politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere. enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press writing - https://oddletters.com/ stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch i curse a lot he/they
no one needs this, we already have SimCity2000 and *that* has *giant alien robots*
Joseph CoxNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
oh did the hedge fund run by the 25 year old effective altruist who previously worked for FTX have problems? man who could have anticipated that
Mads Mikkelsen SmokingALT: Mads Mikkelsen Smokingstatic.klipy.comwhy does this photo look like the new ticketing system is Death
Baltimore BannerMaryland Renaissance Festival’s new ticketing system avoids chaos of release days past
world book encyclopedia, oxford english dictionay (at my bestie's house), doonesbury and jules feiffer collections i picked up at library sales. i was _made_ for bluesky
S. KramerWere you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?
i have never worn heels but i would if i knew that stepping on one of these in heels would pop it like a grape
The VergeEveryone hated it, so Friend is making it even more expensive. www.theverge.com/gadgets/9731...
i already have a whole AI week in my Intro to Information Studies course, and several "economics of the information society" weeks covering venture, jobs, and firm structures, but i feel like i need to add a whole week that's just called "scams"
Joseph CoxThis is an insane story about how a bunch of 20-somethings made a ton of AI slop to push supplements for a company that had an FDA recall. Turns out it's not really a supplement company at all; the same bros making the slop own the company. It's a fiction www.404media.co/inside-an-ai...
posit: people will construct a persistent perception of a personality for any object or system they interact with suffienciently frequently. it doesnt matter if the object possesses one or is even responsive. our incredibly sticky pareidolic tendencies just get all over everything all the time.
Zach WeinersmithIf you had a robot butler... A) Do you want it to have a personality at all? B) If so, a consistent/persistent personality or something like an instance with notes on preferences C) If a persistent personality, do you want it to act as if it has moral standing, e.g. ability to suffer
i have four copies of Nigel Thrift's KNOWING CAPITALISM and three copies of Hilgartner's SCIENCE ON STAGE distributed between my office at home and my office on campus
Monica C. SchneiderPro-tip: If you are looking for a book, don't spend so much time on the library site or googling for a pdf or ordering it on Amazon until after you've looked through your own shelf.