websites with smartphone apps.

I guess it’s validating that I could pick up on the gist of this without an AI’s help while reading slowly.

Arduinos might be more justified than non-hardware programming, if the Arduino is interacting with the physical environment in some way an AI can’t account for. I remember testing sensors & slightly changing the code in response to how they reacted was the fun part of that kind of making.

I saw that happen in architecture with all the predatory bogus design competitions that have taken place, and I wonder what the equivalent will be in fields that right now are known to be downsizing, like academia and the media industries.

When too many people become desperate to attain unavailable opportunities, a creepy cottage industry will emerge to prey on their desperation.

The way that household objects in this game suddenly bounce into the room out of thin air feels like a reflection of modern supply chain consumerism.

what if we normalized mental/emotional/social health checkups like physical checkups? just quick meeting once a year, covered by health insurance. Oh a referral for therapy? would you like maybe career counseling? you're feeling sad but you think it's reasonable level, shall we check in in 3 months?

I swear that half of my job is saying “so when you say air gapped what is the air and what is the gap exactly”

as I have often remarked, DC is an oral culture that pretends to be a literate culture.

I once saw someone literally do that, but it happened while I was in kindergarten.

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

Federal revenue idea: podcast tax per minute

YouTube needs it too!

(Along with other instant-gratification online video platforms)

Beyond the problem of the likely politics of this approach, it also seems unnerving where it could mandate academics to fit their views into specific official boxes for job search/personal branding purposes. That doesn’t exactly support free inquiry.

I feel like human/non-human interaction is already having a bit of a moment in everyday life with the current prominence of dogs in public spaces. But people tend to problematically anthropomorphize them as well.

That’s strange. If the message is that convoluted it sounds hard to tell who they are at all or what they even want.

This isn’t an excuse for that kind of behavior at all, but it sounds like something done out of desperation. Like a strategy someone might use after sending out dozens of emails and not getting any responses. Of course lying won’t make their situation any better.