@noracodes your brother-in-law always makes the best ones.
@admitsWrongIfProven (i think the irony that i had in my was the antidecolonization people coming to identify as the true, indigenous academics whose authentic culture is being displaced by colonial woke interlopers.)
@libramoon oh believe me, as a Florida citizen i hold no brief for DeSantis. he is among the very worst.
@atomicpoet transparent aluminum!
(please don’t tell me it’s just plastic.)
what’s interesting about the Nikki Haley thing is what it reveals about how she thinks of the people whose support she is seeking. i like to think it’s not a fair portrayal of them. DeSantis of all people seems to think better of them than Haley does, or at least did on the spur of a moment.
@fb i don't think we'll be able to do that. i think we'll have to approach it from the other side: things that mean to be treated as authentic will need to have signatures and attestations attached. everything without will be presumptively fake.
@fb (thanks!)
@futurebird if you haven’t seen it, there’s a wonderful essay by Maria Farrell https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/your-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/
[new draft post] How to regulate AI https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/12/28/how-to-regulate-ai/index.html
reckless driving is quite the opposite of wreckless driving. the english language is so weird.
critics of decolonization call for the decolonization of academia by its putative proponents.
they have not yet embraced their identity as indigines, but the second law of sociodynamics (irony must always increase) suggests that it will not be long.
it was the end of history. but history always was unholy and it has joined the undead.
@22@octodon.social it is never foolish to hope. it is permissible to hope even for the improbable.
@22@octodon.social it’s a very beautiful and informative piece.
“History is not what happened. It is what gets written down in an imperfect, often underhanded process dominated by self-interested political, economic and cultural authorities.” from Silent Cavalry by #HowellRaines via #MartinPengelly https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/27/howell-raines-silent-cavalry-civil-war
ht @jockr
"[N]ot all innovations are beneficial to society, with some corporations using tactics that undermine legal rights and increase worker exploitation… [R]obust antitrust enforcement between the 1940s-1970s channeled corporate resources into productive investments rather than employing unfair methods of competition." @danielahanley https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4586770
Worse than a crime, a mistake: Israel’s choices after Oct 7.
See @raph https://www.onesmalldetail.blog/justifying-the-unjustifiable-israel-had-no-other-option-in-its-response-to-october-7th/
ht @sumek
@paninid microtransporter activate!
Couldn’t we arrange for the large language models to murder one another so we humans could go on to do other things?
the world seems such a horror show. you do not want to wake up, but you cannot sleep. i dreamt of atrocity beyond belief, of which i was complicit or worse. when i woke my child asleep rolled into me and snuggled close. my wires are badly crossed.