sic transit gloria mundi
And meanwhile, there's a perceptual vibe shift. Ten years ago, music tech was where the radicals could be employed, could experiment, could grab hold of STEM funding and use it for critical race theory. Now music tech is Suno and Udio, the least radical, least experimental part of the field.
Presumably RFK Jr.'s view here is represented 'for balance'.
Scott Bryan“While traits of ADHD undeniably exist – the question is why they exist. Is ADHD actually a neurodevelopmental disorder? Do people with ADHD have differently wired brains? Or does our world – with…processed food, and regimented education – serve as the catalyst for certain…patterns of behaviour?”
This is becoming a common but not enough interrogated buzzphrase for a very real problem - LLM output is verification and technical debt. One person can generate plausible enough looking results that they can pass through several hands before a close enough reading shows it's full of shit.
Kat Steiner🔸This! Someone sent me a plan for a research project that they'd got chatgpt to write, and it was 3x longer than what I usually get and honestly I was like "why should I spend my time reading this when you haven't spent yours writing it, you may not even have read it yourself"?
I don't think people understand how thin the line between "deportation" and "extermination" really is - not just in Europe, but everywhere the topic comes up. Many people feel comfortable with the idea of deportation because it obscures the underlying violence that is necessarily implied.
Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈And to spell it out: when DHH says "deport Romani people", those are people who are citizens of the country they live in. Where would they be deported to? When the Nazis ran into this same question, they created extermination camps. bsky.app/profile/anil...
This still seems a good take to me: bsky.app/profile/andr...
Andrew RichardsMy prediction: This war cannot end unless Congress forces it to. Trump is incapable of accepting an outcome that clearly advatages Iran over pre-war situation. Iran knows that it can demand terms that make it stronger than it was pre-war. Iran also knows US is too weak to enforce better terms.
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.www.stlpr.org
really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
This is abhorrent & it's Starmer's legacy
GeekOnALeash 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️"Sex at birth (observed)" is now a mandatory data item in the NHS core information standard (v2.0.1). It also appears (if I am reading this correctly) that gender identity and pronouns have been removed. The NHS are transphobic as fuck!!! standards.nhs.uk/published-st...
there’s been a lot of rehabilitation of buckley over the years and i’m not sure why - i can come up with bad reasons ofc - because as this shows his big inaugural entry into public affairs was as a bad-faith demagogue, racist, and (barely crypto) anti-semite. he was a wrecker to his core.
Jonathan LaddWilliam F. Buckley in "God and Man at Yale" (1951). Lamenting that Yale faculty are too liberal, and that principles of academic freedom are used to defend them from ideological control.
This seems to be an important factor. It would be surprising if a drop in reading just happened to coincide with a period where austerity reduced facilities like libraries -- which often introduced very small children to reading for pleasure. bsky.app/profile/loui...
Louie StowellBeyong the screens question, "we heard about the role of rising poverty and the barriers faced by disadvantaged children in reading for pleasure, including lack of access to books, a lack of quiet reading environments due to overcrowded housing, and parental stress."