Finding a copy of Julie Dash's Illusions is a challenge but I really want to show it
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Dan Rosen
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Hate to see democracy now portray these AI agents as “rogue.” A system is what it does
Democracy Now!Artificial intelligence tools are quickly advancing in sophistication and capabilities, raising alarm among researchers and industry figures who say the technology needs to be more tightly regulated.
Golf courses in Arizona, a v popular golfing state, use more than their allotment of water year after year, while only 10% of Arizonans and 10% of tourists play golf golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...
I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
Prompts are bets (or wishes) on probability
Dan RosenWrote a short post about how GenAI makes us into gamblers who confuse judgment and probability
Pretty good! Solid adaptation. Agree with some of the sad dad criticisms. Odysseus isn’t complicated - he’s pretty unsubtle
Dan RosenOdyssey in imax today, queen?
I've always disliked the term "evidence-based" because it weirdly makes it seem like no one else was using evidence before that and you can just use it to label any set of questions, methods, or results you don't like as unscientific
Jess CalarcoI saw this posted elsewhere, and hoped it was just an AI spoof, but sadly, it's a real CDC Webpage, and the information it contains is deeply dangerous and untrue.
No amount of data will satisfy these system's needs or the industrial logic of the industry. They will always want more and will not be honest about how they get it. I don't think the industry's need for more data is the same as the user's desire for better output, even if they sometimes coincide
conputer dipshitthe way they get you is that it's not a trick. more data really does make it better. all your chats, email, records, documents. this is why it's such a mistake to focus on the errors they make this week. you need an argument that's persuasive even if it works, because it absolutely will work
I forgot an episode of Skam
Dan RosenWorking on the framework for my fall media and society class and have basically no time for screenings, so I'm gonna build it around: - Who Framed Roger Rabbit - We're All Going to the World's Fair - Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Speed Racer (2008) - the Wishlist episode of Abbott Elementary
The politics of the film are sublimated into the chemistry but damn it works
Dan RosenRewatched The Glass Key last night. Def one of my favorite noir films
Planning a class makes me feel like I'm playing 3D chess in my head against the student and the machine
Benjamín Schultz-FigueroaA really interesting piece on reducing AI cheating in the classroom from a Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. The solutions? Smaller classes, lower teaching loads for faculty, and in-person classes.
Yes I understand history is contingent
Dan Rosen"Plato thought poetry is evil, so Aristotle wrote the poetics, so that Thomas Edison could sue everyone for patent infringement"